Sentence examples for dutiful act from inspiring English sources

My dutiful act was triggered by the arrival of four videotapes from L. L. Bean of Freeport, Me., dealing with fly-fishing, outdoor photography, canoeing and bicycling.

It's a long way to travel and she's never had any desire to see Greece, but, she tells herself, "I supposed it would be my last dutiful act" as a daughter-in-law.

Remembrance is more than a dutiful act of commemoration.

For Kohlberg, the most adequate result of both operations is "reversibility," in which a moral or dutiful act within a particular situation is evaluated in terms of whether or not the act would be satisfactory even if particular persons were to switch roles within that situation (also known colloquially as "moral musical chairs").

For this, and possibly other such dutiful acts, he was given the surname Pius by the Senate.

(The post-Cannes editing, as far as I can tell, has trimmed back on the voice-over and also on some of the slow-motion melting ice cream.) In Memphis Lizzie waits on tables and observes the marital woes of Arnie and Sue Lynne (Mr. Strathairn and Ms. Weisz), who dutifully act out a country-and-western song about drinkin' and cheatin'.

Having paid the entry fees, everyone dutifully acts like a tourist.

After more than a year of establishing her own political identity in New York, with only five months to go in the Clinton presidency, she was once again doing her dutiful first lady act, performing a downbeat opening routine for her highly oratorical husband.

Will they be dutiful partisans or act like responsible members of an equal branch of government?

That pumpers are checking on each one of them every day seems dutiful and conscientious an act that helps to hold the world in place.

But he was fundamentally a bit naive, always awash with strong romantic feelings, in pursuit of things and people to batten them on to.John Sutherland's biography is a dutiful and thorough act of homage to a former colleague and friend.