How To Use Dignified In A Sentence
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He always strikes such a dignified pose before his girlfriend.
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Throughout his career he has handled whatever has been thrown at him in a characteristically calm and dignified manner, underpinned by desire and doggedness.
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It was a noble situation — noble as the ancient hau tree, the size of a house, where she sat as if in a house, so spaciously and comfortably house-like was its shade furnished; noble as the lawn that stretched away landward its plush of green at an appraisement of two hundred dollars a front foot to a bungalow equally dignified, noble, and costly.
ON THE MAKALOA MAT
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Each group maintained a dignified silence as the marchers passed on their pilgrimage to uphold Republican martyrology.
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Remember, if you will (I certainly do), that one of the selling points of the post-VII "reforms" was that they enriched Catholic life and worship by making them relevant and immediate rather than old-fashioned (for which read "dignified") and outdatedly stiff (for which read "reverent").
You report: Promotional Posters for the Traditional Latin Mass
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The banquet hall was bright and cheerful, full of nobles and lords looking dignified and regal.
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Sir William had the ability to conduct proceedings in a dignified manner without ever becoming stuffy.
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The sound of a car stopping outside the hotel drew me to the window as the waitress left me, and I was in time to see an old gentleman with a long white beard step from the interior of a Daimler landaulette, the door of which was held open by a dignified chauffeur, whose attire seemed to consist mainly of brass buttons.
The Best British Short Stories of 1922
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His stories of past friends were always endearing but told with a dignified but abiding relish.
Times, Sunday Times
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Animals civilise a building, and it is a pity that Mrs Blair, no cat-lover, was blamed for the dismissal of Humphrey, a dignified and sagacious mouser.
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The plan of the sanctuary complex, now a dignified patchwork of ruins, is quintessentially Syrian, with a small central temple surrounded by an expansive precinct known as the temenos .
Temple of the 'Bride of the Desert'
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The contrast between the anarchical images of vandalism in Seattle and Genoa and the dignified demeanor of civil rights demonstrators forty years before is striking.
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Shoulder injuries brought his career to an undignified end in 2004 after three defeats.
The Sun
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Macha is 145 pounds of phlegmatic composure, a St. Bernard who can't help but look dignified and profound, even when she is waiting for a treat.
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Only it would have looked more dignified if I didn't have to push and literally squeeze myself through the narrow door.
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Gladly would I grace my tale with decent horror, and therefore I do beseech the "gentle reader" to believe, that if all the _succedanea_ to this mysterious narrative are not in strict keeping, he will ascribe it only to the disgraceful innovations of modern degeneracy upon the sober and dignified habits of our ancestors.
Humorous Ghost Stories
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He was reluctant to strike such an undignified pose before his girlfriend.
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It had a peculiar gearstick, and the driver could find reverse only after various undignified contortions.
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Obama's dignified elevation of our national discourse through honesty, depth, and nuance was greeted by ratings-esurient tabloid news, race-baiting commentary, and rancorous replay of Wright -- ad nauseam.
Shaun Jacob Halper: Beyond Jeremiah: A New Kind of Media for Obama's New Kind of Politics
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There was a panic in Dhurrumtolla; a "ticca-gharry" -- the shabby oblong box on wheels, dignified in municipal regulations as a hackney carriage -- was running away.
Hilda A Story of Calcutta
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In tandem with a reform of the modern Mass, already tentatively under way, the foundations could be laid for a return to dignified worship and reassertion of doctrine.
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I fail to see," a dignified young lady stated, "what Cazaio, at least, has to do with your galimatias.
Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes
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I ran, in as dignified a manner as one does when late for a train, while the guard waved a red flag like an accomplished toreador on amphetamines.
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Despite their rather chichi digs, Kingsley leaves early each morning to dig ditches and run a convenience store - menial, undignified tasks.
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Although Johnston depicts Cook as a cautious and dignified man compared to his vainglorious counterpart, both men risked their reputations in their mutual quest.
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Pointing to a drawing of the old Scotch bawbee, Professor Geddes said it was not a very dignified symbol of the coinage of the world, but let them mark how it had on the one side the hammerman at his work, with his motto "_Beat deus artem_," and, on the other side, a larger legend, with the eagle of the empire and the lamb of Saint John.
Civics: as Applied Sociology
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The dignified thing would be to ignore them.
