respectability
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Clawing back respectability is the new imperative on the horizon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
"The picture they tried to present to the outside world was one of respectability," he said.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026
Spoofs like best musical nominee “Titanique,” a zany burlesque of James Cameron’s “Titanic” and all things Celine Dion, found new respectability on Broadway.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
One of Christianity’s deepest convictions is that social standing, respectability and material recognition are not the measures of a life.
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2026
Mr. Willis published an essay, “Post-Mortuum Soiree,” in the next issue of his Home Journal, “the ‘demonstration,’ … is of sufficient extent and respectability to warrant grave attention.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
His neuroticism, although he learned to control it. left him with a lifelong terror of going beyond the "cleanly respectabilities."
From Time Magazine Archive
Not Churches, nor creeds, nor rituals, nor respectabilities.
From Humanity in the City by E. H. (Edwin Hubbell) Chapin
He knew how such contact would damage him in the eyes of all the parochial respectabilities, and was anxious to do his best to get him clear of it.
From Tom Brown at Oxford by Thomas Hughes
Its respectabilities, its orthodoxies, he could no longer abide.
From The Life of John Ruskin by W. G. (William Gershom) Collingwood
And we, perhaps, in our serene respectabilities, shrink back and wonder at it.
From Humanity in the City by E. H. (Edwin Hubbell) Chapin
