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It alone is enough to show the world what weak and small men the nationalists were behind the bravado of respectability they craved
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Sophisticated Americans, or those who fancy themselves as such, may oftentimes try to imitate or adopt European manners without quite succeeding in pulling it off; much in the manner of a saloon girl vested in all the gaudy trimmings feigning respectability at the opera house!
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His respectability, his impartiality was all he had as a defense
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It was divided into flats, in an affluent, stable neighbourhood of genteel respectability
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kept on the surface for the sake of respectability
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respectability who clearly considered that her home environment gave a certain
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restore respectability to the outdoor division
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Despite this display of prosperous respectability, Nem couldn’t help but notice that nearly all the shops protected their windows with elaborate metal bars
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I lacked queer credibility by dreaming of a life of respectability and independence with a permanent lover
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Stephen stood between his protégés, placed paternal hands on their shoulders and in a voice redolent of sincerity, respectability, sense, determination and authority, addressed the speechless students
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It was all very well for a student to think of playing cops and robbers, but a teacher had to maintain at least a facade of respectability
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improving your industry respectability and predictably increasing the number of
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Do professed Christians fear the exposure of a self-sufficient and unconsecrated fellowship of social respectability and selfish economic maladjustment? Does institutional Christianity fear the possible jeopardy, or even the overthrow, of traditional ecclesiastical authority if the Jesus of Galilee is reinstated in the minds and souls of mortal men as the ideal of personal religious living? Indeed, the social readjustments, the economic transformations, the moral rejuvenations, and the religious revisions of Christian civilization would be drastic and revolutionary if the living religion of Jesus should suddenly supplant the theologic religion about Jesus
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The years spent in Ithaca rounded off his education and his respectability
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The promise that good citizenship earned blacks respectability and civil rights lost credibility when race-baiting candidates for governor incited a mob to riot by publishing rape allegations against black men
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Extend mercy without using the poor to gain money, impress influential people, or earn respectability
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It was admirable how this man still attempted to maintain some air of respectability and to prevent any disturbances to the club members
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Two prints of well-known paintings by Monet in dark wood frames added respectability and class to the room
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I lost my father and my mother lost her husband, all in the name of pride and respectability
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They were led at that time by the avuncular Joe Gormley – later to gain respectability in the ermine of the House of Lords
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cial respectability of all of them is open to question
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In contrast, Sebastian was portrayed as a bastion of Cheshire respectability
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Her move into airhostess respectability had been quickly followed by a change to darker, and she fancied more demure, honey tones that hung around her face like an unlikely halo
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And the respectable, afraid for their respectability, turn their backs in horror and go and read without blinking ugly things written by other respectable
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Her respectability has been, I gather from things she has said, her one great treasure
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That obvious pattern of respectability, Baroness Glambeck, talked of births with a detail and interest only second to that with which she talked of deaths
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There is an air of respectability that comes along with being a Para
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and not even a language of respectability for others? Why is it that love and compassion in mind
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Then the new numbers: the growth in the market for old school Chinese art was a given, that’s where the money is, and the moneyed communists buying international respectability through the purchase of western classics, that’s what’s driving the global art market
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Erickson says, she entered a “shadow-world at the margin of respectability
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There was a slow but continuous turnover of our models, some leaving for more respectable careers, others to get married but there was also a constant influx of new faces drawn by the glamor of the business and creeping respectability of the profession
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In short: every authority figure, every evil elite class that oppresses the masses, and stands as an icon of unquestioned respectability
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Gangs of revenge-bent murderers and plotters, making their desperate bids for power, respectability and wealth
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All that determined respectability is unnatural
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According to Tina, the absent Streatham flatmate, Sidney Wilks wasn't the solid citizen his privet hedge proclaimed, but had used his respectability as a shield for something far from seemly
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Let me quote you an author, he says: “Most significant movements start by being a little wide, settle down to respectable middle age—and then, rejoicing in their respectability, relax into a creeping death
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Some glory in their supposed election to salvation—some in their church orthodoxy or high respectability of ritual—some even in their broad philosophical views—so much more spiritual than those of the weaker brethren who are in bondage to New Testament literalism—some even in their simple style of writing; as contrasted with the magniloquence of inferior authors
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Materialism is a creed, which comprises many different ranks of capacity and respectability
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That gave her respectability and credibility to solicit/get solicited by oth-
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respectability have said to orange-trees in boxes in a Bank courtyard, and even to a Cupid over the counter? Yet such things were
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Pyotr Petrovitch met her "politely and affably," but with a certain shade of bantering familiarity which in his opinion was suitable for a man of his respectability and weight in dealing with a creature so young and so _interesting_ as she
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That respectability and evening parties where one has to dress, and wretched slums at the back of Gray's Inn--something solid, immovable, and grotesque--is at the back of it, Jacob thought probable
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"Colonel Brandon seems a man of great worth and respectability
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"Aren't I a great hand at restoring you to respectability? Stand up! There, you look as irreproachable as Britannia herself!"
