Sentence examples for kind of respectability from inspiring English sources

By the late 1980s, Coleman's enfant terrible status had been displaced by a kind of respectability.

They are, however, at least on their way to some kind of respectability.

Speaking at a screening in London, Atkinson said: "The one thing I would never wish it to be thought is that you play serious roles in order to achieve some kind of respectability, which you can't get playing comedy roles.

But those big, broad issues of democracy and renewal cannot quite cloak the nagging question of how the West dealt with the Libyan leader over many years, escorting him into a kind of respectability that offered commercial advantage for those prepared to make the pilgrimage to his Bedouin tent — the accolade he sought from a world that once spurned him.

When John Banville was asked about the "peace process," the most distinguished Irish novelist and critic of his generation replied that "those of us who have always thought of the I.R.A., and indeed Sinn Fein, as neofascist, are deeply worried by the kind of respectability they have won now in Dublin, London and Washington".

But to those values, Ahmed adds strategy as a reason for Muslims to align themselves with the GOP – a kind of respectability politics that puts the onus on Muslims to show the political establishment they are just like them to quiet any fears.

Despite the word's grotesque usage, though, it was lifestyle journalism that carried it through to a kind of hushed respectability.

Academics are creating a skin of respectability for gamification.

"We're kind of back to respectability, and we can build off that a little bit," Bay said of the Mets, who have won six of eight games to move one game under.500, at 21-22.

She was genuinely happy: she had linked up with a man who was her equal in determination and ability, and had attained the kind of class and respectability she had always wanted.

That such a seemingly dowdy way of getting about town should enjoy this kind of currency and intellectual respectability might seem a surprise.