| 单词 | respectable |
| 例句 | Now — very carefully — ” Finally it was completely written, Prudence, in quite respectable letters, without a single blot. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Not only is it a perfectly respectable Bengali good name, meaning “he who is entire, encompassing all,” but it also bears a satisfying resemblance to Nikolai, the first name of the Russian Gogol. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z As usual, she looks plump and respectable, but for all her prim and proper, Aibileen can still tell a dirty joke that’ll make you tinkle in your pants. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Below her, on rough benches, sat not only most of the trash in Maycomb County, but the county’s most respectable men. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The respectable, “solid citizen” now indulges his racial and religious hatred in this fraternity. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “The other respectable gentleman who signed the committal papers,” said Turner’s mother, “is best named by your father.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z It took a long time for the study of human anatomy to become fully respectable—there remained a lingering disquiet about the whole business of cutting people up. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Nicely dressed, respectable Negro women, even the aged, could not draw from him the courteous warning, “Watch your step.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I want anything that breaks the monotony, subverts the perceived respectable order of things. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though all the regulars are hard-core old-time hustlers, Small’s carries on as an upstanding, respectable place. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The media fawn over Bill Cosby and other figures when they give stern lectures to black audiences about black men failing to be good fathers and failing to lead respectable lives. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I wondered if she was trying to pass herself off as a respectable married lady in this, one of the nicer barrios of San Francisco. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Only if you cannot live with such an unrespectable—” “I said to hell with respectable!” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z So I made myself respectable and tried to slip in behind Mrs. Kirke, but as she is short and I’m tall, my efforts at concealment were rather a failure. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Her feet were as steady as though they were made of stone and she walked as sedately as any other respectable cow. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z As we three women waited at a respectable distance, we clung to one another. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z “I should get a respectable locksmith, and set him to work to pick the lock for me.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z I had already noticed how tense Phoebe’s whole family seemed, how tidy, how respectable, how thumpingly stiff. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z You don't treat it like a fireman's pole; rather, you grasp it with one hand and stand back at a respectable distance. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The Muslims seized upon the atomists’ ideas; after all, now that zero was around, the void was again a respectable idea. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I gather up a bundle of fallen branches, large enough to be a respectable contribution to a fire, and walk toward the Termite Camp with my head down. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z That color is always respectable and always important. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes I daydreamed about discovering the secret of the gene, but not once did I have the faintest trace of a respectable idea. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Surprisingly, my parents didn't take issue with our relationship even though Slash was the furthest thing from all the nice, respectable Persian men in our family. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “If someone is a janitor, that’s noble, it’s a respectable job. But they should make sure their kids grow up to own a cleaning business.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z She was a highly respectable member of a great Oxford college. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Skyla lived on the opposite side of town from Wash’s Aunt Jennie, his mother’s sister, who was just as deliberately respectable as his parents. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z It was precisely the sort of home Carl would build, he thought—blunt, tidy, gruffly respectable, and offering no affront to the world, though at the same time inviting nobody. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z There has been little written on the end of alchemy, yet an activity which was respectable in the eyes of Boyle and Newton had become entirely disreputable by the 1720s. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But the middle of a respectable river, or the Other Side, was no place for children to Linger, Loll or Learn Things. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z News would be something definite and respectable, such as an engagement. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “Sire,” said the Red Cow, “I beg you to remember that I am a decent, respectable animal and have been taught from my infancy that jumping was no occupation for a lady.” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z From gamma rays to radio waves, all are equally respectable bands of light. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But of course—what respectable family wouldn't have had at least one child playing violin? What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The streets of the Black Belt were becoming unrecognizable to the old settlers who had taken so much time to build a respectable community. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I refer to the “double possessive”, which is evidently a perfecdy respectable grammatical construction, but simply jars with me, and perhaps always will. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z My mother said, ‘They’re just so busy being respectable. It takes a lot of concentration to be that respectable.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z “I wont have nothing like that in my show. I run a respectable show, with a respectable troupe.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z It had metal bars covering it, of a size that would have kept any unwanted giants at a respectable distance. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Other than the horse one, you have to nod and agree with them that cancer and heart disease are totally normal and respectable ways to eat it. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z It’s just that Martha is a perfectly respectable daughter of nobility, and Philip is a prince. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z It was a respectable gate built plainly of wood, and Wang Lung struck it with the palm of his hand. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z He was not very knowledgeable about the ANC nor was he an experienced activist, but he was respectable, and amenable to our program. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The Red Cow was very respectable, she always behaved like a perfect lady and she knew What was What. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z Here was someone offering help, a sane and respectable man who had once known and liked him, a man who signed himself friend. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, you get in it and go back to Jefferson. If you find them, it wont be in my show. I run a respectable show. You say they robbed you?” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a tall lank man, grey-haired and very respectable. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z She seemed a placid creature altogether—eminently respectable—perhaps not over intelligent. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a perfectly respectable appliance for, say, buttering pancakes, but patently inadequate for defending oneself against 400 pounds of ravenous fur. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z He moved his family to a small but respectable house at Thirty-Ninth and Bagley, not far from the bakery and not far from the north end of Lake Union where Joe rowed nearly every afternoon. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z No official ever decided that respectable men and women were permitted to doff their hats and gloves in the 1960s or to get pierced and tattooed in the 1990s. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “Lady Catherine is a very respectable, sensible woman indeed,” added Charlotte, “and a most attentive neighbour.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z So the word ‘fact’ in its modern sense becomes respectable in English only after 1661, while in French it was at first a word particularly associated with Jansenism. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The school had tried to make the Golden Day respectable, but the local white folks had a hand in it somehow and they got nowhere. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “With respectable customers who mind their manners far better than you.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z This suggests that it took a while for Boyle to think of the word ‘fact’ as a respectable term to be used in natural philosophy when engaging with scholastics and Cartesians. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z At least it looked solid and respectable, compared to the cabins they had passed. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Prim-lipped Victorian china dolls stared in profusion through dusty store windows, like so many props from respectable horror films. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Not only were they eminently respectable, these were figures who held real influence in British life: politicians, diplomats, military men, clergy. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z His opponent, Benjamin R. Morgan, denounced the results, saying the fever had driven “respectable inhabitants” out of town. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z I fumbled with the flint and tinder until a spark jumped, and I built a respectable blaze. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I played a respectable first base and didn't lead the League in anything. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z It sat plainly in between two other small homes, all of them rentals and with tiny but respectable yards, a rarity in this part of town. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z But she does have a respectable Republican cloth coat, and I always tell her she’d look good in anything. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z I jogged across the gymnasium, and as I got closer to the two of them, I stopped running and hovered at a respectable distance. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z In Pollard’s care, Preservator improved dramatically, winning six races and earning a respectable $3,170. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z After about ten minutes, I’ve come up with a respectable noose. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z A mischievous baby, who had just changed from the black fur of the newborn to brown, climbed over the respectable old baboon’s head. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, Travis had a respectable collection of steamy medieval romance novels under his bed. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Then Victoria called over a respectable gentleman, greying at the temples, who was smoking a black cheroot and who grinned as if he had the toothache. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Octavian capitalized on Mark Antony’s rejection of his respectable Roman wife. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z We headed back toward the tracks and ended up at a weathered establishment that appeared to be a safe distance from the respectable part of town. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z It was brown and white, a sober and respectable room that looked to Shadow as if it had last been decorated in 1920. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z They looked just as Paul had intended—unified, respectable, and solidly middle-class. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z ‘If there’s a few decent respectable folk on the roads, that won’t do no harm,’ he said. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z She had a sister married to a Mr. Phillips, who had been a clerk to their father, and succeeded him in the business, and a brother settled in London in a respectable line of trade. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z Certainly not Evan Parker, who only listened to respectable classic rock bands. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z The pages were serving the food with the formal movements of a ballet Wine bottles were being placed on the tables, but ale, being less respectable, was being put beneath. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I was always conscious of improving myself—making myself better— making myself good enough, bright enough, proper enough, respectable enough. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We drove down narrow streets, past row on row of respectable little houses. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Aunt Rose’s house was in a nicer part of the city, the place where respectable colored folks lived, as the elderly woman liked to brag. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Still, Dr. Strayer had amassed a trove of data, much of it peer- reviewed and published in respectable scientific journals. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z That is to say, a statusconscious, prim and proper audience of sternly respectable burghers. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z That it was the Owenses who had got involved in this nonsense, rather than some flibbertigibbet johnny-come-latelies, counted for a lot, for the Owenses were respectable and respected. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z I had just stopped the bleeding and hid the wad of bloody tissues behind my bed when Mom came in wearing a crisply ironed summer dress and told me to put on some “respectable” clothes. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z In the wild, most chickens and cattle died long before that, but they still had a fair chance of living for a respectable number of years. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z But my biscuits were respectable; Karl ate a half dozen himself. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z But it took more than a century to make innovation—outside geography and cartography—respectable, and then it became respectable only among the mathematicians and anatomists, not among the philosophers and the theologians. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Turner did not ask his father who the other respectable gentleman was. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z But Ma’s always telling me not to do that, ’specially ’round respectable folks. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z He told himself no one was as clean as they had been, but with school officially starting again the next day, he wanted to look as respectable as possible. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Just the even-paced walk of a woman on her way to some modest but respectable work. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Gratefully, Kit did what she could to make herself respectable. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z “It is very respectable, very well dressed, but underneath it is all wrong. Out of my experience, I should say he was the big crook. I give you my opinion for what it is worth.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Because it did not exist in classical Latin discooperio never established itself as a respectable term; in any case, discovery was such a new concept that at first it required explication. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z We wanted a show of strength—our most respectable relations. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I have no doubt of his being a very respectable young man. I know, indeed, that he is so, and, as such, wish him well. What do you imagine his age to be?” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z ‘But you can give it up, stop Shirriffing, if it has stopped being a respectable job,’ said Sam. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z She stepped on the brake, leaned out the window, and called to the spare figure in the distance: “But we only cut respectable capers, don’t we, Uncle Jack?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z If Sir Ector had not been lucky enough to own a little land in Pie Street, on which there stood a respectable inn, they would have been hard put to it to find a lodging. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Anthony was eager to steer the suffrage movement back to what she considered its more respectable roots. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z We were doing fifteen or sixteen miles a day, nothing like the twenty-five miles we had been promised we would do, but still a perfectly respectable distance by our lights. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z A long time ago the house had belonged to a very respectable family, but they had moved into town after the waters of the river began to cut into the cliff below them. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z For decades, black elites engaged in private rescue efforts to make black communities tidy, clean, and respectable in a futile effort to gain white approval. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z There are telegrams for the respectable people with maids along the Ennis Road and the North Circular Road where there’s no hope of a tip. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z It would be smart to put the tie on, he knew, and appear sober and respectable. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But the Shibayamas were owners of a respectable house, and it seemed to them that Fujiko, the daughter in question, could do better than to marry a hired hand in America. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “He barters in stolen goods mainly, but he also has a few respectable clients with more, dare I say, discerning tastes.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z In Boston, on October 21, 1833, William Lloyd Garrison, publisher of The Liberator, was rescued from a mob of some two thousand well-dressed, eminently respectable men who were intent on hanging him. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z So when I shop for you sometimes, to get you to wear something respectable, I just tell you I bought it there. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z Everyone says these are good jobs, steady and pensionable and respectable, and if you get a job like this you never have to worry again in your whole life, so you don’t. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z They were of a respectable family in the north of England; a circumstance more deeply impressed on their memories than that their brother’s fortune and their own had been acquired by trade. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z It is something of a puzzle that the word ‘experiment’ did not come with it, despite its respectable Latin antecedents. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Suddenly the Rad Lab was looking like a respectable rival to the Cavendish, which was still basking in the glow of Chadwicks discovery of the neutron. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z One word from him could change her fate, converting her into the respectable wife of a Trueba. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The things I do, they’re just a means to get me what I need, and when I’m done I’m going to be respectable and send my kids to Harvard, like Joe Kennedy. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z He seemed respectable enough: neat striped suit, dark hair, briefcase between his feet. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z We had stopped in the New London restaurant for lunch, and it had seemed a respectable enough place. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t enough to have a respectable last name. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He was off in EuroScandia, charming the ladies and maintaining his age at a respectable thirty-eight. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z We had hiked twenty-two miles in two days—a highly respectable distance for us—but a distinct listlessness and sense of anticlimax, a kind of midmountain lassitude, had set in. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z What made the word ‘fact’ respectable in philosophical English? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In place of the hood and the robe, he now wears a very respectable gray flannel suit. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “Whats all this about respectable? Its not respectable I’m concerned about. I’m more concerned that you couldn’t—or wouldn’t—tell me about any of this.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z High and Keith were smooth and respectable where C.P. was rough and, despite the numerous calls of support, still somewhat disreputable. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z That morning, Guiteau took a bath, put on a respectable suit, and had his shoes shined. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Unlike them, he was not a pioneer in the use of the new word, and he waited until it had become respectable before extending its use to new fields. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I’d already been turned away by the upper-class ones, but there were many respectable places left. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Straight-backed, prim Mary set up a modest but respectable home near the city center, a part of town where blacks and whites lived peaceably together. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Not just a respectable grocer or dry cleaner or doctor, but a larger public figure who was willing to speak and act outside the tight sphere of his family. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted so much to be dignified and respectable and proper. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe only bad kind go live here. You know, outlaw, that respectable dragon no want.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z They had already covered their lightweight chaulnots with their heavy woolen ones against the coming evening chill—proof that not one joule of energy had been converted to heat by means of respectable labor. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Without the bugs, the background was a nice blue, a respectable shimmering blue. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “This is a respectable tavern, not the township poor farm.