dignifying

How To Use dignifying In A Sentence

• It was "dignifying" for the poor and consonant with national values, like work, self-help and opposition to welfare dependency. Omaha World-Herald > Frontpage
• There is a fine square here called Madison, in the centre of which trees rise from fountain-watered grass, and statued figures of people who were men in their day and did things, palatial buildings, dignifying commerce, form the square. Impressions of a War Correspondent
• Could we stop dignifying its vengeance and violence as ‘rulings’?
• If the last thirty years teaches us anything, it's that the Obama Administration needs to shake off worries about dignifying conservative craziness with a response. Peter Birkenhead: I'll Quit Whining When You Start Fighting
• Pagan or Chris - tian allegorism of myth is dismissed or degraded as wrongly dignifying myth or else ignoring history in favor of mystery. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
• Even the name of the war proved contentious; for years the government spurned the term civil war as dignifying the conflict and preferred bandit war. Bloodlust
• But what could be better than a biblical ingredient for enhancing and dignifying the material?
• the dignifying effect of his presence
• The struggle was to make it as clean as it could be while dignifying the important history of these tobacco wars, the steps that led to regulation of the tobacco industry. Deborah Stambler: Addiction Incorporated: Doing Some Good
• Rudd hated the idea of dignifying the Selective Service with probing questions. 1968 the Year that Rocked the World