Sentence examples for maintained a dignified from inspiring English sources

But even in their diaper-like loincloths, they maintained a dignified swagger.

The products whose design I most treasure have maintained a dignified constancy: Tabasco or Lee & Perrins.

They wore matching bibliophile regalia — gray sweater and spectacles — but while Erik DuRon, the store's manager, maintained a dignified slouch, John Logan, the playwright and screenwriter, perched cross-legged in his chair like an expectant elf.

The parents of Jessica and Holly also sat in court, day after day, week after week, and maintained a dignified demeanour even when Huntley told how he crammed the girls' bodies into his car boot.

In public, Martin Luther King and his aides maintained a dignified facade, but behind the scenes, King's organiser in Birmingham, Wyatt Walker, used cunning to turn the movement's weaknesses into strengths.

Purists have criticised Universal's penchant for using Island as a catch-all label for pop acts the Sugababes or The Feeling in recent years, but Blackwell has maintained a dignified silence, even if he remarked: "Once you've sold something, that's usually it".

After civic disturbances and communal riots, business prefers to "maintain a dignified silence".

More likely they are maintaining a dignified ­silence, or have their minds on higher matters.

Senior figures in the yes campaign appeared to maintain a dignified silence.

The days wore heavily under the sultry Mississippi sun, and Grant found it hard to maintain a dignified silence.

With players from more than 60 countries in M.L.S., some speak up; others maintain a dignified silence.