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z She had layers of ‘respectable’ wrinkles on her face, the kind my mother might also have one day, if she has a chance to survive. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z But once chosen I would be a white- gowned figure out of Gone With the Wind; I would be respectable. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z “She has been insisting to my father that you are a witch. She says no respectable woman could keep afloat in the water like that.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Reverend Jackson had made a respectable run for the presidency, winning about a dozen primaries before ceding the nomination to Michael Dukakis. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z A 1926 photograph shows him dressed in the same style as Hale, with a sharp suit and a hat—an itinerant farmer’s son transformed into a respectable businessman. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He gives me a wink, and just as quickly as he appeared, he fades back into the crowd of respectable folk moving down the sidewalks, anxious to finish their business and get inside before dark. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “Well,” said Mrs. Weston, laughing, “perhaps the greatest good he could do them, would be to give Jane such a respectable home.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z “I should say so most assuredly. Pierre Michel has been employed by the company for over fifteen years. He is a Frenchman—lives near Calais. Thoroughly respectable and honest. Not, perhaps, remarkable for brains.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z These are of course respectable numbers, but even with so much to take in, supernovae are extremely rare. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The inn was respectable though, two stories tall, with plaster walls and red clay tiles on the roof. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z In a similar manner, centuries of respectable writers have gradually shifted the collective consensus of what is right and wrong while shrugging off now-forgotten edicts by self-appointed guardians of the language. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z But he also said that if Charles could find a respectable person who disagreed, he would reconsider. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Ek, who had grown to the size of a respectable town house, laughed. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z And he was a respectable boy too, he wasn’t a down at all.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z After the discovery of a new continent, however, the outmoded view of Grosseteste once again became respectable among the philosophers. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The idea of wormholes between different regions of space-time was not an invention of science fiction writers but came from a very respectable source. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Not all traveling entertainers are as respectable as our troupe, so, understandably, not everyone respected them. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I can seize the word by the scruff of the neck, give it a good shaking, and make it look like a respectable town in the land of the Never-Never: PRZYMIHATSES. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The idea that there might be worlds within worlds had become entirely respectable. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Aunt Ruby opened, “What a privilege to witness the radical gone respectable in our times....” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “Take care, lad, or you shall end up like me, stripped of any respectable rank and warming your shabby old hide at the fire of your enemies.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z That horrid thing has the wolves and the rats and his own kind to help him, so I suppose he isn’t above trying to use a respectable lunatic. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z There is another possible reason why the word ‘fact’ suddenly became respectable. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “And yet he looked altogether of the most respectable.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z “A degradation to illegitimacy and ignorance, to be married to a respectable, intelligent gentleman-farmer!” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z Privet Drive looked exactly as a respectable suburban street would be expected to look in the early hours of Saturday morning. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z She was talking about being respectable and how maybe Mr. Winterbottom would never forgive her, but she was tired of being so respectable. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Both she and her husband were hard workers and together brought in a respectable income. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z “Precisement! The body—the cage—is everything of the most respectable—but through the bars, the wild animal looks out.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d already had one so I’d look respectable when I raised my right hand and swore to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Experiment and open inquiry became once more respectable. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Living in her respectable house in the center of town, crowded by four other houses, each so near anyone could peer through the windows and whisper a judgment, Faye felt trapped. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She had a smattering of reviews here and there, mostly positive, and in the end her book sold a very respectable 15,000 copies in hardcover. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’ve nothing to fear. Bush Hill is now a respectable place. Your grandfather was a clever, kind man to bring you here.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s unlikely that C.P. would have been drawn to the racial mythologies of the Klan if “respectable” society hadn’t mirrored many of these same beliefs. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He was about twelve feet tall—a respectable height for a Cyclops, but only half as tall as other giants Percy had dealt with. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z From the humble beginnings of the storefront on Hart Street, to the respectable but by no means splashy domicile off Beniteau, Assumption was finally going to get a grand church building. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Getting good grades and being accepted to a respectable four-year college topped my priority list. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z They weren’t rich, but by paying less tax they became respectable. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Me and Jay walked side by side, a respectable distance behind Mama and Doc. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z There were enough data for a respectable publication and, using ordinary standards, I knew I could stop work for the rest of the year without being judged unproductive. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z But the show also beautifully captures the neon glow of these cities at night, when the respectable citizens clear the streets, and things start getting interesting. The 18 Best TV Shows for Vicarious Travel Thrills 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z Dancers who move into areas of their art form viewed as more respectable often distance themselves from their childhood pastime. Dance Competitions for Youngsters 2012-09-02T16:24:50Z An oddly respectable bit of fluff, this film would never be mistaken for art, which typically explores something larger than itself. Jodi Arias film: a new case of fatal attraction 2013-06-19T17:00:15Z And he wore them when he visited the United States, whose citizens, he found to be profoundly — irredeemably? — fashion-challenged, particularly American men, “shorn and respectable drones.” New York Fashion Week: Male Models at the Line of Beauty ? NY Fashion Week 2011-09-16T23:20:18Z “Stravinsky or Schoenberg I could understand,” he said, searching for influences considered more respectable in academic circles, “but Rachmaninoff?” Accessing a Place Of Shaggy Wildness 2011-05-14T04:00:07Z For once, that wasn’t a euphemism for “terrible dancing” — and Bill earned a respectable 21. Dancing with the Stars Watch: Latin Night Means Salsa, No Chips 2013-09-24T03:36:32Z Despite respectable notices in the US, it failed at the box office. Sidney Lumet obituary 2011-04-10T16:59:14Z Photo: PR Almodóvar's silky skills and supreme confidence tempt respectable audiences into an elegantly twisted tale of surgical obsession that few others could pull off. This week's new films 2011-08-26T23:06:05Z “The river of his literary ambitions — his interest in ‘respectable’ literature — joins the river of his guilty, disreputable, explosively imaginative pulp writing,” Mr. Lethem said in a phone interview. Philip K. Dick?s Masterpiece Years 2010-11-22T22:47:00Z This year, the club was renovated, and it now looks like a respectable establishment, with a state of the art sound system, a proper stage and theater lighting. ArtsBeat Blog: Staying Undefined at the Antifolk Festival, and That's Fine 2011-09-23T07:40:41Z "Breaking Bad" is, in its heart, the story of the supposedly respectable, white, upper-middle class becoming the Other. Recap: "Breaking Bad" 4x3, "Open House" 2011-08-01T18:30:00Z Later an avowedly respectable Victorian middle class started to see violence as something done by other people; the violent were a lower class, they thought, operating in a separate moral universe. Killing fields 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z They squared this circle by assuming, Naylor writes, “that some saloons and their places were respectable while others were not.” ‘Frontier Boosters’: Port Townsend’s elusive dream 2014-04-02T23:42:55Z A respectable label may inspire you to believe that your old Army jacket is more cutting-edge than other Army jackets — and any dry cleaner who reads your inside tag will surely be impressed. | Isabel Marant: At Isabel Marant, What?s in a Label? 2010-04-20T22:26:00Z Joyce wants to publish a rather strident feminist magazine — originally called "Matriarchy Awakens" — but finds, understandably, no one in "respectable" publishing is willing to bet on such an obvious money-loser. "Minx" is a breezy good time reminding the left to reclaim the lost politics of pleasure 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Franco's "As I Lay Dying" is a respectable attempt to tackle a difficult American novel, famed for its stream of consciousness and multiple, shifting narrators. Cannes: James Franco builds a bookish filmography 2013-05-22T16:10:19Z They recognize the city’s cultural importance and perhaps the sense that no respectable billionaire has really made it until he’s had an impact on New York. How Do You Raise $3.47 Billion? Ask These Guys. 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z After Cowell predicted it would be a hit in its freshman outing with 20 million viewers, the show averaged around 12 million weekly viewers, which is respectable but not a blockbuster. AP source: Britney Spears in as 'X Factor' judge 2012-05-10T22:43:08Z The first half was standard gala fare — duets from “Swan Lake” and “The Nutcracker,” the “Le Corsaire” pas de trois — and the performances were committed, careful, entirely respectable. What’s Chinese About Chinese Ballet? 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z In The Times in February Mike Hale wrote, “The filmmakers seem so determined to make a serious, respectable horror movie that they have only the bare minimum of fun.” DVDs: Visconti?s ?Leopard? ? After the Prince, the Deluge 2010-06-26T02:45:00Z My mother and father were respectable churchgoers, highly intelligent, well-read and deep-thinking people. ‘My parents’ life was a charade. Mum hated every minute of it’ 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z A Royal Affair is a watchable and historically respectable retelling of Caroline Matilda's extraordinary story – but what a pity we didn't get to see her in drag. A Royal Affair: one to remember 2012-07-06T08:53:50Z In the end he was slain by a rival who rode in with English invaders, a respectable end for a Scottish king – and, perhaps, the reason for the long slight on all our yesterdays. In praise of … the real Macbeth 2013-02-19T21:35:09Z Now that the Moisture Festival is 10 years old, is it in danger of becoming respectable? Moisture Fest, celebrating 10th anniversary, dazzles, delights 2013-03-22T19:08:56Z Should I swing from the heels or be satisfied making decent contact and looking respectable?” To win season tickets, all he had to do was hit a home run in Nationals Park. Could he swing it? 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z It confirms Ms. Christov-Bakargiev’s taste for esoterica, her sense of the absurd and her mostly respectable mysticism. Review: Making Connections at Istanbul’s Biennial 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z The latest numbers from the federal Labor Department show that after respectable increases in the previous six months, hiring in the hospitality industry stagnated in August. How to Make an Unloved Job More Attractive? Restaurants Tinker With Wages. 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z As his third task on his way to culinary manhood, Ben must be able to bake a respectable loaf of bread. Motherlode Blog: Creating a Coming-of-Age Ritual 2012-07-18T13:55:46Z Phased out in the early '90s after a respectable 20-year run, the Carnation Breakfast Bar wasn't in the least bit chewy. Nostalgic for Kudos? Here's a copycat version of the lunchbox favorite 2022-07-17T04:00:00Z “Project Runway” returns Thursday for its 13th season with yet another Emmy nomination for best reality television show, respectable ratings and a modest list of upcoming celebrity guest judges. ‘Project Runway’ hasn’t launched a real star, but it is a lesson in fashion today It has some profanity, mostly of the respectable middle-class variety. | 'Another Year': Injustice, British and Otherwise 2010-12-28T18:18:34Z The abuse happened a long time ago; no one can prove it; respectable people should not take the allegations seriously; no one need care. The shameful history of silence on child abuse 2012-10-06T23:06:33Z But then, it is thanks to Eccleston that it got this far at all – a big, respectable name who laid the foundations for Tennant to swag away with the show. Doctor Who: why did Christopher Eccleston leave show after one series? 2011-07-21T14:27:23Z In the ’90s, they were dismissed as “bimbos” deployed in service of what Hillary Clinton called the “vast right-wing conspiracy,” and with few exceptions, their stories have remained relegated to the margins of respectable conversation. Paula Jones, Reconsidered 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Until now, Irene has successfully maintained her cover as both a respectable wife and proud African American woman. The Real Surprise of ‘Passing’: A Focus on Black Women’s Inner Lives 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z Still, given the challenges of this work, this was a more than respectable “Höllander,” nicely gearing us up for WNO’s “Ring” cycle. Virginia Opera mounts a high-flying ‘Dutchman’ 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z Shawn was also a child when he peddled the drug, not an adult, who was touted as being a respectable professional like Shannon and Britt. Netflix's "Painkiller" exposes the real drug dealers – and they're not the ones in a jail cell 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z Despite big names like Garth and Trisha attaching their respectable clout to the new service, Ghost Tunes isn’t only a country music site. Garth Brooks Returns With A New Album And His Own Digital Music Store 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Lippman boasts that he is helping these young men "to raise themselves into a respectable life." Philip Roth and race: A legendary novelist's troubling pattern 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z But for men aiming for the respectable mean, the ones who understand that theoretically they can do better but have no idea how, looking crisp is a perpetual struggle. Critical Shopper: Ale et Ange, a Men’s Store — Critical Shopper 2012-08-08T18:56:53Z The chorus offset this with thrice-familiar fare, the Brahms Requiem, in a perfectly respectable reading, adding the warm baritone Rob McGinness as second soloist. Review | Lost heroes return in two local concerts 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z "Almost all of their hires are respectable people with real careers and real records," Marash said. Al-Jazeera America prepares for Tuesday launch 2013-08-19T14:12:24Z With gallery shows and this movie and pictures in the Museum of Modern Art, Galella has now become respectable, or at least historical; somewhere Thomas Hoving's shade is still spitting invective. "Smash His Camera": The man who stalked Jackie O. 2010-07-31T00:30:00Z The acting is respectable, but it never really animates the intellectual arguments. Review: ‘Major Barbara’ at Brave New World Repertory in Brooklyn 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z Having improved on last year's UK score with a respectable 40 points, she can still hold her head high - although it might still be a bit sore from the after party. Eurovision 2014: Reporter's diary 2014-05-11T11:21:17Z Like rock ’n’ roll before it, this cultural dispensation may not have been immediately respectable, but it proved to be instantly profitable and endlessly renewable. ‘Star Wars,’ Elvis and Me 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z There are some downfalls here, but overall Drama delivers another respectable album. Review: DJ Drama gathers rap's best on new album 2012-10-01T15:00:15Z For much of the past century, Uruguay’s respectable but somewhat insular art scene was largely influenced by a geometric abstract style known as Constructivism, pioneered in the early 1900s by the painter Joaquín Torres García. An Art Scene by the Sea in Uruguay 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Of the Top 100 albums of the year - compiled, like the singles chart, by the Official Charts Company - a more respectable 27 discs were classed as rock. Rock suffers worst year in UK charts since 1960 2011-01-10T14:49:15Z And luxury brands like Bentley pay them respectable sums to appear in promotional videos. Yes, Even Fashionistas Have to Eat 2012-05-25T20:44:18Z When he gave up teaching, “my parents went: ‘Ugh, we almost had a respectable son!’” Andy Griffiths, the Down-Under Kids’ Author Known for His Butt Jokes, Now Builds and Builds on His Hit ‘Treehouse’ Series 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z Your non-foodie friends will love it because it because it will magically elevate their sad jarred tomato sauce into something almost respectable. Last-minute holiday shopping list! 2012-12-21T17:57:00Z “I think it would be a better policy for F. & F. to make a bad blunder in publishing the wrong poet,” he writes, “than to blur their reputation by publishing too many respectable ones.” The Unlikely History of Faber & Faber 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z It was the respectable, even Republican, advocate for women’s health, including reproductive services; the leaders of the National Abortion Rights Action League were the activist agitators. The tyranny of pink 2012-05-30T11:45:00Z After the trial, when she thought about Clifford and that it had been sickening to see him "create a persona of a respectable, high-profile man who was lauded by the media". Max Clifford guilty of sex assaults 2014-04-28T19:19:25Z As Dostoevsky reminds us in “The Gambler,” the entire milieu was fake and designed to attract fakers, and the biggest fakery of all was the pretense that this was all respectable. MGM’s $1.4 billion casino is a cruise ship to nowhere 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z This question ties into deeper issues of how autism should be discussed in respectable public debate. I am autistic and I want a more responsible conversation about autism — and that means leaving Barron Trump alone 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z Newton had a way of being tough on the streets, the mean streets of Oakland he grew up in, but he managed to conceal it from his respectable friends, black and white. True Hollywood story: The producer and the Black Panther 2012-06-09T19:00:00Z Naylor is never jocular; she takes seriously the town leaders’ urge to be respectable, which was a serious matter to them. ‘Frontier Boosters’: Port Townsend’s elusive dream 2014-04-02T23:42:55Z There is also a respectable argument for saying that damages are an adequate remedy for breaches of privacy, as they are for libel. Max Mosley's privacy campaign reaches Strasbourg 2011-01-04T11:40:04Z It ran for more than five years in London and had a respectable run of 485 performances on Broadway with 19-year-old Andrews making her American debut in the lead. Sandy Wilson, composer of ‘The Boy Friend,’ dies at 90 So I think our ratings are really respectable. "Doctor Who" producer downplays falling ratings for season 13 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z A respectable, sheltered middle-class American has a big job interview, but everything goes wrong. Movie Review: ‘Walk of Shame,’ About a Trip on Which Everything Goes Wrong 2014-05-02T22:23:30Z “Riccardo has accomplished everything a designer can do for a brand, clocking a very respectable tenure and creating a fully realized language for them,” Ms. Fargo said. Riccardo Tisci Leaves Givenchy: What It Means 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z The short novel is about a respectable doctor with a split personality. Jack the Ripper’s long shadow: From Sherlock Holmes to “Jekyll & Hyde” 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z Wearing a dark suit and blue tie, Wallace looked the way he often does: respectable and slightly amused. Democratic presidential candidates plot their approaches to Fox News 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z "I did what any respectable Black man would do," Troy said. Sorry, but forced apologies are the worst. Why can't we quit this insincere ritual? 