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Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.
Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability.
Let us renew our trust in god, and go forward without fear.
No man is inherently respectable, but all women are by nature.
Having the courage to live within one's means is respectability.
The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
... danger was always at its most lethal when disguised as respectability.
Respectability? Who wants to be respectable? That's spoken like a true loser.
I wish more women would come into films and give it the respectability it deserves.
I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.
God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.
I will continue doing films till my last breathe and will regain my respectability in the industry.
I have worn a tuxedo, but I have never covered up for respectability politics or to shame other women.
When I was 15, I became an avid fan of Andres Segovia. He brought so much respectability to the guitar.
It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.
In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
Conservatism and respectability have their values, certainly; but has not the unconventional its values also?
In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
Naked need is the occasion for God's giving, not a need adorned with the clean, elegant robes of respectability and good works.
It's time for the aesthetics of upwardly mobile feminist respectability to make room for the aesthetics of survival, particularly trans survival.
To recognize that head injuries were as essential a part of football as they are of boxing would be to erase the fine distinction on which the game's respectability rested.
Part of the new morality of the '60s and '70s is a new attitude toward homosexuality. The homosexual men and women have organized to fight for acceptance and respectability.
Respectability in this country was a bad word because people did things who were in respected professions that let down the entire nation, and we're washing away their sins yet.
My father was a civil servant, so having a regular job, being respectable is a big deal for me. Respectable in the sense that I support my family. That's what I mean by respectability.
I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those motives which tend to seduce the human heart are brought to bear.
I like my films to have a certain amount of realism - something that's thought provoking and intelligently written. More than the amount on the pay cheque, I look for a level of respectability as an actor.
When you are seeing somebody, then obviously it's a commitment. And if you don't want to commit, then don't be in a relationship. Every relationship deserves a certain credibility and respectability. For me, it's always been like that.
The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force.
The main purpose of engaging in conversation can no longer be personal advancement or respectability. Instead, I'd like for us to use conversations to create equality, to open ourselves to strangers, and, most practically, to remake our working world.
In fairness, Latin America's elected civilian leaders have made progress in some areas. They have brought their countries back to international respectability, curbed flagrant human rights violations, and sought to build democratic political institutions.
There's this responsibility you feel to present a certain thing that kind of respectability politics. I think that became the only accepted way of defining black culture. I started to become too aware of 'How does this look?' instead of 'Who are these characters?'
From the moment we were first dumped in Jamestown and had our teeth checked before getting sold off and later considered three-fifths of a human being, an abundance of 'likability' hasn't been something blacks have had to stockpile. Instead, it's been a centuries-long battle for respectability.
I couldn't have known how vertiginous the entire Huxtable project was. I was, like, 10, 13, 15 years old when the show was a thing. But eventually, I could see that Cliff became a play for respectability. 'This is how you comport yourself among white people, young black child. Take a little bit of Howard with you on your way to Harvard.'
Graham promoted a white evangelical respectability that wanted to 'put the brakes' on the civil rights movement, and never really accepted women as equal to men. He may have been the country's greatest evangelist, but he was also an apologist for the racist and sexist beliefs pervasive among white evangelical men in 20th-century America.
Evangelical Christian politicians who cheat often raise questions about hypocrisy, especially if they preached piety in public and disregarded it in private. When Jewish politicians fall, they shatter different expectations, particularly that American Jews need to work together to preserve respectability and fireproof against anti-Semitism.