Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward 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.
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.
I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.
In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
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.
God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.