We look to America, and see Barack Obama trying to achieve great social change: respectable economic growth, improving healthcare, lower unemployment, and all while increasing government spending.
In the opening section ("First Age: Infant") Mr. Bate gives us a succinct assessment of how Shakespeare's small-town childhood in Warwickshire left him with a sensitivity to nature and the changing seasons, and also, he speculates, with an innate conservatism : a tendency to be "cautious, traditional, respectable, suspicious of change".
He said: "Why don't you just call it Respectable?" Did the book change a lot as you were working on it?
From the context and the linked article, I take this to mean that your "job" was to inform the public that the only respectable discussions on climate change were going on between the "reasonable" AGW believers (you, in this case), and the extreme AGW believers – cutting out the skeptics completely.
Today's audiences are more exacting on that score, in addition to which the copyright laws have changed, making respectable pirating more difficult.
Doolittle is changed into a respectable member of the reviled middle classes; Eliza is changed into an new woman once her "guttersnipe" habits are expunged; but the third metamorphosis is of Professor Higgins, who is transformed finally and movingly from a man unable to express his feelings into a more complete emotional human being.
As climbing has grown respectable a change that can be attributed to a number of things, from a fad for all things outdoor to a proliferation of safe indoor climbing gyms it has attracted talented young athletes who would once have gone into mainstream disciplines like gymnastics or track and field.
Zenefits and Oscar Health, which are tackling the regulatory changes brought on by the Affordable Care Act (thanks Supreme Court!), raised more than respectable $500 million and $145 million rounds, respectively.
My goal changed from a respectable finish to avoiding last place.
But every respectable revolutionary needs a few changes of clothes, and Shockie, on his knees in his shabby room, folded two shirts and a pair of black pants into the kit bag.
