Yet the notion of "respectability" is on the rise. From Wordnik.com. [Graffiti: the wry humor of Mexico City street stencil art] Reference
That kind of respectability is not what my work is for, and never will be. From Wordnik.com. [Why Science Fiction Authors Can't Win] Reference
Can you picture her, longing -- oh, longing -- for what she calls respectability?. From Wordnik.com. [Rosa Mundi and Other Stories] Reference
This version of respectability is deeply informed by class. From Wordnik.com. [Jonathan Weiler: America's Elites Further Separate Themselves From Everyone Else] Reference
"I didn't know anyone called respectability a virtue," cried Sally. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman with the Fan] Reference
Diversification could give gold a long-term respectability in portfolios. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
I'd say it's pretty clear that respectability is not going to be theirs ... ever. From Wordnik.com. [GUEST POST: Jennifer Brissett Weighs in on the Writer Pay Rate Flap] Reference
And yes, refusing to grant it that mantle of respectability is the best approach. From Wordnik.com. [Reinike Supports Teaching Creationism at cvillenews.com] Reference
As I've said before, literary respectability is in the process of taking care of itself. From Wordnik.com. [More Thoughts on the Cassandra Ghetto] Reference
The Twins only hope for respectability is to get a blockbuster package of players for Knoblauch. From Wordnik.com. [Some fuel for the Hot Stove] Reference
Their position in the zodiac of respectability is pretty much locked in, barring a huge meltdown. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Different Strokes] Reference
The sober prosaic respectability is in this manner duly honoured in Galsworthy's realism, and this has been pointed out as the essential factor in his judgment of human nature. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Literature 1932 - Presentation Speech] Reference
Answer these questions and you will gain respectability. From Wordnik.com. [Schmidt calls Palin claims 'total fiction'] Reference
Well, that so-called respectability applies both on and off the field. From Wordnik.com. [The Battalion RSS] Reference
It will do more to engender love and respectability, which is the best aid to national security. From Wordnik.com. [WordPress.com News] Reference
This is a talented football team that looks like the best bet for the ACC to gain respectability. From Wordnik.com. [Another week, another showdown game in the SEC] Reference
Perhaps it was a welcome diversion from the day-to-day grind with two teams struggling to maintain respectability. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com - Basketball - Boston vs. Sacramento] Reference
Sometimes she felt so defeated that she wondered if she ought to give up on the idea of respectability altogether. From Wordnik.com. [Comanche Moon] Reference
Such clothes have a look of I know not what devout and painful respectability, that is in keeping with the worldly notion of rigid. From Wordnik.com. [Baddeck, and That Sort of Thing] Reference
Nor was the "respectability" of these women at issue. From Wordnik.com. [Gutenber-e Help Page] Reference
Nor did this "respectability" have to come from Divvytown. From Wordnik.com. [Ship Of Magic]
I had a post on 'respectability' but forgot to put it on the stick. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference
That old quarrel between the ideals of Bohemia and of "respectability"!. From Wordnik.com. [Browning's Heroines] Reference
I want to give it the same kind of respectability you've given to creationism. From Wordnik.com. [Rebooting Creationism] Reference
It was still trying to win acceptance and a kind of respectability among European nations. From Wordnik.com. [Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union] Reference
Declares that state government has obligation to preserve "respectability" and "permanence" of such practices. From Wordnik.com. [Book Condemns Witchcraft] Reference
One police official, an inspector for an organized crime unit, warned that CORE was only seeking a veneer of "respectability". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
What is striking is the degree to which it is tolerated and the "respectability" these sites receive from the Democratic establishment. From Wordnik.com. [Bull Moose] Reference
But -- I had my new-born yearning for "respectability". From Wordnik.com. [The Deluge] Reference
And what a mocking was "respectability," in rags and filth!. From Wordnik.com. [Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise] Reference
He said he would improve our 'respectability' around the world!!. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
(And, from back in January, on the "respectability" of the BNP.) |. From Wordnik.com. [BobFromBrockley] Reference
"I've more claims to your precious kind of respectability than you -- than you think!". From Wordnik.com. [Star-Dust] Reference
A life-time would have failed it to discern for itself how infinitely higher than its slavish "respectability" was Herminia's freedom. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman Who Did] Reference
"Not the good things which he had a right to expect, -- not that respectability which is all the world to such an establishment as this.". From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Wortle's School] Reference
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