We put out a polite and dignified call for interns, thinking, perhaps naively, that descriptors like "hardworking", "intelligent" and "not totally shitty" will be enough to get the point across and, like clockwork, the tidal wave of tell-all, snarkfest applications comes down on us like shitty, diary-style hellfire.
Instead, we need to find an honest, dignified way of opening our party and our thinking up to the millions of voters worried about the future of our economy, democracy and country.
As it plays, however, you can't help thinking: there has to be a more dignified route than this.
I am thinking of dog names a lot -- the dignified ones (Elias), the youthful ones (Pogo), the human ones (Steve), the familiar ones (Lacey), the place ones (Orlando) -- in an effort to STOP thinking about other names.
Now, I couldn't help thinking that most of the dogs I've met aren't quite like the dignified, serious animals I was reading about.
One of the most endearing segments in "Constant Star" presents Wells, strong and dignified, making a speech but pausing now and then to reveal her inner state, which is girlish and giggly, thinking of Barnett in the audience.
The dignified and noble-looking young man lies on the ground, his eyes open as if he were still alive and thinking.
The novel tells of a young woman named India — "it seemed to her her parents must have been thinking of someone else when they named her" — who marries a young lawyer named Walter Bridge, who is "very tall and dignified" and "rather stoop-shouldered so that even when he stood erect his coat hung lower in the front than in the back".
And thinking, thinking, thinking".
Think air guitar, only, somehow, less dignified.
