Sentence examples for outward respectability from inspiring English sources

Humanity suffers in the name of outward respectability.

In giving him a job, Carla, played by Emmanuelle Devos, gives Paul Vincent Cassell) outward respectability.

She knows – and shows in her fiction – that outward respectability and social approval do not automatically mean moral goodness.

Comment on the mystery of a Wall Street employee named Max Donovan, whose outward respectability as a salaried assistant, taxpayer, and book-club member was compromised by t e discovery that he is a schnauzer.

Set in a verdant, tropical locale among a community whose outward respectability masks a seething licentiousness, it's the story of two teenaged cousins' traumatic sexual initiation by an older couple.

The middle-class home back then might not have been as grim as Sadie Jones portrays it in her novel The Outcast (outward respectability; violence and alcoholism behind closed doors), but it was stifling.

For years, Colm Murphy maintained an outward veneer of respectability as a wealthy publican and building contractor.

Cogan gives his underworld colleague, a mob lawyer with outward signs of respectability, a brief and cynical history of the United States that borrows equally from Howard Zinn and Jesse James: America was and is a land of thieves and tax cheats where it's every man for himself.

Benny's parents fare little better: they are so determined to preserve the outward appearance of their respectability that they callously dispose of the body.

Her outward life was one of deep respectability, spent with her unmarried brother and sister in a handsome villa in the centre of Coventry.

And although Khalifa's outward appearance challenges many mainstream (and racist) values that determine the "respectability" of a black person, he was body-slammed by police for standing--or hovering, as it were.