Sentence examples for Respectable try from inspiring English sources

The respectable try – and fail.

Joseph Strick's film of "Ulysses" is a pretty respectable try.

For fans of science fiction, the week ahead could have been concocted by an alchemist: four significant science-fiction movies - one of them a successful venture into the genre, two respectable tries that fall on either side of the dividing line between worthwhile and disappointing, and a fourth that seems to have gone completely haywire.

Wholesome young people, they were rather hurt when the police arrested them in large numbers – easier targets to keep their arrest numbers respectable than trying to nab some of Not-Jason's less respectable friends.

"They spend too much time looking respectable and trying to keep everyone happy".

What hard-boiled does best is portraying the moment a society turns respectable, or tries to; when the politicians fess up and the criminals take to property speculation as the women do to Botox.

It is their job, and a perfectly respectable one, to try to sell their products; it is our job to try to ignore them.

Respectable citizens who tried to suppress it were burned in effigy for their pains, alongside the pope a tradition that survives in the Sussex town of Lewes.This peculiar transformation is the subject of "Gunpowder Plots", a book of essays.

If there were those, including allegedly respectable academics, who tried to deny Gross's overwhelming evidence or who simply denounced him as a traitor to Poland's sacred cause, there were those who acknowledged the terrible force and importance of his indictment.

"It was a tough decision whether to shut up shop and keep it respectable or keep trying to play and take the initiative.

We just try to be respectable.