Sentence examples for respectable history from inspiring English sources

"The Gangs of New York" isn't respectable history, either.

But it also doesn't muster anything close to the consistency that it should, given its lofty prices and respectable history.

Two-handers, as two-person plays are nicknamed in the trade, have a respectable history and a particular appeal — and not just for acting classes.

In a scholarly book, "Dynasties", the late David Landes of Harvard University demonstrated that you could write a respectable history of capitalism through the lens of family histories.

The marimba's sister, the xylophone, has a respectable history portraying sinister skeletons, in Saint-Saëns's Danse Macabre or the peerless Carl Stalling's Skeleton Dance.

Those who support the affective criterion for judging poetry cite its long and respectable history, beginning with Aristotle's dictum that the purpose of tragedy is to evoke "terror and pity".

During this laundering process, a respectable ownership history is substituted for an originally illicit one.

Brooklyn won out because aside from having a more than respectable baseball history, the borough is well connected.

This, perhaps minus the more implausible stories, has become the accepted version: on one page alone Weber lists 10 different sources, most of them highly respectable (biographies, histories of the first world war, the BBC) testifying to the danger of Hitler's work.

He wants to make military history respectable by enfolding it into intellectual and cultural history.

"The history of respectable gin-drinking," Mr. Barnett writes, "is very largely the history of the cocktail".