Sentence examples for respectable behavior from inspiring English sources

It is supposed to convey a sense of standards, as well as legality of respectable behavior.

Also, as a teacher she was a civil servant and bound by a code demanding respectable behavior.

Collecting, however, is considered respectable behavior, while hoarding resides in the shadows of pathology.

Royall dismissed the carnivalesque proceedings as an inquisition; that it had less to do with her "respectable" behavior than her journalistic right to free speech.

While respectable behavior like that should be expected of married men, especially those elected to office, I feel the need to applaud them.

There remains something mildly and even pleasurably heretical about the way the Boxcar Children locate the outer limits of amusement in decorous productivity — the way that, for them, there's no better use of total independence than perfectly mimicking the most respectable behaviors of adults.

And just as rape is not about obeying the unwritten codes that govern "respectable" women's behavior, police violence is not about obeying the police or respecting the law.

Beyond.com is bleeding red ink, but of course Amazon.com has made that behavior perfectly respectable.

Later, as a young professional at The Washington Post and The (Newark) Star-Ledger, I learned that even at respectable papers, the standards for behavior in journalism were far more lax than they were in other industries.

Some was rowdy behavior that scared respectable citizens, such as youths throwing rocks at streetcars and overturning the carts of street vendors.

This biography traces the blazing path of Isadora Duncan, the progenitor of modern dance and quintessential free-spirited American, who charmed Europe throughout the first quarter of the 20th century even as she scandalized respectable society with her flamboyantly unconventional behavior.