How To Use Dutiful In A Sentence

A fellow treats himself and his true love to dinner, a bottle and a night at the bug house at the end of another week of hard work and dutiful child-rearing, comes home happy and at peace, and what does he find?
In his relations with his commercial agent a principal must act dutifully and in good faith.
But dutifully stenographed Greg, as always, with enough practice you might become a fax machine. Hillary Hits Obama: "Pennsylvanians Don't Need A President Who Looks Down On Them"
Here he connects to that discussion the situation of the wretched offspring who are undutiful toward their parents.
Suddenly I perceived him as Dutiful did, and realized that the Prince's abhorrence went past the man's physical deformity and mental limits. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN

Thus, each outlay of dutiful public "support" was eventually marred by some tactless remark or hint of encouragement to an outraged bitter-ender that, if only they kept faith, there might still be a way. Hillary Goes Out With a Whimper
And that dutiful son of mine over there. Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born
In recognition of his dutiful service, Ortega had been rewarded the post of Colombian governor.
We see them playing to throngs of hundreds in big clubs and to a handful of dutiful applauders in improvised performance spaces.
He is momentously disorganized, and is thus kept somewhat together -- and wearing pants -- thanks to the dutiful efforts of his friends and wife. MIND MELD: The Future of Star Wars
Act dutifully and in good faith towards the Sole Distributor.
He dutifully screamed, exposing the braces gilding his teeth.
A liveried flunkey doffed his cap and drove the Peugeot away while others dutifully hauled luggage about.
While my father remained in the garden, I sent my dutiful compliments to my mother, with inquiry after her health, by Shorey, whom I met accidentally upon the stairs; for none of the servants, except my gaoleress, dare to throw themselves in my way. Clarissa Harlowe
He is also undutiful to me, besides being a spendthrift and squanderer.
A historical novel, it is no dutiful trudge - rather an artful waka, rowing fast and with purpose.
People are talking differently about the man that they thought of as an affable neighbour, pleasant cabbie, reliable friend and dutiful father. Times, Sunday Times
We laughed dutifully at all his jokes, even the ones that weren't funny.
It seems ludicrous that they have been hung out to dry with such vituperation when in fact they are both dutifully fulfilling the only remaining important royal function there is.
Both the men now gazed in the direction from which they expected the girls to appear, when lo! shouting, laughing, and tearing obstreperously along, the six beauteous and dutiful damsels came racing towards them. Ralph Rashleigh
Lana looked at the crows' feet at the corner of Nell's eyes, her dutifully middle-class twinset.
a dutiful child
Long before the end the atmosphere had gone from the place, the final whistle greeted by dutiful cheers rather than raw passion.
It was once a job for only the most dutiful of husbands. Times, Sunday Times
Great Regulars: One senses that the father has always taken the older son's dutifulness for granted, and that, perhaps, the older son has been so dutiful in order to win some greater measure of his father's love and approval. Archive 2009-03-01
She is harsh and undutiful to him, and her servants either refuse to obey his orders or pretend that they did not hear them.
The FROW were all dutifully clad in Burberry Prorsum.
Without looking up, the Commish dutifully scrawled his signature on my paper as Andra snapped a photo of us.
At that time faddists of various persuasions proliferated up and down the Village: anarchists who dutifully went home every night to their mothers’ kitchens, a Hungarian monarchist with his own following, free-verse poets who eschewed capital letters, cultists who sat rapturously for hours in orgone boxes, cloudy Swedenborgians, and all the rest. What Happened to the Baby?
The relationship between the constituents and their elected representatives has deformed into the masses and their dutifully appointed leaders.
Here clients, characterized as ‘worthy wives and dutiful daughters,’ are portrayed as grateful and appreciative.
Miss Fergusson, however, remained her dutiful and efficient self.
Bertha would eventually become the dutiful and submissive spouse.
I dutifully explained that the smoky spots were probably the result of natural irradiation caused by many tiny radioactive mineral grains, possibly monazite or xenotime.
She didn't just dutifully put pen to paper, she told stories, painted pictures and opened a window into the frustrations and rare joys of her own life.
