She has lived in London for more than fifty years, and she carries a British passport, holds respectably British left-wing views, owns a big house in Hampstead Garden Suburb, and has written ten cookbooks in the English language, including "A Book of Middle Eastern Food" and "The Book of Jewish Food," and is finishing an eleventh, about the food of Spain.
Hemingway's editor, the celebrated Maxwell Perkins, wrote that "Cleon's respectably sexy" artwork was designed to attract "the feminine readers who control the destinies of so many novels".
"And then," she adds, "I thought that I had better write something that could stand respectably next to Virginia Woolf before I imitated her death".
The playwright Alan Bennett, reflecting on his mother's death, wrote of those who "quite respectably starve to death" because the care home staff "do not have the time to feed patients properly and do not notice when they are not feeding themselves".
Variety wrote that "Hawke adds feisty and cunning flourishes to his role that allow him to respectably hold his own under formidable circumstances".
Andy Murray came respectably close, showing just how far he has come in lodging himself among the best in the game, Paul Hayward writes in The Telegraph, but he has the misfortune of meeting Djokovic at his very best, James Lawton writes in The Independent.
[Note: Actually, while I've been writing this article, Democrats do seem to be making it an issue in the news with some respectably forceful language, so maybe there is some hope after all.].
He wrote eight more – notably Square's Progress (1965), Office Politics (1966), The Critic (1970, also published under the title Max Jamison) and Transatlantic Blues (1978) – all of which sold respectably.
If you want respect, act respectably.
Just as our relics and monuments represent a respectable part of us, so we as individuals must respectably represent them.