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A leisure centre complete with ice rink and an auditorium for rock concerts: not really the best place for a dignified ceremony.
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At this point I chose dignified silence over extended debate.
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By the time the first fight broke out I was gripped - feathers were puffed up to ensure maximum hard-man appearance and then a very undignified battle ensued, involving lots of running jumps and flapping and pecking.
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He is a dignified man, an honourable man.
The Sun
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Male celebrities all over the globe began to collide in a frankly undignified heap as they tried to attract her attention.
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There is, in fact, a glittering array of dignified and sometimes very lucrative offices open to members of the Bar.
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The way to do it is in a dignified way.
Times, Sunday Times
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For a moment, it looked like the undignified stunt would turn nasty.
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Give me a position, and I'll find you an expert to support it - and not just an expert but one with an institutional affiliation sounding so dignified it could make a nobleman genuflect.
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It's full of the stuff that packs the dance floor: a defiant but dignified message of survival sung by a woman who knows whereof she speaks.
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The defeated candidate gave a dignified speech in which he congratulated his rival.
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For the first day of her hearing Caroline appeared in the tall hat plumes that were her trademark; when she removed this inside, she wound white veiling around her head and over the bodice of her "'richly twilled black sarsenet dress,'" giving the intended dignified costume a bizarre effect.
Framing Romantic Dress: Mary Robinson, Princess Caroline and the Sex/Text
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Reading, to most people, means an as hamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name.
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At that time, Talbot sought to turn the medium of photography into a dignified art form like painting had been.
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I don't know whether it might have been very wise, proper and dignified for the PM to have asked Latham along.
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When I suggested that the sight of three women of our age -- we are all well on toward fifty; Aggie insists that she is younger than I am, but we were in the same infant class in Sunday-school -- three women of our age "potting" at fences was hardly dignified, Tish merely shrugged her shoulders.
More Tish
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But there is no fight so vigorous as one between comrades, and she proclaimed that she had learned far more from her intellectual bunfights with the Americans than from their ‘dignified’ British counterparts.
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Hear it and, at once, you can see her - blonde but not brassy, sexy but not tarty, dignified but funny, haughty but friendly.
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Amid all the tumult and clamour of the teeming crowds who throng the premises, the hall stands dignified in its majestic splendour.
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Not only does pushing and shoving seem undignified, but such behaviour immediately marks the offender as a greedy glutton who has not been able to enjoy the best.
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That music is a product of civilisation is manifest; for though savages have their dance-chants, these are of a kind scarcely to be dignified by the title musical: at most, they supply but the vaguest rudiment of music, properly so called.
Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library
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Nor can he equal the sublime lyrism of his model; but he is little inferior in poetic conception, in dignified idealization, and in picturesque imagery.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"
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This original, undistorted idea of sport as a meaningful, dignified pursuit of physical excellence can be traced back to the ancient Olympics and to the various traditions of martial arts.
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The author profiles black Hollywood with a dignified respect it deserves.
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He is sad that this has come about and he is determined to behave in a dignified manner.
The Sun
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On the contrary, it is a grotesque, undignified parody.
Times, Sunday Times
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What was supposed to be a poised and dignified parade towards the centrepiece of the show, quickly turned into a sort of slow motion stampede.
FRIENDS FOR LIFE
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Against the background of all this shameless capitalism, a rather undignified saga rumbles on in the local press.
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But zoom in close, and the scene is a little less poshly dignified.
Friday habits
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Adams, the 33-year-old Jamaican batsman, deserved better than this undignified end to his reign.
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Carlis says he doesn't think ‘aye aye’ is a dignified response.
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The exaltation of liquor, however, appeared only to intensify his characteristics: his face became more lugubrious and melancholy; his manner more ceremonious and dignified; and, erect and stiff in his saddle from the waist upwards, but leaning from side to side with the motion of his horse, like the tall mast of some laboring sloop, he "loped" away towards the House of the Lost Mission.
Maruja
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Even the dignified Sir Alec Guinness was so enamoured of his co-star in ‘Fall of the Roman Empire’ that he searched the Swiss mountains for a rare edelweiss to lay at her feet.
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It is sad to see a county confine its activities to undignified public bickering.
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My first exit was a rather undignified tumble onto the tarmac.
Times, Sunday Times
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She flung out her arms, accidentally knocking Nishair on the nose, who fell back and stepped on Riviara's toes who stumbled back and tried to look dignified while windmilling her arms around.
