We have lost our ideology and we don't have representation.'" On the other hand, a good showing in the European elections would bring the B.N.P. closer to respectability, giving it more access to the news media, and funding — "a totally different ball game," Dr. Goodwin said.
Not that long ago, owning a metropolitan newspaper guaranteed a seat at the civic table, immediate respectability and, given that many papers were near-monopolies, a press practically capable of printing money.
The Reagans were regular visitors at Sunnylands, the Annenbergs' verdant retreat in the Californian desert.Above all, though, Mr Annenberg earned respectability by giving his money away.
Playtime was Tati's last film, a ruinously expensive bid for respectability that gave off the empty rattle of perfectionism — pratfalls echoing tinnily through lavish, empty sets.
Years after banning some of its more overtly prison-brawl maneuvers, like groin-kicking and hair-pulling, mixed martial arts is growing in respectability and giving boxing a run for its money.
Knowing that Gilbert and Sullivan shared his vision of broadening the audience for British light opera by increasing its quality and respectability, Carte gave Gilbert wider authority as a director than was customary among Victorian producers, and Gilbert tightly controlled all aspects of production, including staging, design and movement.
"You have this respectability that is given to you, more or less.
Italy, unable to reform, has made a virtue of a low-wage, low-productivity economy, with little social mobility, a choice given respectability by the preaching of a complacently anti-capitalist Church.
Andree Abecassis, vice president of the Ann Elmo Literary Agency, said: "With the influence of the rise of the Internet and the decline of publishers willing to take chances on new authors or nonblockbusters, a new respectability has been given to self-publishing.
