Sentence examples for respectable world from inspiring English sources

"East-West," a French film nominated last year, went on to a respectable world tour without ever achieving critical or commercial success in France.

At a carefully choreographed event in Geneva, the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organisation was at last persuaded to utter the phrase that would transform him from international criminal into respectable world statesman.

The taboo around sex work, the way it isolates its employees from the "respectable" world, is a huge part of what makes it so exploitative, so unpleasant (for many) and so dangerous to people who are already vulnerable.

It's no surprise that the Surrealists were enamored of these movies — the ingenious sets contrive wondrous, utterly realistic yet seemingly metaphysical transformations, and the ornate and overwrought décor, with its recesses and hiding places, suggests a blandly respectable world that seethes with ambient chaos.

It's no surprise that the Surrealists were enamored of these movies the ingenious sets contrive wondrous, utterly realistic yet seemingly metaphysical transformations, and the ornate and overwrought décor, with its recesses and hiding places, suggests a blandly respectable world that seethes with ambient chaos.

When asked again if he was calling for the FA to unite with Uefa to boycott Fifa and the World Cup, he replied: "Unless it (Fifa) could achieve the reforms that would bring Fifa back into the respectable world community, yes I would.

Of course some of this is part of the general disdain for "genre" in all its forms that permeates the respectable literary world.

Suffused with a sensuous yet sickly fin-de-siècle light, the novel follows the New Orleans housewife as she rejects the bonbons, sewing and soft furnishings of the respectable female world and embarks upon a treacherous course of adultery and art in an attempt to free her soul.

The number of primary schools doubled, the number of students quadrupled and public spending on education swelled from 3% to 4% of GDP, a respectable figure by world standards.Yet something went wrong.

Bush House World Servicece headquarters – is, or used to be, plastered with posters quoting the more respectable sort of world leader proclaiming the World Service's virtues of impartiality, fairness and authority.

Although the Times was always far more respectable than the World, that passage comports with Rosenthal's description of how he approached the Genovese story: "News is not philosophy or theology but what certain human beings, reporters and editors, know will have meaning and interest to other human beings, readers".