Sentence examples for Respectable appearance from inspiring English sources
He is a believer in respectable appearance & respect for authority, and particularly love of country.
The New Yorker, July 31 , 1926 P. 7Bootlegging provides comfortable living for elderly pair whose asset is respectable appearance.
His poetry is full of epigrammatic maxims and sententious utterances which, lifted from their contexts, made a respectable appearance in the excerpts in which medieval readers often studied their classics.
Background: Solomon Northup was a free black man living in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. in 1841, when he was coaxed by "two gentlemen of respectable appearance" to travel to Washington, D.C. for employment.
Critics of Generation Identity say that behind the respectable appearance of its members and slick social media work, its central beliefs are more extreme and race-based than anything proposed by groups such as the English Defence League.
8. Maintaining a respectable appearance – Lack of care, time and resources and laundry damage were said to contribute to people not appearing well-groomed.
Behind the Georgian façades of the once-grand houses of Dublin's Mountjoy Square, outward respectable appearances count for nothing.
And if you're the kind of British viewer who demands a King's Speech-style patriotic buzz, there were respectable appearances by Muse, Florence Welch and Mumford and Sons, who had their Jim'll Fix It moment playing alongside Bob Dylan.
It could also threaten what we (drawing on the work of authors such as Nack [ 8]) refer to as respondents'goodod girl' identities, i.e. their need to maintain sexually respectable appearances in front of other people, including healthcare professionals.
And she now relies on her mother-in-law, Jackie Mary Beth Piell, whose respectable-matron appearance in this role reminded me, distractingly, of Jean Harris), to take care of her children while she's at work.
You will always have more bargaining power with your family if your homework is done, your grades are good, your appearance is respectable and your room is tidy.