He claimed she had given up her glittering legal career to be a dutiful housewife. Times, Sunday Times
Testaments were vitiated in several ways: nullum, void from the beginning, where there was a defect in the institution of the heir or incapacity in the testator; injustum, not legally executed and hence void; ruptum, by revocation or by the agnation of a posthumous child, either natural or civil; irruptum, where the testator had lost the civil status necessary for testation; destitutum, where the heir defaulted because dead or unwilling, or upon failure of the condition; recissum, as the consequence of a legal attack upon an undutiful will. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
For the Emperor is the father of all, and, since his authority is transferred to officers, disobedience to them would equal undutiful conduct.
But whatever O became, Walter intended to be his most dutiful follower, and so he went, as bidden, to law school. O: A Presidential Novel
Although dutifully gutted and stripped of their fur-bearing skin in the field by the trappers, the remaining bits of rotting flesh and grizzle began to give off a stink as the pelts thawed in boxes on the warehouse floor. A DAY AT THE FUR AUCTION • by Stephen Taylor
As the Ciceronian model of republicanism made explicit, the goal in adoring one’s civic order is to assume a posture vis-à-vis the state like that of a dutiful child to a parent. [ Patriot Acts: The Political Language of Henrich von Kleist
Begging you will not take it amiss I shall ever be your dutiful servant.
The young Count adores her, and maintains her in her position with dutifulness worthy of all praise, and he is extremely good to his brother and sister. — Gobseck
Commons, that "their remonstrance was more like a denunciation of war, than an address of dutiful subjects, and that their pretension to inquire into state affairs was a plenipotence to which none of their ancestors, even during the weakest reigns, had ever dared to aspire. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges
They prefer to market the classics on a more glossy superficial level; the profound conductor and seriously dutiful players are a thing of the past.
After dinner with his dutiful wife and campaign staff, he concluded that it was time to throw in the towel. Times, Sunday Times
The dull and dutiful trials in The Hague seem preferable. Times, Sunday Times
Those who know him describe him as a dutiful soldier, physically brave, conscientious and honest by local standards - but a man of limited vision.
These denominations view that sort of dutifulness as sufficient. Matthew Yglesias » Misfortune?
Dutifully, we put the flag out in front of our house, just like we do every Sept. 11 since that fateful day, just aswe do every Fourth of July and Memorial Day, and other selected dates. 9/11 - A macabre anniversary
As a child swot, though, I felt a responsibility to my family to enter a "respectable" profession I dutifully studied law but found journalism's raffish camaraderie more accommodating. Back to the land: from London to sheep farming on Eigg
They must acknowledge that they had acted undutifully.
I bought one of those and my mum dutifully kept hold of it until all the colours gradually slipped together and became a sort of blah browny sandy colour, when she wisely decided it was no longer worth holding onto.
The Nazi artillery dutifully shelled without mercy, and the Luftwaffe bombarded the streets relentlessly.
Adults still dutifully head home to mother for tonic soups when a hectic all-work-and-no-play lifestyle leaves them feeling under the weather.
She then goes into full-on damage limitation mode, playing the doting mum and dutiful wife. The Sun
I am a disappointing, though generally dutiful, student. That is, I do as I'm told.
She then goes into full-on damage limitation mode, playing the doting mum and dutiful wife. The Sun
Certainly in person he answers - or evades - questions dutifully and without emotion.
He dutifully read his speech from start to finish and when he came to the conclusion, his speechwriter had bracketed an instruction for him to now ‘pull the cord’.
The days of the dutiful wife, who sacrifices her career for her husband, are over.
But once a week he has been dutifully turning up to learn xylophone with a music teacher. The Sun
In which respect I have returned my dutiful acknowledgement, which I beseech you to present, when you shall call a convocation, about some matter of greater moment. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
Dutifully pursuing my health and fitness theme, I hobbled off to a spa just outside Palm Springs, where I could steep in a hot mudbath.
It's a depressing resolution for a heroine: to do the dutiful thing.
He was phlegmatic and dutiful, with a wry sense of humor.
The editor of Vogue, Anna Wintour, is in dutiful attendance after controversially cutting her time short at the previous collections. Nicholas Kirkwood, British shoe designer, steps up to top role at Pollini
People are talking differently about the man that they thought of as an affable neighbour, pleasant cabbie, reliable friend and dutiful father. Times, Sunday Times
But behind the image of the dutiful wife and mother is a steely political operative who has seized control of the campaign at a vital juncture. Times, Sunday Times
When, as had become usual, Dutiful did not arrive, I opened the shutters wide to the chill and dark of the winter morn. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
The Communists dutifully echoed his admission, disclosing that even loyal Vietminh veterans had been unjustly tried and executed.
