Sentence examples for considerable dignity from inspiring English sources

He spoke quietly, seriously, with considerable dignity.

Hardwick met her fate with considerable dignity and a minimum of self-pity.

Reflecting with considerable dignity on the lessons of his defeat, Mr. Labastida wished Mr. Fox success.

He behaved with considerable dignity in his bitter disappointment, knowing that his players had done him proud in defeat.

He asked Parliament to cut short his six-year term, and in December 1990, with considerable dignity, he stepped down.

There is as much watchfulness in the face as ease, and there is considerable dignity in that bearing.

The Cambridge classics don, Mary Beard, articulated all this more fully on Question Time when she said of Corbyn: "He's having a pretty rough time and is behaving with a considerable degree of dignity".

A man of considerable charm and dignity, with a neatly trimmed white goatee (he was nicknamed "Colonel Sanders" by his Yale undergraduates), Lewis was revered for his personal generosity.

Cardinal bishops were equal to the other bishops, even if celebrating the rite of consecration of the new pope gave them considerable prestige, while the dignity of the cardinal priest or deacon was considered lower than that of a bishop.

Another work that generated considerable controversy, Beyond Freedom and Dignity (1971), argued that concepts of freedom and dignity may lead to self-destruction and advanced the cause of a technology of behaviour comparable to that of the physical and biological sciences.

But despite this prestige, monks are now at considerable pains to preserve the dignity of the temple and defend a project that has been roundly denounced as both greedy and gaudy.