Sentence examples for respectable readers from inspiring English sources

And if he admits this publicly, he will seem unworthy of the vast family of respectable readers he has spent a lifetime putting together.

In 1929, the playwright and travel writer Basil Woon wrote From Deauville to Monte Carlo: a Guide to the Gay World of France, warning his respectable readers that, whatever they do, they should on no account visit France's second city.

Even Virginia Woolf's father, Leslie Stephen, censored Hardy unmercifully, making him take out or tone down anything liable to make a respectable reader feel squeamish.

In the Mad Men era, you used to find science fiction exclusively in clandestine collector's shops where no "respectable" reader would be found.

The development of a junior literature from 1865 to about 1920 is ascribable less to published books than to two remarkable children's magazines: The Youth's Companion (1827 1929, when it merged with The American Boy) and the relatively nondidactic St. Nicholas magazine (1873 1939), which exerted a powerful influence on its exclusively respectable child readers.

Respectable provincial newspapers routinely protected readers from sordid tales.

To be sure, twelve to forty-two million potential readers is a respectable audience; it's more than that of mixed martial arts, say, even if it's not at the level of N.F.L. football.

Ms. Varo was an avid reader of science fiction and respectable popularizers of science like Fred Hoyle and Isaac Asimov.

His poetry is full of epigrammatic maxims and sententious utterances which, lifted from their contexts, made a respectable appearance in the excerpts in which medieval readers often studied their classics.

All three were respectable efforts with fun to be had by reader and pasticheur alike – though for a more illuminating angle on Austen, turn to Jo Baker's Longbourn, which cunningly retells Pride and Prejudice from the servants' perspective.

Many current Wikipedia readers learned to write at a time when no respectable dictionary endorsed "comprised of" in any way.