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She felt that receiving the child food directly into little personal bowls was undignified and wasteful, since much of it slopped over the sides.
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I am sure that your honour will readily agree with me that the Nehru-collar suit is an elegant, sophisticated and dignified attire.
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Let the honest heart shew itself, and reason teach passion to submit to necessity; or, let the dignified pursuit of virtue and knowledge raise the mind above those emotions which rather imbitter than sweeten the cup of life, when they are not restrained within due bounds.
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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Dignified affability is the becomingness of superiority, which while it does not remove the line of distinction, does not render it painfully visible.
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Another partial of oral which Cleopatra never struggled with a dignified question, in contrariety to Antony, a some-more substantial figure.
Archive 2009-11-01
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Instead of the former vast repertory, the stately pavone, the graceful and dignified saraband, the wild
Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene
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Advertising copy shall be dignified, strictly truthful and representative of the art of music and its responsibility to the community.
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In contrast to the dignified silence from the other side, even slyly whispered accusations are magnified to sound deafeningly crass.
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The dignified way in which she battled her brain tumour is a credit to her unyielding character.
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… I didn't do that… sheesh… I'm far too dignified to do that kinda stuff!
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Barstaff exchange looks as she giggles excitedly wrapping her legs over him as he does little to discourage this undignified behaviour.
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It was incredible that the wontedly dignified and sweet-tempered collie had thus returned a greeting.
Bruce
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We're also told that he will make a personal appeal to Congress to handle the nomination process in a dignified manner.
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We believe this process, which enables a portion of human remains to be flushed down a drain, to be undignified," said Patrick McGee, a spokesman for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Manchester.
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Under these circumstances, the textbook reaction is the dignified, wry chuckle.
Times, Sunday Times
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The old crossing-sweeper was already there, to receive his penny; and the orange-woman, expectant, sold her apex orange to him for a silver thripenny bit as his before-breakfast while awaiting the more dignified cunctation of his auguster spouse.
Pirate Gold
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This range of moods, from exaltation to the slough of despond, is entirely appropriate for the 24 Preludes and Fugues — a kind of expressivity rarely matched by the Russian pianists who recorded excerpts from the work, from the overimposing monumentality of Sviatoslav Richter to the dignified, restrained lyricism of Emil Gilels.
From Despair to Delight
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A man of an extraordinary generous nature, he reached out to many down the years and his dignified presence and manner commanded much respect and regard.
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A cheaper, more time-effective and dignified solution for untoned arms, you're asking?
Times, Sunday Times
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Means-tested benefits, introduced chaotically over the past seven years, may be a sorry substitute for a dignified pension.
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A buzzard has strong, thick, feathered legs and walks with a dignified gait.
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Out in the sand, near the statue of Hermes (the patron god of gymnasia) is a dignified and self-conscious looking man in a purple edged chiton -- the gymnasiarch, the official manager of the Academy.
A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life
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She walked past cages holding dignified German shepherds, alert Dobermans, sleek Labradors and beautiful Golden Retrievers.
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“A form of language spoken by millions of people … can surely not be called undignified,” he argued, finding “real dignity … in the colloquial language of the people, not in the stilted artificial style of books.”
PEARL BUCK IN CHINA
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He always strikes such a dignified pose before his girlfriend.
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"Many men are genuinely proud of their culinary skill and see nothing undignified or unmasculine in being able to turn out a batch of fluffy biscuits."
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It was a dignified service, the hymns sung by the congregation with increasing emotion.
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Inspired, however, by the spirit of hereditary obstinacy, Charles preferred a useless resistance to a dignified submission, and, by a series of idle bravadoes, laid the French court under the necessity of arresting their late ally, and sending him to close confinement in the Bastille, from which he was afterwards sent out of the French dominions, much in the manner in which a convict is transported to the place of his destination.
Redgauntlet
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The minister made an undignified retreat from his earlier position.
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The presence of the mayor dignified the occasion.
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William Mckinley's dignified front - porch campaign won him the presidency in 1896.
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They have conducted a serious and dignified debate on the issues.
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The most dignified of the many comments which this feature of the trial elicited was by Senator Fessenden, in the official _opinion_ which accompanied his vote: -- "To the suggestion that popular opinion demands the conviction of the President on these charges, I reply that he is not now on trial before the people, but before the Senate.
Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860
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The physically challenged and the aged need to be taken care of so that they can live in a dignified manner without seeking charity from others.
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Miss Minchin entered the room with a sternly dignified manner.
A Little Princess
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_Let them be counted worthy of double honor: _ or, _Let them be dignified with double honor_.
The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
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The ruler of the 1st house is Venus, dignified by term and in the angular 10th house.
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Bolivians in golden cowboy boots, a South African woman in miners' gumboots, and six dignified Lebanese men holding hands all stomped merrily.
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I'm going to try to remain dignified and ladylike throughout the show and see what he does.
The Sun
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He then made a dignified exit, cord still intact, face livid with displeasure.
Tommy Cooper: Always Leave Them Laughing
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He has maintained a dignified silence about the rumours.
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Far from me and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue.
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Yet we deny people the right to die in a humane and dignified way.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cleon is worsted not by an upright and dignified man but by an illiterate and brazen cynic who beats him at his own game.
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Bearded and dignified, Aitken was an original thinker who remained outside the mainstream of scientific activity.
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And to attempt to sound dignified and saddened at being traduced by the ingrate just makes the humiliation complete.
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It is said to follow a rather undignified incident involving a flying cup of tea.
Times, Sunday Times
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He must be dignified, he must be tactful and considerate of feelings and of every living creature he sees.
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In that context the election packages, dignified artificially by the term manifesto, were based on very slippery assumptions.
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At the time, Yang bemoaned, "A dignified, nonhysterical account of our peculiar sufferings untethered to the American upper middle class's Ivy League fixation and richly justified fear of national decline remains elusive.
Silpa Kovvali: Tiger Brother: An Interview With Wesley Yang
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Now all reason up seems meaningless to him: a feeling not odd to a grief-stricken, nonetheless here related to a dignified dried which Macbeth has combined as his middle landscape.
Archive 2009-11-01
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It is hardly a dignified way for a party of government to behave.
The Sun
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An honourable and dignified man.
The Sun
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‘Styles out of kilter with the stately dignified face of Malvern,’ another resident exclaimed.
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When we teach a child patience we offer them the gift of a dignified life. Allan Lokos
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He is funny, dignified and minutely knowledgeable about the whole Christie canon, having dramatised all the Poirots and all the Radio 4 Miss Marples with June Whitfield.
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It was a gentlemanly and dignified spectacle such as the game has seldom seen - not only that, it took real bravery as the risks to themselves and their families are very real.
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He is a dignified man, an honourable man.
The Sun
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But behind her enigmatic and dignified facade resides a largely unknown woman.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her helmet had fallen off in the undignified tumble.
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Century-old photographs show the dignified ruin of the memorial to one of ancient Egypt's few female rulers, a building then recently excavated from the sands.
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A close ruff and wristlets, a ruby and gold carcanet, and a jewelled girdle complete this rich and dignified dress.
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We MUST educate the young, the vulnerable, the at risk, that military service and war is not a career, nor is it a dignified cause for one's country; it is an ignominious act of ignobility, where the fate that awaits you is death, being maimed, mentally disabled or a murderer.
Wexler: A Lone Hero at the Petraeus/Crocker Hearings
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There are no promises about living like a hacendado on an average Social Security check here, but solid information and strategies for making limited funds stretch toward dignified and comfortable lifestyles.
Head For Mexico: The Renegade Guide
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We walked for an hour and a half or so, well beyond the limits of the town to the point where the road and pavement came to an undignified end by a stony beach and a hollow of stagnant water.
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The use of a ciborium, or baldacchino, can be a very effective and particularly dignified way to resolve the matter, giving the altar that due gravitas.
New Chapel of Our Lady of Guadalupe Seminary
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Elegant and dignified, she was always a lady to her fingertips.
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And access via the side door means an undignified clamber over the back.
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Yes, it would have been more dignified if there hadn't been the taunts and jeers.
The Sun
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Dignified old rowhouses on historic Mount Vernon Square were marred by iron bars on their windows.
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They have no use for the dignified thumb sign, but wave their hands recklessly in an attempt to attract the rider and somehow get him to stop.
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Very different is an arpillera entitled Dancing cueca alone, in design reminiscent of a Toulouse Lautrec poster and in content deeply poignant and dignified, speaking of death and life together.
OpenDemocracy
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Anne flopped down on the bed, and Jonathan took a more dignified pose, leaning against the footboard.
