Sentence examples for thoroughly respectable from inspiring English sources

Engravings and paintings from the 16th to 18th centuries also portray the encounter as formal and thoroughly respectable.

While Hitler came from Austrian peasant stock, Himmler, who was born in 1900, and Heydrich, who was born in 1904, belonged to thoroughly respectable Catholic families.

"This ranks as a thoroughly respectable performance … In an extremely challenging quarter, BarCap's performance proved more resilient than many of its peers," said Ian Gordon, at Evolution.

Sounds like a 1970s porno, but is actually an ancient and thoroughly respectable Arabic pastime, and the second it started, it immediately went to the top of my "Why El Fenn is better than everywhere else" list.

By Ellis Parker Butler The New Yorker, October 10 , 1931P. 50 Tells the story of a man, Mr. Barsh who was thoroughly respectable until he met a neighbor, Mr. Flick who wanted him to become his partner and start a business selling a noiseless garbage can with undentable side.

You won't find the kind of wine that gets beardy sommeliers excited, granted, but Morrisons' team has a thoroughly respectable complement of new wines that seems to be driven by a genuine desire to encourage its customers to drink better without fleecing them in the process.

In 2014, MIT's President Rafael Reif and his executive committee approached this problem in a manner thoroughly academic and respectable.

Jewish bodies in Ireland defended Myers against the charge that he's an anti-Semite: of course he shouldn't be condemned; he's a veteran of the Irish media landscape, a bit of a wind-up merchant, but someone with respectable editors and thoroughly decent friends.

Malcolm Turnbull has condemned Joe Hockey's proposal that first-home buyers be able to dip into their superannuation as a "thoroughly bad idea", contradicting Tony Abbott, who called it a "perfectly good and respectable" one.

She did a thoroughly competent job in her two full F1 test outings, posting very respectable lap times.

Respectable opinion is aghast.