From the outside, Dillon shows us a small, barely noticeable man who leads a simple, poor, dutiful life with his Russian Jewish parents and younger brother in Philadelphia.
The dutiful life you were bred for is over, you no longer have to rush about all day trying to gratify other people's needs.
The story of Amal is the closest thing to romance in the austerely dutiful life of the pivotal figure in the inquiry into the attacks on New York and Washington.
In these lunches and stray drinks she more and more came to resemble the mistress he remembered: carefree in manner, lively and light-voiced in her conversation, with an edge that somehow cut through to his real self, the heroic, debonair self his dull and dutiful life concealed.
Hepworth's soft face-framing hairstyle dates the portrait to around 1920, shortly before she escaped the bonds of dutiful family life.
Her dutiful, efficient life — "no drinking, no drugs, personal modesty and charm, good behavior on as many fronts as I could manage, a public life of agreeability and professionalism" — foundered on fear, "fear of anthrax, fear of nuclear terrorism, fear of flying, fear of the future".
Her dutiful, efficient life—"no drinking, no drugs, personal modesty and charm, good behavior on as many fronts as I could manage, a public life of agreeability and professionalism"—foundered on fear, "fear of anthrax, fear of nuclear terrorism, fear of flying, fear of the future".
When Eric Loesch returns to the small town in upstate New York where he was reared, he dutifully describes life there in meticulous detail: the woman who sells him his dilapidated house and its six hundred and twelve acres, the hardware store he visits, the large outcropping of rock he can see from his bedroom window.
Unfortunately, Emily, who's spent her life dutifully following in her military father's footsteps, hasn't noticed, either.
If you work in the UK all of your life, dutifully paying taxes, it is not beyond the realms of possibility that you may wish to retire abroad, as many people have done.
All over the country the past month, Xbox units have been flickering to life, dutifully obeying Aaron Paul's disembodied voice, like a Kubrick movie about machines slowly becoming sentient.
