respectability

If they talked about their adventures in the forest, meeting with magical folk like Bombadil, they would lose respectability.

Here, culturally most of your relationships are built on a sense of success and respectability.

For many gamers, it's the end of the final shred of Molyneux's respectability.

It is necessarily part of the business of a banker to maintain appearances, and to confess a conventional respectability, which is more than human.

And I think that as lower tier schools gain respectability, this will create downward price pressure.

Look at images of respectability before and after impositions of colonial rule.

However, I can't help but think they work against us as we try to steer software development into greater respectability.

While it is starting to change, there is still a strong bias in many circles giving books more respectability than other forms of publications.

The essential key to the return of Cold Fusion to scientific respectability is to find the missing ingredient that would make the recipe work every time.

This is another reason I like 'Daily Show' for news - the mockery strips away all the usual fig-leaf of BS 'respectability'.

I'm frankly somewhat disappointed that an article with such clear industry bias has been given the patina of respectability that the WSJ provides.

If going to the university is mainly for attending classes and obtaining a college diploma above a floor value of respectability, going to the least expensive college that offers courses toward your major can be a great idea.

This gives one an air of respectability over "Computer Programmer".

While reading the psychology literature one often hears the expression "no-treatment control" to describe an effort to create a show of scientific respectability by telling one group that they won't be treated, then calling that the control group -- only to add a patina of scientific respectability to a study that has no meaningful controls.

Anyway, the problem here of course is that they would never accept being relegated to a field that's not "physics", since capital P Physics has so much respectability, pretty much the most of anything.

"procreate and provide the best environment for their children to grow in, all the while keeping a high social status and level of respectability" This is the bargain they've made.