Last month, on a typically dull, gray late-winter Hanoi day, I stopped in at the city's sole respectable foreign-language bookstore, the Bookworm, for a conversation with a Vietnamese fan of Tim O'Brien.
This theme is also evident in at least four of the issues identified in the Department of Health [ 34] report: being treated as an individual; being addressed by care staff appropriately; maintaining a respectable appearance; and language barriers between care staff and service users.
It was in the early 19th century that it gained the modern provenance by which it is now identified; by the 1860s, it had been made respectable as the principal language of the Bengali bhadralok, or "gentle folk".
Back in 2012, the huge indie smash Lost in Thailand took a miserable $57K on its stint in the States; the sequel has done $1.2m and counting, respectable for a foreign-language film in the notoriously subtitle-hating market.
Examining the biological and evolutionary causes of language is a respectable endeavour, so why not apply the same approach to religion?
Horace and Me is a little like Withnail & I for toffs, not thesps, with the love that dare not speak its name adopting the respectable cover of a dead language.
I'd had the language and manners of respectable people beaten into me.
"Robust" For centuries, this adjective (Google Repetition Index: seventy-seven million) was a respectable citizen of the Republic of Language, doing useful if modest service.
Many of the notes were brief and untidy, and were kept by Byron despite the fact that most of their female authors asked him to dispose of them, as their language would have scandalised respectable 19th-century society.
The handling of the team must be humane and compassionate and the language used must be respectable at all times.
"One hundred years ago it wasn't respectable to put a lot of colloquial language and slang words into print," Mr. Weiner said.
