Sentence examples for dignified subject from inspiring English sources

Travesty, in literature, the treatment of a noble and dignified subject in an inappropriately trivial manner.

He tells me that his poem, which is as dignified as its subject, was a nightmare to compose because, like the soup, Diallo's story had underflavours.

With its scenes of incest and infanticide (at no additional charge), "Mandingo" can hardly be accused of taking a sober, dignified approach to its subject, but when the historical context is itself obscene, transgressions are justified.

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Directed by Linda Otto, this adaptation of journalist Jan Hollingsworth's book of the same name was lauded by the New York Times for its "dignified" take on a subject so easily exploited and sensationalized by the media.

Yet this dignified man has been subjected to the most shameful treatment from the start of his election as leader.

Suffering, suicide, euthanasia, a dignified death — these were subjects she had thought and written about for years, and now, suddenly, they turned unbearably personal.

To convey the dignified, unaffected naturalness of his subject, Wordsworth uses simple language, mostly words of one syllable.

But since one had not materialized, they instead contented themselves by voting on subjects like the dignified burial of veterans, and by snacking on pizza.

In this keenly observed biog-raphy of Thomas Eakins, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Grant" reads in the pained, dignified faces of Eakins's subjects the painter's own "defiant" psychology.