A telling example of how dutifully officials respond to Hasidic interests came at a Brooklyn synagogue forum in this year's mayoral campaign in which each candidate staked out a position on metzitzah b'peh, a circumcision ritual obscure to most Jews, let alone non-Jews.
It's got one out-loud laugh, plenty of sincere cleverness, vast technical ingenuity, a warm heart, lively performances, and enough gyroscopic camera moves to make Max Ophüls jealous, but "Paddington 2" nonetheless feels dutiful and official, like Sunday-school homework.
Perhaps the most pernicious effect of this type of journalism is that it converts journalists into dutiful messengers of official decrees.
When it did, it dutifully cited the official reassurance that there was little imminent risk of the slope's collapse.
WHEN Hu Jintao, China's president, recently threw open the doors of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing it was not to host fellow Communist Party officials, dutiful soldiers or loyal peasants.
The answer is clear: "objectivity" in Washington journalism does not mean being free of opinions; it means the opposite: dutifully echoing the official opinions and subjective mindset of those in political power.
Like Putin, Ernst is a gosudarstvennik, that is, a statist, and the news programs on Channel One dutifully translate the official line, whether on Putin's greatness or the nefarious intentions of the West.
You've got to admire their loyalty, I guess, since none of them really managed to sound very convincing, but all of them did indeed dutifully repeat the official White House talking point.
The reason for the delay was due to courier officials' dutiful following of the handbook Bureaucratic System of the Ming Dynasty (Da Ming guanzhi), which was used to calculate through geomantic principles which days were auspicious to depart on and which days were not.
"The prince has dutifully supported the Queen all his life and his official duties and charitable work have always run in parallel".
