Sentence examples for respectability from high-quality English sources.

• Respectability personified.

• Ultimately success will breed respectability.

• Respectability wasn’t a problem with Motown; respectability was its point.

• “He moves in the highest circles with members of the UK royal family, and to some extent that might give him respectability.”

• You barely notice them, but their acquiescence gives deranged ideas respectability and their nervous support puts strongmen in power.

• Michael sets out to rescue him from the dangers of respectability by portraying him as an inspiration to generations of rockers and artists.

• Samuel Phelps at The Sadler’s Wells Theatre instituted audience controls that drove out the old audience and paved the way for respectability.

• In that sense, he said, the organizers of the march were not playing respectability politics as much as declaring ownership over their own history.

Use respectability in a sentence.

• He chose the name 'Victoria' to evoke the propriety and respectability associated with the Victorian era; outwardly refined, Victoria's 'secrets' were hidden beneath."

• The Blavatnik school of government will bear its benefactor’s name, granting him the respectability of an association with one of the world’s great centres of learning.

• That has included publishing papers in high-profile journals, which grants prestige and respectability to the authors that can lead to access to funding, data or new techniques.

• Marian Evans (aka George Eliot) has to make an impossible choice – between the brother she loves and the love of her life, between respectability and social scandal, between duty and the freedom to write.

• But while some see legislation as the means of restraining “corporate mercenaries”, many of the security companies see it as a badge of respectability that will open up lucrative corporate, government and international contracts.

• And the curlers began the slow climb back to respectability, through the national ranks, through the Olympic trials and through the Olympic bonspiel, or tournament, here in South Korea, where they surmounted all kinds of obstacles.

• But come the 1960s, the straight-cut skirts made from daintily trimmed cotton began to shun their respectability and so stars of time exploited the slips allure, most famously seen on Elizabeth Taylor in the 1958 film version of Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

• Moreover, Mr Nixon’s smooth return to respectability could receive a jolt if he goes ahead with his intended visit to Peking - Dr Henry Kissinger is also contemplating a separate visit - at a time when China has attained pariah status for massacring and executing its dissidents.

respectability sentence examples

• He said the testimonies of "courageous survivors has lifted the lid on this dark chapter of our shared history and exposed our hypocrisy to the glaring light," adding that no family today should "shun their child to protect some misguided notion of 'respectability' in the parish community."

• It sums up this United side who have been exposed as nearly men - Solskjaer's first full campaign as Manchester United manager given respectability by finishing third in the Premier League with a recovery built on the signing of the outstanding Bruno Fernandes from Sporting Lisbon in January.

• Feyerabend complains that the ideas of reason and rationality are “ambiguous and never clearly explained” (FTR, p. 10); they are deified hangovers from autocratic times which no longer have any content but whose “halo of excellence” (ibid.) clings to them and lends them spurious respectability:

• “In a way,” says Jerry Garcia, twenty-four, lead guitarist of the Grateful Dead and one of the cultural heroes of Haight-Ashbury, “we’re searching for respectability—not Ford or GM respectability, but the respectability of a community supporting itself financially and spiritually.”