Sentence examples for respectability about from inspiring English sources

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.

If I told you any more I'd probably get done for aiding and abetting crime, but seeing as Steve has an air of respectability about him, I thought I'd ask invasive questions and let him do it for me.

But after a bit more questioning, it seemed that the politics of respectability was about as far as the FLA went.

If a previous form of patrician conservatism had been about respectability and social structure, this new form was about replacing all notions of public enterprise with a striving doctrine of individualism.

My Juneteenth moment came May 2015 when I wrote the following piece about respectability politics, entitled "I Used To Be A Respectable Negro, But Then I Woke Up".

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.

For us it's all about respectability".

Commemorating Mozart in 1991, he ventures beyond 'intellectual respectability' to speculate about the 'metaphysical aura' of the prodigy and the 'transcendent' origins of his gift.

But the moral pleasure doesn't rule out other pleasures, and what's refreshing about this sobriety is its willingness to stay the course and not worry about respectability or its opposite.

This is not simply because Hillary Clinton once spoke of "super-predators" – a whole lotta black politicians in the 1990s voted for that crime bill, too – but because the Black Lives Matter movement has changed the conversation about respectability politics.

Some among us are disgusted by the thought of such a thing in the universe, and are mightily glad that the arguments alleging the existence of anything like it are nugatory, having the same intellectual respectability as arguments about the existence of fairies.