Sentence examples for dignified by having from inspiring English sources

No other 15th-century artist was dignified by having a funerary chapel dedicated to him in the major church of the city where he worked, which attests to the high stature Mantegna came to enjoy in his adopted city.

An ugly or grotesque subject may be moving because it has been dignified by the attention of the photographer.

During some periods, communities erected special furnaces in order to provide a proper cremation for any scrap of paper that had been dignified by writing.

It makes us feel somehow that the wheezy old machine upon which we grope through these sentenses has been dignified by this development, as though we owned an obscure and laughable mongeel dog who was suddenly discovered to be the half-brother of a champion.

At the end of the line is an area so empty and provisional that as far as I have been able to gather, it has never even been dignified by a name.

Chatting someone up on a bus is as dignified as having sex in a Costa toilet.

In invalidating Proposition 8, the court ruled that there was no constitutionally legitimate justification for California to strip same-sex couples of the previously-recognized right "to have their lifelong relationships dignified by the official status of 'marriage.'".

The deputy head had decreed that all playground scuffles should be dignified by the Marquess of Queensberry and, given my facial topography, I naturally caught one on the hooter.

Since then, actions regarded at the time as merely expedient have been recast as a far-sighted strategy and dignified by the term "gradualism".

Rather, the President's words are perversely dignified by the faux-poetic formulae in which they are rendered: I remember hearing from one of my instructors, "The United States has never lost a war".

The cat is not dignified by the owner who keeps a dozen other cats; no dog wants to submit to a team of hair stylists just to have a shot at Best in Show.