In The Tale of Tom Kitten, Tom and his sisters are told by their mother to "walk on their hind legs" while wearing their best clothes like respectable, rational beings.
It might be the respectable best suit he is wearing - white shirt, black tie and a black jacket that's so big he must have borrowed it.
That the total result is more like John O'Hara than D. H. Lawrence, more like a respectable best seller than a probing genius, is in a sense a further tribute to Larry Kramer: he is after all in the best seller business.
Second, while accepting that Iraq's central government will at best be a respectable fig leaf and that strong provincial authorities are essential, pressure the weak Shia-dominated coalitoon to share oil money, power and space.
This is best done by respectable authority figures.
It's not the best or most respectable way to spend your time, but then again, it's not the worst.
Futures The trainer Edward O'Grady was quietly satisfied with Pizarro's seasonal debut at Haydock where his best chaser was a respectable third.
("Typee" sold roughly 6,000 copies in its first two years -- not a best seller, but a respectable sale for a first book).
England's best effort is a respectable fourth, which they achieved as recently as 2006, while their worst performance saw them drop to a lowly 27th in 1996.
Going into Mass Hall, however, Zettel had spruced himself up with a clean blue button-down shirt, because, he said, "we all wanted to do our best to make ourselves respectable".
