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Respectable in sentence

310 examples of Respectable in a sentence

"'Agnostic, '" retorted Aveling, "was simply 'atheist' writ respectable, and 'atheist' was simply 'agnostic' writ aggressive."
And then we have Mark Zuckerberg, who defies convention of respectable attire for businesspeople.
They are now, actually, respectable professors at Michigan State University, but I can assure you, back in the day, we were not a respectable team.
After this, respectable American educators all backed away, and they stayed away for decades.
Now I trained in medicine in India, and after that I chose psychiatry as my specialty, much to the dismay of my mother and all my family members who kind of thought neurosurgery would be a more respectable option for their brilliant son.
And even really respectable newspapers, some that I'm actually subscribed to, the words they use are, you know, the state as this Leviathan.
This means that two brains of the same size, like these two, with a respectable 400 grams, should have similar numbers of neurons.
Respectable people kept slaves.
What I want you to do when you get home is email me the passwords to all of your email accounts, not just the nice, respectable work one in your name, but all of them, because I want to be able to just troll through what it is you're doing online, read what I want to read and publish whatever I find interesting.
Okay, that's pretty respectable.
What I found instead were people parading as respectable academics.
Our country feels more polarized than ever, yet we are still being told to pull up our pants, be respectable, be less angry, smile more and work harder.
His first, in the town of Innsbruck, didn’t gain much traction with the local authorities, who disapproved of his harsh questioning of respectable citizens and shut down his trials.
When we're told that banking is a very respectable profession, a lot of us want to go into banking.
When banking is no longer so respectable, we lose interest in banking.
You know, you find somebody who is respectable and has a lot of money.
Despite respectable notices, reasonable box office and an Oscar nom, it vanished shortly afterwards and remained forgotten about throughout the 1980's, before being enthusiastically reappraised, somewhat unjustly, in the US in the late 90's.
Any respectable movie watcher will however see the film for the farce that it is.
Basically it is abysmal and really disappointing for Robin Williams fans, and it makes you think someone blackmailed Laura Linney into adding this piece of trash to her otherwise respectable resume.
Director Jason Wulfsohn sustains a respectable level of tension just until the nature of the monster is identified.
The story is weak, the acting is respectable and the special effects, well, they're special alright.
Joseph Conrad was a respectable man and created a book that will entertain you if that's what you're looking for, but the movie was cheap and pointless, and someone who could make the movie as respectable as the book should've done it.
Respectable filmakers struggle to get their vision realised, yet this blasphemous, pathetic attempt at a mini-series makes it to our television's, with 3 oscar winners making appearances.
Many of them had recognizable "star" casts and respectable directors, and thanks to Showtime, I discovered many first-rate films I (and other Showtime subscribers) would never else have had the opportunity to see.
Ellen Barkin gives a respectable performance as the lead detective, and Julian Sands provides unintentional laughs as a cross-dressing psychiatrist, which is why it escapes a one-star rating.
This movie has got to be one of the all-time lows of Michael J. Fox's generally respectable career.
First let me say that those of you that voted it "10" are only kidding yourselves and trying to get the votes to a respectable level... something that this movie doesn't deserve.
He presented a very respectable, responsible and generous personality to anyone who saw us together, which, in contrast to myself, resulted in having others treat me as dull and unstable.
However, I finally threw in the towel just shy of the 90 minute mark - quite respectable under the circumstances.
Classic b-movie villain guy Andrew Divoff does a respectable job but barely even has any scenery to chew on.
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