Sentence examples for being dutiful from inspiring English sources
His Beethoven playing is Apollonian and sensitive to the scores: perhaps too sensitive, to the point of being dutiful.
It plays constantly on the tensions between being dutiful daughter, wife, mother and artist; between what she was raised to be - a nice gel born in genteel Sidcup in 1949 - and what she is now.
The former minister of finance and head of the Development Bank of Central African States has a reputation for being dutiful and hard working, but has had to battle rumours of embezzlement during his time in power.
Burns has said that he hoped by making "The War" to understand something about being in battle, and he has been able to elicit from many of the men descriptions of their moment of conversion, as it were, to being dutiful soldiers who were willing and sometimes eager to kill.
But, being dutiful U.S. allies, and knowing the Bush administration was hungering for alarming reports about Iraq, no matter how dubious, Germany passed on "Curveball's" claims to the CIA.
Being dutiful without being intrusive is a delicate balance and one that owners have mastered in their various walks of life.
On the Internet, where no good turn goes unstoned, the artist list is already being dutifully parsed.
"It means they're dutiful; they're responsible.
The result was dutiful, turgid, and unconvincing.
Drink it because you love it, not to be dutiful.