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On seeing me, she wailed mournfully with a mixture of imploration to get her down and shame at her undignified predicament.
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In the first image, Runggye Adak is pictured looking down at the ground, leaning towards a maroon-robed monk, his bearing still dignified, before he is taken away.
Kate Saunders: Pictures From Tibet That Tell a Story of Courage
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He was self-deprecating and dignified all at once.
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Mr. Longfellow met us at the door, with that urbanity which is so agreeable a feature in his character, and, on being shown into a very handsome library, we were introduced to Mrs. Longfellow, a lady of dignified appearance and graceful manner.
The Englishwoman in America
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Sofia resigned herself to this fate with a dignified acceptance.
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No one kind of death is more dignified than another.
Times, Sunday Times
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An honourable and dignified man.
The Sun
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In separate remarks to the Al-Arabiya television network, Mr. Saleh said he is prepared to step down "within a few hours" if his opponents guarantee him what he calls a "dignified departure.
Yemen Islamists Seize Southern Town, Kill 6 Troops in Center
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His dignified person and agreeable countenance, with the most unaffected affability gave me high satisfaction.
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There are also buses full of foreign tourists and business travellers shuttling in a dignified manner between the airport and various star hotels.
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Whips and rods used in a kind of monitorial system by themselves had a great part in the education of these young aristocrats, and, as pain surely must do, pain not of bodily disease or wretched accidents, but as it were by dignified rules of art, seem to have refined them, to have made them observant of the minutest direction in those musical exercises, wherein eye and ear and voice and foot all alike combined.
Plato and Platonism
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Cameron, cast against type, has to subvert his usually dignified air to portray a crooked and downbeat wastrel.
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He wore a black achkan and a red fez with a black tassel, and was amazingly dignified.
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Those horrible scenes and that special instance when an Allied soldier outstretched his arm to help me up became my re-entrance, my being re-invited into humanity and restoring my inalienable right to a dignified existence as a human being and as a Jew.
2008 May « Lean Left
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I contemplated forgoing the gloating and simply waving to the Beemer boys in a gentlemanly, dignified manner.
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Yet these small acts are the difference between a calm, dignified death and a family haunted by the memories of loved ones suffering in their final hours.
Times, Sunday Times
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Trying to stand on shaking legs, she managed to get up and walk two paces, but then she collapsed into an undignified heap.
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She turned on her heel and made what she hoped was a dignified exit.
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Reading, to most people, means an as hamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name.
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What was dignified became chaotic as the crowds thronged towards them, trying to catch a glimpse and take photographs on phones and cameras.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dignified old rowhouses on historic Mount Vernon Square were marred by iron bars on their windows.
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Reading, to most people, means an as hamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name.
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She thought of her dad with his ramrod back and his ramrod soul, dignified to the marrow.
PROSPECT HILL
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More reserved, more dignified, in the reserve of developed womanhood, her cession was the more gracious and wonderful.
The Silver Horde
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Why does anyone think they have the right to deny those who are terminally ill a peaceful and dignified exit?
Times, Sunday Times
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The mascot by its very nature is ridiculous and relatively undignified, which is why people like them.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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Strange, looking back, to remember the pride I felt when Duff Mason gave a dinner for the garrison's best, and I stood by the buffet in my best grey coat and new red sash and puggaree, with my beard oiled, looking dignified and watching like a hawk as the khansamah and his crew scuttled round the candle-lit table with the courses.
Fiancée
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The presence of the mayor dignified the occasion.
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They scoff at them, not because they think them not supported by credible testimony, but because they are not what they call dignified, refined, and just such as they should have supposed all things to be that come from God.
The Life of St. Frances of Rome, and Others
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I've not known Bill for very long of course, though I'm glad to have been acquainted with a quiet, dignified man, with a wry sense of humour and a Granddad's twinkle in his eye.
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A source said: 'He is a very dignified man.
The Sun
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The government felt that such a name was undignified, which may be the only time in American history that a state, city, county, river, lake, creek, or gambling casino was not given an Indian name.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY
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Thackeray, as he penned the early chapters, saw a rather more dignified narrative future for William.
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The word mister sounded sharply, yet not unpleasingly, to my ear: it was the first time I had been so designated or so dignified.
Rattlin the Reefer
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DOWNSIDE Some people may find this dignified Yorkshire town just a little too twee.
