The Super Furry Animals have always had a predilection for the unusual in their songs both literally (Receptacle for the Respectable features the Sir Paul McCartney chewing celery in time) and lyrically (take your pick here: Ice Hockey Hair, The International Language of Screaming, Fuzzy Birds, Guacamole …).
Mr. DUELL's Sir Edward Trenehard was respectable, but there was a good deal of hoar-frost about it.
Consider the catalog of teaching films, from the respectable ("Stand and Deliver," "To Sir, With Love") to the risible ("Dangerous Minds," "Mr. Holland's Opus"), and you find they all share an ambition: to beatify teachers.
After news spreads of Emma's resurrection and happy marriage to Sir Walter, magic becomes respectable and Mr Norrell performs various feats to aid the government in their ongoing war against Napoleon.
At his 90th birthday, Nick recalled a "lost" poem composed by Larkin one evening at dinner, mocking the then president of St John's: "If approached by Sir Cyril Norwood / Any respectable whore would / Charge double / For her trouble".
Sir Henry Cecil's Timepiece finished a respectable third with fellow British raider First City fourth.
It is all a far cry from 2010, his first year in charge, when the team accrued a highly respectable 50 points from 40 league fixtures and Sir Alex Ferguson showered him with glowing praise.
Today, the "part troll" looks less wild, hairy creature from Glastonbury, or perhaps Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and more respectable metropolitan type, clutching a sleek phone and sporting a smart jacket and a flowery shirt.
Sir Menzies appeared to have silenced critics with a respectable performance at his party conference.
A couple of possibilities on the play side are "Fortune's Fool," which opens this week, and the imported revival of Sir Noël Coward's "Private Lives," which already has a respectable $1.25 million advance and had stellar reviews in London.
