The decision to raise the King to the imperial dignity had been arrived at on January 1.
German princelings in basket-carriages drawn by ponies did not add to the dignity of the spectacle.
MacMahon, short and plump, but full of dignity and energy, as became a daughter of the Castries.
Here the orator's effort is to arouse his hearers to maintain the dignity and glory of the republic, whose greatness is brought home to their minds by the references to the deeds of their ancestors.
In literature also greater dignity and better taste succeeds to the exaggerated rhetoric of the preceding years.
References to the Roman people, the majesty of the Roman people, the Roman empire, the dignity of the senate, the customs or institutions of the ancestors, are found on almost every page.
Only about six hundred lines of the Annales remain, and many of these are detached from their context, yet from these we can see that Ennius had much poetic imagination, great skill in the use of words, and great dignity of diction.
His style is still pure, and is certainly very charming; but even Livy departs somewhat from the dignity and beauty of the sermo urbanus, the Latin of Cicero and Caesar.
In his own political life Cicero constantly showed his reverence for the dignity of the Roman people, the established forms of government, and the traditions and great deeds of the earlier days of Rome.
Most of these orators were men of natural ability, whose eloquence was trained in the school of public life and owed its effect in great measure to the weight of the speaker's dignity or the glory of his deeds.
The monotonous and unpolished Saturnian metre could not, even in the most skillful hands, attain the dignity or the melodious cadences appropriate to great epic poems.
The elaborate periodic structure of his sentences is varied by many short questions or exclamations, and the habitual dignity of his utterance is softened and enlivened by frequent touches of wit, humor, and irony.
He shows intelligent appreciation of the dignity and beauty of his model, and writes skillfully and easily.
The whole song is simple and full of manly dignity without bravura, which seems to have been Adam-berger's peculiar style.
Something also of the solemn dignity characteristic of the choruses might be looked for in an overture to "Koenig Thamos"; in other respects it is not unsuitable.
The tendency of German literature to give dignity and importance to poetry did not pass by him unnoticed, and he was a warm admirer of Klopstock, whose odes he set to music.
How beautifully this passage is replaced by the eleven closing bars, which now lead back to the chief theme, and give emphasis and dignity to the close!
The two great airs (5, 29) are the vivid expression of a glowing impulsive nature, which is raised by an admixture of haughty dignity above that vulgarity into which violent outbreaks of jealousy and revenge so readily fall.
Again changing his tactics, he endeavours to repress his opponent with all the weight of his dignity and cleverness.
Gluck's principle of making music the simple exponent of the poet's words was calculated to give them dignity and influence.
No singer of any reputation would have thought it consistent with his dignity to appear in German vaudeville.
But the French school had hitherto failed to combine dignity and beauty with their dramatic force and expression; and here Gluck's Italian training enabled him to supply the deficiency.
It is broad in design, and affords the singer opportunities for a display of voice, delivery, and execution; it maintains a certain dignity of tone throughout.
But the vespers preserved the dignity and solemnity of church music more strictly than the litanies.
Gebler had sought to invest his drama with peculiar dignity by providing it with choruses, for which Racine's "Athalie" may have furnished him with an example.
The theme is easily and gracefully treated; and no attempt is made to invest with undue dignity what is merely a light and passing expression of fancy.
It was a sense of dignitywholly that restrained Rosalind.
Dignity scarcely sat with her on the limb, even now; it would be a thousand miles away when she made the first decisive move.
Her dignity checked upon her lips a withering rebuke.
She was wholly solicitous for the reputation and the dignity of Rosalind Chalmers.
With icy dignityshe glided past him and picked them up.
Florence responded by sending, as her representative, that same Niccolò Macchiavelli who had earlier accompanied Soderini on a similar mission to Valentinois, and who had meanwhile been advanced to the dignity of Secretary of State.
The author of the Diario Cesenate is moved by the duke's pastimes to criticize him severely as indulging in amusements unbecoming the dignity of his station.
Yet even against that it might be urged that thus was the dignity of the purple saved the dishonouring touch of the hangman's hands.
It was a lofty and dignified procedure, but one that was fraught with peril; and the Borgias have never ceased to pay the price of that excessive dignity of reserve.
So his proposal to Louis XII was that the Church should abandon its claim upon the territories, whilst the king, raising Valentinois to the dignity of a duchy, should so confer it upon Cesare Borgia.
On March 29 Cesare comes to St. Peter's to receive his new dignity and the further honour of the Golden Rose which the Pope is to bestow upon him--the symbol of the Church Militant and the Church Triumphant.
We submit it to your own judgement whether it becomes your dignity to court young women, to send fruit and wine to her you love, and to have no thought for anything but pleasure.
