As a result of this false yet dominating image, many have not seen, "and therefore cannot be convinced that there exists a quiet, self-respecting, dignified class, …of cultivated tastes and habits…" among Negroes, (VAJC, 149).
I come from a dignified family.
Her film is an 18-minute fictional portrayal of a dignified, middle-class grandmother who loses her job and then strives stubbornly but unsuccessfully not to lose her poise and self-respect.
Born in 1922, Sonnino describes the family's slow decline from middle-class respectability to "dignified poverty" (a situation that the 1938 racial laws made ir-reparable) and the proud isolation that forged a tight family unit, thereby making individual escapes inconceivable.
He's bitter, petty and unable to play along with the dignified charade of transition, a class-clown hero.
A black-and-white portrait on the Steinway, taken when Mary was perhaps 40, showed much the same face: a dignified, even formidable upper-middle-class woman, the kind for whom clubs and community service constituted a life's work.
Your family is dignified and pious.
"The Silver Ghost was the first systematically engineered car with very, very high-quality standards, and the first upper-class automobile embraced as a dignified way to travel," said Tony Lewin, who covers the company for Automotive News Europe.
One might expect the Spaniards, who were after all still the ruling class, to be presented in a dignified manner, yet "pure" Africans and Indians are also depicted as beautifully dressed and decorous.
The experience of Thatcherism in Britain alone should have shown how even the conservative middle class' aspirations for a secure and dignified life would be frustrated.
Women and members of minority groups and lower socioeconomic classes were barred or hindered from attaining the dignified and prestigious medical degree (MD).