2021-08-21T04:00:00Z She is a respectable woman from a respectable family! Review: In ‘The Private Life of Mrs. Sharma,’ a Search for Release 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z And yet the respectable films of that era may represent the last gasp of a noble middlebrow ideal. Film: That Unmistakable Streepness 2010-02-20T04:19:00Z The ratings back then — 12 million viewers on an average night — were respectable, but were not what Mr. Cowell predicted. ArtsBeat: Britney Spears Likely to Join Judges of 'X Factor' 2012-05-11T17:59:46Z It’s a respectable, A-minus audition piece, and you hopefully await the fuller performance to come. Review: Michael Urie Puts the Madcap in Hamlet’s Madness 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z Legrand is well aware of the predatory moralizing restrictions on women’s behavior that judges their behavior cruelly, boots them from respectable society, and forces them, for a mere living, into selling themselves as Lulu does. Jean Renoir’s Ferocious “La Chienne” 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z One chapter begins with a very respectable citizen inexplicably running naked down the street as passersby snap photos. The tireless (and sometimes tiresome) hero of Ian Rankin’s ‘Rather be the Devil’ 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z Whether made into elaborate Jell-O molds or adorned with mini-marshmallow, or slathered with some white concoction that generally included mayonnaise, canned fruit was the starting point for any respectable fruit salad. Want a better fruit salad? Soak it in orange liqueur 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z Critics raved about the movie, which earned a respectable $6 million during a limited release at the North American box office through independent distributor Roadside Attractions. Arthouse drama "Winter's Bone" makes Oscar splash 2011-01-25T22:01:51Z Data advanced in support of the decline-of-violence argument is dense and often compelling, and derives from a range of respectable sources. An American century of carnage: Measuring violence in a single superpower world 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z These entries are perfectly respectable movies with entertainment value -- again we'll exclude "Outrage" -- but ho-hum for a Cannes competition lineup. Spanish film "Biutiful" stands out in Cannes crowd 2010-05-18T00:23:00Z Google the words “opera isn’t about horned helmets” and you will find large and respectable professional opera companies perpetuate the image as a straw man, which they then hope to knock down. Put a lid on the operatic Viking helmet cliché 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z That didn’t prove to be a breeze at the Kennedy Center, where sales for “Side Show’s” month-long run this summer were merely respectable. Retooled ‘Side Show’ gets a second chance on Broadway Throughout the nineteen-fifties, Lewis was a virtual money machine in the United States for his producers, but he wasn’t culturally respectable or critical acclaimed here. Childlike Stars 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z Never, however, did producer David Heyman and company fall below a respectable level of craft. 'Potter' closes out franchise with a bang 2011-07-13T15:24:00Z When she criticized the condition of women in Iran, Khomeini said, “If you do not like Islamic dress you are not obliged to follow it. The chador is only for young and respectable women.” The Life of Oriana Fallaci, Guerrilla Journalist 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z Toby — naughty and narcissistic but ultimately respectable — declined the offer. | The Secret History of Homoerotic Illustration 2014-03-27T16:00:16Z Historical romance by a Seattle author, about a bon-vivant English lord who's heavily in debt, leaving him "no choice but to start acting respectable." Newly released books with local ties include 'Kiss'em Goodbye' and 'Out of Body' 2010-03-15T21:31:00Z Almost 100 years ago did respectable audiences blink at the sight of this cross-dressing hanky panky? Ladies as gents 2010-05-13T21:15:00Z Haters may hate, but this unconventional beauty has supplemented an acting and modelling career with a conventional, if respectable debut album. Lou Doillon: Places – review 2013-04-20T23:05:15Z The same goes for Newark, which has the very respectable Newark Museum but is also blessed by its proximity to Manhattan. Great museums seem to matter for the locations on the shortlist for Amazon’s HQ2 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z The new drink is less cloying than many ruby ports; it’s redolent of strawberries, like any respectable rosé should be, and with a hint of citrus, lending it a pleasant acidity. Not your grandfather's port: will fortified wine ever enjoy a revival? 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z Where the film’s archival footage demonstrates the limits of respectability politics, “Anthem” ends u being overly respectable — and inevitably reductive. ‘Anthem’ Review: Flying High 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z However, in last year’s competition, Hatari, an industrial techno band wearing B.D.S.M. attire, did perform in Icelandic and came in 10th, a very respectable result. Netflix’s ‘Eurovision Song Contest’: Here’s What You May Have Missed 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z Despite its girth and hefty price tag, "Reclaiming History" had a respectable first printing of 40,000, says Bugliosi, best known as the former deputy Los Angeles district attorney who prosecuted Charles Manson. 50 years on, finding profit in `truth' on JFK case 2013-05-11T16:07:15Z A classic candy cane is nostalgic, retro, respectable. A rundown of the most absurdist candy cane flavors 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z The play works so strenuously to make Baby seem respectable that it forgets to provide a reason for us to care about him. 'God Looked Away,' and so should you: Why Al Pacino's play falls so short of expectations 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z QUINN: I was confident we were going to have, at the very least, a respectable showing. ‘Bridgerton’ books are popular again, thanks to Netflix show 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z Like any respectable seafarer, I kept a log. Off the Tourist Grid in the Bahamas 2013-01-30T22:27:14Z And kitsch has a kind of shameless enthusiasm that allows you to revel in these values, like excessive decoration or the overly bold use of color, that are not quite respectable. Possessed: One Designer?s Love: Vintage Trailers 2011-02-25T17:39:51Z Nashville ranked at a respectable No. 5 in the barbecue category, perhaps by straddling the line between the Memphis and Carolina styles. These Are America's Best Food Cities 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z They’ve gone from being “out there” — in, say, the remote parts of the South or West, or the inner cities — to “right here,” in respectable, suburban America. We live in the Age of Trauma 2013-05-01T23:30:00Z Black Mass, which is eyeing an awards season run after wowing the critics at the Toronto, Telluride and Venice film festivals, scored a more than respectable $23.4m on debut in second place. US box office: Maze Runner sequel beats Johnny Depp's Black Mass 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z The series belonged to the last decade when sneering at television, and those who watch it, was a respectable prejudice. The ’90s Cartoon That Mattered? ‘Beavis and Butt-Head.’ (Fight Me.) 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z But, according to the competing perspective, the ceremony was progressive, respectable, and competent. The Awkward Politics of the Oscars 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z Now a much more respectable endeavour, it was christened the London Contemporary Dance School. The Place: dreams in a drill hall 2010-05-11T21:30:00Z Today the sushi is respectable, if not on its own a reason to visit. The Restaurant That Became Japan’s Unofficial Ambassador 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z “So I try to prepare them for the good, the bad and the ugly, and teach them to walk as respectable men in the world.” What’s on TV Monday: ‘Trainwreck’ and ‘Coach Snoop’ 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z Chase had wanted to make a respectable gangster film. Alessandro Nivola Put His Foot Down and Won the ‘Many Saints’ Role Anyway 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z Since then, the Shapira affair has haunted the edges of respectable biblical scholarship, as a rollicking caper wrapped in a mystery wrapped in a cautionary tale. Is a Long-Dismissed Forgery Actually the Oldest Known Biblical Manuscript? 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z It dropped a respectable 53 percent from last weekend, when its $34.8 million opening marked one of the biggest of Stallone's career. Sylvester Stallone stomps on box office rookies 2010-08-23T01:37:00Z It’s a conversation starter then, a perfectly respectable thing for a movie to be. 42: The Jackie Robinson Biopic Is a Solid Hit 2013-04-12T09:45:25Z Other new entries in the weekend chart included The Three Stooges at seven and documentary thriller The Imposter, which scraped into 10th place but earned a respectable £252,000 from just 49 screens. Brave keeps grip on UK box office 2012-08-29T15:14:40Z At stoplights, “grown men, respectable men—our fathers—stepped forward to ask for a nickel, rag in hand to wipe our windshield,” Mary recalls in her memoir, “Meaning a Life,” which was published in 1978. When the Oppens Gave Up Art to Fight Fascism 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z It exemplifies the kind of respectable and utterly unnecessary remake that now defines the Hollywood business model. Review | ‘Ghost in the Shell’ brings an anime classic to life, with mixed success 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z The Last Ship, Sting's musical about shipbuilding in north-east England, has opened on Broadway to respectable, if qualified reviews. Sting musical opens on Broadway 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z He wanted to have sane, respectable, ordinary people on that list to try to persuade his readers that evolution wasn't a mad, French, radical, anti-establishment idea. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Author Rebecca Stott on 'Darwin's Ghosts' 2012-08-08T16:44:34Z His vision of horror was filled with children in peril and all-American families whose respectable facade hid something darker. Wes Craven, a Filmmaker Who Invaded Your Dreams 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z When Corot attempts a mythological or religious picture — Dante and Virgil, Diana and Actaeon — the results are respectable. Review | A 19th-century painting that rivals the Mona Lisa 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z He did not live to see his “hungriest grandson” turn his appetite into what Lam, with characteristic modesty, calls “a respectable career.” How Francis Lam, son of immigrants, became the voice of America’s food culture 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z The true explosive device here is the person whom this excellent actor is portraying with such gentle care and harsh conviction, a respectable family man in his 60s named Eric. Review: Stephen Rea Is One Really Mad Man in ‘Cyprus Avenue’ 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z After about a year they moved back to New York, where Mr. Gross submitted cartoons to The New Yorker and The Saturday Evening Post, as well as less respectable magazines like Rascal. Sam Gross, 89, Dies; Prolific Purveyor of Cartoons, Tasteful and Otherwise 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z By late afternoon, as we head back to the dock, I’ve landed and released a respectable seven bonefish. U.S. anglers seek out the infamous Bay of Pigs for an exclusive fly-fishing experience 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z I had no idea, when I watched the movie for the first or the tenth time, that many respectable adults would find all of this not just hollow but irritating and even reprehensible. “Drop Dead Gorgeous,” Which Is Finally Streaming, Is Possibly My Favorite Movie of All Time 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z She held it together on the dance floor, though, managing not to embarrass herself or her partner, Sasha Farber, and earning a very respectable 23/30. Dancing With The Stars Watch: Opening Night 2013-09-17T04:00:04Z But the line between ramshackle fun and respectable execution is tricky. 5 Seconds of Summer strikes a punk pose at the Forum 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z In some ways, it's unassailably respectable: a Sunday night costume drama, oozing the cream of the British acting profession. Just when Lady Edith thought her luck couldn't get any worse… 2012-11-11T00:06:14Z If Ken comes in it will look more respectable, but I don't think he's falling for it. Iain Banks: the final interview 2013-06-15T07:07:55Z Mead also delves into how Eliot, as a “respectable,” mature woman of high repute, dared live with a married man — fellow writer George Henry Lewes. ‘My Life in Middlemarch’: looking through a novel’s lens 2014-02-12T20:11:16Z That may be why, though it ran a respectable 676 performances, “Fella” hasn’t become a regular part of the revolving repertory of Broadway revivals. Theater Review: ‘The Most Happy Fella’ Is Revived at City Center 2014-04-03T23:17:30Z But being British, it’s less solemn and respectable than the American show. ‘Peaky Blinders’ Is a British Crime Drama 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z But the body count is respectable, if unremarkable, by today’s standards: The original “Halloween” was never about volume. ‘Halloween’ Review: Babysitters (and Jamie Lee Curtis) Beware! 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z At the Echo, the handsome, once shaggy-headed troubadour had a clean haircut that made him look downright respectable, and his presentation was equally crisp. Ryley Walker explores a pastoral past with mesmerizing folk set at the Echo 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z What's respectable is that this is a sincere effort to make a film of sensitivity and spiritual richness. 'The Way': Respectable drama loses its footing 2011-10-20T20:09:07Z The “Medium” finale drew 7.8 million viewers, an entirely respectable number on a Friday night. ArtsBeat: 'Medium' Ends With Emotional Farewell 2011-01-24T19:44:17Z That titles went on to sell 138,000 copies, a respectable bow for a newcomer with only one top ten hit to her name at the time. Ariana Grande Charts Second No. 1 Album in Less Than a Year 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z The trouble is, this leaves the impression that the only way to be a respectable unattached woman is to be impervious to love. Stop telling single women they’re fabulous! 2014-02-05T13:00:00Z James, by the way, was a somewhat later, more rewarding and obviously more respectable obsession. A Ship Sinks, and a Boy Is Enthralled 2013-08-21T16:31:12Z "It made the disease something that respectable people could talk about." Elizabeth Taylor, legendary actress, dies at 79 2011-03-23T13:57:00Z Things happen in Borgia that I cannot describe in a respectable newspaper. Alejandro Jodorowsky's dance on the edge of meaning 2011-01-25T12:27:40Z In Harmony, Pennsylvania, Josiah Stowel, a prosperous, respectable landowner, had heard of Joseph and believed the reports about the boy with a gift for seeing what others could not see with the natural eye. The Book of Mormon’s foggy origins 2012-08-12T16:01:00Z In its 49th incarnation, well into respectable middle age, the New York Film Festival has experienced a growth spurt and a burst of youthful energy. Critic?s Notebook: New York Film Festival Includes a Sneak Preview 2011-10-09T22:05:10Z Throughout their marriage her desire to settle down to a respectable way of living clashes with his antic pursuit of a ticket to the good life, however shady or disreputable the terms might be. Wallace Stegner and the Conflicted Soul of the West 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z This novel ticks many boxes: its themes are serious, its historic grounding solid, its structure careful, its old-fashioned ornamentalism respectable. The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng - review 2012-08-24T21:55:01Z Legitimate journalists and respectable news organizations get things wrong, no doubt. Perspective | Press coverage of Kavanaugh is imperfect. But imagine if we didn’t have it. 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z All the people here are aspiring to be respectable, civilized, “normal” folks. Review: Chloroform, Lies and Racism Fire Up ‘The Jacksonian’ 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z Still, there is commonality in this part of the hospitality industry, which provides very respectable and coveted careers. Perspective | One last drink, maybe two? Inside one dive as Parisians say goodbye, for now, to their beloved bars and cafes 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z This usually means a parade of costumed tributes to important dead people, whose lives are presented with respectable, stuffy sameness. Movies: ?A Dangerous Method? and ?J. Edgar?: Studies in Repression 2011-11-27T04:53:01Z The role of Duke Robert, the villain, is smaller than you might expect, but Zachary Nelson offered a respectable if slightly anodyne presence as the bad guy. Washington Concert Opera exhumes Strauss rarity — once 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z When he hears that she’s evinced interest in playing the trumpet, he derides the instrument as absurd and insists that she play something more respectable, like piano. | 'Parents? Evening': Julianne Nicholson and James Waterston at Flea Theater 2010-04-30T02:27:00Z From time to time Sabina’s parents try to fix her up with respectable young men, found through “the Colombian Diaspora dating network.” Books of The Times: How Colombia Meets America, but Not Quite 2010-09-06T22:51:00Z The judges thought her reptilian routine was great, giving her samba a respectable 27/30. Dancing with the Stars Watch: What The Fox? 2013-10-29T03:19:18Z In order to hide money from his thieving father, Huck entrusts all his riches to Judge Thatcher, who then establishes a kind of CD which pays a respectable dollar a day in dividends. Mark Twain invented Mitt 2012-07-06T14:20:00Z Honors student mischief-makers may have picked up another message from Pee-wee's getup, which is respectable clothes make it easier to say and get away with nearly anything. Through Pee-wee Herman, Paul Reubens reminded Gen X to stay true to our immature inner children 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z There were carefree black girls, militant black girls and respectable black girls. 5 Black women who profoundly changed TV in 2015 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z Carter has since become a respectable fixture in the high-toned Kentucky horse set, and has been paying Vinnie money to lie low. Critic’s Notebook: Back in Chicago, Michael Shannon and David Schwimmer 2013-08-09T20:44:12Z I’m guessing the person you are imagining doesn’t look like Daphne Oram, with her cat-eye glasses, demure dresses and respectable 1950s librarian haircut. Amplifying the Women Who Pushed Synthesizers Into the Future 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z “It’s respectable, but at the same time it’s striking. When you’re surrounded by so much color and pattern, it really pops.” What Pops in a Sea of Shrill Color? Hint: It’s Not Pink 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z Last week the show grossed $409,785, or 52 percent of the maximum possible amount, with two-thirds of the seats full – respectable figures for a play. Broadway's 'Love Letters' to Close Early 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z He nails the spare to finish with a respectable 118 score. Think there can’t be a jazz-funk fusion superstar in 2020? Then you don’t know Thundercat. 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z After years of critical acclaim and respectable rather than spectacular sales, he had suddenly become one of the biggest pop stars in Britain. Dizzee Rascal: 'The music just got bigger and better' 2012-06-21T22:00:01Z Blown up to respectable portrait size, they are exhibited alongside powerful sculptures of female torsos and comically curvaceous tobacco pipes. Women, divorce and art that turns shame into celebration at Gavlak gallery 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z But the ratings of the awards show — and its importance to studios — made it slightly more respectable. The TV Watch: Master of Ceremonies, Not Civility 2011-01-17T05:43:03Z It’s patient and respectable without being quite likable, without ever quite becoming your friend. Books of The Times: David Bowie, the Cool Chameleon From Mars 2011-07-21T22:10:17Z The characters have families they claim to love, jobs they claim to care about, respectable, American lives and ambitions. “Obviously, we all die”: On rejecting the cult of positivity and embracing the joy of darkness 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z Weiner saw the parallels between Lane and Harris: a respectable but perhaps overlooked pro’s pro, invigorated by an opportunity to reinvent himself in America. Jared Harris Is (and Isn’t) His Father’s Son 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z “They are fully represented and represented in the most respectable way,” Keyes said. How Do You Capture Four Decades of Hip-Hop? Very Broadly. 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z Whether he has become "respectable" is another matter, even though he has been on the jury at Cannes and taught in prison. Still Waters 2010-12-04T00:03:00Z The poster for Bad Moms takes a far more respectable route for its tagline, which reads “party like a mother”. Santa, Teacher or Grandpa: which 'bad' movie is the baddest? 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z The poet was born Anna Gorenko but adopted Akhmatova, from her Tatar grandmother, when her father forbade her from publishing poetry under his "respectable" name. Colette Bryce's poetry workshop 2010-09-20T12:43:00Z He is all the fervor without the frenzy, all the rancor but in a respectable format. Perspective | The dullness is the point 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z The first is the discovery by a timorous and eminently respectable architect of the nude body of a murdered man, neatly disposed in his bathtub, decorated with a pair of gold-rimmed pince-nez. Classic Crime Novels That Still Thrill Today 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z But the bibimbap is a respectable version of the classic rice bowl decked out with kimchi, marinated bean sprouts, tangy pickles and so on. Review | Can a restaurant that showcases three Asian cuisines do them all well? 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z While he maintains a respectable social media presence, his primary means of exerting influence is the handwritten note. Want to Make It Big in Fashion? Think Small 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z On a recent evening, most of the crowd was over 50, under 80, respectable looking and French. | The King of Gay Paree 2013-04-22T16:07:39Z The novel charts the struggle between "old", respectable England and the "new" underclass of the estate and it revolves around who will get the vacant council seat. The Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling – review 2012-09-29T23:05:13Z Do they have something that makes us want to wall them off from public places, respectable homes and so on? The science of the F-bomb: “Swearing actually allows people to endure pain more successfully” 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Nibbling in front of the television—whether on popcorn, pretzels, cereal, or toast—epitomized snacking’s new identity as a respectable middle-class norm. TV makes us fat! 2013-09-07T22:00:00Z He is seen first leaping out and scaring Pip in the churchyard with a convict’s number-one cut and mud all over his face, and later with longish hair, clean-shaven in a mysterious, new respectable guise. Ralph Fiennes's 20 best film performances – ranked! 