respectability
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Theater artists who have come of age in this period have been released from the burden of having to conform to notions of regional theater respectability.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 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
In contrast to the air of respectability which greeted grieving families, Moore says the rear of Legacy's premises was like "something out of a horror movie".
From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2026
There was something else that academics offered Epstein beyond a veneer of respectability: access.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
Them she bent toward respectability, and in so doing taught them fear: fear of being clumsy, fear of being like their father, fear of not being loved by God, fear of madness like Cholly’s mother’s.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
His neuroticism, although he learned to control it. left him with a lifelong terror of going beyond the "cleanly respectabilities."
From Time Magazine Archive
It is a sad state of affairs, reached by respectably villainous fathers the world over, when the son demonstrates the mathematical law of progression by becoming a villain without regard for the respectabilities.
From The Quickening by E. M. Ashe
Not Churches, nor creeds, nor rituals, nor respectabilities.
From Humanity in the City by E. H. (Edwin Hubbell) Chapin
To secure such respectabilities in death he passed a most respectable life, a more respectable-looking individual never was seen.
From Isopel Berners The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825 by Thomas Seccombe
"I see plainly," he says, "that our society is as bigoted to the respectabilities of religion and education as yours."
From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Oliver Wendell Holmes
