Dorinha, who turned her back on Jú, her mother, to follow in her aunt's glamorous footsteps, is also at loose ends, dabbling in acting and poetry without Cida's dignified determination.
It is a tribute to her, and her quiet and dignified determination that other families should not have to suffer in the way hers has, that the WI gave such wholehearted support to this resolution.
He told the families their "dignified determination" had shaped the panel's work: "When you were bereaved of your loved ones 23 years ago, none of you imagined that the night of sorrow was to last so long.
Instead of talking wistfully of how he wished he had killed Mr. Arafat two decades ago, Mr. Sharon owes it to his people to tell them that their future must involve dignified national self-determination for a neighboring Palestinian state not carved up by Israeli settlements.
Linah was unique: optimistic, ambitious, funny and dignified with gentleness and determination in equal measure.
"She destroys her own work," Jennifer said, and went on to add that she, Jennifer, had recently come to feel that she could, in her own, more representational paintings, not only repudiate her mother but escape her; her attempt to mirror in paint some piece of reality represented her determination to live a dignified life.
Baroness Williams takes the dignified path in stepping down, consistent with the principled determination she has shown in 50 years of public service.
And although much depends on how the statehood bid is formally expressed, there is every possibility that U.N. action on the wrong set of terms could be a setback in the Palestinians' decades-long struggle for self-determination and the right to live normal, dignified lives in their ancestral land.
We are an example of the very best this nation has to offer; dignified, resilient, honourable, compassionate, fair-minded and driven by a determination to have the truth exposed.
"It took a lot of courage, a lot of guts and a lot of determination to stand up and to do it in a quiet, dignified manner," Fehr said.
Chris Morris, the BBC's Europe correspondent, says the Commission's draft proposals speak of a determination to implement "a more swift return system" and to "ensure a humane and dignified treatment of returnees, and a proportionate use of coercive measures".
