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Example sentences for: respectability

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Movies and soaps attain respectability when there are enough papers in learned journals and theses in bound volumes to elevate them beyond being “merely” popular.
To his credit, though, even Mick Jagger feels the trend toward rock respectability is going too far.
Murdoch believes that the snobs have crippled the profession with respectability, making journalism irrelevant to the masses.
Indeed, the scholarly journals have been overflowing with turgid prose for decades, and it is particularly refreshing to know that comment on virtually any aspect of language can still be offered in language that, glowing with respectability, cleaving to the well-turned phrase, punctuated by the provocative pun, can be so engagingly presented.
In a long WP profile of Geraldo Rivera , prompted by Rivera's new lush contract with NBC News, which he hopes to use to ride back into teevee news respectability, he's quoted saying, "I would debate with anyone, on any of the meaningful issues of our day--with Peter Jennings, Charlie Rose, Bill Moyers, all these people that you guys are always kissing their [expletive].