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z Lonely, frustrated Marion, who yearned for marriage and respectable love … perhaps something within her snapped with rage at the thought of this smug little rich girl and her unearned day of happiness. My favourite Hitchcock: Psycho 2012-07-23T10:57:21Z It is in the respectable, nay the proud, tradition of the goofy, fantastical sitcom: the comedy about what happens when regular people end up living next door to witches, genies, monsters and, yes, aliens. TV Tonight: The Neighbors Is Bad, But Not for the Reason You Might Think 2012-09-26T13:09:57Z It was just fine — Julia herself described it during our blind tasting as “respectable and upright,” but it was not as exciting as other whites. Your Easy, No-Sweat Guide to Picking Wines for Thanksgiving 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z Figaro plays one last card – stolen as a baby from a respectable family, he requires his parents' consent. Glyndebourne 2012 - Marriage of Figaro synopsis, cast and creatives 2012-08-14T11:26:10Z Yes, food is the new drugs for former Britpoppers and the Ecstasy generation, a safer and more respectable hedonic tool, the key to a comfortingly domesticated high. Let's start the foodie backlash 2012-09-28T21:45:06Z "Ten years ago tobacco companies were seen as respectable partners for public institutions," says protestor Blake Williams. Another Victim of the Gulf Oil Spill: The British Arts? 2010-09-17T22:40:00Z And there is a respectable amount of vintage here. At Round Two, There’s Always a Buyer 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z The beer list is loyal to regional brews, and the wine list is respectable, with north of a dozen pours by the glass. If you only eat three meals in Charleston, S.C., make them at these spots 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z The resident celebrity is Wayne Knight — Newman from “Seinfeld” — who makes a respectable Santa, though he isn’t around much. Theater Review: ‘Elf,’ Starring Jordan Gelber, at Al Hirschfeld Theater 2012-11-19T03:00:00Z As fashion’s early adopters, working women routinely took up what their respectable contemporaries shunned as too showy, tasteless or new. It’s Always Fishnets Season Somewhere 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z As it was, safe pair of hands Bill Condon did his best to keep things on the right side of respectable, although I struggle to remember another 12A certificate film being quite this twisted. Move over, Luke Skywalker… I'm a Twilight man 2012-11-10T18:00:01Z The performance was quite respectable, given the circumstances, but if you put music in a club, people will treat it like club music. Review | Conductor plays ‘Rite of Spring’ at a club — and then berates the audience for acting like they’re at a club 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z Zombie Kill Count: A respectable three dozen or so. Walking Dead Recap: Save the Last One 2011-10-31T14:34:17Z The newly respectable Marine Le Pen makes this clear. Euro crisis? vultures 2012-05-17T15:25:00Z The Juilliard School has assembled a respectable group of period-instrument players to teach in its historical-performance program, but it has also lined up a few starry guests to give master classes and direct concerts. Music Review: Juilliard415 at Peter Jay Sharp Theater - Review 2011-10-17T22:12:13Z Deadfolk rightly received a handful of very good reviews and sold a respectable number of copies. The characters who are going to an early grave 2010-06-08T10:00:00Z That, more or less, is the moral of “Do I Hear a Waltz?,” which opened in 1965 on Broadway, where it ran for a respectable 220 performances. Review: Passion Pursued in ‘Do I Hear a Waltz?’ 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Still, Mr Whitehead lasted a respectable amount of time. A chip and a chair 2014-05-08T04:00:00Z Dr Seuss is so amusing and egalitarian and free-thinking and so unlike all the more respectable English books I was given and liked as a child. The great books giveaway 2011-03-04T11:19:03Z It is tempting to dismiss these attacks as philistine, but that would be to ignore an eminently respectable and artistically sophisticated British tradition of disdain for abstract painting. Are we a nation of abstract art snobs? 2011-07-07T16:37:59Z “I don’t want to be too respectable,” she said in an interview, and laughed. Kennedy Center to Honor Dick Van Dyke and Others at Scaled-Down Events 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z A respectable Best Western off Interstate 80 when Donner Pass to Tahoe is suddenly snowed in. Who Wants a Hotel With a Hallway Anyway? 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z The first published updating, “Sense and Sensibility,” written by Joanna Trollope, got respectable attention. A modern retelling of ‘Emma,’ by Alexander McCall Smith 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z In Africa, India and Asia, we shed pieces to a respectable minimum but still sweated. How to travel around the world in two carry-ons. (Sort of.) 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Of course, what respectable slander campaign would be complete without the new material? Hillary will never survive the Trump onslaught: It’s not fair, but it makes her a weak nominee 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z Bale, turning in a respectable if oddly chipper performance under the circumstances, has the unfortunate task of playing a character who doesn't really add up. 'The Flowers of War': an oddly frivolous take on Nanjing massacre 2012-01-19T20:42:08Z He ends up on the run from his fellow gunmen, having beaten to death with his father's wooden leg a big-shot gangster turned respectable politician. The Dead Republic by Roddy Doyle 2010-04-02T23:07:00Z Flight lands in respectable third place, just ahead of holdover title Lincoln. Les Misérables tills still singing, leaving Flight looking glum 2013-02-05T16:51:50Z The best moments happen when you get to spend time doing things that are not really respectable for a grownup to do unless a child is close by. Christoph Niemann’s “Father’s Day Off” 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z That said, with excellent acting across the board and irrefutable topicality, “Watching O.J.” is, though still refining, largely respectable. In 'Watching O.J.,' verdict day still resonates onstage 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z In the narrative that unfolds through gentle shifts between present to past, we learn of the early collapse of their respectable family. Review | ‘Burnt Sugar,’ a challenging Booker Prize finalist, is hard to take, but harder to shake off 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z Its funding was primarily focused on respectable, often staid, journalism and education efforts in the eight cities where its namesake founding brothers, John S. and John L. Knight, had owned newspapers: Akron, Ohio; Charlotte, N.C.; He Brought an Artistic Flair to the Knight Foundation’s Philanthropy 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z Godfather II showed the immigrant origins of the mafia and also their attempts to grow more respectable by inching their tentacles into the US political establishment. Greatest Oscar winners ever: who is the best director of all time? 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z So he did the only respectable thing: He headed back uptown to meet her. Drawn to a Jazzwoman and Her Trumpet’s Clarion Call 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z You were a geologist, a respectable but ordinary job. What it feels like to be a target of Trump’s Muslim ban 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z The material is respectable and deliberate, yet it’s stretched a little thin. Dance Review: A Choreographer?s 2 Sides, Cut From the Same Cloth 2011-06-10T21:58:27Z On the album, he screams it with respectable conviction. Song of the Summer: “Bawitdaba,” by Kid Rock 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z There are many respectable personal finance journalists pushing for greater transparency and more legal protections for consumers. The personal finance industry can’t save us 2013-03-06T20:53:00Z The center sent the revivals of “Ragtime” and “Follies” to Broadway, where they received respectable notices while doing less-than-boffo business. At Kennedy Center, ‘Side Show’ takes another turn around the midway Jack was commuting, and that meant women of a higher class — respectable, less disposable — might become victims. Why Jack the Ripper and other serial killer narratives endure 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z Sam, Taylor and I walked the grounds, while Claudia kept a respectable distance. | Palatial Near Pienza 2012-09-05T18:00:21Z And Justin Adian has gone from perfectly respectable abstract paintings to bulging painted reliefs that are weirder and more his own. Abstraction at Manhattan Galleries 2010-08-05T22:14:00Z She still earned a respectable 25/30, even though the East German judge gave her a 6. Dancing with the Stars Watch: Zorro on a Zipline 2013-04-16T09:45:55Z It’s a dynamic like the one in “Easy Rider,” but the bikers are the respectable types and the country folk are the freaks. Peter Fonda: 7 Great Movies to Stream 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z So, at a party with respectable older people in tweed jackets I will immediately agree that we are terrible. We are the lamest generation! 2013-06-01T13:00:00Z From a distance, watching seems like a respectable use of one’s time. Downton Abbey Watch: Mastercheese Theater 2012-02-13T14:15:46Z At the height of cocktail culture, in the late nineteenth century, the United States had boasted one saloon for every two hundred and fifty people, but few respectable ladies ever frequented those establishments. How T.G.I. Friday’s Helped Invent the Singles Bar 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Zombie Kill Report: We were back to a very respectable double digit walker count. Walking Dead Recap: The Peacemaker 2011-11-21T13:13:36Z All the top women we see in this list are pretty well behaved and respectable women. 2010-01-19T16:57:00Z Though WE tv President and General Manager Marc Juris has insisted that "Sex Box" is "very relatable" and "very respectable," a letter submitted with the petition is skeptical of this claim. 'Sex Box' reality show sparks controversy 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z It showed respectable staying power with a 37% decline from its first weekend in wide release and has totaled $45.2 million domestically. 'Jumanji' stays strong, topping '12 Strong,' 'Den of Thieves' with $20 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z “Bad Trip” never wants to be too respectable. Eww, That’s Gross. And We Like It That Way. 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z James was never much interested in ax-murderers or serial killers; she preferred to examine respectable citizens who turn to crime. For P.D. James, literary success came late in life, and continues in a new book 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z Today, of course, the field is entirely respectable – to write and especially to read. Ray Bradbury and the fever of inspiration 2012-06-06T20:50:17Z He even describes Trinity Laban's losing score of 105 as "very respectable". TV review: Babies in the Office; Usain Bolt: The Fastest Man Alive; University Challenge 2012-07-16T22:45:01Z And while the energy of the performers never flags, the show eventually begins to feel as if it’s vamping its way toward a respectable 90-minute running time. Theater Review: In the Musical ‘Murder for Two,’ One Man Is Many Suspects 2013-07-26T02:00:01Z Minhaj brings the respectable track record he earned as the host and creator of Netflix's gone-too-soon "Patriot Act," which helped him develop the muscle required to produce a nightly political comedy series. Who comes after Trevor Noah to host "The Daily Show"? The answer may be among these stars 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z Twenty years after her young geisha in Sisters of the Gion, Yamada plays the mature owner of a geisha house, struggling with debts to keep her respectable establishment open. Isuzu Yamada 2012-07-11T14:39:36Z Like any respectable social media campaign, the website features a clever Twitter hash tag: #ShowMeTheMonet. Hunt for Missing Marcos Art Seeks to Regain Momentum 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z Problem is, none of the content in the clips he played cannot be backed up by any respectable history book, studies and work from other journalists. Tiffany Cross was too real for MSNBC 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z Males with no kids and no dates went to the R-rated period horror film The Wolfman, which earned a respectable $30.6 million. 2010-02-14T22:50:00Z Frank rarely breaks the fourth wall, and there are fewer visual gags; the characters still do despicable things, but they try to look respectable doing them. “House of Cards” Season 4 Is Less Vulgar Than Real Politics 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z They were all built in the 1920s and named in honor of what were then America’s most respected, and respectable, 19th-century writers. Review | Beloved, patriotic, sentimental: A look at the life and poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z Nowhere in public life outside of politics and sports is booing so respectable. Classical music can unite and console in troubling, angry times 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z Savile wasn't a man who concealed his creepiness behind a respectable facade. Worst ideas of 2012: ignoring reality 2012-12-28T23:00:00Z In the meantime, Sony’s home invasion horror flick “Don’t Breathe,” managed to draw a respectable $2.4 million in its third week in theaters, putting its total worldwide box office at $69.7 million. Tom Hanks' 'Sully' catches wind with $12 million Friday box office take 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z By this she did not mean something Lynne Trussy – the odd misplaced apostrophe or split infinitive – but substantial errors in form, style, continuity, and judgment that she regularly encountered in novels from respectable publishing houses. The importance of good editing 2012-06-14T14:04:47Z The aggressively respectable Mrs. Forbes’s adored son, Graham, is actually a narcissistic homosexual who marries a woman who seems dim and unprepossessing but is a financial genius who secretly saves him from ruin. Books of The Times: ?Smut: Stories? by Alan Bennett ? Review 2011-12-29T23:29:06Z In the Middle East, it hasn’t always been easy or considered respectable for women to photograph. Art Review: Mideast Photography at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 2013-12-26T22:22:28Z It was a respectable number — but a lot less than the blue armpit hair got. This Band Is Fun on TikTok. In Belarus, It’s Serious. 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z The show ran for a respectable but hardly spectacular 267 performances, with most rating the score far higher than the book by Smith and the director, the great George Abbott. The Week Ahead: Mar. 20 ? 26 2011-03-16T20:54:08Z He may rake in enough to buy a respectable harmonica. Social Q’s: Sensitivity About Describing Hairstyles – Social Q’s 2013-01-10T20:45:54Z Alas, on Tuesday night, when that production returned to the Metropolitan Opera House for the first time since 1999, the performance was entirely respectable. American Ballet Theater Performs ‘Gaîté Parisienne’ 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z I’ve seen respectable examples of hip-hop, Spanish, African, modern dance and ballet in my “Nutcracker” travels, but no tap to date. ArtsBeat: The Nutcracker Chronicles: A First Trip to the Apollo 2010-12-21T12:00:55Z By the mid-1700s, the skull and crossbones was deemed respectable enough to be chosen as a British regimental emblem. Design: Skull and Crossbones as Branding Tool 2011-05-01T16:56:02Z The slick threat of his prime days gave way to a perfectly respectable, replaceable actor named Tony Curtis. Remembering Tony Curtis: The Best of Everything 2010-09-30T22:15:00Z Refreshing and respectable, as Julia put it, with citrus and herbal flavors. Your Easy, No-Sweat Guide to Picking Wines for Thanksgiving 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z “The real history of music is not respectable,” he asserts in a bold suggestion that what he is presenting is not just an underappreciated history or a little-told history, but the only true one. Beethoven Was the Johnny Rotten of His Day 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Gardner nodded: “That is a totally respectable reason to not show up.” ‘Stay Elevated’: How homeless youth and Seattle Symphony Orchestra built a score 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z That is certainly a respectable, perhaps even inarguable approach, but it requires orchestral playing with some vibrancy and zest. Music Review | New York Philharmonic: Beethoven and Franck Sparkle With Muti, a Avery Fisher Hall 2010-03-12T00:31:00Z And what respectable Italian villa would be without a sizable staff? | 'Death Takes a Holiday': Set Aside That Scythe, and Let?s Put on a Show 2011-07-22T02:01:27Z Compared to other horror films, that represents a respectable hold, especially with the new supernatural competition from "Dracula Untold," Fellman said. Box office: 'Gone Girl' tops 'Dracula,' 'Alexander' and 'The Judge' 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z I'm an avid reader of respectable books, the kind reviewed in this newspaper. A 'Sookie Stackhouse' junkie comes clean 2010-05-05T22:34:00Z In the 1920s even respectable ladies began painting their faces, and the cosmetics industry exploded. Love’s labour 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z When TV series came online and started to become interesting, respectable and moneymaking, we started to make a TV series of it.” Game of Thrones to return in April as HBO unveils new shows 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z This is a building that wants to look respectable and rational but not staid, one that is fairly conventional on the horizontal plane and takes a significant if measured chance on the vertical one. Downtown L.A.'s long-delayed federal courthouse is a polished work of civic architecture 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z While ticket sales were respectable in the opening weeks, over the holidays and into the new year the show has been grossing just 49% of its maximum possible take. Scarlett Johansson back on Broadway for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof revival 2013-01-18T15:44:05Z He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his wife for the sake of a youthful mistress; he loved; was not loved; and his life ended in disaster. How Nabokov Retranslated “Laughter in the Dark” 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z The main problem is that everything always looks so respectable. Possessed: The Coveter?s Dilemma 2011-07-22T23:27:46Z But the Stooges have long been sidelined by film buffs and historians, who tend to favor the more respectable clowning of the Marx brothers. The Farrelly Brothers on Their ?Three Stooges? 2012-04-06T13:00:00Z And yet there might be something respectable about perversity done right. The Strange Appeal of Perverse Actions 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z That same November, Cream was introduced to the respectable Laura Sabbatini and, following a whirlwind courtship, she agreed to marry him. Review | A true-crime columnist turns his attention to Victorian-era serial killer Thomas Neill Cream 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z It’s not something that respectable people think about; it just gets abandoned. Think more about sex! 2012-12-22T23:00:00Z From the outside it is a respectable building on the edge of a green area called the Back Bay Fens. Art heists: more Tony Soprano than George Clooney 2013-03-20T16:09:56Z He had written five inconsequential books that had received respectable if not excited attention. The Novelist Who Saw Middle America as It Really Was 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z L.B.I., as locals call it, is not as Victorian and proper as Spring Lake, but it was a lot more respectable than Seaside Heights, though without any claim to elegance. ?Jersey Shore,? Reality Versus Reality TV 2011-09-09T18:55:00Z Fifty years ago, the designer Betsey Johnson — part rebel, part cheerleader — got herself from proper Connecticut to New York City, as many a respectable female adventurer was wont to do. Betsey Johnson: A Role Model, Still 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Most are married heterosexuals who occupy respectable positions in mainstream society, but each feels a compulsion to set free the woman lurking inside of him. In 'Casa Valentina,' cross-dressing men show their feminine side 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z He added, “You know, when I die, I hope that is all they say about me: that I made it respectable to be a waiter.” Sirio Maccioni, Whose Le Cirque Drew Manhattan’s Elite, Dies at 88 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z As it is, he's doing these respectable middleweight supporting roles. Why isn't Salt star Chiwetel Ejiofor up there with Russell Crowe? 2010-08-19T12:13:00Z Mr. Bale, turning in a respectable if oddly chipper performance under the circumstances, has the unfortunate task of playing a character who doesn’t really add up. | 'The Flowers of War': ?Flowers of War?: Zhang Yimou on Nanjing Massacre - Review 2011-12-20T19:28:33Z Does Channel 5 even count as terrestrial, or is it a mysterious third space, between the respectable status of the old school and the Wild West of the new? Golden oldies: The Golden Girls was Sex and the City on HRT 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z He repeated his statement twice, the first time through in completely respectable French, while hundreds of cameraphones lit up the place like electronic candles. Mick Jagger rocks Cannes 2010-05-19T22:10:00Z “But it’s not unheard-of to get married young in a rural area like this. And Brandon being in the military is something I think is very respectable.” A Free Wedding in the Nick of Time 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z A critic once wrote of Charles Munch: “Whether the music is illuminated or driven, it is never just respectable or indifferent. It is alive.” For the Conductor Charles Munch, Virtuosity Meant Taking Risks 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z Family dysfunction, that age-old staple of the dramatic canon, permeates the walking wounded that populate “The House of Yes” in a respectable, albeit still-gelling 25th anniversary revival at the Zephyr. 