Sentence examples for false dignity from inspiring English sources
Only a physical attack could break through the children's "false dignity" and help them to rebuild their damaged personalities.
His bold and colourful personality, unencumbered by false dignity or notions of excessive self-importance, seemed to announce: "Here is an unconventional mind".
(This Cowardly line doesn't come off as well as you might think — it needs to be delivered with false dignity in order to be believable, and Maxwell conveys only genuine dignity).
C. P. Snow compared Feynman to Groucho Marx, and Alda, who originated the role earlier this year at the Mark Taper Forum, whence this production comes, under the direction of the Taper's artistic director, Gordon Davidson, conveys Feynman's Marxian sense of mischief and his penchant for puncturing false dignity wherever he found it.
Having no false dignity, he treated it as a complete joke and repeated several times, "A real Charlie Chaplin!" It remains a close call as to which of the two men, the statesman or the comedian, is the most recognizable Englishman of the twentieth century.
Such false and pompous dignity affects the entire production as well as the plot.
Interview: Toni Servillo Frontrunner for the Oscar, no supporting list this year would be complete without Lupita Nyong'o, the first timer whose poor Patsey in Steve McQueen's slavery drama is a triumph of dignity without false nobility.
She resisted her interrogators until the day that, as she put it in her memoirs, she betrayed her dignity with a false confession.
In truth, the either-or assumption that Obama would have to choose between criticizing his critics or keeping his above-the-fray dignity was always a false dichotomy.
In Roman politics, where the appearance of honor and dignity was all important, even obviously false endorsements could bring shame and defeat to a struggling candidate.
"The extraordinary crime I committed was defaming and insulting the republic's highest dignity and its system and spreading false propaganda aimed at breaking down its solidarity," KCNA quoted Kim as saying.
