Sentence examples for the only respectable from inspiring English sources

Forget teaching math to fidgety schoolgirls (the only respectable path for a smart girl like me).

John Kenneth Galbraith's comment that in America the only respectable type of socialism is socialism for the rich has never seemed more apt.

Born in New York, Loesser grew up in a family of German immigrant musicians who considered classical music the only respectable form.

This deplorable election, featuring a deplorable candidate, is now circling the drain because the only respectable candidate expressed her disdain for racist voters.

What is so infuriating is that Meryl Streep is playing a journalist - a journalist who apparently believes that the only respectable response to the Bush administration is impotent misery and career suicide.

In the west, it's long been acknowledged that the only respectable reason for forming a band is to become famous, get out of your skull on drugs and have sex with battalions of groupies.

Yet he remains not only respectable among the Beltway crowd; as Ezra says, he's lionized in a way that looks from the outside like a clear violation of journalistic norms: For reasons I've never quite understood, the rules of reportorial neutrality don't apply when it comes to the deficit.

It follows the group as they party like only respectable, theater nerds can.

Our magnum opus, Market Structure and Foreign Trade, served the purpose of making our ideas not only respectable but almost standard: iconoclasm to orthodoxy in seven years.

Other passages stream past in which the only vaguely respectable noun is "sluice".

"They were absolutely singular on this topic" — capital punishment — "because they were the only intellectually respectable support for the death penalty system in the United States".