'The House of Yes' accentuates the negative 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z She’s a respectable widow with a puritanical daughter who expects her to retreat into purdah after her husband’s death has ended a marriage in which sex was “a stern, tight-lipped affair.” Books of The Times: ?Smut: Stories? by Alan Bennett ? Review 2011-12-29T23:29:06Z I get the sensation that art school is another career choice now for respectable, responsible students aiming to make lots of money. Gary Hume: 'I couldn't hold down a job. That's why I became an artist' 2013-05-18T21:00:01Z In the early to mid-nineteen-sixties, both before and after the Surgeon General issued his famous report on the dangers of tobacco, Mad took on the industry more than any “respectable” magazine. Mad Magazine's Glorious Anti-Smoking Campaign 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z “Born in the street,” Green writes, “it resists the niceties of the respectable.” Books to Watch Out For: October 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z The more respectable characters supported Merriam or tagged Sinclair as a dangerous radical. ‘Mank’ and Politics: What Really Happened in 1934 California 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z For one thing, “Book Club” came in at No. 3 this weekend at the box office, with a respectable $12 million gross. Perspective | Don’t be so quick to dismiss ‘Book Club’ — or fans of ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z Despite her attempts to be a respectable woman, Lutie’s life intersects with the seedier side of Harlem. Tayari Jones: In Praise of Ann Petry 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z Reviewing “Indecent” in The New York Times, Ben Brantley called it “one of the season’s most respectable — and respectful — plays.” Despite Tony Wins, ‘Indecent’ Announces Its Broadway Closing 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z It went from one chair lift and a small hotel to a respectable size for hosting--mostly with public funds that did benefit the resort owners in the end. With the Olympics Over, Six Former Host Cities Worth Visiting 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z Purple suggested that you lived on a more respectable “mixed” street, while pink was “comfortable” and red “well-to-do.” An Early Triumph in Information Design 2010-05-23T16:00:00Z It’s clearly indebted to Rosemary’s Baby, in which Mia Farrow’s respectable neighbours turn out to be a similar cabal of evil wrinklies, pulling the strings of her nightmare pregnancy. From Rosemary’s Baby to Hereditary: why the creepy cult in horror refuses to die 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z I can understand why: that’s not the way we conduct debates on respectable broadcast TV. The Morning After: Come Back, Loud Debate Audiences! All Is Forgiven! 2012-01-24T14:45:28Z But as the respectable if sometimes stolid revival that opened on Sunday at the Signature Theater reveals, the passing of the decades has perhaps inevitably dimmed the play’s power. Review: ‘Incident at Vichy,’ an Arthur Miller Tale Set in World War II 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z The event ended up bringing in a respectable 5.5 million people, but even more impressive was the 8.5 billion social impressions the show accumulated. Sam Smith And Iggy Azalea Lead The 2015 IHeartRadio Awards 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z Even while teaching he knew he was only trying out a respectable job, that he really wanted to act. 'The day I shared a pint or five with Pete Postlethwaite' 2011-01-06T15:48:31Z And Mr. Bolin’s lyrics for the more sincere “book” songs that propel the story, while respectable, are, in turn, overshadowed by the Mad Lib lunacy of the more bizarre found writings. ‘Found,’ a Musical Based on Literary Detritus 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z His stories are uncontaminated by principles of composition, or even by respectable generalities touching on how sentences ought to be made. One Last Book From a Virtuoso of the Short Story 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z But the sound the North/South players made was seldom less than respectable; their cause is still more so. Music Review | North/South Chamber Orchestra: New Works by Max Lifchitz and Others at Merkin Concert Hall 2010-03-09T22:31:00Z In more recent years, though, the Mikhailovsky Ballet reverted to conventional productions of the classics suited to touring, and maintained a respectable, if second-tier, reputation. Nacho Duato and Mikhailovsky Ballet 2010-08-20T14:35:00Z "They all get respectable if they last long enough." Should Danny Boyle carry the torch for the London Olympics? 2010-06-08T10:41:00Z He has transcended early directorial efforts like “Splash” and “Night Shift” — not to mention the stigma of being a child actor — to become a respectable Academy Award winner. Can Ron Howard Save ‘Solo’? 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z “Even if the defendant dresses up in a coat and tie for his trial to present a respectable image, the video — especially if considered autobiographical — could undo that in a hurry,” he said. Using Rap Lyrics as Damning Evidence Stirs Legal Debate 2014-03-26T23:01:35Z And in the end some 1,200 people turned out for Orpheus, a respectable showing for a concert of entirely new music. Music Review: Something Borrowed and Something New 2011-05-08T22:19:30Z So these hate groups are given legitimacy as though they are a responsible and respectable political movement in this country. The president of the National Urban League discusses the state of black America 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z The network has already achieved a brand-altering hit with one such show, “The Walking Dead,” and found respectable hits with “Fear the Walking Dead” and “Into the Badlands.” ‘Preacher’: Hellfire, Brimstone and the Perverse 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z I could boast of a B.A. in history and English from a respectable college, a couple of internships under my belt, not to mention a long history of employment. My crushing student debt 2013-05-18T23:00:00Z The guests sought to erase the negative connotations of a nouveau riche lifestyle, replacing them with a more respectable suggestion of lineage. Victorian socialites who used fancy dress to excess 2013-06-11T15:58:00Z The 1946 novel about a demagogue modeled on Huey Long was a nice enough copy, with a dust jacket that showed a respectable amount of age. 2009-12-03T23:00:00Z Jazz is more respectable than ever, jazz has gotten entrants into universities where previously it’d have been excluded. To know Bowie, Kendrick and Gaga, you have to know your jazz: “There is an artisan movement going on in music now just as there is in food” 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z His respectable new debut album, “Aria,” on the Impulse! label, breaks no ground but shows that he has both feet planted in the modern-jazz firmament. Jazz Listings for Nov. 13-19 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z So I show up and it’s not like they give me clothes to wear; I’ve got to try to look, you know, respectable in front of these people. I want to sleep with the sexy millennial at Apple’s Genius Bar 2014-04-13T17:30:00Z Doing so transformed the drama from a respectable adaptation into an enjoyable TV series. Best of 2016: From “The Crown” to “Superstore,” here are the 15 best series of the year 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z But she risked being turned away from respectable restaurants. To fight the status quo, the activists of 1968 harnessed the power of fashion 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Most of my friends found him charming, but impossible; most of his London friends, highly respectable South American disco dollies who liked to confine their festivities to formally licensed hours, openly disapproved of me. The one that got away: Philip Hensher 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z Maurice, meanwhile, is terrified of mouldering in respectable suburbia, dragging some poor virgin into the sepulchre with him. Laurence Scott: rereading Maurice by EM Forster 2013-07-05T10:00:01Z He added: "It's a small part, but it's a respectable part." Carla Bruni makes fleeting appearance in film trailer 2011-03-29T17:30:42Z A guy my age with a single, respectable head shot messaged “Good morning” — no verb, no punctuation, but hey, it was saliva-free. I Was Done Dating. Then I Joined a Hookup App. 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z With enough money, she promises him, they can move into a respectable area. Pier Paolo Pasolini: No saint 2013-02-22T11:01:01Z Yes, sure, respectable liberal Democrats in the media disagreed with these people. Outrage culture changed the world: “PC” critics are wrong — marriage equality happened because activists used shame and rage 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z As Scalia told an interviewer last fall: “Originalism is now regarded as a respectable approach to constitutional interpretation. And it really wasn’t 20 years ago.” ‘Uncertain Justice’ and ‘Scalia’ 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z It was promising that the queer tearjerker, "Spoiler Alert," opened to respectable box office. Why aren't cinephiles taking the Oscar bait? Salon conducted an unscientific survey 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z After Bobby Kennedy was killed, almost nothing could be kept in its respectable place anymore. Going to the Movies with Jackie Kennedy 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z In 18-49, the show was up 17% from last week and rose 27% from its prior season finale last July, marking a respectable finish for the cycle after premiering sluggishly in April. TV ratings: NBC wins with 'Talent'; 'Celebrity Wife Swap' ends higher 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z In Harry, we saw a respectable retiree as disposable to society as the New York apartment house he'd lived in for a lifetime. Paul Mazursky made incisive, edgy comedies without a mean streak 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z All of these things are certainly respectable, but do we really need a beautiful, blonde, wealthy star of several addicting prestige TV dramas to be our wellness coach? Ina Garten advises us to "drink more large cosmos" after reading Reese Witherspoon's wellness tips 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z And even the second-choice tilapia, from the United States, turned in a respectable showing. Tilapia has a terrible reputation. Does it deserve it? 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z They were designed to be respectable organizations that would enable businessmen and professionals to thwart racial desegregation. Harper Lee’s ‘Go Set a Watchman’ 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z With a respectable sampling in its debut, the true test will come in the coming weeks as "American Crime's" gritty, politically provocative narrative builds a following. ABC's 'American Crime' debuts to solid ratings 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z By bitterly opposing Hindu nationalism in its violent as well as respectable forms – she would contest the difference – she has prompted a hatred that puts her in physical danger. India's bold, brilliant daughter 2011-01-29T00:06:38Z Other people chose the more respectable movie that night. The Return of the Cannes Film Festival 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z The premiere of the show debuted to a respectable 2.7 million viewers but it declined significantly from there. ‘I Am Cait’ Has Been Canceled 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z In this look at the show's opening episodes, we still see Saul as Jimmy learning how he's just not fitting into the world of respectable law. 'Better Call Saul' trailer highlights trash can abuse 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z In her new movie, “The Meddler,” she does a perfectly respectable job as the daughter of a boundary-challenged mom; late in the film, she even laughs and cries simultaneously, no mean technical feat. Is it possible to be fair to actors we simply, irrationally just don’t like? 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z Last fall, the show averaged 9.7 million viewers - respectable, but hardly a sensation. Harder and harder to measure TV viewership 2013-02-25T14:37:10Z It feels like a ghetto — a place for works that don’t distinguish themselves in some more respectable fashion — but at least one of the films, “Zonad,” deserves wider attention. Film: The Tribeca Film Festival?s Cinemania Series Has Dark Treasures 2010-04-22T22:56:00Z Really, there’s nothing pure about either cinema — a hybrid art form stamped from birth with the mark of commerce — or cinephilia, which combines lofty aestheticism with more visceral, less respectable forms of delight. At the Telluride Film Festival, ‘Women Talking’ and Other Topics of Conversation 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z The modern south has discovered the respectable answer to its ethnic needs in the traumatic heritage of Scotland's Highland clearances. To the Ends of the Earth by TM Devine ? review 2011-08-04T08:59:01Z On Tuesday it looked impeccably respectable and modish as it presented new ballets by the world’s three most in-demand and talked-about ballet living choreographers. Dance Review: A Big House, Big Names, New Twists 2011-05-25T22:42:28Z The star, though, was a dish that every respectable Chengdu restaurant attempts: wood ear mushrooms, somehow rendered both soft and crispy, tossed with sesame oil, vinegar and fresh cilantro. Choice Tables: In Chengdu, China, Remaking Sichuan Food 2010-11-16T00:30:00Z Last year his rule changes produced the category’s most respectable lineup in some time. 2010-01-29T18:57:00Z Mr. Hill toured occasionally with a few different bands, drawing respectable crowds at classic Houston nightclubs like Irene’s, the Old Quarter and Anderson Fair. Texas Monthly: Finally, an Album for a Rock Star Who Never Was 2011-11-06T07:30:10Z Despite respectable viewing figures – “It was getting about the same as Entourage got in their first year,” says Kudrow – the show was cancelled. Lisa Kudrow on The Comeback’s groundbreaking satire 2019-06-15T04:00:00Z While the first movie got respectable reviews, "Taken 2" was panned by critics as a replay of the original. Neeson doubles the take with $50M 'Taken 2' debut 2012-10-07T16:01:09Z Mr. Gilbert had respectable jobs, for sure: for the longest period at Loeb Partners, a small investment bank, from 1984 to 1991. The Price of Privilege 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z His example made detective stories a respectable diversion. The Mystery Buffs in the White House 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z We join Anne as she and lover Mariana wrestle with convention and the pressure to make respectable marriages with men. The Secret Diaries Of Miss Anne Lister 2010-05-31T06:00:00Z “It is more respectable than a pastry chef.” Motherlode Blog: For Girls in India, the Pressure to Conform Comes From Family 2013-08-30T15:14:19Z Last year, Fox brought "24: Live Another Day" to the period, with respectable results. M. Night Shyamalan adds to the mystery on Fox's 'Wayward Pines' 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z Like their subjects, they can feel like slick movers dressed in respectable clothes. “Dr. Death” and the Perils of Making Medical Malpractice a Thriller 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Not surprisingly, he lost the election, though he made a respectable showing at the polls. Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T05:32:19Z I wanted that summer to be a demarcation in my life before I began my buttoned-up vision of respectable adulthood. When a Summer Hookup Lasts 12 Years, It’s Time to Reassess 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z It grossed $4.6 million at the box office, a respectable return for Italy, making it the 16th most successful Italian film that year. Can a funeral home breathe life into Italian cinema? 2012-12-14T16:07:30Z Here's how "respectable" politicians, pundits, and professors play the game: When invoking a grand and glorious aspect of our past, then history is all-important. Thanksgiving? Instead, let’s atone for the genocide that was committed 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z “Pat doesn’t have a mink coat,” he famously said of his wife, “but she does have a respectable Republican cloth coat.” Don’t Count Out the Cloth Coat 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z And respectable news outlets are asking questions similar to those she was ridiculed for posing on that last Monday in March. Rachel Maddow is wrong and right: The problem with trying to be Fox News for the Left 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Any respectable accounting of lost and lamented music sites opens with the Armadillo World Headquarters, the onetime armory that hosted concerts by The Clash, Willie Nelson and the Vans — Halen and Morrison — in the 1970s. 2010-02-06T05:59:00Z Like the creep in real life, the creepy critic is an imitator of good habits, trying to channel his obsessive interests or his raw enjoyment into refined, intellectually respectable forms. The Age of Creepiness 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Although journalistically respectable — and sometimes excellent — the Virginia-based company was known for its lean newsroom staffs and its emphasis on high profit margins. Perspective | When local news goes away, citizens suffer. Gannett’s megamerger will probably just inflict more pain. 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z As a classical independent Bridge will never be an industry titan, but the Starobins say that some of their discs have sold more than 125,000 copies, a respectable total by classical standards. Bridge Records Holds Onto Its Niche, With a Very Firm Grip 2011-10-09T03:30:07Z Overall, this anthology may be uneven, but it is a respectable entry in the Cities of Love series. "Berlin, I Love You" won't bring you down 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z A reader of Collins and his paler rivals taught readers to imagine what lay behind a respectable exterior. Guardian bookclub: The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale 2012-12-28T22:55:11Z They are mixed up with organised crime, deeply influenced by the protective codes and practices of the family, the church and respectable commerce, but their conformity exists alongside a half-acknowledged life of sin and crime. The 50 best films of 2019 in the US: No 2 – The Irishman 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Degen described the total as “a respectable but not ecstatic result” because most artworks fell safely in their estimate ranges. How a Mondrian Painting Sold for $51 Million at Sotheby’s 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z We weren’t even close to being in the sevens, or anywhere respectable. Competitive Tobogganing in Maine. Well, Sort Of Competitive. 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z But secrets seethed beneath the family’s respectable exterior. A former sex slave’s terrifying ordeal: “As soon as he put the blindfold on, I knew something was wrong” 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z Despite respectable ratings, this season hasn’t exactly emulated last year’s “essential viewing” status. The Voice 2013: Harrison Craig an unsurprising winner 2013-06-17T21:33:08Z Does she see Irene’s respectable life as an upstanding Black wife in Harlem and covet what she has shunned? Don’t Sleep on These 6 Performances During Awards Season 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z The first half of the program ended with Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6 in D flat, which the pianist and scholar Charles Rosen once described as “the least respectable side of Liszt.” Music Review: Steven Lin Shows His Confidence in Recital 2014-02-12T22:13:35Z Tobacco companies and arms manufacturers are no longer seen as respectable partners. Crude awakening: BP and the Tate 2010-06-30T20:31:00Z The director, who is from Argentina and lives in New York, said the movie sold about 40,000 tickets in Colombia, a sum he called respectable. 2010-01-29T17:41:00Z Recorded in Nashville with a serious crew, it finds a respectable balance between earthy and polished, sounding true to all parties involved. Playlist: Breezes of Jazz, Country and Black Metal 2011-05-06T22:09:27Z Certainly I should have if a young nubile female had entertained me in such respectable circumstances. Young Vic at 40: the Young and the restless: 2010-10-19T20:31:00Z This includes an avid crew of competing music critics, some highly respectable, others with a more tabloid sensibility. The L.A. Phil's mesmerizing Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla leaps to the Birmingham orchestra 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z Mystery Show hit #1 on iTunes, and the network’s two other shows, Reply All and Startup, have respectable followings. Alex Blumberg's podcast revolution is just beginning. NPR: this is your warning 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z Thursday night's edition was watched by a respectable 4.8 million viewers, beating the offerings on other channels. The Bill killed off due to ratings slump 2010-03-26T19:23:00Z Nicholas Angelich made his debut Thursday night in the Schumann concerto, and a very respectable debut it was. An exercise in filling an evening: Noseda, NSO are vivid in long 19th-century music 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z “The Bourne Identity” by Robert Ludlam is just another formulaic airport thriller, but the Doug Liman film is a respectable exercise in cinematic art. Bad book, great movie 2012-06-19T21:13:00Z Today he has two vineyards in the region: the Inglenook Estate, which produces premium wines, and the Francis Ford Coppola winery, which makes respectable mass-market plonk with his name on the label. Would you drink Danny DeVito’s limoncello? The big names trying to sell us booze 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Majzik found that choice unacceptable in a bar known for its craft beers and set off to find her a respectable alternative. Together for Each Other in Sickness, Health and New Locks 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z The album made its debut on the Billboard 100 chart at No. 10, with sales that were respectable but hardly earth shattering. Il Volo, the Teenage Italian Singers, Go on Tour 2011-10-02T02:30:07Z Time and again, her respectable upbringing clashes with her ferocious need for attention and independence. Shut Up and Drink Your Champagne: The Impossible Life of the Impossible Elaine Stritch 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z But at 2 or 3 or 4 million units a piece, the bestselling Wii U titles are selling at perfectly respectable levels given the number of systems in the wild. 13 Reasons I'd Still Pick Nintendo's Wii U Over the PS4 and Xbox One 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z “EveryDayCook” is an eclectic and appealing collection of 70 recipes in Mr. Brown’s regular rotation and another 30 he created to bring the book to a respectable size. Alton Brown, Showman of Food TV, Pulls Back the Curtain 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z That said, I think the overall list is too narrowly shaped by respectable, consensus favorites from two familiar traditions: Hollywood and the art film. Is Sight and Sound’s List of 100 Greatest Films Too Tasteful? 