Sentence examples for respectable behaviour from inspiring English sources

But to be a buffoon is also to mock the respectable behaviour of the laughing audience.

A camera lens, pointing in your direction, recording you in case you do something out of the ordinary, something suspicious, something interesting, something that isn't in accord with the camera installer's idea of normal respectable behaviour.

You may have to cover your shoulders in the mall, avoid stumbling down the road after one too many, try not to go topless on the beach, and resist public displays of affection, but most of these rules simply require respectable behaviour and a little common sense.

Calls for the addition of electric lights, night-time closing, and a patrol of watchmen to enforce respectable behaviour seem to have been ignored, but the universal reputation of piers as a place that could be both innocent and immoral became their lasting legacy.

In an interview with today's Bild am Sonntag newspaper Tony Blair praised the way the tournament had been organised - and the 'sensible, respectable and comradely behaviour of the fans'.

The very term "Victorianism," perhaps the only "ism" in history attached to the name of a sovereign, not only became synonymous with a cluster of restraining moral attributes character, duty, will, earnestness, hard work, respectable comportment and behaviour, and thrift but also came to be strongly associated with a new version of private life.

But beneath that respectable veneer of reckless behaviour and general carrying on, the state is actually not unlike the rest of America.

In a process that Foucault called "normalization," a supposedly objective social science labels as "normal" or "rational" behaviour that society deems respectable or desirable, so behaviour deemed otherwise becomes abnormal or irrational and a legitimate object of discipline or coercion.

The queen, cannily, remained expressionless.Still, the Commonwealth meeting put Mr Museveni back in respectable circles after years of thuggish behaviour and accusations of corruption.

"Crime is the logical extension of the sort of behaviour that is often considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business".

Equally, there are the transgressive youngsters whose behaviour gets excused because their parents are respectable, the right sort.