In "Crazy Like a Fox" Roger Rees abandons dignity — though not his British accent — to play Nat Banks, proud but impoverished owner of a decrepit Virginia farm.
When they played one of those songs of the early 1980s, to which everyone does the same preposterous routine with their arms in the air, we abandoned all dignity and did that too…." I shall try to get that image out of my mind.
If you ask me to comment on today's multifaceted China, I would say that we Chinese are abandoning our self-respect and losing our sense of dignity.
Nearly 35, Wicks comes off the bench mixing dignity and abandon.
In a play dominated by one-note interpretations, Kathryn Meisle balances dignity and abandon as the Countess Olivia, who falls in love with the disguised Viola.
Mr. Mann and others suggest that beyond the usual explanations given for the Senate losing streak, there may be a less tangible reason: the reluctance to abandon the comfort and dignity of the Senate to devote oneself completely to the sometimes humiliating retail politics necessary in a presidential bid.
(It's essentially a technological solution to the problem, "How can I drip-feed unproductive distraction into my field of vision while still clinging to the final sliver of self-respect and dignity I'd abandon by sinking to the level of Twitter?") What's significant about this tool is that it adapts to your preferences.
Toward the end of his life, he lost control of his body and was abandoned by his dignity, something he remained painfully aware of until his final days.
Too far gone now – all illusions of dignity abandoned now, so they are crying openly – too far gone to hide it, so they are just crying onto their T-shirt, tears pendulously dripping off their cheeks, wailing, the room smells like salt.
His Headingley in the recent revival of Donkey's Years - a government minister sexually compromised at a college reunion - was a classic comic study of a man's refusal to abandon his self-image of dignity and decency despite the mounting contradictory evidence.
