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Respectability in sentence

45 examples of Respectability in a sentence

They got their title of respectability.
But what it does show is that it's sort of gaining ground, it's gaining respectability.
With age comes the veneer of respectability and a veneer of uncomfortable truths.
The Church, while still under the zealous influence of the Spanish Inquisition, would allow Juana to retain her independence and respectability while remaining unmarried.
Surgeons didn't have a problem with respectability anymore; they had become gods.
Her pilot, George, is a good guy, and promises to marry Emy, so that she doesn't lose her respectability and place in her rigid society.
This film is a member of a movement of many movements that tried to lend respectability to cinéma, or just make a profit, by adapting literature or theatre onto the screen.
Nicholson is supposed to be a weirdo and a man of respectability at the same time but we don't really feel that he is all that credible as an authority and his weirdness is just annoying instead of being funny.
Dennis Rodman in a leading role, a supporting cast that comes nowhere near respectability, and an absolutely mindless plot padded with a bunch of action, sex and bad stunt doubles!
It's funny how Joan Collins has obtained a certain amount of respectability after having starred in MANY terrible films, such as The Bitch, Empire of the Ants and I Don't Want to Be Born.
I do not know what the writer's were thinking (and speaking as a published author, I don't think I WANT to) and one would assume that Dennis Hopper, having now attained a modicum of respectability will never lay claim to this piece again.
Recent (noughties) Hugh Grant films have had a knowing respectability about them.
He embodies greatness and respectability, even in crap, and so I keep going back.
In each case, the “civil” in civil disobedience has been conflated with civility, as in politeness or general respectability.
Accordingly, potential practitioners of civil disobedience should not allow themselves to be caught in a trap of politeness and respectability.
Too many policymakers still believe that externally imposed opening to international capital flows was the main culprit behind the financial crises of the 1990’s – a view that unfortunately is lent some intellectual respectability by a small number of left-leaning academics.
The informal limits to free speech are subject to norms of social respectability.
A family’s principal “cultural capital” is its honor, which is ensured by denying women any opportunity to highlight male failings and therefore tarnish clan respectability.
Like a character in a farce, she drops the mask of respectability that her handlers had made her wear and, after an embarrassing rhetorical striptease, reveals the face of the leader of a die-hard fascist party.
Whatever the merits – and they are considerable – of her arguments against the bigotry of Islamic or African customs, especially those concerning the treatment of women, she lent respectability to bigotry of a different kind: the native resentment of foreigners, and Muslims in particular.
There is one thing, however, that could revive the EU, give it much enhanced global respectability, and make it an “interesting” place, as well as ensure a return to the international limelight: Turkey’s admission as a full member.
Indeed, at a time when restricting access to short-term international funds has acquired intellectual respectability, the government’s reluctance to enforce curbs has been puzzling.
But it is dangerous because it conveys respectability to deep-rooted prejudices against other cultures and races.
But just as we should not condemn a work of art because of the artist’s private behavior, we should also be careful about applying norms of social respectability to artistic expression.
Ramaphosa’s respectability will undoubtedly provide the party (and the scandal-plagued Zuma) with some badly needed cover.
Cartoonists, artists, bloggers, activists, and comedians sometimes like to challenge the consensus of respectability.
Too many of the world’s financial centers enable the predators, who rely on offshore corporate vehicles to mask their identities, to loop their finances through exotic jurisdictions, while using prestigious law firms, accountants, financial advisers, and public-relations firms to give their destructive behavior a veneer of respectability.
In support of their political strategy, global megabanks also run a highly sophisticated disinformation/propaganda operation, with the goal of creating at least a veneer of respectability for the subsidies that they receive.
Along with their political clout, unions’ intellectual respectability is also experiencing a renaissance.
The first thing any society can and should do is deny respectability to political and business leaders who willfully abuse the public trust.