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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.
Also high in the female popularity stakes in 1940s' England were Shirley and Alison : Shirley Temple reigned supreme and Charlotte Bronte's heroine gave intellectual respectability.
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].
Not wanting to be seen as a censor is the defense of nearly everyone who has helped MacDonald make his upward climb toward respectability.
But it reached a new level of respectability last December, when The New Yorker 's art critic, Adam Gopnik, reviewed the second volume of Richardson's life of Picasso.