Sentence examples for high dignity of from inspiring English sources

His most private scenes — eat, drink, man, woman — tend to fill your eyes and ears with the high dignity of a Mass, or the élan of a small parade.

The high dignity of our republic will be exalted".

It is an award, it was explained in a press release, which is "granted to a head of state or individuals of high dignity, who have achieved remarkable merit in the world of aquatics".

It wasn't so long ago – a year and ten months to the week, if you like to be precise – that Maglione flew to Russia to personally present Vladimir Putin with something called the 'Fina Order', which they award "to a head of state or individuals of high dignity who have achieved remarkable merit in the world of aquatics".

Before eighty thousand people in a packed football stadium, and thirty-eight million more on TV (beating the Academy Awards, the Olympics opening ceremonies, and even the final night of "American Idol"), the ordinariness of their voices and the unremarkable details of their lives rose to a level of high dignity.

The second step in Crummell's Natural Rights Argument holds that rights may be inferred from the "settled and primary sentiments" of human nature as well as from the "original grounds of high dignities" and "exalted tendencies" of our common humanity ("New York Convention Address," 201).

Everything she photographs acquires a high dignity".

In lending movie acting the technical difficulty of stage performance, Iñarritu reinforces the theme of "Birdman" — the higher artistic dignity of acting in the theatre.

Peter Hujar documents the prickly, high-flying dignity of Ethyl Eichelberger in drag, but also the more subtle androgyny of Susan Sontag in thoughtful repose, an image more in keeping with Abbott's photograph of Betty Parsons.

Up to the pontificate of Pope Alexander III (1159 1181), all the cardinals who were appointed to the external episcopal sees, resigned their membership in the College of Cardinals after receiving episcopal consecration, which clearly shows that the episcopate was considered a higher dignity than that of cardinal-priest or deacon.

"The worst crime I committed was to rashly defame and insult the highest dignity and the system of the republic," he said.