Sentence examples for touch of dignity from inspiring English sources

5) Our Ability to Stay dry This was the year that someone finally found a way to use social media effectively by encouraging people to sacrifice a touch of dignity along with a bit of cash by dumping a bucket of ice cold water over their heads.

Here and there, however, a man's pained temperament steps out from behind the professional comic's armature — a touch of wounded dignity, of yearning for peace and quiet as well as for love.

The Passion of the Swift, a three-act drama involving hubris, recrimination, redemption and most of America's major media conglomerates, came to an end (we can only hope) on "The View" on Tuesday when Taylor Swift — who brings a touch of bland dignity to even the most skin-crawlingly repulsive public spectacle — announced that she was buying a condo.

A new version of "All Over the World", from their Yes album, restores to Tchaikovsky's familiar melody a touch of the dignity jettisoned by "Nut Rocker", while elsewhere a medley of "Viva La Vida" and "Domino Dancing" lashes Coldplay's tune to a pounding PSB drum part, and two remodelled electropop versions of Madness' "My Girl" drape moody string pads around twitchy synth lines.

Yet even here, in the hell of the anonymous, there are touches of human dignity, of that Russian investment in resurrection.

It incorporates both the most practical and mundane of tasks with the most subtle and empathic of emotional skills: often the two are inextricable and in most contexts touch on an individual's precious sense of dignity and self-worth.

Every effort is being made to cloak the notifications in the compassion of the personal touch and the dignity of protocol.

Sarah Wootton, chief executive of Dignity in Dying, said: "The Suicide Act is now over 50 years old and is out of touch with the problems facing dying Britons in the 21st Century.

"It robs people of dignity".

The loss of dignity of it all.

"This is a revolution of dignity".