To a magazine journalist, bloggers' idiosyncrasies don't seem so disreputable.
Vladimir Kramnik doesn't mind if his pawns look disreputable.
Ferrara, it seems, remains too disreputable a director to be introduced to polite society, and his film altogether too drunken, shrill and volatile to be paraded on the carpet.
His partners, the illegitimate daughter and disreputable son-in-law of an even more disreputable Japanese billionaire named Hideki Yokoi, seem to have paid forty million dollars for the building, though their title, even on a sunny day, is somewhat clouded.
Comparing Stalin to Churchill might seem sacrilegious, but Churchill, like Stalin, was disreputable in many other aspects of his career.
Perhaps other sports will come to seem, like boxing, a little weird and a little disreputable.
They would have made a comically provocative spread in a magazine, but associating Mr. Bush and his cabinet with such a generic and broadly played form of venality as consorting with disreputable women seems off the mark.
He willingly sacrificed his own safety and comfort in order to protect the men who served with him". "It is a disgrace that to so many of our elites Webb should seem like a figure from another era, and for that matter an ancient and bygone and slightly disreputable one," wrote Bill Kristol in the Weekly Standard.
In "The Fog" Jamie Lee Curtis, who was stalked in "Halloween," exclaims under duress, "Why do things always seem to happen to me?" Mr. Carpenter has been equally self-aware about his own image; one of his refrains over the decades is that he is working in a disreputable genre, which is not as true as it once was.
The life lessons that he imparts seem relatively simple and straightforward, but he dredges them not from his position as a respected businessman but, rather, from the rugged and rowdy, disreputable and freethinking life that he led on the rugged upward road to success.
