In the process they imbued it with their most self-regarding qualities the playfulness and dutifulness of the panto hero, the fairness that is his reward and their mores.
The desperate dutifulness of an impoverished nuclear submarine officer makes gripping reading, as does her depiction of the evils visited on Chechens both in Russia proper and their homeland, now a hellhole of cruelty and misery.Andrew Meier, Time magazine's former Moscow correspondent, covers some similar ground in his slim volume about Chechnya.
As the late writer Christopher Hitchens explained: "Her unflinching dutifulness and reliability have conferred something beyond charm upon the institution, associating it with stoicism and a certain integrity".
In his superbly double-edged central performance, Alan Cox beautifully suggests both the jaunty down-to-earth decency and dutifulness and the romantic, imaginatively truanting streak in Cornelius who has never really believed in the capitalist system he has served ("a game of snakes and ladders – without the ladders") and who boyishly dreams of searching for the "lost city of the Incas".
Doggedness, drudgery, and dutifulness — the three "D"s of Protestantism — are at its heart, and those Leonardo never knew.
Trilling put on a face of dutifulness and deference because he mistrusted his own instincts.
Her husband calls her ugly ; out of self-abasing dutifulness, she hides herself away.
She follows him around with a desperate dutifulness, and he does his best to sideline her during their meeting with Dennis.
This gesture — heartbreaking in its propriety and dutifulness — also has a great deal to do with a by now arcane notion of fidelity: Hardwick had chosen Lowell, and she accepted responsibility for that.
In the 1970s a certain dutifulness begins to show.
With the dutifulness of a long-term prisoner, he stands awaiting instruction.
