respectability
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Noah Cross, the archvillain of the movie “Chinatown,” had the definitive line on how old age brings respectability.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 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
Gautam Mukhopadhaya, another former Indian ambassador to Myanmar, said Min Aung Hlaing "is trying to acquire greater regional and international respectability as an elected president".
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026
There was something else that academics offered Epstein beyond a veneer of respectability: access.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 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
Your eyes betrayed it, and the corners of your mouth went up the least little bit, as if they'd go further up before they went down—as if you'd laugh away many solemn respectabilities.
From The Seeker by Harry Leon Wilson
What a life was hers in this little world of choking respectabilities!
From The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories by George Gissing
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
And we, perhaps, in our serene respectabilities, shrink back and wonder at it.
From Humanity in the City by E. H. (Edwin Hubbell) Chapin