She was given to dutifulness, religious and artistic, and this strengthened her. Touched by Evil
And, depending, we could see this move termed as another "deft" move accompanied by dutiful rationalizations. Progressive Bloggers
The inspector dutifully recorded the date in a large red book.
We dutifully cut out scary things from construction paper and glued together our own artistic efforts, pitiable though they were.
Still, even when it veers into the realm of Spinach TV — so good-for-you that it feels more dutiful than good — OWN is by and large a refreshing respite from the wearying, soul-numbing cable norm, which often exploits and celebrates our worst behaviors. Matt's TV Week in Review
The inspector dutifully recorded the date in a large red book.
Could a jury properly directed, and seeking dutifully to comply with the relevant directions, conscientiously reach a conclusion that the applicants were actuated by malice or not?
She is but the latest in a long line of backwoods cats to call this wildlife sanctuary home, her personal habits and transferable lessons each dutifully recorded by the man-who-writes.
The latter has taken on a role akin to the proconsuls of the Roman Empire, dutifully relaying ever more onerous conditions imposed by the IMF.
What children expect of parents in dutiful bounty but a friendly co-operation. Motherhood Messages From Mythology: a Study of Four Queens as Mothers in Indian Epics Ramayana and Mahabharata « English Lesson Plans « Free Lesson Plans « Literacy News
I am certain Prince Dutiful was well aware of their eyes upon his back and that they discussed how his betrothed had snubbed him. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
The wolfling padded dutifully forward to sniff noses. Here There Are Monsters
Its clergy, in the main, were neither piously devoted nor scandalously negligent, but were generally dutiful if rather unambitious pastors.
S'long -- Mr. Barton!" she called listlessly over the other, and started on, stumblingly, clatteringly, up the abruptly steep and precipitous mountain trail -- a little dust-colored gnome on a dust-colored horse, with the dutiful gray pinking cautiously along behind her. Little Eve Edgarton
I dutifully swigged successive glasses of the Albariño with my codfish confit one night, and again with a thrombotic dish of grilled skate and veal sweetbreads the next.
Ellis or Michael Daragh, tea and dancing with Rodney Harrison, or dinner and a play with him, or a little session of snug coziness with Mrs. Hetty Hills, giving the exile news of the Vermont village, -- nothing was dull or dutiful; the prosiest matters of every day were lined with rose. Jane Journeys On
Sara arrived to the program after spending several weeks in Dili, East Timor, the country whose blogosphere she dutifully covers on Global Voices. Global Voices in English » Featured Author: Sara Moreira
The inspector dutifully recorded the date in a large red book.
A man who his clansmen call dutiful, and his neighbours call modest. XIII
But behind the image of the dutiful wife and mother is a steely political operative who has seized control of the campaign at a vital juncture. Times, Sunday Times
• Finally, when the Lib Dems' earnest history society met the other day to celebrate the 60th anniversary of their famous byelection victory at Orpington in Kent – one of many such breakthroughs on the path to government, one recalls – the current MP Joe Johnson, brother of Boris was dutifully present to hear guest speaker, Professor Dennis Kavanagh. Hugh Muir's diary
As a still dutiful, if mature daughter, she still tried to placate rather than confront.
The English dubbing is every bit as wonderful as I remember it, and Sage dutifully sat through most of it (which, for an 11-month-old, is no mean feat). Archive 2003-01-01
She had no sooner, as a dutiful child, communicated this billet-doux to her father, than he, as a careful parent, visited Mr. Pickle, and, in presence of Mrs. Grizzle, demanded a formal explanation of his sentiments with regard to his daughter Sally. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
But he was painfully anxious to exculpate himself from the guilt of having acted undutifully and disrespectfully towards France.
She is the model of a loyal, dutiful wife. Times, Sunday Times
Then, eight or 10 vehicles ahead, there was reason to slow down - we couldn't see why - so everyone dutifully braked and gaps in the line concertinaed.
Through extremes of weather and disease, these scientists dutifully triangulate distances and gather botanical specimens throughout the Peruvian wilderness.
Sasha Roiz plays Piero, the dutiful son who gets the serving-girl pregnant, as a decent sort caught way out of his element.
