Sentence examples for model of respectability from inspiring English sources

Internet media companies are groping towards a model of respectability and maturity – but the only exemplars around are the ones they are trying to put out of business.

Because there isn't a model of respectability that will allow black boys and men to transcend our shared history.

"Because the ingénue is implicitly white, she represents a model of respectability that is harder to achieve for girls of color," musicologist Alexandra Apolloni argues.

Appearance: Top half: the model of authoritative respectability.

William Heming, the narrator of Phil Hogan's hugely engrossing fourth novel, is outwardly a model of plodding respectability.

But, for all his appearance as the very model of conservative respectability, his merciless lampooning of the heartless constraints of laws and etiquette reveal him, underneath it all, to have been a genuine free spirit and a true anarchist.

Jones paints a compelling portrait of a model of mid-American respectability whose secret life found its expression in ground-breaking research.

Yet this latest spectacle raises the question of whether we want politicians to be paragons, role models, exemplary, stainless icons of respectability whom we can look up to or whether we would settle for well-informed, pragmatic, sensible people who have a sound ideas about how to resolve the mortgage crisis and who may or may not have racy personal lives that are none of our business.

PiS's veneer of respectability is probably tarnished for good.

A medical degree is a universal badge of respectability.

In agrarian societies the elderly have a status of respectability.