Sentence examples for seemingly respectable from inspiring English sources
But what can one do if seemingly respectable people consistently lie?
It was a chance to show off, and a seemingly respectable way to be deeply subversive.
Ten seemingly respectable people - including six women - were on trial accused of the abuse of five children which is said to have centred around Marie Black, 34, from Norwich.
8 25 P.M. (TV5Monde) DOUBLE TOUR (1961) On a magnificent property near Aix-en-Provence Aix-en-Provence Aix-en-Provencecoux faminy is living a seemingly respecthele life.
Yet in France the language and behaviour of street bigots has levitated up the social scale, not only into seemingly respectable provincial families but even into the very heart of François Hollande's nominally leftwing government.
The middle-class children who buy this horror house are unaware that their seemingly respectable father was one of its owners and a reluctant collaborator in Jimmy's brutal demise.
R. & B. had devolved into synth-pop, and seemingly every respectable radio station was advertising itself with the tagline "No Rap".
The clothes were respectable, ladylike, seemingly culled from the early 1960s pages of Paris Vogue and L'Officiel — demure A-line suits, printed silk dresses, fur coats with opera-length sleeves — and the only thing that looked really Galliano, almost as a concession to his flamboyance, were the overteased hairdos and Baby Jane lacquered eyes.
People of all races -- Blacks included -- seemingly love to discuss how not killing our own and being more respectable will alleviate the effects of racism.
Chandor Jr grew up in respectable, middle-class suburbia, an hour's drive from New York City but seemingly a thousand miles from the film industry itself.
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.
