If the virtue of style is defined as a mean between the banality involving form of clarity and overly dignified (and hence inappropriate) speech, it is with good reason that Aristotle speaks of only one virtue of prose style, and not of clarity, ornament (by dignified expressions) and appropriateness as three distinct virtues of style.
Perhaps Remembrance Day and Remembrance Sunday are the nearest we have come to a British day - unifying, commemorative, dignified and an expression of British ideas of standing firm for the world in the name of liberty".
The orator can avoid this tendency of banality by the use of dignified or elevated expressions and in general by all formulations that deviate from common usage.
There she is, in a wheelchair, holding baby Lorenzo Dominic, her expression composed, dignified, almost grave, looking straight ahead, as if into her mom future.
In recognition of the path he forged, Yale has convened seminars and lecture series in his name, bestowed the Bouchet Leadership Awards in Minority Graduate Education and hung an oil painting of him — a young man in formal attire, looking off with an expression of dignified purpose — in a prominent spot at the main library.
All of Michael Bay's films are shot through with an instinctive militarism – this guy really respects the Brave Boys; he lionises them with a cloying, masochistic libidinality; he'd let these big burly men of action stamp on his puny head until it popped like a grape, so long as they promised to maintain an expression of dignified resolve while doing it.
There is also excellent singing from Robert Lloyd as King Marke, his voice at once carved and creamy in expressions of dignified regret, and from Alan Held as Kurwenal, free, strong and natural.
I felt like I was being presented with a more dignified way of dying, the expression on the face felt like one of my own someday, and in spite of the loss of memory, I am flooded with them.
Martin Conway describes the portrayal of a dignified man marked by a grave expression and deep "furrows ploughed by seventy years of labour and sorrow".
