Sentence examples for dignified if from inspiring English sources

"Strong Island" is so quiet, so dignified — if that is not too Booker T. Washington a thing to say.

IT IS hard to picture Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Indonesia's dignified if slightly pompous president, clad in a leather jacket over a T-shirt advertising a rock band.

The weight of the commission's recommendations is made more credible and dignified if the commissioners do not have known opinions outside the ultimate verdict.

With pride, difficulty and a dignified, if silent, eloquence, he lit the torch to open the 1996 Olympic games in Atlanta.

While divorces, affairs, showy expenditures, dimwitted comments and exploitation of the Windsor connection for private gain have tarnished the reputations of her children and their spouses, the queen has remained a dignified if grim presence through it all.

It may have been exciting to witness, but it sounds better suited to agitprop theater -- say, Eisler or Brecht -- than to the kind of dignified if harrowing enterprise Pound was trying to foster.

Wild told BBC Sport: "We can offer the owners a dignified exit if they decide to sell but if they decide not to, there's not a lot we can do".

They will let you know if you pass or fail at the end typically so walk out dignified because if you passed you don't have to take a thousand or more dollar class.

It hardly needs a terrorist's bomb at a marathon's finish line to remind you that, if there's a cause you're willing to suffer for, there is a ready made, dignified - if sweaty - course of action.

Dressed in a matronly gray blazer, she gave a remarkably dignified performance, if also a disastrous one.

Transplanted out of her familiar world, she seemed to find it easier to be dignified, as if she were moving inside a different skin, sleeker.