Observe how she proceeds dutifully to The Lemon Tree to have lunch with the co-chair of the Flower Festival. MIDDLE AGE: A ROMANCE
The other two dutifully got out pencil and paper and wrote numbers one to ten down the side.
Yet another male politician strays from the "sanctity of marriage" everyone is so quick to defend and yet another wife either stands dutifully by his side on tv or feels she has to explain herself and her accomplishments as if it's her fault. Sanford's wife: He's earned a second chance
It may be that Sutherland felt a need to compensate for previous injustices in the writing of this biography, but one sometimes has the sense that his dutifulness became a chore to him. A Nice Bloody Fool
How could dutiful wife live in ignorance? Times, Sunday Times
Dutiful must cut off the dragon's head and bring it to the hearth of Elliania's motherhouse. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
A liveried flunkey doffed his cap and drove the Peugeot away while others dutifully hauled luggage about.
The daughter in-law who severs ties with her mother in-law causes her husband to abandon his mother and sever his ties with her; thus, such a wife becomes the reason behind his undutifulness towards his mother.
Disobedience in this regard does not constitute undutifulness to parents.
He claimed she had given up her glittering legal career to be a dutiful housewife. Times, Sunday Times
So I dutifully checked my vaccinations were up-to-date - typhoid, tetanus, hepatitis A and all the rest - and resigned myself to six weeks of malaria tablets.
While it is not an incumbent duty on either, considering their poverty, he will be doing an act of dutifulness which earns his parents and himself good reward.
Vincent was a nice kid - loyal, dutiful and good-humored.
So on my first visit, I dutifully bellied up to the upstairs sushi bar, ordered a shiny portion of botan shrimp, and prepared to ignore the contents of the standard brasserie menu filled with the same old tired frites and frisée salads.
It was downtempo weather that fit the air of dutifulness which surrounded the event. McCain’s Relaunch: Quick First Reaction - Swampland - TIME.com
How can we at the same time be dutiful and unjust, since duty presupposes justice - indeed duty is justice itself, in the form of requirement and obligation.
When dutifully checking in the next day, he explained that his application for permanent residency is pending, allowing him legal stay until it is resolved.
The dull and dutiful trials in The Hague seem preferable. Times, Sunday Times
He is dutiful, which is good, but he is not exactly inspired, which is why I look forward to summer for him. Chicken Blog
They're dutiful but have little time or inclination. Times, Sunday Times
“Mother, I have been an undutiful trouble to you, and I have my reward; but of late years I have had a kind of glimmering of a purpose in me too. Bleak House
But yet, being the dutiful daughter she was, she did fight their war for them.
They're more interesting, though seldom compelling, in the historical sections, which are themselves more interesting for the density of detail gleaned from the novel—the shared excruciation of foot binding, the secret language with which the friends communicate, the irresolvable conflict between their love for one another and the pull of dutiful wifedom. Harry Potter and the Fantastic Finale
All there was left to do was to stumble on, dutifully following the tracks on the ground as they appeared.
This dutiful diplomat's wife was well placed to observe the politics and people of Russia from Stalin to Chernenko, says Rodric Braithwaite Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010
Given the contrast, are we to boast that our scribes are more dutiful, intelligent, responsible and wise in contributing to national strength and honour?
Oh, the devotion of a dutiful husband. Times, Sunday Times
Random people preceding me were confronting various BBC folk and questioning them, and I dutifully earwigged.
The case of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the Iranian woman whose death by stoning is ever-imminent, has become a mainstay on the docket of news reportage which dutifully highlights the savagery of Islamic law. Beenish Ahmed: Damsels in Distress: Using Victimized Women as Political Ploys
And the only women in the celestial kingdom will be those dutiful, obedient plural wives who are invited there by their husbands to serve them for all eternity.
He included Prince Dutiful amongst them, and said he shared her sorrow that her son's magic must remain both hidden and uneducated. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
I took my place next to her with a dishrag, dutifully drying each mug and dish as Mami washed them in the suds beside me.
Those expressions of admiration were not mere dutiful platitudes inspired by the passing of a respected colleague.
I must humour my own father: it is only dutiful to meet his desires. sed eccum Amphitruonem, advenit; iam ille hic deludetur probe, siquidem vos voltis auscultando operam dare. ibo intro, ornatum capiam qui potis decet; dein susum ascendam in tectum, ut illum hinc prohibeam. Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives
After dinner with his dutiful wife and campaign staff, he concluded that it was time to throw in the towel. Times, Sunday Times
Finally, a third time, the farmer got on the tractor, tilled the field, and dutifully took the corn planter back and forth over the field.
