respectability
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Clawing back respectability is the new imperative on the horizon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 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
One victim's family says Bush operated behind a veneer of respectability.
From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2026
Her life had an air of intense order, normalcy, and unassailable respectability.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
His neuroticism, although he learned to control it. left him with a lifelong terror of going beyond the "cleanly respectabilities."
From Time Magazine Archive
The Anti-slavery question is not one which the Tract Society can exclude by triumphant majorities, nor put to shame by a comparison of respectabilities.
From The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays by James Russell Lowell
That is enough to make a man brush away all the respectabilities and proprieties and graces, and look at the black reality beneath, and wail out 'of whom I am chief.'
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. by Alexander Maclaren
Its respectabilities, its orthodoxies, he could no longer abide.
From The Life of John Ruskin by W. G. (William Gershom) Collingwood
He must be first endorsed, by a banker, clergyman, or some other of the noted respectabilities of the land!
From The Child Wife by Mayne Reid
