Casson rightly believed that Jim's equally patrician manner would make him acceptable to Darwin.
Even more tendentious, however, is the degree to which everything quoted appears designed to make him acceptable to the sensibilities of her readers.
He is trying to walk a center line, making him completely pleasing neither to strong liberals nor to strong conservatives, with the idea that his centrism & his Missouri roots could make him acceptable to a wide swath of the electorate.
Will the president choose someone as outspoken, with a bipartisan pedigree that allows him to criticize the conduct of combat and makes him acceptable to Republicans?
A jaunty, modern-day clown in jazzy clothes, Mr Tumble has only the merest dab of a red nose linking him to his big-top ancestors, making him acceptable viewing for the most committed coulrophobe.
The attraction of a Bill Clinton candidacy is that his reputation makes him acceptable to Americans and many non-American critics alike, preserving the US government's commitment to an open appointment process while keeping the post in US hands.
Ashe has small ears, a narrow, foxlike face, short hair, and a nose so thin and straight that some Negroes say it is Ashe's nose that makes him acceptable to whites.
When Time magazine put him on their cover on 8 November 1954, before "Take Five" had even sealed his fame, Brubeck was embarrassed, believing jazz's greatest composer, Duke Ellington, should have been far ahead of him in the queue, and that it was his race which had made him acceptable.
Although Cosey's conduct, even when he was technically conforming with the law, would hardly have made him acceptable as a Boy Scout leader, his professed ethical beliefs were not a great deal more anti-social than those of many pragmatic-minded citizens who have never so much as seen the inside of a courtroom.
The very qualities which made him acceptable to the climate change deniers in the White House – he wasn't a climate scientist, he had friendly relations with business – are now being used by climate change deniers as a stick with which to beat him.
His wealth and social standing inspired the confidence of moderate delegates, while his association with Boston radicals made him acceptable to other radicals.