With Mimi he was expected to be neatly groomed, dutiful and obedient.
Dutifully, she stripped off his gown, brought in a dishpan of hot water, and gave him a sponge bath. ABSOLUTE ZERO
The PFY dutifully phones and a ring sound emerges from the heart of the machine.
ThorAu lives his life, and writes his life and the life of those around him and those that preceded him, and all this is transcribed and dutifully saved with crematorial compactness by a hard-disk. Afterthoughts
The days of the dutiful wife, who sacrifices her career for her husband, are over.
So, I dutifully removed the lower springs and spacers, remounted the waterblock and was rewarded with a much lower idle temperature.
So probably one who accepts (CP) does so in a way that violates (CP); (CP) lays down a condition for being justified, dutiful, which is such that one who accepts it probably violates it. Warranted Christian Belief
We believe, we really do, that Monday, Wednesday and Saturday evenings will see us puffing dutifully around the rain-sodden streets or enthusiastically grabbing cozzie and towel and setting off for the local baths instead of curling up with a takeaway and a DVD. Home | Mail Online
In theory, this is done routinely to encourage dutiful submission to authority.
Annoyed, the father insisted on driving the ‘undutiful son’ out of the house.
By the end of this cycle I wind up with bins the Terminator would have trouble dragging down the driveway, but I dutifully haul them out in front of the wall and up onto the curb.
And for the moment he felt a sort of comfort in recovering his daughter 's dutiful attendance, that made a change of habits seem possible to him. Daniel Deronda
He died of gangrene before he could pay, but his son dutifully discharged the debt.
If you wanted to be generous, you could explain away the Empress' comments by pointing to the fact that she is of a different generation, one where women played traditional roles and royal consorts dutifully obeyed centuries-old rules.
Luckily, the timely intervention of a dutiful cop prevented the scene from getting ugly.
Yes, and the parliamentary clones dutifully trooped through the division lobby to vote for war.
I dutifully got out my trusty green and red markers and set to work on one, but in the end, I argued Dad out of the idea by saying that the sign would make us sound illicit.
When I saw it I thought you had sent it back in a huff, tired out by my sauciness, and coldness, and delays, and were going to keep an account of dimities and sayes, or to salt pork and chronicle small beer as the dutiful wife of some fresh-looking, rural swain; so that you cannot think how surprised and pleased I was to find them all done. Selected English Letters
How could dutiful wife live in ignorance? Times, Sunday Times
The aristocratic families at the heart of the new scandals are not loyal and dutiful - they are vicious, greedy and spiteful.
Twist the key in the ignition and the engine doesn't so much explode into life as dutifully and modestly clear its throat.
Their parents, dutiful slaveholding Episcopalians at Charleston, were tolerant enough to permit their daughters to teach the Negro children.
And maybe it’s because I’m tired of Hollywood grabbing the headlines and having all the juicy fun while we poets twirl dutifully in dimmer orbits, sipping chai, submitting to Kingsley Tufts, and sharpening our pencils. Red Carpet Treatment at AWP : Patricia Smith : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
She played the dutiful wife, but will she still love him tomorrow? Times, Sunday Times
Then we boiled it dutifully and heated our tins on the Calor gas stove in the kitchen.
On top of this, the dutiful John Ronewyk carefully recorded a list of the ‘fines terrae’ owed by those replacing dead tenants, and the heriots (the best beast in the herd) of those heirs who took over from their dead fathers.
On the other hand, too much solemnity and dutifulness creates a lifeless and narrow outlook and a stale psychological environment.
I was a dutiful daughter then. Times, Sunday Times
Marcus makes clear that at every stage she behaved unreasonably, unsociably, and undutifully.
It is Ego which drives us to be dutiful and fulfil false obligations.
She was clinging to her husband with one hand, dutifully spooning up the last of her chowder with the other. SOMETHING IN THE WATER
The message their joyless dutifulness sends to children couldn't be clearer: you are a burden, you are sucking the life out of me, but - ‘in my heart’ - I love you.
Still others, believing they are in C, will dutifully ‘tweak’ the final phrase of the piece to return to the note C at the cadence, making for a somewhat jarring ending.
Tom Campbell has been a loyal and dutiful employee of this firm for 25 years.
