The medium and the wardrobe change, but the essential dynamic stays the same: powerful, sometimes villainous, figures balancing the weight of self-interest, dignity, and mutual suspicion.
The Academy set out "to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people".
Still, common sense suggests that his later interest in dignity and the value of autonomy might have been influenced by the treatment he suffered and witnessed in school.
Adams penned the Academy's motto himself; it read "To cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honour, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people". Its honorary first class in 1781 included Ben Franklin and George Washington.
"This can convince the White House that China, despite its unwillingness, is not afraid to fight a war with the US in the region, and is determined to safeguard its national interests and dignity," it went on to say.
"This can convince the White House that China, despite its unwillingness, is not frightened to fight a war with the US in the region, and is determined to safeguard its national interests and dignity".
It is clear that negotiations in which one State formulates demands and the other is to be obliged to accept those demands unaltered are not negotiations in the spirit of the declaration of 1934 and are incompatible with the vital interests and dignity of Poland.
They cannot stop the war which has been declared, and they may engender passions which have not yet shown their existence, and which might embarrass our policy and render it more difficult for us at once to maintain our neutrality and secure our interests and dignity.
We may, however, believe that she still has interests in dignity and in having her former narrative and values respected.
The physicist should also ensure that the well-being, interests, and dignity of patients are promoted and safeguarded at all times.
"[The bill]... protects Polish interests... our dignity, the historical truth... so that we are not slandered as a state and as a nation". The legislation, approved by the Senate last week, also "takes into account the sensitivity of those for whom the issue of historical truth, the memory of the Holocaust is incredibly important", he added.
