(n.) One who possesses exalted rank or holds a position of dignity or honor; especially, one who holds an ecclesiastical rank above that of a parochial priest or clergyman.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Deamonte Driver Dental Project mobile clinic was parked outside, offering tours to dignitaries and care to schoolchildren.
(2) Mervyn Davies learnt of his promotion to the position of chief executive at Standard Chartered seven years ago while cooking dinner for Hong Kong dignitaries.
(3) As Hunter recorded, it was acquired by a civic dignitary, Mr Alderman Pugh, "who very politely allowed me to examine its structure, and to take away the bones".
(4) Foreign dignitaries were invited to attend for the first time and it is a pity that from Europe only Javier Solana chose to take the offer up.
(5) Education, housing, everything you can think of, he’s taken care of for us.” Leaders and dignitaries from more than two dozen countries attended the funeral.
(6) Many of those dignitaries, particularly those from rich countries and from financial institutions like the World Bank and the European Investment Bank, are planning to push the role of the private sector in development.
(7) Disclosure of the note prompted further questions asking why Ashcroft is allowed to accompany Hague on official visits to meet dignitaries when he is not on the shadow foreign team.
(8) The bitterest conflict centres on a plane crash in Smolensk in 2010 that claimed the lives of scores of Polish dignitaries.
(9) I’ve been involved with meeting a whole range of beer buyers, meeting politicians and other dignitaries, including Prince Charles, to speaking to publicans and doing tastings in big and small stores.
(10) Fast forward to 2010, when a Polish aircraft carrying the country’s president and other dignitaries crashed near Katyn in Russia .
(11) It wasn’t quite the same when Ronald Reagan came.” Other dignitaries to have come through Shannon over the years include Fidel Castro and Barack Obama.
(12) Turkish dignitaries are frequent visitors to Sarajevo.
(13) Karzai surprised the international community and many Afghans in December when he ignored the recommendation of an assembly of tribal leaders and other dignitaries to sign it, saying he would leave the final decision to his successor after 5 April elections.
(14) Standard security checks in the US frequently make front-page news in India when they involve visiting dignitaries, who are ushered through airports as VIPs in their own country.
(15) Within 20 minutes, the refugees were off the commercial aircraft and taken by an airport people carrier to the VIP terminal, which is typically used by royalty, government officials and dignitaries.
(16) Under the blistering heat of the southern African sun, the dignitaries did not linger.
(17) The official start to Climate Week got under way around midday yesterday, with the UN chief, Yvo de Boer, Tony Blair , and other dignitaries issuing a call for action.
(18) King Alexander and Queen Maxima and other dignitaries attended the ceremony.
(19) The collision of protests about cuts to legal aid and foreign dignitaries eager to learn from England’s judicial heritage produced contrasting legal blasts of invective and appreciation in Westminster.
(20) It explains the rash of postponed visits by foreign dignitaries to Tokyo.
Serenity
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being serene; clearness and calmness; quietness; stillness; peace.
(n.) Calmness of mind; eveness of temper; undisturbed state; coolness; composure.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: KHIZR KHAN This sombre, serene oasis overlooking the Potomac river might also prove the graveyard of Donald Trump’s ambitions for the US presidency.
(2) Miklos Haraszti, whom I encountered in Budapest, had the looks of a small Spanish grandee in some Velázquez painting; dark, unnervingly handsome, serene.
(3) As to Beyoncé herself, Hamilton had nothing but praise: "She is a very smart, serene lady … utterly charming and focused."
(4) In the end, after a life of serial duplicity, innocent and otherwise, he found serenity.
(5) The life of this once serene and resilient woman has been wrecked.
(6) To Mogulof, Mayer almost believed she could charm the Nazis the way she had once-hypnotized her homeland: The ability to endure suffering while showing a serene and confident face came from years of managing a celebrity status.
(7) Here, it’s easy to make yourself comfortable in the sweet, slightly whimsical bedrooms that open onto a serene, tree-filled courtyard.
(8) Then followed a serene procession of coaches towards a distant detention camp in north-west Turkey, as watching residents expressed relief that no refugees would be settled in their pretty seaside town.
(9) Chelsea’s progress into the knockout phase proved serene to the last.
(10) "), or Mrs Wilfer, after placing Bella in the magnificent coach of the Boffins, continuing to "air herself … in a kind of splendidly serene trance on the top step" for the benefit of the neighbours.
(11) But the serene image masks a politician who has spent much time as chancellor consolidating her place in the CDU, removing rivals and forcing others out.
(12) But the scene in the 250-seater conference centre on an unassuming cobbled mews in central London was a far more serene affair.
(13) For two serene months after Donald Trump announced in March that he was forming a presidential exploratory committee, he failed to register in national political polls.
(14) I'm still serene because I'm sure we will have a chance to be judged on the facts.
(15) Guests, who included Margaret Thatcher, Bill Clinton and Bill Gates, said the serenity encouraged candidness and conviviality.
(16) 'I greet the year 1968 with serenity,' he announced, brimming with self-satisfaction.
(17) There’s no bitterness or vitriol on show here, musically at least, with Bowman’s laidback vocals gliding serenely over a juddering, stop-start beat that eventually disintegrates.
(18) Working for nothing and reliant on his family, Niemeyer transformed the Corbusier scheme into the serene, high-rise building that adorns Rio today.
(19) He says that drugs are being used “to mask the brutality of executions by making them look serene and peaceful – like something any one of us might experience in our final moments … But executions are, in fact, nothing like that.
(20) Manchester City and Chelsea have been comparatively serene in, unlike Arsenal and United, completing much of their transfer business.