Sentence examples for was the acceptable from inspiring English sources

Even the solitary watching mother agreed that this was the acceptable face of sexism.

Sylvia's double standard was quite usual, as was the acceptable face she assumed in letters to her mother.

This was the acceptable and indeed admirable face of the direct football that predominated in those days, and the midfield could be utterly electrifying.

"We believe that if the whale [had] been left then it would have just slowly died and we don't think that was the acceptable option". The rescue operation cost around £100,000.

In the nineteen-seventies, when quarterbacks were urged to think of the passing game in high-reward, "vertical" terms, a fifty-per-cent passing-completion rate was the acceptable standard.

The offering was canceled after Bear , Stearns & Company which was the lead underwriter, settled on an offering price of $14 a share -- $1 less than Orbital and Teleglobe had decided was the acceptable minimum.

It is the acceptable face of gentrification.

Meistersinger is the acceptable face of Wagner.

Gossip is the acceptable face of intellect".

We are the acceptable faces of villainy.

The animal itself is the acceptable euphemism for its manure.