respectability Význam & definice

Příklady respectability

• Some of these questions, such as the possible determinacy of race and climate, have now lost all respectability in the light of modern science.

• In general, the author brings a much-needed sense of maturity and respectability to the study of monies, markets, and institutions.

• Their essence was also (in so many ways) the pursuit of respectability.

• After a rapid gaze at the other's clothes (to check for the minimum of respectability), a man would accept an invitation to drink.

• However, its reach hints that here there was something more volatile at stake than the mere offending of ideas of purity and respectability.

• Vainly hoping to demonstrate by upright living their fitness for mainstream society, they clung tenaciously to bourgeois respectability and doctrinal orthodoxy.

• Then the role of religion, education and law and order are discussed as qualities epitomizing respectability.

• The anti-denominational sentiment of the first generation of pentecostals was replaced by a desire for respectability.