Sentence examples for was respectable with from inspiring English sources

The cast was respectable (with the countertenor Derek Lee Ragin in a small part as one of Henze's effete guests), and Kenneth Hamrick did a fine job of conducting good musicians in difficult and contrasting music.

The performance of the model was respectable, with a PPV of 59.2% for a risk score threshold of 50+ and an area under the ROC curve ('c-statistic') of 0.70.

In Suddenly Last Summer, she plays the repressive matriarch Mrs Venable, who is respectable with a vengeance.

The chances of Manning and the Giants qualifying for the playoffs are respectable with seven games left.

Hey, writes Gene Collier in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, other teams have been respectable with microscopic payrolls (at least compared to the Yankees'), so why not the Pirates?

The wine list is respectable, with many light- and medium-bodied whites that go well with the food and did their part in making my evenings at Shang pleasant ones.

The within species discrimination of accessions obtained with the whole set of WNA markers is respectable, with the exception of C. sinensis and C. paradisi.

Trinity's current position of 10th in the Super League table, with nine wins from 24 matches, is respectable enough, with Salford, Harlequins and even Bradford below them.

Burgers ($7) here are respectable and with house-cut fries, lettuce, tomato and pickles are a good buy.

All three were respectable efforts with fun to be had by reader and pasticheur alike – though for a more illuminating angle on Austen, turn to Jo Baker's Longbourn, which cunningly retells Pride and Prejudice from the servants' perspective.

But there was something particularly acute in that juxtaposition in England in the sixties, between an old, sheltered, obedient, ordered, "respectable" middle-class way of life (does anyone worry about being respectable now?), with all its comedy and horrors, and the new hedonistic youth sub-culture (which had its horrors, too).