Sentence examples for real respectability from inspiring English sources

"For Gareth Bale to get such a fantastic hat-trick and to get some real respectability in the scoreline was very important for us".

And in this regard Bernstein has gained not only respectability but also real respect from changes in circumstances surrounding his music: a widespread reawakening to tonality in new-music circles and, with it, a growing ecumenism in the classical-music world, most of which no longer holds the popularity of his musical-theater works against him.

But once again Hodgson's men found a way to get the result they required and there is a real air of respectability about their campaign even though they had to survive a first-half siege from a Ukraine side desperate for the win they needed to progress.

(Black People: respectability politics are for real for real tired. Blackness is big enough for us all to be Black and different).

Just as the campaign for gay marriage is sometimes more about respectability than equality, Milk's real life wasn't respectable enough for this hagiography.

Fans of the show and its indomitable host (only now defeated by the real-life lure of late-night respectability) have good reason to mourn.

"Fans of the show and its indomitable host (only now defeated by the real-life lure of late-night respectability) have good reason to mourn," noted The New Yorker earlier this year, while Salon recently crowned Colbert "one of the most important figures in U.S. political comedy of all time".

Creationists get, as Richard Dawkins put it, "the oxygen of respectability in the world of real science".

What Nye is doing gives creationists "the oxygen of respectability in the world of real science", according to Richard Dawkins.

Here is a highly subjective selection of some of his best: An unstated bias rooted deep in Australian life seemed to wish that "real" Australian history had begun with Australian respectability – with the flood of money from gold and wool, the opening of the continent, the creation of an Australian middle class.

Fake news sites are one thing and sites like YourNewsWire mix their fake stories with real to create a veneer of truth and respectability.