Sentence examples for respectable adults from inspiring English sources

Mr Abel's tip: strut your stuff on Sundays, when the gullible, junior reporters are on duty.To some, pranking is a bit like drugs good fun when you're young, but not something respectable adults do.

He's not bemoaning the behaviour of Britain's youth – a refrain against the bad behaviour of teenagers is one that we're all used to hearing – but of grown and otherwise respectable adults acting like selfish idiots.

The invitation, with its elaborate coat of arms and elegant cursive, recalled for them the golden years of my father's diplomatic service, officially elevating me into the realm of respectable adults.

They've turned into (vaguely) respectable adults who do not offend me with their internet behaviour, but lurking beneath their recently tagged holiday photos and refreshingly witty picture captions there are albums upon albums of evidence that they were, in fact, once 19 years old and an embarrassing person.

(Everyone interviewed at Even Further declined to give last names. They're respectable adults at this point, and didn't want their consumption chronicled).

HOW? HOW?! HOW?!?! My home looks more like a frat house or fight club location than it does a clean, safe environment for children (let alone a home that any respectable adult would host other respectable adults in).

You've got Showtime's "Weeds," in which a respectable adult turns to drug dealing.

"Smash" was supposed to be the show that got Broadway right while taking the karaoke inclinations of "American Idol" and "Glee" and turning them into respectable adult drama.

How must it feel to be trapped inside a self-imposed, culturally sanctioned extended adolescence, only to get the news that this limbo might be a permanent condition, that not even fame and best-selling books guarantee a graduation into respectable, adult life?

In 2005 Wallace, invited to address a graduating class at Kenyon College, Ohio, told them that the purpose of education was to teach "how to keep you from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable, adult lives dead, unconscious, a slave to your... natural default setting of being uniquely, completely, imperiously alone".

Though men also expressed concerns regarding potential sterility, the medicalisation of infertility for woman was tied to the gendering of women's social roles and, specifically, to the cultural primacy of maternity for ensuring a respectable adult identity, as well as social and economic stability.