Perhaps this year's freshers' weeks might be a dignified affair after all.
Some hope that without strict dress codes, diners will stop rebelling and start treating dinner like a dignified affair.
In Britain, unlike in the United States, television tends to be a dignified affair, while print is berserk and shouty.
Officials said it had been a "very dignified" affair and that even those who will campaign for Out had agreed the prime minister had done well.
No one is saying that being in a rock band ought to be a dignified affair, but Days Are Gone benefits from being a serious album rather than just another opportunity for the California siblings to toss their hair.
But from the moment the inaugural concert was announced, with the young wizard Paul Jacobs playing the third book of Bach's "Clavierübung" ("Keyboard Exercise") as part of Lincoln Center's new White Light Festival, it was clear that this would be a dignified affair.
This was to be a staid, classy, dignified affair.
The fact that the finale was a relatively quiet, dignified affair that allowed Brody to finally have his longed-for exit doesn't really take away from the fact that a host of ill-judged decisions played out this season.
Quisling was independently minded, made several key decisions on the spot and, unlike his German counterpart, he liked to follow procedure to ensure that government remained "a dignified and civilised" affair throughout.
"Affable, boisterous and good-natured to a fault, he was always as accessible to the newsboy on the corner as to the most dignified personage in worldly affairs".
