The Palace and Kate have kept a dignified silence over Mantel's rant.

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"We don't want lavish, pompous weddings, much better to have a private and dignified affair, " he said.

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Even speed of traveling may be assumed to have been a minor consideration for so very dignified a gentleman.

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But I want to stress, the ultimate goal for economic policy is not hitting a specific metric, but whether the culmination of your policies lead to a stronger, more secure, and more inclusive middle class where everyone can rise, and where even children born into the poorest circumstances have a chance to reach their potential and where dignified work and retirement is promoted.

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Some few careful, compassionate words would have sufficed and, for the rest of the occasion, a dignified non-committal silence.

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The BBC's Rob Cameron in Prague says Mr Gross seems to have seen the writing on the wall and is now trying to negotiate a dignified exit.

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Whatever attraction they might have felt sounds less of the hot and heavy, panting teenage variety than a case of dignified, upper crust mutual admiration.

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Kelly's descendants have insisted that by burying him, they were not seeking to glorify the notorious bandit, but to give him a dignified and proper farewell.

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