Sentence examples for image of respectability from inspiring English sources

Sir Allen strenuously cultivated an image of respectability as an entrepreneur, philanthropist and sports impresario.

Scornful of the image of respectability crafted by civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King and Roy Wilkins, black power's figureheads often revelled in a politics of threat and insult.

The Legacy of His Father It has often been said that Mr. Annenberg's assiduously cultivated image of respectability and his well-publicized philanthropic largesse stemmed in part from distress over his father's past.

As the requested FBI investigation gets underway and stories of Kavanaugh's aggressive, drunk behavior as a youth begin to leak (including a New York Times report of a bar fight instigated by Kavanaugh following a UB40 concert), more cracks form in his image of respectability.

International antiquities smuggling is effectively a white-collar crime in India: it requires capital and education, and the participants use the wealth that the business generates to cultivate an image of social respectability.

Mary Barton (1848) deals with love across the class divide, while Ruth (1853) is about a fallen woman who becomes an unmarried mother, a fact that appalled many of Gaskell's readers who had her pegged as a nice, ladylike writer (the fact that she was always known as "Mrs" rather than "Elizabeth" Gaskell only added to this image of bourgeois respectability).

Despite his image of mature respectability -- after all, Michael Egan was a 51-year-old insurance company executive -- he sprayed whipped cream on the bed sheets and taped down the telephone of colleagues, then giggled as they struggled to pick up the receiver.

Harley-Davidson had, since its founding in 1903, scrupulously cultivated an image of staid respectability, and would not begin to tentatively embrace the "outlaw" demographic of their customer base for at least another ten years.

Swinburne eventually became a figure of respectability and adopted reactionary views.

The new rulers realise that confidence at home and abroad matters a lot, and that it depends on an image of stability and respectability.

Kay and Arnold are presented as the dullest, safest, most frightened couple you can imagine, the image of frozen bourgeois respectability and timidity.