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Mr Sweater waxed rich and increased in goods and respectability
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As he stood there in the forefront of this company, there was nothing in his refined and comely exterior to indicate that his real function was to pander to and flatter them; to invest with an air of respectability and rectitude the abominably selfish lives of the gang of swindlers, slave-drivers and petty tyrants who formed the majority of the congregation of the Shining Light Chapel
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In that old day, the English settler on these rude shores—having left king, nobles, and all degrees of awful rank behind, while still the faculty and necessity of reverence were strong in him—bestowed it on the white hair and venerable brow of age; on long-tried integrity; on solid wisdom and sad-colored experience; on endowments of that grave and weighty order which gives the idea of permanence, and comes under the general definition of respectability
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I was the first that could plod in the public eye with a load of genial respectability, and in a moment, like a schoolboy, strip off these lendings and spring headlong into the sea of liberty
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Scarlett knew the town gossiped about Rhett’s calls, and about her too; but she defended Rhett his calls were still tinged with respectability
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“So the river-boat gambler and the speculator is going to be respectable! Well, your first move toward respectability had better be the sale of Belle Watling’s house
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J did not tell everything to your Father, he being so Proud on account of his Respectability, which, perhaps, your Intended is the same
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"It isn't a question of respectability, but one of principle!"
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Pyotr Petrovitch met her "politely and affably," but with a certain shade of bantering familiarity which in his opinion was suitable for a man of his respectability and weight in dealing with a creature so young and so interesting as she
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is an ill-intentioned fellow, who would sacrifice the respectability of the
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There were engraved portraits of Lord Chancellors and other celebrated lawyers of the last century; and there were old pier-glasses to reflect them, as well as the little satin-wood tables and the sofas resembling a prolongation of uneasy chairs, all standing in relief against the dark wainscot This was the physiognomy of the drawing-room into which Lydgate was shown; and there were three ladies to receive him, who were also old-fashioned, and of a faded but genuine respectability: Mrs
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I am not one of those who have nothing to lose: I mean as to respectability both in parish and private business, and noways in respect of your honorable self and custom, which you was
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And now, when this respectability had lasted undisturbed for nearly thirty years—when all that preceded it had long lain benumbed in the consciousness—that past had risen and immersed his thought as if with the terrible irruption of a new sense overburthening the feeble being
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It seemed like the fluctuations of a dream—as if the action begun by that loud bloated stranger were being carried on by this pale-eyed sickly looking piece of respectability, whose subdued tone and glib formality of speech were at this moment almost as repulsive to him as their remembered contrast
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At bottom, the investment business or bond department of Stock Exchange firms is perhaps more important to them as a badge of respectability than for the profits it yields
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They view investment as “a convenient omnibus word, with perhaps an admixture of euphemism—that is, a desire to lend a certain respectability to financial dealings of miscellaneous character
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However, the buy-in program conducted by IBM Corporation that commenced in 1977 and has continued, gave buy-ins a new cachet and respectability that was lacking previously
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The Toulouse diligence tears us from the abyss, and the abyss is you, O our little beauties! We return to society, to duty, to respectability, at full trot, at the rate of three leagues an hour
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When he had leased this paltry building for the purpose of converting it into a tavern, he had found this chamber decorated in just this manner, and had purchased the furniture and obtained the orange flowers at second hand, with the idea that this would cast a graceful shadow on "his spouse," and would result in what the English call respectability for his house
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Fairfax! I saw her in a black gown and widow’s cap; frigid, perhaps, but not uncivil: a model of elderly English respectability
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Fermina Daza came to the main altar of the Cathedral on the arm of her father, whose formal dress lent him, for the day, an ambiguous air of respectability