Times, Sunday Times
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He dignified a small collection of books by calling it a library.
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She said: 'What an undignified end to a career fighting for their country.
The Sun
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Running back Emmitt Smith is a class act and quarterback Troy Aikman is cool, tough and dignified.
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He must be dignified, he must be tactful and considerate of feelings and of every living creature he sees.
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He was reluctant to strike such an undignified pose before his girlfriend.
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Croft, whose secretary Nodier was for a time, dignified in French books by the name of "_philologue_ Anglais"), a good deal more than a kind of bibliographer (he spent the last twenty years of his life as Librarian of the Arsenal), and an enthusiastic and stimulating, though not exactly trustworthy, critic.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
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What was dignified became chaotic as the crowds thronged towards them, trying to catch a glimpse and take photographs on phones and cameras.
Times, Sunday Times
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Paul, a dignified and unassuming man who was named Volunteer of the Year, has worked unstintingly on behalf of people who have suffered the consequences of exposure to asbestos.
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Every death is ugly and undignified, as life is wrenched away, leaving an inanimate, waxen corpse.
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Sir William had the ability to conduct proceedings in a dignified manner without ever becoming stuffy.
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In re-planning the east wing galleries, built in 1928-32, great efforts have been made to respect their dignified classical architecture.
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Scotch, the sorriest of jargons, compared with which even Roth Welsch is dignified and expressive, has yet one word to express what would be inexpressible by any word or combination of words in any language, or in any other jargon in the world; and very properly; for as the nonsense is properly Scotch, so should the word be Scotch which expresses it -- that word is "fushionless," pronounced
The Romany Rye
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An honourable and dignified man.
The Sun
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A huge portrait of the couple dignified the living room wall.
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People can get angry and tearful - it's about helping them to have a dignified exit.
Times, Sunday Times
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Providing contrast, the dancers' duets were dignified.
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As for the dignified Professor Green, he had actually "hollered" at a poor freshman who had in reading some poetry pronounced "unshed tears" as though unshed were in one syllable.
Molly Brown's Orchard Home
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So that Prince Squid could scarcely be the dignified title of the straight descendant of the oldest and highest aliis
SHIN-BONES
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At the time, Yang bemoaned, "A dignified, nonhysterical account of our peculiar sufferings untethered to the American upper middle class's Ivy League fixation and richly justified fear of national decline remains elusive.
Silpa Kovvali: Tiger Brother: An Interview With Wesley Yang
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The subject matter ranges from dignified nature-poetry (Du Bellay) and Petrarchesque lyrics (Ronsard), through sententious and moralizing texts, to the familiar drinking-songs, some macaronic texts, and Rabelaisian amorous and bawdy narratives; no one wrote more amusing chansons of this last type (En un chasteau and Il esteoit une religieuse are excellent examples).
Archive 2009-06-01
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There is nothing captious about a man who has attained to this, the one possible apotheosis in life, the Apotheosis of Stupidity; and he begins to feel dignified and longaevous like a tree.
An Inland Voyage
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Roscommon, which is dignified with the name of Dunmore House.
The Kellys and the O'Kellys
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It was a most undignified noise that sounded like a squeak to her ears.
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He delivers his declaration not with reckless bravado but with a dignified, quiet, middle-management-lifer assurance, in keeping with his general mien.
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Where humanity can take but limited views of its relations to nature (as among the ignorant tribes of Africa,) there is no sufficient power of abstraction to deduce, by its reason, the conclusion of an invisible Creator; nor is there sufficient inventive power to conceive the idea irrespective of outward impressions; nor is their knowledge of nature so dignified in its character as to produce such grand conclusions.
The Bible or Atheism
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In Anne's case, the overriding impression was that of a dignified and decent woman struggling hard to cope with the pain of ending a marriage which just hadn't worked out.
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For every dignified traditional leisure activity like kabuki or Noh theater, there are sordid underground clubs where fetishes and fringe elements are offered and capitalized upon.
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Strange, looking back, to remember the pride I felt when Duff Mason gave a dinner for the garrison's best, and I stood by the buffet in my best grey coat and new red sash and puggaree, with my beard oiled, looking dignified and watching like a hawk as the khansamah and his crew scuttled round the candle-lit table with the courses.
Fiancée
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Yesterday's handover was smooth and dignified.
Times, Sunday Times
