Besides, the loss of independence and becoming a burden to others may be a valid part of the reason why someone feels life has become undignified and past bearing.
Yet her allies fear that to appear to campaign openly would appear presumptuous and provoke Mr. Paterson, who had already signaled his worry, before Ms. Kennedy made her interest clear on Monday, that the jockeying over who would succeed Mrs. Clinton had become undignified.
But this has been a slapdash process from the beginning, and what should have been a time for test events and last-minute adjustments has become an undignified race against the clock for the four venues yet to open – which include the arenas in Manaus and Sao Paulo, where England will play in the group phase.
I regret how they were treated, and I apologize to them and to their families for allowing this matter to become an unfortunate and undignified public spectacle.
It will drag us back from the brink, again and again if we're not careful, until life has become so intolerable and undignified that we pray to be gone.
Even though presidents have done shows like softball "The Tonight Show," and everyone's favorite doormat, Larry King, the concept of being the butt of jokes, as many of Stewart's political guests become, seemed a little undignified to many of the paltry profits spouting off the following day.
Reckless, outrageous, and undignified behavior has become excused and countenanced as "telling it like it is," when it is actually just reckless, outrageous and undignified.
It's not just that Qaddafi is absurd: tolerating his absurdity seems to have become, for Libyans, so absurdly undignified that they can't bear it themselves.
Flake alluded to the fiery back-and-forth in his speech on the Senate floor, saying "undignified behavior" has become interchangeable with "telling it like it is".
Such are the worries that the Church of England, often remote from politics, became embroiled in a somewhat undignified exchange with Nick Griffin, the National Party's leader.
It was not so much the old-fashioned view of "It is enough for the Church to speak from Rome and wait for men to come to it," or the belief that it was undignified for the Pope to become involved in the political melee, as it was concern about unpredictable political consequences.
