Sentence examples for dutifully observed from inspiring English sources

They had a midnight curfew, which they dutifully observed.

The anguish in the Salmon household is dutifully observed: dad smashes his collection of model ships, mom withdraws and then flees to California, and in the middle of it grandma arrives, a brassy boozer played by Susan Sarandon.

Overcoming his dejection, Robinson dutifully observed Thomson's feet to ensure he touched all the bases.

While dutifully observing that there are just as many disparities in wealth within regions as between them, he admits that the south is racing ahead.

They dutifully observe that workers, not designers, generally paid the highest costs, and that for many people progress has meant displacement, like the ancient Nubian village that had to make way for the Aswan Dam in Egypt.

The movie notes that adult disapproval never hurts sales; "filthy 15" became a sales slogan for the records Mrs. Gore's group found offensive (though the film dutifully observes that major chain stores like Wal-Mart still refuse to sell recordings with warning stickers).

I've observed a host of high school and college classes, from Michigan to Mississippi, and have been impressed by conscientious teaching and dutiful students.

When a constipated young woman goes to the bathroom, the camera dutifully trails along behind to observe her retching and eventually to peer down the flushing toilet.

— The less-than-dutiful executive wife, speaking of her upwardly bound husband, observes that "firing people has become sort of a prayer" for him.

"Everyone was freshly aware of being alive in the world," a young man called Sean observes, "and not dead in it and that they'd been involved in something dutiful but oddly animating".

— before dutifully moving off.