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z An Outsider Trying to Get Out of the Doldrums It’s not a compliment a punk might want to hear, but “Fat Kid Rules the World” is a relatively respectable slice of high school outsider storytelling. Movie Review: ‘Fat Kid Rules the World,’ Directed by Matthew Lillard 2012-10-04T23:43:01Z She worked hard to sophisticate him, getting him out of his hideous cheap blue suits and into respectable tweeds, refining his Midwestern accent. The Novelist Who Saw Middle America as It Really Was 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z She hopes one day to be considered respectable enough for marriage, but without a father to give her away or any known relatives, men abandon her. Night Dancer by Chika Unigwe - review 2012-08-03T21:55:05Z If you invest in these images, they will grow in value, especially if you can persuade a respectable museum to display them. As Cosby exhibit stays on view, it evokes a more critical look 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z There’s a real problem here: the assumption, expressed through Grunwald’s defensiveness, that the environmental movement is somehow not respectable. The Green Movement isn’t fringe! 2013-03-05T17:20:00Z When Prohibition ended, he and his brother opened a tavern, despite his wife’s admonition that it was not respectable. Three audacious women before audacious was in 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z My confusion, however, does point to a problem with the 2010 Festival de Cannes lineup: A whole lot of Loach and Leigh and other films and filmmakers at about that respectable but unglamorous level. Cannes this film festival be saved? 2010-05-12T18:12:00Z Ratings for "Outlaw" dwindled on Friday nights after a respectable showing last month for the first episode. `Outlaw' headed for Saturday, then cancellation 2010-10-12T03:11:00Z Nora’s momentous exit startled audiences and critics with its defiance of respectable societal and theatrical conventions. Ibsen's radical 1879 play about women's equality gets a 2017 sequel: Lucas Hnath's 'A Doll's House, Part 2' 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z A restless, fun-loving party animal, he was the black sheep of his respectable family, and was a tanguero at a time when Argentina’s national dance was still considered a sordid working-class pas de deux. Che Guevara’s brother: ‘Ernesto must be pulled from his pedestal’ 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z In February, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will consecrate a best picture, most likely choosing from among a roster of respectable, serious dramas. The Year the Studios Get It Right 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z A respectable occupation, I thought, while preparing myself for the Masterwork of Spectacular Brilliance that would eventually define me. Riff: ‘Be Wrong as Fast as You Can’ 2013-01-06T08:07:03Z That helps explain why South Shore’s outward air of respectable calm seems to buzz with expectation of the next shock to the system, the next threat to order and stability. The Unexpected Power of Your Old Neighborhood 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z Are these guys as respectable as my guy? Rep. Jim Jordan’s “locker room talk” denial: Waving off sex abuse complaints shows limits o... 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z The result of his vision is a respectable collection of clothes, intelligently staged in a show that could teach a thing or two to brands with much greater archives and resources. Fashion Review: Chloé at 60: Forward and Back 2012-10-01T18:49:38Z Rubinstein was determined to change that—she made painting your face respectable. Doll’s Play 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Dancing in drag was not considered something that respectable people did. Stars and Stripes (and Trocks) Forever 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z But the bottom line is that Büchner's play is about the "terrible fatalism of history" where this perfectly respectable production is more concerned with a confrontation of temperamental opposites. Theatre review 2010-07-23T00:13:00Z The word “respectable” appears no less than four times in the piece. The Green Movement isn’t fringe! 2013-03-05T17:20:00Z Is strong becoming the respectable face of skinny? Has strong become the respectable face of skinny for young women? 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z But once Hollywood studios transitioned to sound, she said, they cleaned house and reshaped their image to parallel “respectable businesses” such as the male-dominated Wall Street. The Golden Globes snubbed women directors again, but the Library of Congress just honored a record number of them 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z Neither the noble nor the respectable lower-middle-class identity is enough for her, and whatever their class positions, both men are morally and spiritually beneath her. Movie Review: ?The Deep Blue Sea,? Directed by Terence Davies 2012-03-22T21:33:50Z Crusey can think of one time when she wishes she had said something — that day many years ago when a clergyman touched her during a visit to a “very respectable” church. Sharing stories from decades ago, older women find their place in #MeToo 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z At this point, the hours of free time a child from a respectable Chinese family enjoys amounts to zero. China’s little emperors – the children without siblings 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z If his parents were anything other than upright, respectable citizens, no one at the time wrote it down. The White City Devil’s early life: “I think that he would have killed her” 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z Occasionally, they'll interact with a more respectable figure like an etiquette coach or family photographer who will barely conceal their horror beneath arictus mask of politeness. The harsh reality behind Here Comes Honey Boo Boo 2013-05-20T16:14:30Z “She was uninterested in conventions of social behaviour and an ordinary, respectable life,” says Andrew. The love at the heart of our family’s wartime secret 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z The albums had respectable sales and reviews, but nothing like the feverish reception of Jagged Little Pill. Alanis Morissette: from queen of alt rock to Guardian advice columnist 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z But as the age of the respectable TV Muslim passes, so too does the burden of representation begin to lift for the rest of us. ‘Ramy’ and the New American Muslims of TV 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z And then in "A Dangerous Method" you play a very respectable intellectual, Carl Jung. A Minute With: Michael Fassbender on sex and "Shame" 2011-11-30T10:09:57Z He decides that he wants to be a chef, a realization that many other young Americans were coming to around the same time, though they, like Marder, had been raised for more respectable employment. How American Chefs in the 1970s and ’80s Created a Revolution 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z But a single woman of good fortune is always respectable and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.” Returning to Life with Jane Austen’s “Emma” 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z Even Gladys, struggling to be taken seriously as a young adult by her mother, who has not yet allowed her to come out into society, wears a respectable bump at the back of her frocks. The best character on "The Gilded Age" is the bustle, adding an extra party to the back 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z There's a drabness to a lot of respectable British culture that American artists just are not capable of. Why middlebrow Americana will always beat 'good' British art 2010-07-06T10:19:00Z This year’s average is a respectable 1.12 million an episode, a 35 percent increase on the season before. New York Fashion Week: Brad Goreski, the Zelig of Fashion Week 2010-09-18T01:33:00Z Other productions from the official lineup were less invigorating, but together they made for a respectable lap of honor for the Avignon Festival’s departing artistic leader, the French writer and director Olivier Py. Avignon Festival Gets Its Buzz Back 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z CANNES, France — James Franco's filmography is starting to look like a book shelf - and a very respectable one, at that. Cannes: James Franco builds a bookish filmography 2013-05-22T16:10:19Z She subsequently led the respectable career of a character actress for three decades, appearing in television sitcoms, occasional films and theater productions on and Off Broadway. Marcia Lewis, Stage Actress and Singer, Dies at 72 2010-12-22T10:23:00Z ABC’s period drama about the Space Age and the lives of the seven wives of NASA’s Project Mercury astronauts got off to a respectable, but not rocket propelling start last week. ABC's 'The Astronaut Wives Club' Second Episode Sputters In Ratings But Captures Key Historical Era 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z Maybe it’s because we cannot bear to face today’s news without a comedy chaser that we want to believe the past is another, more respectable country. Theatrical Stumbles of Historic Proportions 2010-12-10T16:02:00Z Even when hemlines began to rise in the Swinging Sixties, the idea that a respectable woman sat with her knees pressed together stuck. Why this orthopedic surgeon insists women should ‘sit like a man’ 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z ‘They went up against the incredibly successful and strongly established Skylanders of Activision and put in a very respectable competitive performance.” Disney’s Troubled Gaming Unit Finds Success With Infinity 2014-01-17T17:36:41Z The real man was much more complex, the son of a respectable pastor, well-read, fluent in three languages, who began his artistic career as an art dealer. Review | Vincent Van Gogh’s image is cemented in our cultural memory. His letters complicate the view. 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z And that’s exactly the vibe of “Notes of a Native Song,” Stew said, an ode to “the real Baldwin, not that very respectable, PBS great-moments-in-black-history-during-February Baldwin.” Stew & Heidi take on James Baldwin in 'Notes of a Native Song' 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z But any reporter aspiring to do solid journalism or general respectable work should not wait for those winds to shift. How Fox's dismayed "news" staff can learn from the Deadspin exodus 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z But organizers of the World Beer Pong Tour hope the national tournament and $50,000 worth of prize money will help put a respectable face on the activity. Cups runneth over at world beer pong event in NJ 2010-06-17T11:46:00Z He moved home and began custom building lifted trucks — pickup trucks with super tall wheels — and posted videos about them on TikTok, eventually amassing a respectable 60,000 followers. How Bailey Zimmerman Charmed Nashville 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z It's constructed with respectable Hollandaise and carefully poached eggs, neither of which could undermine the crisp shell of the shrimp-studded mashed-potato patty. Lake Forest Bar & Grill: There's a deal at every meal 2010-09-30T20:40:00Z Standalone films tend to prefer the slightly more respectable mantle of "remake", where the act structure of the source material is often followed fairly closely. Reboots are all the rage - so which films would you like to see updated? 2011-03-18T15:00:00Z "Battle Creek" premiered in March to a respectable 7.9 million total viewers, according to Nielsen. CBS cancels first-season dramas 'Battle Creek,' 'Stalker' 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z They tend to mock the respectable rules and morals of society. It’s worse than Jerry Seinfeld says: PC is undermining free speech, expression, liberties 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z It’s one of his better performances and he earned a respectable 23 points, but I’m pretty sure some of those points were for knowing who the Rolling Stones are. Dancing with the Stars Watch: KISS and Tell 2012-04-10T12:30:12Z When slightly more respectable journalistic outlets repeat CNW numbers — and they often do — those figures get both murkier and more authoritative. The Big Secret of Celebrity Wealth (Is That No One Knows Anything) 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z Are fantasies of violence and danger really more respectable than fantasies of courtship and female self-empowerment? A Roundup of the Season’s Romance Novels 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z Why had all the respectable publishers rejected him? The Remarkable Forgotten Life of H. T. Tsiang 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z I thought our dinner hour was respectable, but a valley acquaintance chuckled afterward and called it “the foreigners’ hour.” Skiing the Spanish Pyrenees 2012-01-20T20:30:20Z The goal is to create a sustainable business that allows her to, among other things, offer her employees respectable wages and health insurance. On the Cajun Coast, a Chef Grapples With Threats to a Seafood Tradition 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z I borrowed my dad's clothes trying to disguise myself as a respectable citizen, but they picked me out immediately and started following me around the gift shop! Jello Biafra: 'Obama owes Occupy big time' 2013-04-25T15:54:10Z Real things are at stake for characters who expect a respectable reward for labor and loyalty. Review: In ‘Skeleton Crew,’ Making Quick Work of Hard Labor 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z The Los Angeles Sunset Strip theatre run by Cher in Burlesque is a thoroughly respectable place. Burlesque - review 2010-12-19T00:05:55Z But for now, we have “Untouchable,” a respectable and all-too-real introduction to a chilling chapter of a Hollywood horror story. ‘Untouchable’ Review: A Documentary of the Harvey Weinstein Case 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z “It was considered a respectable skill,” he said. He Knows His Way Around a Half-Butt (That’s Snooker Talk) 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z But knowing that the painter was a black freedman prompts one to speculate about the relationship between the solidly respectable sitter and the socially marginal man who immortalised him. Playing tag 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z These songs are confections designed to get on the radio today, not to be respectable curios, bits of added-value for album-reissue projects. ArtsBeat: Michael Jackson Returns, at Least on Record 2014-05-09T16:41:06Z Santo Domingo: We are not a “buy now, wear now” model, so we aim to help women shop in a very dignified and respectable environment. | Lauren Santo Domingo and Aslaug Magnusdottir 2011-02-10T16:03:56Z His successors have been considerably more respectable, providing performances that have thrilled and captivated movie audiences over decades. Who is the best Oscar winning lead actor of all time? 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z Without any hope of a respectable job and being desperate to ensure her son’s future, Elise accepts a position in the home of Lord Philippe Lavay, an obstinate aristocrat with little hope for his future. March’s best romance: ‘Chase Me,’ The Deal’ and ‘It Started With a Scandal’ 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z By now, with some players returning from previous years, the American ensemble is a well-oiled machine, performing at what would be a respectable level for a professional orchestra. In These Orchestras, Youth Meets Musical Beauty 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z The fight of parents to try and kill it off, make it respectable. Falling for Roddy Doyle 2010-05-30T13:37:00Z His desire to stay in the older quarters speaks to an appreciation of things past, a respectable quality for someone who owes much to the achievements of his predecessors. Lachlan Murdoch takes control of Fox Corp. But how will he deal with President Trump? 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z I was in Tuscaloosa, Alabama when the story broke and you can't believe the obscenities hurled at Taylor by the most "respectable" people. Elizabeth Taylor, always leading lady 2011-03-24T15:29:00Z "Thor" earned a respectable $65.7 million for the entire weekend, while "The Avengers" brought in far more than that in a single day. 'Avengers' scores No. 2 opening day with $80.5M 2012-05-05T19:01:04Z No respectable shelter would let him adopt an animal, although there is nothing preventing him from purchasing one from an unscrupulous breeder. Ask Amy: Husband sends marriage to the dogs 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z In the spirit of the Nixonian “respectable Republican cloth coat,” he highlighted the provenance of his designs. The Dresser Behind Ann Romney 2012-10-12T23:58:55Z Last year’s awardees were said to have won “genius” grants by the Times, the Washington Post, and the Atlantic, among other respectable publications. Jumbo: The MacArthur “Genius” Grants 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z Here’s the problem with that: News doesn’t care about being respectable. The New York Times’ F-word problem 2012-08-10T20:15:00Z Some of them were quite respectable – Penguin classics, Penguin and Pan fiction. Julian Barnes: my life as a bibliophile 2012-06-29T21:55:18Z Just because something has appeared in a respectable book doesn't make it true. Noise by David Hendy and The Story of Music by Howard Goodall – review 2013-03-08T10:01:01Z People across racial lines deemed the Black woman with straight hair as more “polished, refined and respectable” and “more strongly recommended” them for an interview, the study found. What Ketanji Brown Jackson’s sisterlocks mean to Black women 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z You might say that Roth is very respectable all-rounder, and one who hits a home run when it comes to that crucial intangible of active, passionate joy. This Dolly hits all the high notes 2010-12-28T15:32:00Z Which is the only respectable place for a writer to be. A Polymath Author With More Ideas Than He Can Handle 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z But he's shown a respectable inclination for adult-minded comedies such as "Dan in Real Life," "Date Night" and "Little Miss Sunshine." Out of 'The Office,' Steve Carell turns his focus to film 2011-07-27T22:32:04Z Or that leftie architects should take modernist architecture, once seen as a tool of social progress, and use it to make such development look respectable. One Hyde Park ? review 2011-01-23T00:05:43Z For good measure, he relayed a story about how the hunger for more Sherlock Holmes led to another "lost" Conan Doyle story being "discovered" and published in the very respectable Saturday Evening Post. 'Lost' Sherlock Holmes tale probably isn't Arthur Conan Doyle's, expert says 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z It’s known as the “respectable addiction,” but this doesn’t quite capture the prevailing attitude toward the condition. “Workaholism” is real 2012-10-02T22:38:00Z It is tempting to view Burton and Bonham Carter as a pair of awkward shapes that somehow fit together; the outlandish kooks who spooked respectable society. Helena Bonham Carter on 'witty' David Cameron, 'weirdo' Lars von Trier and why Tim Burton won't watch a romcom 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z So we went to a house in a respectable part of Memphis. When Walter Hopps Met Andy Warhol and Frank Stella 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z She returned to South Carolina, married a respectable man, and had a further eight children in addition to the two she had by Rackam. Anne of the Indies forces facts to walk the plank 2012-07-26T07:53:00Z Particularly pleasing was the Prince, or Don Ramiro, of Maxim Mironov, a tall tenor with a gentle whitish sound in a most respectable company debut. In Washington National Opera’s ‘Cinderella,’ parts are better than sum 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z However, given the respectable—and brave—nature of the relationship, they should, Lloyd asserted, be willing to accept it. The secret history of gay marriage 2013-09-08T14:30:00Z Though he practiced a respectable profession, the size of his family—his wife, a widow, had three children when they married, and then they had three more—meant that he had little money. The Forgotten Work of Jessie Redmon Fauset 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z The creators of the first superheroes were outsiders — the children of immigrants or Jewish refugees from Europe — and their creations were marginal to everything respectable in the culture. ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ and the Modern Comic Book Movie 2012-06-27T16:13:49Z “But I don’t think any of these products in any way makes the user look less respectable, or foolish, or less manly.” Skin Deep: Men?s Cosmetics Becoming a Bull Market 2010-09-01T22:23:00Z The novel was an attempt to cast new light on the complex and often confused moral interiority of the respectable working class during a moment of change. Stan Barstow obituary 2011-08-01T19:06:48Z After lowballing his scores for the past two weeks, the judges finally recognized his hard work, and he earned a respectable 32/40. 'Dancing With the Stars': Pitbull Gets Caliente on Latin Night 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z Responder should give a positive response with a good hand and such a respectable suit. Bridge: World Computer-Bridge Championship - Bridge 2011-11-17T00:10:06Z Also new, at No. 6, was the Walt Disney nature documentary "African Cats," with a respectable $6.4 million. "Rio" still No. 1 at world box office 2011-04-24T17:47:44Z But she spent her early years in the respectable working class, daughter of a blacksmith and the wife of a printer. Review | Jack the Ripper’s identity has been endlessly scrutinized. His victims were largely forgotten. 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z He provides ample textual evidence, from Shakespeare on, that this is a perfectly respectable option — and so unconscious that even those who condemn it invoke it without noticing. English’s Pronoun Problem Is Centuries Old 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z But comics are still, he suspects, not quite respectable in Britain. Philip Pullman: Why I love comics 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z “Give India five years, you’ll really see a respectable recognition of conservation done in this country.” Special Report: Art in Perspective: The Infancy of Art Restoration in India 2010-11-16T12:30:00Z As this country's first secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton would surely be proud that the new musical named after him is making a respectable mint on Broadway. 'Hamilton' musical making a mint on Broadway 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z It showed respectable staying power with a 37% decline from its first weekend in wide release and has totaled $45.2 million domestically. 