| As a still dutiful, if mature daughter, she still tried to placate rather than confront. |
| In theory, this is done routinely to encourage dutiful submission to authority. |
| Some works are autobiographical, including a piece about a dutiful daughter who forsakes her own happiness to care for her mother. |
| I think somewhere you got this notion that a wife was dutiful and obedient. |
| Being the dutiful daughter, I offered them the spare room at my place until they got themselves sorted out. |
| Rendered in plummy grays, the canvases seem to be a dutiful application of the classical injunction that painting should imitate poetry. |