Whatever his private life, it is idle to seek to show that his public career was other than devoted to the upholding of the dignity and honour of the Church.
And when that all men have thus presented the emperor, the greatest of dignity of the prelates giveth him a blessing, saying an orison of their law.
And the folk stand all about, in diverse stages, after they be of dignity or of worship, so that they all may see the sacrifice.
Nay men of prelatical dignity were not respected, for they had had no bowels for the people, who now stripped them naked and scourged them.
Attired as he was he dared not present himself at any reputable inn; and he felt keenly that the unassuming dignity of his demeanour would serve to attract attention, perhaps mirth and possibly suspicion, in any humbler hostelry.
While he still hung in the wind, a recollection returned upon his mind with some of the dignity of prophecy.
But what he admired most of all was the dignitythat shone through her panic and her despair.
But I've got dignity enough to leave a place where I'm not wanted, even if that place happens to be the world.
Pontius Pilate stepped between Hortensius and myself, and waving his hand with great dignity and grace, requested silence.
When we bade him adieu with ardent wishes for his speedy restoration, Martha, with great dignity and self-possession, took a ring from her finger and deliberately placed it upon his.
Blanche's dignity was too simple and true for her to think much about what was "due" to it.
Blanche impressed upon her mother that whether the visit was expected of them or not, it was due to their own dignity to make it, notwithstanding the unfavourable impression that Mrs Lilford's tenant had left with them.
Was it that Blanche Derwent, by the perfect sweetness and dignity of her presence, shed harmony and beauty about her wherever she might happen to be?
And she had an air of childish dignity that appealed to him tremendously.
With great dignity Mr. Tutt then rose and again addressed the court: "We have decided under all the circumstances of this most extraordinary case, Your Honor, not to put in any defense.
Once rebellion rises to the dignity of revolution murder becomes execution and the murderers become belligerents.
In his expansive frock coat and bowler hat Wong might easily have excited mirth had it not been for the extreme dignity of his demeanor.
Even in this inelegant and relaxed posture he somehow managed to maintain the air of picturesque dignity which always made his tall, ungainly figure noticeable in any courtroom.
Then Babson cleared his decks and rising in dignity expounded the law to the sheep in a rich mellow voice, in which he impressed upon them the necessity of preserving the integrity of the jury system and the sanctity of human life.
To chronicle the details of Tutt's second blooming would be needlessly to derogate from the dignity of the history of Tutt & Tutt.
Mr. Palmer might be seeking how with dignity to move in the matter, for certainly the chief had placed him in a position yet more unpleasant than his own!
She knew her boys full of inbred dignity and strong conscience, but was nevertheless doubtful how they would act.
I am a professor and have a certain stock supply of dignity to draw on when necessary.
I think a moment, then with some dignity reply: "Pretty soon, please, Mary.
Mysticism claimed for ideas the dignity and reality of principles of moral action and religious hope: Dogmatism imposed theoretical opinions respecting speculative points with the imperative tone of rules of conduct and faith.
Hence we must here deny ourselves the dignity and interest which float about all speculations in which the great moral and political concerns of men are involved.
It is just what Zeno would have written, if he had wished to bestow upon his master Parmenides the calm dignity and irresistible argument which Plato assigns to Socrates.
No wise man on this side of the Atlantic will try to ignore them, or take exception to the dignityand correctness with which the American Executive has dealt with the grave problem before it.
Sir Thomas Barlowe has risen from some very obscure station to the wealth and dignity of a nabob.
The castle's Gothic magnificence within reminded us at every step of the dignity of the Valmont race; the apartments received their guests without welcome; the domestics were obedient, but neither cheerful nor attentive.
I yield the building, and am content alone to aim at preserving your honour and dignity with the valued produce of its rich acres.
Unfortunate that house whose dignity is left to be supported by a female!
William Ellery Channing localizes the clump of willows, a favorite retreat, where the view of the dignity of human nature first broke upon him, and of which he was ever after such a tenacious advocate.
Speaking of appetite, Coleridge tells us of a man he once saw at a dinner-table, who struck him as remarkable for his dignity and wise face.
Dignity is sometimes very rudely unmasked, and an imposing air is nearly always the cloak of a fool.
How have faith in the value and dignity of the fleeting images, that in the dark, on the edge of the abyss, we shape out of dust for an instant?
We shall do it all right, I think," said the master, whose dignity revolted against any motion more rapid than quick walking.
Not a syllable was uttered during the ceremony; and the victim recognising his position, had the good sense to remain cool and not waste his time and dignity in a fruitless struggle.
At any rate, his good genius befriended him this time, and saved him both his dignity and his moral vantage.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dignity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
