Sentence examples for own respectability from inspiring English sources
Claus "hated his own respectability while prizing the public and cultural disciplines that forced people into repression". While Claus skis, Beverley explores first an ice maze, then a hotel.
Those who just cast out comments left and right should first worry about their own respectability," Akdogan said of the U.S. criticism of Erdogan's rhetoric.
At 27, she has become the face of women's mixed martial arts, fighting her way to respectability in a male-dominated sport that has yet to secure its own respectable place in the mainstream.
And she expertly deadpans that a gentrified Manhattan hotel looks "dazed at its own sudden respectability, like a dissolute grandfather forced into a suit and dragged to a wedding".
Mrs. Loomis is concerned about her daughter's virtue — and making sure that she ends up hating sex as much as her mother does — but, despite their differences, Flo and Mrs. Loomis come at sexuality from the same angle: the woman is there to placate the man, thus adding to the sheen of her own smug respectability.
Though this quartet has its own notions of British respectability, they're a bit looser than the middle-class Alec and Laura and can sing easily, even a little lewdly, about the pleasures and perils of romance.
My own family has notable respectability, but it also included ship captains of slave ships.
Though Pellegrino again draws a mantle of someone else's respectability around his own shoulders, it doesn't work.
In some hands the idea of creative freedom dwindled to a bohemianism pitting "art for its own sake" against commerce and respectability.
The fate of Julius Caesar, an eagerness to acquire political respectability, and his own esteem for ancestral custom combined to dissuade Octavian from it.
Its squalid filth, the result of his now-dead father's alcoholism, is foully, vividly rendered: the stink and decay becoming the physical embodiment of a man slipping from middle-class respectability into his own personal hell.
