Sentence examples for the very dignity from inspiring English sources

In an essay accompanying Moore's photos, the poet Philip Levine writes: "Their calm in the face of the ravages of man and nature confers an unexpected dignity upon the subjects of his camera, the very dignity I had assumed daily life had robbed them of".

The fraternity's board decided that it could not host a meeting in a state with "a law that could put the civil rights and the very dignity of our members at risk during their stay in Phoenix," said Herman Mason, the general president.

This is of course the source of the very dignity of Humanity Kant speaks of in the second formulation.

It told the tales in history of human atrocity, the inhuman way another can take away the life and the very dignity of another.

And the mantra of "me" marches on... Surely, however, the very dignity of the notion of "freedom of expression" is at best compromised, however, by its lowest common denominator.

The coroner had praised the "very real dignity" of Zane's parents in the way they had conducted themselves, and offered his "sincere condolences on Zane's tragic death" as he began his conclusions.

TSA security procedures today, with full-body scanners and the like, have raised legitimate question of civil rights violations, or at the very least, dignity.

While a Washington is an affront to our very dignity, like most night workers handing us $20 for cab money home is a total game changer. 5. DO: Respect the booth bitch.

James Earl Jones, the very voice of dignity, could not look more ridiculous in his kingly costumes -- Sunday at 3 30 p.m., Thursday at 8 p.m. and Friday at 2 30 p.m. on Comedy Central.

At the very least, that dignity requires the right to care when one is unable to care for oneself and the right to a share of resources if one is charged with providing care for those who require it.

Once, sitting in the upper deck behind third base, I watched with astonishment as Senator Leverett Saltonstall of Massachusetts, the very embodiment of dignity and East Coast Establishment Republicanism, worked his smiling way to the worst seat in the park's worst section, an instance of self-effacement that I have not since seen repeated in our nation's capital.