Sentence examples for weight of dignity from inspiring English sources

Honors bestowed by one's superiors must carry an additional weight of dignity, better paid in honor to one's true superiors.

"He came on as if he were carrying a great weight of almost civic dignity in front of him," Sir Laurence Olivier once told the BBC.

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.

As Miller portrays him, Willy out of work is Willy stripped of dignity, weight and even identity.

John Jay, nominated by George Washington to be the first chief justice of the new court, resigned the post after six years to become governor of New York and spurned John Adams's efforts to return him to the court, citing health problems and what he called the court's lack of "energy, weight and dignity".

He also cited the Supreme Court's lack of "the energy, weight and dignity which are essential to its affording due support to the national government".

It is hedged with a kind of self-aware and self-mocking irony – and the way it satirises just this kind of video is actually pretty funny: particularly the moment when an ordinary, non-famous person is brought on to lend weight and dignity to the parade of celebrity flibbertigibbets.

"Our teachers were people of dignity and intellect; their words had scriptural weight," Stern writes.

"It robs people of dignity".

The loss of dignity of it all.

"This is a revolution of dignity".