She is the model of a loyal, dutiful wife. Times, Sunday Times
The future king dutifully did as he was told. Times, Sunday Times
Being the dutiful daughter, I offered them the spare room at my place until they got themselves sorted out.
He had dutifully nurtured a six-hair goatee and frayed the bottom of his jeans.
Still he dutifully logged the coordinates and, helped by the tide, kedged his ship off the reef leaving behind an island whose far and distant isolation would one day become its most valuable feature.
Had undutifulness been found among the ignorant people, it might have been a little excusable.
The aristocratic families at the heart of the new scandals are not loyal and dutiful - they are vicious, greedy and spiteful.
What lifts this movie above the usual run of dutifully sweet romantic comedies is the bright, fantasy-friendly sensibility of its two directors, Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini.
Even committed terpsichoreans may find her book a dry, dutiful trudge through the life of America's most electrifying and infuriating 20th-century choreographer.
Still, the sides, more dutiful than fervent, were drawn.
Despite this experience, like a dutiful son he returned to Bombay and took up a job with an insurance company. Times, Sunday Times
Just dutifully , he slept with his bride for a few days, then went back to school.
It is a fitfully lively, dutifully interesting slice of quality moviemaking.
In 1941, Calvino dutifully enrolled at the University of Turin, choosing the Agriculture Faculty where his father had previously taught courses in agronomy. Italo calvino | if on a winter’s night a traveler « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
She tells him she will bring him to a home where she will be a faithful and dutiful servant to him, and that if this home reminds him of a home long lost, he should weep for it also.
Are you the kind of woman who can play the loyal wife and dutiful daughter-in-law as and when needed? Times, Sunday Times
Read THE ANTI-WAR NUMBERS GAME, archived below. tadair919 you ever hear the term useful idiots? that's when people ally themselves with the naive because they dutifully tow the same line. it's ... Propeller Most Popular Stories
Leaving aside Levine’s unintentionally amusing academic dutifulness —” I have been able to view this episode of the Match Game, along with many others, in syndicated repeats on the Game Show Network” — the book does map genuine cultural change and find meaning in an ephemeral medium that, despite its pervasiveness, is too often regarded as unfit for serious study. Cover to Cover
She would do nothing that could be thrown in her teeth; nothing that could be called unfeminine, indelicate, or undutiful. Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite
At Lord's I kept thinking how strange it must feel for Sri Lanka, playing a game that draws empty seats back home, but here in London's Greatest Beer Garden inspires a full house of the often insensible, the beer-goggled, the bladder-swollen, the game's faithful backbone lolling dutifully in their high-priced seats, all doing their bit for English cricket's new economy of the sozzled. Sozzled - how English cricket got lost in drink | Barney Ronay
We have only the permission for that use and disposal, and then only so long as we dutifully serve the reigning mobocracy in the manner it deems desirable.
So, as we dutifully pile into our cars and sit in traffic while being battered with hurricane-leftover rains to celebrate the holiday that marks the end of summer (after just starting to feel less groggy from the totally schlocky sensory overload that was the VMA's. 24,526 projection screens ... so motion sick), fear not! They used to keep me up at night (Music (For Robots))
Some works are autobiographical, including a piece about a dutiful daughter who forsakes her own happiness to care for her mother.
Yet they also talked constantly about how, if the apelike human male were molded correctly by them, could become more female, and therefore more human, then they, the women in my childhood sphere, could then rest well, assured that their Frankenstein monster would dutifully support them in the manner in which they wished to live. Roseanne Archy
I believe, too, that since the time -- ten years earlier -- when she had recalled her dutiful son Peter from the service, she had wholly changed her mode of living. Youth
Dutifully, we step on the correct train and go home to the overdraft statement, or the divorce petition, or the cold fear that our kid may be a junkie.
And, after what feels like a somewhat dutiful slog through Juvenal, Swift, and Pope, you would expect Denby at least to be aware of the limitations imposed by the shriveled range of cultural reference within which the contemporary media "ironist" must operate. Undefined
They were merely old, and their children had undutifully failed to grow up and give them a place by the fire.
They make it back to the hive if they can, and die if they can't, uncomplaining and dutiful. THE PRESIDENT'S CHILD
The police dutifully later detained student protesters for burning effigies of her and even went so far as to arrest a street cartoonist for drawing unflattering caricatures of the president.

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