Sentence examples for dignified role from inspiring English sources

He went off again, this time in a more dignified role commanding a Royal Navy expedition to Australia and the East Indies.

The benefit of a cause-centric rather than egocentric approach to activism is that all activists engaged in such actions, whatever their background, find that they have a vital and dignified role to play and there is no distracting, internecine infighting about to who is "centered" and who is not.

It's a profound, restrained love story (Brando's co-star is Sophia Loren), and Sydney Chaplin has a dignified supporting role.

Whereas Boston seems to have settled for a dignified supporting role to Silicon Valley, Manhattan has no shortage of black-clad young people sporting aggressive footwear who insist that New York is the new-media capital of the world.

Anarchists and squatters threw bricks at Beatrix's inauguration in 1980, demanding public housing.A lawyer by training, Beatrix has gradually put all that behind her, playing a more dignified public role than her mother Juliana, who was known as the "people's queen".

The is a dignified older role.

This role has been recognised since the 19th century; the constitutional writer Walter Bagehot identified the monarchy in 1867 as the "dignified part" rather than the "efficient part" of government.

(The opposite could be said of Lana Turner in dignified upscale roles).

In both countries, the urgent challenge is to provide young men with productive work to do and dignified, adult roles to play in their families and society.

Mr. Hill was eminently satisfactory as the elected district attorney, Richard Brooks was persuasive and dignified in the role of Assistant District Attorney Paul Robinette, and Michael Moriarty was absolutely thrilling as Assistant District Attorney Ben Stone.

In this sense, the modern films go no deeper than those released during the 40's, when Hollywood simply barred blacks from playing dignified or heroic roles on screen.