Sentence examples for respectable viewing from inspiring English sources

Over on Channel 4 Celebrity Big Brother continued to pull in respectable viewing numbers with almost 3 million and a 12% share of audience.

When the established church spoke in tones like these — clinging to the "reasonable" and respectable, viewing extraordinary religious passion as "an attitude" — it is no wonder that Hopkins fled it for what he viewed as the greater seriousness and authority of the Roman Catholic Church.

However, both the first and second series had a repeat run in June 1983 in a more low-key time slot, but attracted respectable viewing figures, which convinced Davies to commission a third series.

Both are perfectly respectable views.

This is a perfectly respectable view, and one held by a host of academic, business and City economists.

The play is a grim study of contamination spreading through a family under cover of the widowed Mrs. Alving's timidly respectable views.

It's a widely held and perfectly respectable view – certainly not a "Hitlerian agenda" for London's cultural treasures, as Boris Johnson would have it.

Since the 2007 publication of Vincent Bugliosi's "Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy," a mammoth takedown of the conspiracy theories, the respectable view has been that Earl Warren and his colleagues basically got it right.

But, as it often is the case, there was a difference between the respectable view and what a majority actually believed and said in private, which was that the demolition of the mosque was a sign that India was changing and that in this new nation Hindus would become increasingly assertive and intimidating enough to protect themselves against other religions, especially Islam.

However, I have a strong and sinking feeling that these two brilliant movies are going to melt away in both the Baftas and the Academy Awards as their various voters opt for the big frontrunners such as Lincoln, and Academy voters may well decide that this film offers a more reassuringly respectable view of slavery and the civil war than the provocative and satirical Django Unchained.

It's a good rule of thumb to give people the benefit of the doubt, so we should be inclined to think that the ordinary Muslim's respectable views outnumber his illiberal views.