"You can be so dignified that you obscure the reality of what is going on, " Rodgers says.

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"She was so dignified and had such sparkling eyes, " said Nirmala Khanna who taught her international studies in 1964.

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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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Adapted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala from the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, this Merchant-Ivory production strains so hard to portray dignified restraint that it almost seizes up with good manners.

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The bodies would be placed side by side "so that their burial will be dignified", she added.

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Are they so potent that they should be dignified by being banned?

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No honest and realistic person could make the impossible promises now necessary to become electable, so rather than recruiting accomplished and dignified candidates, our choices are restricted to superficial panderers.

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But after 19 days she was in so much pain she decided it was less dignified than her medical condition and began eating again.

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Later his family will quickly drive the body away, so Ahmad can learn of his father's death at a more dignified time.

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And I tell that story partly because it brings a smile to my face, but also because it captures the quiet, dogged, dignified persistence that all of us who loved Dr. Height came to know so well -- an attribute that we understand she learned early on.

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