dutiful
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Dutiful Meg paradoxically longs for leisure and fashionable clothes; impetuous Jo yearns for literary fame; shy, music-loving Beth wishes only for everyone to be happy; artistic Amy craves admiration and status.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025
Dutiful Catholic girl that she was raised to be, Sullivan struggles to end her book on a note of gratitude and positivity.
From Washington Post • Oct. 13, 2022
“It’s impossible to read about Simone de Beauvoir’s life without thinking of your own,” the biographer Hazel Rowley wrote in her foreword to the English translation of Beauvoir’s “Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter.”
From New York Times • Aug. 27, 2021
He added: "This is a very sad day for the United Kingdom. Dutiful, devoted, and diligent, his like will never be seen again."
From BBC • Apr. 9, 2021
But it being now late, and my Letter pretty long, no more at present from Your Dutiful Daughter, Shamela.
From An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews by Keyber, Conny
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