Sentence examples for if dignified from inspiring English sources

Published by Hyperion, these later books were anthologies of famous poems, stories and prose, handpicked by Ms. Kennedy and packaged with tantalizing, if dignified, glimpses of the life of a Kennedy: pictures culled from old family albums, poems written by her mother, and Ms. Kennedy's own ruminations on childhood and other subjects.

If dignified care for older people is to be implemented successfully, we need to fully understand both the patients' and health care professionals' understanding of dignity in order to develop appropriate and relevant policies and procedures to avoid the breaches of dignity in care of older people.

"Strong Island" is so quiet, so dignified — if that is not too Booker T. Washington a thing to say.

IT IS hard to picture Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Indonesia's dignified if slightly pompous president, clad in a leather jacket over a T-shirt advertising a rock band.

The weight of the commission's recommendations is made more credible and dignified if the commissioners do not have known opinions outside the ultimate verdict.

With pride, difficulty and a dignified, if silent, eloquence, he lit the torch to open the 1996 Olympic games in Atlanta.

While divorces, affairs, showy expenditures, dimwitted comments and exploitation of the Windsor connection for private gain have tarnished the reputations of her children and their spouses, the queen has remained a dignified if grim presence through it all.

It may have been exciting to witness, but it sounds better suited to agitprop theater -- say, Eisler or Brecht -- than to the kind of dignified if harrowing enterprise Pound was trying to foster.

Saint-Saëns, in his correspondence, referred to Henry as "a sausage on legs" and even more rudely as "fatso" ("petit gros"), but musically he presents the king as a dignified if complex figure who gets precisely what he wants, both as a manipulative lover and as a politically savvy hands-on king.

The general advertising that fills today's issues passed us by.The heirs of CaxtonAcross Fleet Street, past Doctor Johnson's house, were the printers, Eyre and Spottiswoode, one of the few non-university printers of the Bible, which perhaps accounted for the dignified, if not quite reverential, proceedings in the plant.

Those were the days, eh? Gazza in tears, Madchester on the radio, poll tax riots in the streets … Based on Pete Davies's bestseller All Played Out, James Erskine's film also recounts how English football successfully rebranded itself during the tournament, from a barbaric bunch of hooligans to a nation of dignified, if lachrymose, almost-champions.