Seeing dignified people cluster together so purposefully in their hard-to-reach colony, even as their power wanes in places like Bedford and Greenwich?
Seeing dignified tech execs fumbling with magic markers and getting ink all over their hands had a bit of perverse pleasure to it, and some of the projects were downright silly.
The residents of Downton, both upstairs and down, cloister their thoughts to the point where, as Emily Nussbaum notes, we may have seen one "dignified refusal" too many.
The incongruity of seeing a dignified oldster singing something by, in this show, the Buzzcocks, Sly and the Family Stone, the Traveling Wilburys or the Red Hot Chili Peppers is a durable gimmick: wry and rueful.
This time around, our gay spokespeople were seen as dignified and patriotic, while the opposition appeared freakish, paranoid, and melodramatic.
This is because HIV – being considered a shameful disease – antagonizes men's expectations of being seen as dignified and worthy of respect.
There are other shocks for Racine fans - or indeed anyone who saw Diana Rigg's dignified tragedy queen in Jonathan Kent's West End production a few years ago.
We saw the tall, dignified figure of the guide (the dragoman, as he was called) and sensed Miss Kay's attraction to him.
But many other Egyptians, particularly the elderly and the poor, saw it as a dignified way out of the impasse.
Whatever the embarrassment, these did him no harm in the end, and long before he formally took over in 1993 he was largely running the bank.A rather too dignified stripteaseHe saw the need to be open, though, especially when, to general surprise, a new Labour government in 1997 granted the bank the right to set interest rates independently.
