Rightfully this definition is placed well below the primary and more respectable: "The action or practice of cultivating the soil; tillage".
Of course it doesn't soar to the impossible heights of any of Swartzwelder's Simpsons episodes, where he had the benefit of a perfect cast and art direction that was always in service to the writing, but it's a respectable live-action cartoon it's the sort of thing that could never be made now, not even as a vanity project.
My brain would look at the situation, and agree that as I am an adult with disabilities, this was a perfectly respectable course of action I could take to scratch this long burning "crip-itch" if I wanted to.
In a semicircle around the stage sat seven members of the Ricercar Consort, an early-music ensemble directed by Philippe Pierlot (who plays the viola da gamba), giving a convincing and respectable performance while the action took place beside them.
As in any respectable frat house, the real action occurs in the basement.
Providing a significant twist on what is actually a pretty compelling narrative is Dupieux's inclusion of an audience, seated in the sand dunes a respectable distance away from the action, to witness Mr. Goodyear's journey as a form of living theater.
Justice Thomas, himself a beneficiary of affirmative action at Yale Law School, compiled a respectable record at what is arguably the country's most elite law school.
And of course, like any respectable professional candidate, he has a political action committee, HuckPAC, and gets paid well into five figures for speaking engagements around the country.
It's a style guide, and the people in charge of it occasionally make decisions that some terms like calling people, rather than actions, "illegal"—are no longer respectable.
With a solid £1.42m, the action thriller 2 Guns manages a respectable third place, trading on the appeal of Mark Wahlberg and Denzel Washington in a zingy, spritely alternative to the summer's bloated CGI blockbusters.