'Jumanji' stays strong, topping '12 Strong,' 'Den of Thieves' with $20 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z I was only able to find one from the editors of GearGuide–a site that has reviewed a very respectable number of pieces of gear over the past two years. A great all-around backpack 2012-07-29T16:00:00Z They spent big on mansions and married into respectable bourgeois Catalan families suffering from cashflow problems. Barcelona’s slave trade history revealed on new walking tour 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z The current production checks many boxes, and is in many ways respectable, but it doesn’t offer anything fresh enough to break down that sense of intimidation — even among the singers. Review | An ‘Aida’ that aspires to give street cred to grandiosity 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z And if he admits this publicly, he will seem unworthy of the vast family of respectable readers he has spent a lifetime putting together. Imagined Meetings With Joyce, Dickens, Hardy, and Lawrence 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z And that provides a respectable excuse not to drink. Your parenting is the problem: We spend more time and money on parenting than ever — but we are getting worse 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z My suspicion is that, given the choice, the Academy tends to gravitate towards the respectable end of the nominees' bench. Oscars 2013: which films will prevail? 2013-01-08T11:54:30Z After all, this is the voting body that curved last year’s perfectly respectable best-drama choice, “A Star Is Born,” and selected “Bohemian Rhapsody” instead. 2020 Golden Globes Predictions: Which Movies Will Win? 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z The respectable Katharine Gibbs Secretarial School took over three floors of the hotel for its students, as it filled up with young women “determined to type their way out of small-town America”. Waking up to New York: secrets of the world's most famous women-only hotel 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z But, as soon as it was attached to Pence, it became respectable fodder for widespread coverage. Men going their own way: the toxic male separatist movement that is now mainstream 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z However, most agree that no respectable adult should dishonor their namesake by using plastic cups from fast food restaurants as lotas in their homes. Secrets of the Muslim bathroom 2012-07-10T01:00:00Z No one was outrageous; it was all desperately respectable. Russell Brand rules Question Time's clash of the egos 2013-06-21T00:13:16Z After all, in the US, Japan and France graphic novels are popular, and even respectable. Philip Pullman: Why I love comics 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z I wore a dress, though under most other circumstances, my mother insisted jeans and a white T-shirt were perfectly respectable, as long as they were clean. The most important things my 95-year-old mother taught me 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z What if we amped up the recipe to all but guarantee a respectable rise? A crusty, comforting loaf of rustic bread in just one hour — really 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z But to some users, Molly still feels like a more respectable substance than others. Molly: Pure, but Not So Simple 2013-06-21T21:15:29Z As Robert Morace notes, it "revived interest in the short story on the part of publishers and readers, making it both commercially more viable and critically more respectable". A brief survey of the short story part 45: John Cheever 2012-11-16T11:05:54Z Think of the wanton liberties that have been taken with respectable plays over the years in the name of showbiz, box office, star power and intellectual theorizing. London Theater Journal: On Artifice and Oxygen, Earnest and Jeeves 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z She is the latest target of what Owen Jones , author of Chavs: The Demonisation of the Working Class, identifies as a class hatred that "has become an integral, respectable part of modern British culture". Cher Lloyd: 'I don't want to be a joke' 2011-07-27T21:00:02Z Once we tallied up the rankings, the averages were in a fairly small range: All our samples were perfectly respectable, and they all racked up some good scores and some bad. You can spend a lot on ‘true’ cinnamon, but does it taste better than the rest? 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z Singers who were bashed by the judges during semifinals seemingly surprised the panel with their respectable renditions of Stones songs. Rolling Stones tunes supply 'Idol' surprises 2010-03-17T03:11:00Z I come from this sort of academic, working-middle-class family where you make something respectable of your life, do something that matters, and being a starving artist is not that. Kerry Washington: notes on a Scandal 2013-06-28T22:00:00Z “I think they wanted somebody who would be a corporate thug of some sort, or perhaps a doctor or lawyer or something respectable,” he told the television interviewer Charlie Rose. Edward Albee, Trenchant Playwright Who Laid Bare Modern Life, Dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Like any respectable French classic worth its salt, boeuf bourguignon benefits from a bouquet garni of bay, thyme and parsley, and a little garlic. How to cook the perfect boeuf bourguignon 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Among them was the decline of Latin and the rise of Italian as a respectable medium for intellectual and literary endeavor. Analysis | At the Met, beautiful paintings that won’t love you back 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z In contrast, they claimed, the children the tavern girl’s partner had with his good Quaker wife were all virtuous and respectable citizens. In an Age of Gene Editing and Surrogacy, What Does Heredity Mean? 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Her shrewd caricatures of these supposedly respectable doctors feel justified, audits of their toxic psychology. ‘The Patient Gloria’ Review: A Theatrical Remedy for Toxic Therapy 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z I feel like what’s so respectable as an artist, when I see other people, is when they’re honest and an open book. Becky G Had No Idea She Was Auditioning For 'Power Rangers' 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z This year, I'm talking about "The deterministic monkey theorem", which perhaps doesn't sound quite as serious and respectable as, say, a PhD course on Nonlinear Dynamics. Why I'm going to the Discworld convention 2010-08-26T11:20:00Z He explained, patiently, that they were respectable middle-class people. The problem with “mansplaining” 2012-08-20T16:38:00Z We understand that marriages that look respectable can also hide a lot. What “Gone Girl” Is Really About 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z Her people—for the most part neat, respectable, and high-functioning—are people of appetite and passion. What We're Reading: DeLillo, 'The Examined Life,' 'Olive Kitteridge' 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z I find this very respectable, as a way of freedom of thinking.” Thierry Mugler, a Designer Transformed 2010-04-30T20:00:00Z She took refuge in study and, spurred on by parents who encouraged traditional, respectable careers, aspired to become a doctor. Insecure’s Yvonne Orji: 'I’m 33 years old and I’m a virgin' 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z It's as if Creed wants to make sure his art never becomes respectable, which it easily could: many of the works here are gorgeous drawings and paintings. Prickly customers: Martin Creed and Richard Wright in Edinburgh 2010-08-04T20:31:00Z I’m a perfectly respectable woman who knows what she wants and has the ability to pay for it. Why Won’t Anyone Help Me in This Sex Shop? 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z "He made this kind of paranoid conspiracy theory respectable," says New York writer Arthur Goldwag, author of "Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies." 50 years on, finding profit in `truth' on JFK case 2013-05-11T16:07:15Z He recanted his criticism of the regime in 1971 as a broken man, unable to find respectable employment. Feet of fire 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z While that’s a respectable profit, it was no blockbuster, and it didn’t trigger an onslaught of movies starring Asians. The international movie market is transforming Hollywood 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z Its 1947 premiere ran nine months — respectable enough in itself but a fraction the engagement of its pioneering predecessors; the title has languished since largely as a musical theater footnote. Theater Review: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s ‘Allegro’ 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z The idol producers shamelessly milked a minor accident for drama, replaying a moment when 16-year-old Symone Zaire Black fainted after singing a very respectable version of Otis Redding’s “Sitting on the Dock of the Bay.” ArtsBeat: 'American Idol' Watch: Engineered Drama Trumps Actual Singing 2012-02-10T16:24:35Z I rattle off my résumé of respectable community board and committee positions, and teaching I do on the side. Motherlode Blog: With Grown Children, What Am I Besides 'Mom'? 2012-06-24T22:00:39Z For the past decade the veteran comedy has acted as a signature brand for E4 and repeats still attract a respectable 200,000 to 300,000 viewers, six and a half years after it ended. E4: where does it go from here? 2011-01-18T07:54:10Z Shy and retiring, a respectable, conservative, middle-class homeowner, Bilbo Baggins likes nothing better than curling up with his wooden pipe, a cup of tea and a slice of cake. The King's Speech: How George VI's simple domesticity made him the king his country needed in time of war 2011-01-02T00:05:01Z “Or it could be that, by adjusting your conception of God, you could harmonize your beliefs, so that they fit together in an intellectually coherent and respectable way.” The Sage of Yale Law 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z At present Odenkirk’s character still has the potential to be a decent lawyer, and he proved that by landing a cushy job at a respectable boutique law firm. “You will pay”: Season 3 of “Better Call Saul” accelerates into the dark 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z Wines are respectable, but the most rewarding thing to drink is soju. Restaurant Review: Oiji in the East Village 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z In any case, this was a perfectly respectable “Rigoletto,” with some powerful young voices. Review | How you’ve grown: Wolf Trap Opera offers full ‘Rigoletto’ 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z The 2013 show, touring through the end of this month at the Kennedy Center as its respectable Broadway tenure ends this Sunday, is skillfully written and lightly performed. Tony winner ‘Gentleman’s Guide’ is good but not a killer 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z “It’s actually a sign that we’ve all matured, and now it’s perfectly respectable to have an exaggerated, farcical representation of two people who are gay,” Mr. McKellen said. ‘Vicious’ on PBS Follows Two Gay Characters 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z Enamored and inspired, he vows to become a respectable suitor, stop drinking and get a job. Marilynne Robinson’s New Book Explores Love in Segregated America 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z In the past, it’s proven to be an adventurous traveler that jets off to Bali instead of accompanying me to respectable conferences in Finland, for example. The journey to confront my rapist 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z Top billing in the film went to Barry Pepper, who has had a respectable career since then, and Seth Green, who has not. What makes a film an albatross for an actor? 2011-07-07T21:30:01Z England’s new hero–mild-mannered but inwardly vain and controlling–decides that the best way to keep magic “respectable” is to keep it to himself. Review: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell Brings the Old-Time Magic 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Next, he must be able to create a respectable sauce. Motherlode Blog: Creating a Coming-of-Age Ritual 2012-07-18T13:55:46Z Photograph: Alamy At a time when respectable women didn’t walk the streets of London unaccompanied, Kingsley was exploring uncharted parts of west Africa alone. Top 10 inspiring female adventurers 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z They earned a respectable 27 for their synchronized tango. Dancing with the Stars Watch: Putting the Classy in Classical 2012-05-01T12:30:56Z You took down what was said in a respectable account, and that began to influence my blogging. Washington?s New Brat Pack Masters Media 2011-03-25T21:24:46Z The film skips a respectable sojourn the real trio enjoyed running a ranch in Buenos Aires from 1901, because that would be boring. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: surprise – it's not total horse pucky 2013-07-11T11:36:34Z The result is a relatively respectable chicken quesadilla that not only sates you in the moment, but satisfies a core value of "waste not, want not." My number one parenting trick? Always save those two last bites 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z “I don’t argue with the observation,” he said, adding that he had “assembled quite a respectable collection before I had any money.” A Sherlock Holmes Mystery at the Grolier Club 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z A sensation of a peculiar nature, anyway: The video’s gotten a respectable 2 million views since it was posted last Thursday, which is great, but no “Gangnam Style.” Making viral TV: How “Too Many Cooks” and “Over the Garden Wall” work their hypnotic magic 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z This poem is about Hugo's scorn for the respectable, not about Wallace, Idaho. A road-tripping re-examination of the poems of Richard Hugo 2010-06-04T20:01:00Z “When he is called out on these falsehoods by a respectable historian, even evangelical historians who for the most part share his faith, he refuses to admit to his errors.” What gets declassified? 2012-05-31T21:09:00Z As a young boy, Faraz is taken from his mother, who works in Lahore’s red light district, and sent to live with distant relatives in a more respectable part of the city. 18 New Works of Fiction to Read This Spring 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z He selected material primarily from the pages of respectable scientific journals and eschewed Fort’s dramatic taste in titles, instead referring to his research blandly as the Sourcebook Project. He saw the scientific promise in the paranormal, but now his legacy could be lost 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z Horror remake Poltergeist debuted in fourth space with a respectable $23m. Worrying future for Tomorrowland as it tops US box office with weak $40.7m 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z Like any respectable piece of lore, this was not what it appeared to be. Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Shark? 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z At the end, Brooks tearfully vows to make his restaurants fairer, happier, more respectable places to work. BBC Election 70 2010-10-09T05:45:00Z Oscar’s roster is respectable but limited: even the “international” Lion is a US co-production. And the real winner is… welcome to the Observer’s alternative Oscars 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z With a little cranking on the winch to trim our sails, we were moving at a respectable clip of eight knots. Exploring the far-flung natural beauty of the Bahamas’ ‘out’ islands 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z I also found DH Lawrence thrilling, in a healthier and more respectable kind of way. Best literary sex scenes: writers' favourites 2012-07-06T21:55:26Z In this context, a slim 19% drop for represents a highly respectable result, especially after its relatively soft £3.46m opening the previous weekend. Monsters University stays on course for decent box-office total 2013-07-24T10:39:14Z They earn a very respectable 29 out of 30 for their jive, so sadly there was no need for Vince to tag in and slam Len with a folding chair. Dancing with the Stars Watch: The Final Four 2012-05-15T13:43:24Z But he remains, if not marginal, a respectable figure on the sidelines of 20th-century American culture. Review | Charles White, who made some of this country’s greatest art, transcends labels 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z It's natural to think of Sir Henry as an admirable fellow for having established this most respectable of Christmas customs. Christmas cards allow us to say much less to a greater number of people 2010-12-12T00:07:00Z I might have even been 13, but let’s just say 14, to be somewhat respectable. ‘My First Gay Bar’: Rachel Maddow, Andy Cohen and Others Share Their Coming-Out Stories 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z So it seems no coincidence that he worked particularly hard at finding hard-working respectable people like himself to put on his list, and that a large proportion of those people are British. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Author Rebecca Stott on 'Darwin's Ghosts' 2012-08-08T16:44:34Z For a while, “Jesus Calling” seemed to follow the same pattern: In the first three years after it was published in 2004, it sold a respectable but unremarkable 59,000 copies. Sarah Young, 77, Dies; Created an Empire Around a Christian Devotional 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z You may ask why respectable professionals would go on such a show in the first place, or why a respected museum would host one. Another Once-in-a-Lifetime Chance at an Art Career 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z The year was 1976, and many critics complained that Ms. Walters’s rise represented the fall of respectable television journalism, that her focus on personality and personal lives was too soapy and shallow for serious-minded viewers. The TV Watch: Barbara Walters’s Career Mirrors the Trajectory of TV 2013-05-14T01:27:11Z Still, Mad Men holds a respectable 15 Emmys wins. Why 'Game of Thrones' Won Over 'Mad Men' at the Emmys 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z And perhaps her latest "huh?" effort led to the respectable, but not sold-out draw at Metro on Saturday. At Metro, Liz Phair circles back with confidence and flair 2011-01-23T17:20:00Z The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in the pit are all thoroughly respectable musically, if only there was any dramatic spark. Don Giovanni 2010-07-05T20:30:00Z And it ended with the first live performance of Smith’s “Imaginary Pancake,” which had a respectable debut online early in the pandemic but truly roared in person. At 75, the Ojai Music Festival Stays Focused on the Future 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z It offers a way forward from the lawn-driven model without radically upsetting the common view of what constitutes a respectable domestic landscape. The venerable Philadelphia Flower Show lets its hair down 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z Throughout American history, an endless procession of respectable men operated according to Breckinridge’s rules, but they had never been forced to stand up in court and defend themselves while the whole nation listened in. A Predatory Congressman, His Jilted Lover and a Gilded Age Lawsuit That Foreshadowed #MeToo 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z About ½ cup supplies 7 grams of protein, 3 grams of fiber and 20% of your daily vitamin E for a respectable 160 calories. Healthy Convenience Store Foods for Your Next Road Trip 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z Two-handers, as two-person plays are nicknamed in the trade, have a respectable history and a particular appeal — and not just for acting classes. Two-Character Plays Are Highlights of Theater Season 2010-05-08T02:40:00Z When Mr. Vibskov sticks to one fabric, he’s easy — respectable even. Critical Shopper: Now, Something for the Body Eccentric 2011-05-03T21:28:42Z Fowler wooed the respectable Jean slowly, and his courtship almost foundered when her wandering husband begged for a second chance. The coldly brilliant crime novel, ‘GBH,’ by Ted Lewis 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z However, most do believe that Act Up in Britain paved the way for more “respectable”, or at least organised, advocacy groups to make their case in the corridors of power. Giant condoms and buckets of fake blood: the true story of Aids activists Act Up 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z That none of us is fertile means that none of us is consistently firing those magical hormones that we’d like to associate with women, or at least with respectable women. Mommy has anger issues! My daughters are pre-adolescent, I’m pre-menopausal 2014-05-10T23:00:00Z For Sandy, the pressure to be respectable comes from Aunt Tempy, Aunt Hager’s oldest child, who avoids visiting her washerwoman mother in an effort to preserve the illusion of her middle-class upbringing. How Langston Hughes Brought His Radical Vision to the Novel 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z Especially since her latest book is based on the theory that “bad behavior can be so much more illuminating than the world of the respectable conformist.” Manspreading, Renaissance-Style: 2 Experts Weigh In on Etiquette of Centuries Past 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z These women were followed later in the same year by, as legal historian Judith Kelleher Schaffer described them, “other more respectable women.” When prostitution wasn’t a crime 2013-02-20T06:34:00Z Excel in a respectable, lucrative vocation — but don’t neglect the kids. Review | Societal expectations? Please. For the female protagonists in these 3 debut novels, it’s time to break the mold. 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z In the latter half of the 19th century, the area dabbled in gambling but later turned respectable with office buildings, residential developments and hotels. Amazon chose two locations for its new headquarters. Now, we go explore them. 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z Playing a pair of seemingly respectable agony aunts, their audience’s questions solicit filthy answers, dressed up as the kind of advice that comes from women in buttoned-up cardigans. The 50 best podcasts of 2018 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z Orwell criticized the writing of his time for vagueness and euphemism, claiming that official-sounding jargon was “designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” The Hedonic Appeal of “Dreyer’s English” 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z His skills also earned him a commission to render Jayne Mansfield's chest more "respectable" for a TV programme in the late 1950s. Bob Cuff obituary 2010-04-14T17:37:00Z Horace and Me is a little like Withnail & I for toffs, not thesps, with the love that dare not speak its name adopting the respectable cover of a dead language. Horace and Me by Harry Eyres – revew 2013-07-07T09:00:00Z He remains a respectable elder, lacking the tough chicness of Prada or the raw raunch of Versace. Critical Shopper: Critical Shopper: A Treasury of Textures at the Renovated Giorgio Armani Store 2012-03-13T22:23:55Z Shams made Rumi question the expectations for his respectable and predictable future. Rumi: America’s favorite poet, from Persia, with love 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z He asked McCarthy: “What does this say about the rush to judgement by, in large part, politicians and by what was supposed to be a respectable media going into this thing?” A defining image: Rittenhouse nearly crumbles out of picture 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z What better way of throwing sceptics off the scent than disseminating the confessions of an ex-man in black like Richard Doty, in documentaries, and articles in respectable new organisations – like this one. The real Men in Black, Hollywood and the great UFO cover-up 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z On the other hand, this independent surge has also created a new class of culturally respectable directors and films, an ostensible art cinema that flows into the mainstream. The Best Movies of 2014 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z And though "You're Next" did respectable business, bringing in more than $18 million — not bad for a movie made for less than $1 million — it wasn't quite the smash that some expected. 