Sentence examples for In a certain respect from inspiring English sources

In a certain respect, that is what college is all about.

In a certain respect, the individual totems in this community seem to be the basis of group totemism.

For of 'white in a certain respect' the negation is 'not white in a certain respect', while of 'white absolutely' it is 'not white, absolutely'.

In fact, I find George to be a cunning, self-reliant guy — in a certain respect, a kind of conservative.

Likewise also with any argument that turns upon the point whether an expression is used in a certain respect or used absolutely.

As stagey scenarios repeat themselves we discover that while Evelyn (Chiara D'Anna) may seem like the slave, she is, in a certain respect, the master.

He just has a certain aura about him once he walks in that there is a certain respect that he demands.

In the revised version, Henry wins a certain respect and contentment in a modest post as a civil servant.

You are a figure whose achievements would be enough, in normal circumstances, to generate a certain respect, if not admiration.

But Shaw commands a certain respect in Verdi lore, from the days when he prepared the choruses for classic accounts by Toscanini.

He also tries to instill something more fundamental in the players he meets: a certain respect for the gravity of the sacrifice, given that it costs an out.