She's struggling to get ahead by going to school, a dutiful mother of a boisterous brood whose father she hasn't gotten around to marrying yet.
Through a carefully-managed image, the 31-year-old star shows she can do it all by portraying herself as a sexy performer, an astute businesswoman, a dutiful wife and loving mother and a girl-next-door from Texas.
John Sutherland's biography is a dutiful and thorough act of homage to a former colleague and friend.
She is a dutiful congregant in the church of Europe, not a prophet like earlier chancellors, such as Helmut Kohl.
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Like a dutiful wife, she even retired from her profession - she is a Dublin-trained ophthalmologist - when Anwar became deputy prime minister in 1993.
Like a dutiful husband, I followed her into the store and stood there while the merchant showed us a bunch of big lithographs.
Older sister Rose is a dowdy and dutiful lawyer, younger sister Maggie a beautiful and insecure "wannabe" whose crimes against her sister include stealing her shoes and sleeping with her new boyfriend.
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In response, Mr Bush produced, in the first half of his speech, a dutiful laundry list.
Many Holocaust movies approach their task with a dutiful grandeur, an encyclopedic attempt to encompass the breadth of the crime.
Pressure from euro-zone authorities helped to install Mr. Monti as prime minister, and he was a dutiful advocate of their policies.
The book surveys shelf after shelf of the economics literature but in such skilful hands it does not feel like a dutiful trip to the library.
The mayor's defiant impulse is New York to its core: a headstrong case of Show Must Go On, with a dutiful reminder that the race pumps many millions into the city economy.
Not long ago the category of Best Picture was expanded to a whopping ten movies (every selected film also qualifies for the NHL playoffs.) There are fashion misfires and tributes to legends and occasionally some emotional payoffs, but the Oscars can't escape feeling predictable and dutiful, especially since a calendar stuffed with awards shows has already established a reliable pattern of winners.
The dutiful son, Kang entered university to become a professor.
His Asian mother is also a deeply spiritual person and raised her dutiful son to respect the Buddhist tradition.
Then the demonstration seems almost dutiful, by rote, and then there is a sudden mood of celebration as a trumpet plays a Mariachi tune.
Suddenly, it was as if Mr Bush was giving a different speech, powerful where he had been dutiful, passionate where he had been plodding.
Though not a particularly strong personality himself, he obeys orders with dutiful determination.
" For a moment around Diana's funeral, it seemed that this dutiful woman had lost ground to the glamorous "people's princess.
Ms Boxer is currently trying hard to portray him as a wild-eyed radical, a charge that hardly squares with either his modest persona or his dutiful political record.
The second is that a significant fraction of the Irish I meet out here not only display the dutiful fondness for Ireland, but actively think about how to improve it.
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