'The Guest' filmmakers Adam Wingard, Simon Barrett going beyond horror 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z After much more debate, he went back into the dressing room and changed into a respectable gray sweater and winter coat, a metamorphosis from oversize bald baby to dignified academic. Olympians Stand Tall in Their Onesies 2014-02-21T21:50:07Z It’s an entirely respectable adaptation, which of course is a large part of the problem. Television Review: ?Stephen King?s Bag of Bones,? on A&E - Review 2011-12-10T00:29:04Z Robertson provided a respectable accompaniment to the concerto, but seemed more engaged in Bartók's Cantata Profana, which opened the second half. BBCSO/Robertson 2010-08-23T11:10:00Z Years later, a bishop and newly respectable, Aurelius Augustinus — St. Augustine — began to plumb his past in his “Confessions.” In Letters to the World, a New Wave of Memoirs Draws on the Intimate 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Some of the most intellectually respectable among our founding fathers were supremacists, as were many establishment scientists and philosophers in the 19th century. What is “white supremacy”? A brief history of a term, and a movement, that continues to haunt America 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z Britain's Stephen Merchant gets the best of things, as one of their friends; he has a respectable joke about Björk and gets a "deleted" scene of his own which plays over the final credits. Hall Pass ? review 2011-03-10T15:32:00Z "They're making the banjo respectable, which is not an easy feat, and I'm so glad it's finally happening," Harris joked. Emmylou, Mumford & Sons team for 'CMT Crossroads' 2012-09-26T21:50:09Z Pickled vegetables and a wispy, refreshing cabbage slaw accompany the respectable salmon teriyaki. The expected and unexpected appear on menu of Lynnwood's O2 Sushi 2012-10-18T20:14:07Z Did the “respectable” aesthetic of the white, middle-class founders translate across lines of class and race? The Sex Toy Shops That Switched On a Feminist Revolution 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z White Noise in the East Village IF a flamboyant vampire were thirsty for a gin and tonic, White Noise would be a respectable place for a pre-coffin nightcap. Bo?te: White Noise in the East Village 2010-12-01T19:47:00Z "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" angered respectable people when it came out and still stirs a fuss 126 years later. Mark Twain remains censored, and uncensored 2011-01-07T19:08:15Z But whether any respectable publisher will think so, that's another matter. Iain Banks: the final interview 2013-06-15T07:07:55Z I am talking about the fondue ceremony, which many people over a certain respectable age may still remember. Fondue Flavor, but Make It Pie 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z It’s the same thing we see elsewhere in American life: every prestigious university and respectable corporation has a glossy catalogue or slick commercial that looks like Noah’s Ark—two, at least, of each kind. How Radical Can a Portrait Be? 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z The thing to remember is that in the early 1920s jazz wasn’t necessarily as respectable as it is now – Zelda Fitzgerald, Scott’s wife, called it that “once-déclassé jazz”. Sarah Churchwell on Gatsby 2012-07-02T11:00:00Z Which, as these things go, is a respectable conversational opener. A Critic’s Tour of Literary Manhattan 2012-12-14T17:13:34Z It's a respectful and respectable evening, but no whirlwind of theatrical excitement. Three Sisters ? review 2011-01-25T18:35:00Z The spirit of American exceptionalism is strong, but scorning American blacks for seeking their freedom is no longer respectable, and advocating conquest in the name of God is not far behind. God is a weapon 2012-06-21T14:00:00Z Which is completely par for the course for HBO and a completely respectable way to respond. Q&A: Transparent Creator Jill Soloway on Transgender Stories and Indie TV 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z It was a respectable opening, but not enough to beat "The Lego Batman Movie." The book 'Fifty Shades Darker' gets a lift, even though critics are thrashing the film 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z The salads include a combination of shaved fennel, sliced oranges and meaty anchovies; pastas embrace a respectable linguine adorned with mussels, cherry tomatoes and pecorino. Review | Quattro Osteria puts fun on the plate and in the room 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Yet after a spot of diligent, polite and friendly flyering for an hour before the show they managed to swell that number to a respectable 22. The art of successful flyering at the Edinburgh festival 2010-08-17T14:55:00Z “Which of course we never thought wasn’t respectable.” Give them a hand! Musicals stage a comeback. 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z This year, Damiani has posted sliding but respectable results in an unforgiving economic climate. Creating Golden Opportunities Amid Austerity 2012-11-27T15:59:55Z “A Scandal in Paris” and “Lured” both feature protagonists who cross over from a particular unsavory milieu to become respectable enforcers of the law. ‘Lured’ and ‘A Scandal in Paris’: Douglas Sirk’s Costume Capers 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z “She finished respectable, with diamonds and a place in society.” Riddle of a Scandalous French Painting Is Solved, Researcher Says 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z He finished in a respectable eighth place, with 110 points. In pictures: Eurovision 2012 2012-05-27T00:30:39Z Each time, the newcomers failed to destroy the neighborhood and South Shore had remained a pleasant place to live, retaining its respectable middle-class character. The Unexpected Power of Your Old Neighborhood 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z Two Door Cinema Club, On tour If it once seemed the last refuge of the scoundrel, the last five years have seen indie dance become an almost respectable idea. This week's new live music 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z The premiere opened to a respectable 8.7 million same-day viewers, but ratings quickly tumbled, with about half that many viewers tuning in to the show's most recent episode in February. NBC cancels Katherine Heigl comeback vehicle 'State of Affairs' 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z Beef and chicken kebabs are respectable enough, made of whole meat, not ground. Uighur Specialties, With Lamb Front and Center, at Kebab Empire 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z I’m afraid McConaughey will have to work in some more respectable kinds of movies before he gets an Oscar nomination, but he deserved one for “Lincoln Lawyer” and he deserves another here. “Killer Joe”: Matthew McConaughey’s comeback gets creepier 2012-07-26T15:00:00Z It's not a particularly respectable show to admit to watching. Just when Lady Edith thought her luck couldn't get any worse… 2012-11-11T00:06:14Z This is such a safe, respectable batch, though. Oscar Predictions: Will ‘Power of the Dog’ reign supreme? 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z In her latest book, “Natural Causes,” Ehrenreich takes on the medical establishment, along with some less respectable institutions. Is Our Obsession With Wellness Doing Us In? 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z In the wake of the success of “Fifty Shades of Grey,” it’s become almost obligatory for any respectable publication to offer simultaneous awe at its commercial success while finding even faint praise too kind. Simon Pegg has a Franzen moment: Book criticism needs a poptimist revolution to take down genre snobs 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z In a house there known as the Villa of the Mysteries, respectable Romans got up to who knows what in front of a fresco of a flagellation scene set against a vibrant wall of crimson. Red is the colour of sex – and the colour of money when it comes to selling art 2013-06-12T14:16:24Z Even at the end of its run, it still commanded what would be a respectable average audience today – around 7.5 million viewers. 'Girl Meets World' is 'a passing of the baton' from 'Boy Meets World' 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z Over the 20 years they have been running their unsubsidised summer opera festival, the theatre has grown from barn to a respectable impression of an opera house. Bringing Wagner to Gloucestershire 2010-07-22T22:06:00Z The basic plot has respectable antecedents: It’s a contemporary version of let’s-put-on-a-show musicals like “Babes in Arms.” ‘Found,’ a Musical Based on Literary Detritus 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z Only now, we wanted to seem respectable, responsible, uncontaminated and uncontaminatable. Spilled beer and stinky carpet: stepping into a pub after lockdown feels glorious 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z He's got a good estate, and he's a respectable guy, but he's just not on the status that lady Montrose wants for her daughter. "I wrote endless drafts": "Sanditon" boss on the pressures of giving Jane Austen fans closure 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z Nowadays we have Neve Campbell and Julia Stiles, who draw on their own early dance training for The Company and Save the Last Dance, but with results that are respectable rather than soul-stirring. When did actors stop doing their own dancing? 2011-01-20T21:30:00Z Sal’s older son resents this fact and is ashamed that his father’s business is not in a more desirable and respectable, white location. White supremacy stripped bare: What “Do the Right Thing” tells us 25 years later 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z That never happened, but the Stage 42 theater, a big house not far from the Great White Way, is a respectable alternative. Review: ‘Trip of Love,’ a Light and Energetic Collection of ’60s Hits 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z Well, first I got it hard, then I tried to Jedi mind trick it past the point of its actual size to a respectable one. Measure of my manhood 2012-12-29T00:30:00Z Duck leg confit was spot on as well: crisp skin, supple flesh, a respectable demi glace, served with saffron-tinged rice and sautéed green beans. Via Vita: A Euro cafe right at home in Bellevue 2012-05-17T19:50:08Z I grew up reading very respectable, socially conscious black literature by the likes of Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison and James Baldwin. Literary Idol: Nelson George on Chester Himes 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z Eight weeks later, I finished my first half-hour run, covering an apparently respectable 4.83km in the process. Start slow, wear what you like, watch out for zombies: a beginner’s guide to running 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z The movies that birthed these moments deliver different, less respectable pleasures. Must-see moments in trash culture 2011-01-22T00:20:00Z In the given auction East opened three diamonds, showing at the prevailing unfavorable vulnerability a respectable seven-card suit and some 6 to 10 high-card points. Bridge: Roth Open Swiss Teams 2013-09-04T21:43:20Z He is the fussy, respectable head of a household, rigid in his arrangements but temporarily flaccid in bed. Swallows and Amazons; Get Santa!; The Animals and Children Took to the Streets; A Flea in Her Ear ? review 2010-12-19T00:06:17Z Her company, Hercules Construction, is in charge of excavating the canal, and Beatrice hopes that this respectable, high-profile venture will lead her out of the “shadow business” of racketeering. A Novel of 1918 New Orleans, With Murder and All That Jazz 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z That’s a respectable enough number, but not nearly enough for the kind of tentpole the company needs now that “The Hunger Games” is starting to wind down. Can 'Insurgent' spark a male rebellion too? 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z They use history to evoke a false past of a law-abiding, respectable Black community with little crime before welfare and liberalism corrupted Black people. America’s Refusal to Address the Roots of Violence 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z Her biggest obstacle is her father, a strict but flawed man who strongly opposes her musical ambitions, which he views as unfit for a respectable lady. 6 Shows to Stream From Latin America 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z Any time he's sitting across from an interviewee, he exudes the aura of a respectable journalist. 'America' documentary rebuts history of exploitation argument 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z After serving a relatively short but life-altering jail sentence, he changed his name, found a respectable if less prestigious job and remarried. Jeff Daniels makes a powerful return to 'Blackbird' alongside a captivating Michelle Williams 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Ms. Sander’s return to her own label after an absence of seven years was more than respectable: It was a clear, clean and precise rendition of everything the designer holds dear. Fiscal Crisis Seems Far Away at Milan’s Men’s Wear Shows 2012-06-24T18:23:58Z Later, he opened a liquor store, which was, in his wife’s eyes, very respectable. Three audacious women before audacious was in 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z All this strays from the respectable centrist critique of the invasion, that it was simply the wrong war at the wrong time, or a “dumb war”, as Obama put it, rather than a crime. Michael Moore: 'We have the power to crush Trump' 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z The third story here — told in a rather clunky fashion — is the history of 20th-century photography and its ascent as a respectable art form. The (Often Complicated) Lives of Artists 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z The salmon tartare is also respectable: cubes of pink fish sparked with lemon, onion and pickles and served in a wreath of lettuce and radishes. Review | Boulangerie Christophe review: If only things tasted as good as they looked 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Although no new holiday standards are likely to emerge from this show, a couple of the musical numbers do have a respectable zing. Theater Review: ‘Elf,’ Starring Jordan Gelber, at Al Hirschfeld Theater 2012-11-19T03:00:00Z Buntline fictionalized the true story of Mary Rogers, a noted beauty and "respectable" girl from Connecticut found dead near the Hudson River in 1841. How 19th-century literature spread the archetype of the "evil abortionist" 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z With “Wonder Woman,” I figured Adrianne just needed a moment before she turned up somewhere respectable again. Riff: Why Is That Nice Girl From ?Friday Night Lights? Fighting a Bunch of Ninjas? 2012-03-09T19:22:00Z The movie scores a respectable 60.5 percent positive rating at moviereviewintelligence.com, a website that aggregates critical reaction. Baron Cohen's Dictator storms Cannes, camel in tow 2012-05-16T15:57:16Z “There’s still a lingering notion of Hurston as not quite serious, maybe gifted and intuitive, but not a sound scholar, not a respectable social scientist. But she really was ahead of her time.” A Work by Zora Neale Hurston Will Finally Be Published 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z Before you add them to this chowder, it’s a perfectly respectable chunky potato and vegetable soup. How to make a creamy chowder that won’t weigh you down with cream 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z He argued that it contained “defamatory, scandalous, obscene and inflammatory matter” and that Mr. Anobile had assured him that he was going to turn his raw language into respectable prose. Richard Anobile, Chronicler of the Marx Brothers, Dies at 76 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z A specialist in the music of Central European composers — notably Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Mahler and Bruckner — he had built a respectable if not scintillating career amid the musical and political repressions of East Germany. Kurt Masur Dies at 88; Conductor Transformed New York Philharmonic 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z He’ll probably spend the rest of his life under the shadow of Whip It, but the former Devo member has built himself a respectable second career as American comedy cinema’s go-to guy for incidental music. Solo performance: who should score Star Wars once John Williams quits? 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z And as a creator, I remember when comics weren’t respectable, when people would sneer at you for being a comic book artist. The Shakespeare of Marvel comics: “Just as [Stan] Lee’s writing humanized superheroes in the 1960s, this book humanizes Lee” 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z “Allegro” ran for a respectable 315 performances, but both Rodgers and Hammerstein were displeased, blaming themselves for not connecting effectively with the audience. A Doctor Checks Up on a New 'Allegro' 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z In Benin, where Kidjo was brought up, she faced opposition because singers were not seen as respectable. Ang?lique Kidjo 2011-03-08T00:05:36Z It was a respectable place to be, a good salary. ArtsBeat: A Conversation With Israeli-Born Choreographer Hofesh Shechter 2012-10-10T17:29:27Z Affecting a very respectable Jonathan Freeman impersonation, Yang said that DeSantis was “an amateur” when it came to villainy: “He has no rizz, no spark, no drip.” ‘S.N.L.’ Brings Donald Trump to the Last Supper for Easter Weekend 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z But we feel some obligation to try to maintain The Times as a respectable publication and respect all of our readers.” The New York Times’ F-word problem 2012-08-10T20:15:00Z Scrambling to regain his Upstate New York family’s estate and to keep his patrician wife and their children in respectable comfort, he wrote international bestsellers quite literally as though his life depended on it. James Fenimore Cooper — not just your grandpa’s favorite author 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z Already an unstable compound, Mad Rad morphed into something...respectable? Capitol Hill Block Party day three notables: Flexions, Mad Rad, Blue Scholars, Truckasuaras 2010-07-26T22:01:00Z The opening episode drew a respectable if not earth-shattering 1.8 million US viewers, but industry eyes are on Sunday night's ratings with social media commentary suggesting the show is too depressing to be a hit. HBO bosses take a gamble with apocalyptic grief and loss in the Leftovers 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z But one of them, I suspect, is that people still enjoy reading about good people, and seeing them rewarded – something that more respectable novels seldom offer these days. The Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling – full review 2012-09-28T10:30:01Z Film studios are remaking a slew of small-budget 90s movies including Set It Off, New Jack City and House Party that delivered respectable box office returns and became black pop culture mainstays. Less Shaft, more House Party: Hollywood revisits 90s black film boom 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z Phuntsok is a thirty-one-year-old college graduate with a respectable position in advertising; he is solidly part of the rising white-collar class. The Viral Wedding Photos That Conquered China 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z When Richard Nixon praised his wife's "respectable Republican cloth coat" in his 1952 Checkers speech, her clothes were not the point. The clothes make the candidate: The sartorial politics of this year’s key Senate races 2020-10-11T04:00:00Z That’s on the floor, you see; however, on the nightstand, I am more respectable and proudly keep my Dylan Jones biography of dear Bowie. Luis Alberto Urrea: By the Book 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z But, although the Lyric's publicity promises "Greed, Lust, Pride" in capital letters, I'm struck more by the play's respectable literary ancestry. Desire Under the Elms – review 2012-10-09T12:08:38Z The album is solid and respectable, just not a lot of fun. Playlist: Inside a Troubled Mind and Mideast Musical Theories 2010-03-25T19:46:00Z In specialty release, "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl," which won the grand jury and audience awards at the Sundance Film Festival, opened in six markets and 15 theaters to a respectable $210,000. 'Jurassic World' makes movie history with $204.6 million, second-biggest U.S. opening ever 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z Watching seemingly carefree children thrive and fail as they age — or, more prosaically, turn into dreary, respectable citizens — can be like a knife in your heart. Movie Review: Linklater’s ‘Boyhood’ Is a Model of Cinematic Realism 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Lane was born in Bridgwater, Somerset, the daughter of a respectable middle-class draper and a mother who came from minor rural gentry. Pamela Lane obituary 2010-11-21T18:54:00Z Out of the limelight, he settled into a respectable existence as a veteran artist whose greatest work, in the eyes of most of the world, was behind him. An Underrated Soul Singer Returns 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z The film is expected to gross a respectable $32 million in its opening weekend, according to Boxoffice.com, on a budget of $24 million. Kevin Hart finds character close to home in 'Think Like a Man Too' 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z I anticipated I’d become a lawyer, on the theory that law and medicine were the only respectable professions available. How to be a Muslim at NYU after 9/11 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z If this were the whole story, Birria-Landia would still be a respectable addition to Roosevelt Avenue. Birria-Landia, a Queens Food Truck, Has Changed the Taco Landscape 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z |
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