| 单词 | reputability |
| 例句 | Yet a faint air of dis- reputability always clung to him. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z For a subset of extremely partisan users, today’s algorithm can turn their feeds into echo chambers of divisive content and news, of varying reputability, that support their outlook. How Facebook shapes your feed “The coronavirus puts a veneer of reputability on it that perhaps wasn’t there before,” said Ben Clift, a professor of political economy at the University of Warwick in England. With a Torrent of Money, Britain Takes Aim at Coronavirus and Austerity 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z Such research marks a resurgence of these substances in a clinical context – a resurgence arguably unseen since the ’60s cocktail of hedonistic recreational excess and resulting social panic stripped psychedelics of any lingering reputability. Psychedelics have lost their cool. Blame Gwyneth Paltrow | John Semley 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z The public talk of perjury or contempt charges represents a threat to the reputability of Sondland, who has been known as a successful Pacific Northwest businessman. Northwest hotelier-turned-ambassador Gordon Sondland faces impeachment spotlight 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z To play golf, for example, as The Donald has spent much of his presidency doing, became at once “the conventional mark of superior pecuniary achievement” and “the conventional index of reputability.” The man who saw Trump coming a century ago 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z He credits Schneidau with doing her job “with class, reputability and her own trusted style,” saying she was respected by many people, “including numerous young and upcoming reporters who consistently cite her as an inspiration.” Connecticut news radio veteran Schneideau dies at 79 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z “Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure,” Veblen wrote. Perspective | The financial lessons behind the allegations against Paul Manafort 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z "You see now why I requested you to investigate our reputability?" he said. The Rose-Garden Husband They were at first envious of his reputability, and that pleased him while it lasted. Pirate Gold It will not be out of place here to point out that a change in the social valuation of reputability and honor is greatly needed for the better working of sexual selection. Applied Eugenics Prowess and exploit may still remain the basis of award of the highest popular esteem, although the possession of wealth has become the basis of common place reputability and of a blameless social standing. Theory of the Leisure Class From time to time he glanced toward Berkeley waiting there in suave dark-red reputability, an open book lying suggestively on his cushions. Flappers and Philosophers And what will you bet me that I don't stand in the foremost rank of literary reputabilities ten years hence?' New Grub Street As has already been seen, the imperative example set by the upper class in fixing the canons of reputability fosters the practice of conspicuous consumption. Theory of the Leisure Class The conspicuous waste and leisure that Thorstein Veblen points out as the chief criterion of reputability at present have a dubious relation to high mental or moral endowment, far less than has wealth. Applied Eugenics A certain standard of wealth in the one case, and of prowess in the other, is a necessary condition of reputability, and anything in excess of this normal amount is meritorious. Theory of the Leisure Class And in addition to this, the devout observances also commend themselves to this class on the ground of reputability. Theory of the Leisure Class As has been seen in an earlier chapter, the canons of reputability or decency under the pecuniary culture insist on habitual futility of effort as the mark of a pecuniarily blameless life. Theory of the Leisure Class These spokesmen, however, have presented the matter from the point of view of the cultural interest, or of the interest of reputability, rather than from that of the economic interest. Theory of the Leisure Class English orthography satisfies all the requirements of the canons of reputability under the law of conspicuous waste. Theory of the Leisure Class The insistence on property as the basis of reputability is very naive and very imperious during the early stages of the accumulation of wealth. Theory of the Leisure Class Therefore it is the first and readiest test of reputability in learning, and conformity to its ritual is indispensable to a blameless scholastic life. Theory of the Leisure Class The possession of goods, whether acquired aggressively by one's own exertion or passively by transmission through inheritance from others, becomes a conventional basis of reputability. Theory of the Leisure Class It acts to accentuate the struggle for pecuniary reputability by visiting with a sharper disapproval all shortcoming and all evidence of shortcoming in point of pecuniary success. Theory of the Leisure Class The canon of reputability is at hand and seizes upon such innovations as are, according to its standard, fit to survive. Theory of the Leisure Class The early ascendency of leisure as a means of reputability is traceable to the archaic distinction between noble and ignoble employments. Theory of the Leisure Class Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. Theory of the Leisure Class The leisure class stands at the head of the social structure in point of reputability; and its manner of life and its standards of worth therefore afford the norm of reputability for the community. Theory of the Leisure Class This canon of devout austerity is based on the pecuniary reputability of conspicuously wasteful consumption, backed by the principle that vicarious consumption should conspicuously not conduce to the comfort of the vicarious consumer. Theory of the Leisure Class They serve the decorative ends of leisure-class learning better than any other body of knowledge, and hence they are an effective means of reputability. Theory of the Leisure Class The canon of reputability, then, must adapt itself to the economic circumstances, the traditions, and the degree of spiritual maturity of the particular class whose scheme of life it is to regulate. Theory of the Leisure Class Elegant diction, whether in writing or speaking, is an effective means of reputability. Theory of the Leisure Class Yet there is no room to question their attractiveness to men into whose scheme of life they fit as honorific items sanctioned by the requirements of pecuniary reputability. Theory of the Leisure Class The connection which is here insisted on between the reputability and the apprehended beauty of objects lies through the effect which the fact of reputability has upon the valuer's habits of thought. Theory of the Leisure Class But the requirements of pecuniary reputability and those of beauty in the naive sense do not in any appreciable degree coincide. Theory of the Leisure Class Something, for instance, has already been said of its relation to the canons of reputability. Theory of the Leisure Class But since the pecuniary canon of reputability rejects the inexpensive in articles appropriated to individual consumption, the satisfaction of our craving for beautiful things must be sought by way of compromise. Theory of the Leisure Class The standard of reputability requires that dress should show wasteful expenditure; but all wastefulness is offensive to native taste. Theory of the Leisure Class The pecuniary employments have also the sanction of reputability in a much higher degree than the industrial employments. Theory of the Leisure Class Employments fall into a hierarchical gradation of reputability. Theory of the Leisure Class These canons of reputability have had a similar, but more far-reaching and more specifically determinable, effect upon the popular sense of beauty or serviceability in consumable goods. Theory of the Leisure Class This partial substitution of pecuniary for sacerdotal efficiency is a concomitant of the modern transition from conspicuous leisure to conspicuous consumption, as the chief means of reputability. Theory of the Leisure Class The invidious comparison can never become so favourable to the individual making it that he would not gladly rate himself still higher relatively to his competitors in the struggle for pecuniary reputability. Theory of the Leisure Class The vicarious leisure performed by housewives and menials, under the head of household cares, may frequently develop into drudgery, especially where the competition for reputability is close and strenuous. Theory of the Leisure Class In this way, then, there arises a subsidiary or derivative leisure class, whose office is the performance of a vicarious leisure for the behoof of the reputability of the primary or legitimate leisure class. Theory of the Leisure Class It is true, the corset impairs the personal attractions of the wearer, but the loss suffered on that score is offset by the gain in reputability which comes of her visibly increased expensiveness and infirmity. Theory of the Leisure Class This use being not lucrative, but on the whole pretty consistently wasteful, and quite conspicuously so, it is honorific, and therefore gives the fast horse a strong presumptive position of reputability. Theory of the Leisure Class It is not only with respect to consumable goods—including domestic animals—that the canons of taste have been colored by the canons of pecuniary reputability. Theory of the Leisure Class This is more particularly true as regards valuation on grounds so closely related to the aesthetic ground as that of reputability. Theory of the Leisure Class The latter have not yet had time to divest themselves of the plebeian canons of taste and of reputability carried over from their former, lower pecuniary grade. Theory of the Leisure Class |
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