His protests at the deaths of thousands of schoolchildren in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, which he blamed on the shoddy construction of state schools, included a wall covered with the names of the dead and a massive installation of rusty steel support bars from the destroyed schools, twisted in the earthquake, straightened out and displayed as a dignified, thought-provoking memorial.
The strong feeling of many Catholics that the visit should never have taken place, apparently has been qualified by some dignified second thoughts.
His painful rise and fall is interspersed with childhood memories of a brutal polio hospital, presided over by a tyrannical orderly (Toby Jones) and bittersweet thoughts of his dignified old dad (Ray Winstone).
Delaney stressed that Wednesday was purely about handling Trapattoni's departure in as dignified a manner as possible but thoughts will turn towards the Italian's successor.
You just need to make sure it's a dignified failure.' And with that happy thought dancing round my head," laughs the former Blue Peter presenter.
From time to time, such mental aberrations are even dignified by being presented as "schools of thought": from "momentum investing" and "greater fool theory" to "the new economy".Now add to this the possibility of leverage.
The thought process: 'Oh, the dignified northerner!
Spector had told family and friends that as a proud, dignified and independent person he could not face the thought of being paralysed or becoming reliant on his family.
It's safe to assume the quieter (and older) majority reacted with thoughts and feelings far more complex and dignified than a collegian squealing, as one of Geraldo's kids did, "It's awesome, finally the guy's dead!" The media error of substituting a photogenic minority for a less-photogenic multitude is common.
Well, then, a dignified man is one whose appearance implies a lifetime of thought, one whose brow expresses it.
The residents of Downton, both upstairs and down, cloister their thoughts to the point where, as Emily Nussbaum notes, we may have seen one "dignified refusal" too many.
