Sentence examples for so respectable from inspiring English sources

If the Queen passes up conferring the title of Cumberland on Harry, then we'll miss the chance of a legal battle between the descendants of Ernst August and Harry and Grace and Meghan all of which is a useful reminder that borders have always been blurry, and respectability not always so respectable.

What can we do with so respectable a Cassandra?

Though, in a certain sense, gayness has become so respectable that it's square.

I look so respectable, so refined, so "nice," so inoffensive, so sweet, even!

For a week or so, respectable newspapers turn into society tabloids, which I pretend not to read.

As they moved out, says Hussein Ali, a businessman who bought their building in Gamaleya, "people were crying because they were so respectable".

Meanwhile, the real scandal is being conducted under their noses by the ever-so respectable members of the Washington establishment.

In the darkly comic "Crimes and Misdemeanors," a respectable, successful man (Martin Landau, above left) turns to his not-so-respectable brother (Jerry Orbach) to make sure that his family never finds out about his flightattendant girlfriend (Anjelica Huston). 2 A.M. (Sundance) BELLE DE JOUR (1967).

James Connolly points out that "the board of directors sought to shape the collection so that respectable, mostly conservative works predominated.

Similarly Fondazione Prada's opening exhibits include Robert Gober and Louise Bourgeois, names so deeply respectable they practically have starched collars.

Beckett's subject, too, was happiness, and, though Ishiguro's characters seem so earnestly respectable, they have the same mad, compulsive, quasi-mechanical qualities that Beckett's do.