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Sir Thomas Bertram had interest, which, from principle as well as pride - from a general wish of doing right, and a desire of seeing all that were connected with him in situations of respectability, he would have been glad to exert for the advantage of Lady Bertram’s sister; but her husband’s profession was such as no interest could reach; and before he had time to devise any other method of assisting them, an absolute breach between the sisters had taken place
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Such and such-like were the reasonings of Sir Thomas, happy to escape the embarrassing evils of a rupture, the wonder, the reflections, the reproach that must attend it; happy to secure a marriage which would bring him such an addition of respectability and influence, and very happy to think anything of his daughter’s disposition that was most favourable for the purpose
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Such and such-like were the reasonings of Sir Thomas, happy to escape the embarrassing evils of a rupture, the wonder, the reflections, the reproach that must attend it; happy to secure a marriage which would bring him such an addition of respectability and influence, and very happy to think anything of his daughter's disposition that was most favourable for the purpose
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My influence, which is not small shall all go that way; and when once married, and properly supported by her own family, people of respectability as they are, she may recover her footing in society to a certain degree
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Pyotr Petrovitch met her ‘politely and affably,’ but with a certain shade of bantering familiarity which in his opinion was suitable for a man of his respectability and weight in dealing with a creature so young and so interesting as she
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I will only mention that it was their characteristic method to discover some secret, often in the life of people of the greatest respectability and good position
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The most absurd thing was, that he was dressed like any one else, neither worse nor better, tidily, even with a certain elaborateness, and actually had pretentions to respectability and personal dignity
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I hold a document in my hand which, perhaps, the gentleman may object to, as coming from the opposition party in Great Britain; it is the depositions of sundry merchants of great wealth and respectability, taken before the British House of Lords, on the subject of the Orders in Council
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In order to possess some appearance of respectability in the estimation of others, the most expedient course would be to establish economy and provide for a less profuse distribution of the public moneys, but to retain the public armed vessels, that we may be in the condition for effectual service whenever it is deemed expedient
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Prior to the great struggle between the parties, in 1798, they did permit one democrat to be within the walls of the sanctuary (as a director), a gentleman of as much respectability and independence of character, as any one of the direction
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Galloway had no professions of conscience—beyond such small glozing of hypocrisy as any man must put on if he wishes to be intrusted with the money of a public that associates professions of religion and appearances of respectability with honesty
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I looked about me in Wall Street; in my mind’s eye I saw the great rascals of “high finance,” their respectability stripped from them, saw them gathering in the spoils which their cleverly trained agents, commercial and political and legal, filched with light fingers from the pockets of the crowd, saw the crowd looking up to these trainers and employers of pickpockets, hailing them “captains of industry”! They reaped only where and what others had sown; they touched industry only to plunder and to blight it; they organized it only that its profits might go to those who did not toil and who despised those who did
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But, sir, is there not, in every State in which there is a branch of the United States' Bank, also one or more State banks, of equal respectability, and of equal security—at least to the extent of any sum for which they are willing to undertake? These State banks may be used as depositaries for the public moneys, and they will be equally safe and convenient
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Taylor said, that the respectability of the subscribers to a petition presented to this body, and the importance of the matter therein contained, had, on various occasions, been used as inducements to us to give such petition a respectful disposition in the course of our proceedings
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Though I am well aware of the respectability of the names which the theory of moonstones can summon to its support, yet I have always regarded it as unfounded and unphilosophical for the following reasons, viz
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Previous to the year 1805, the practice of physic in the state of New-York was regulated by no public authority, and of course was not in the happiest condition to promote the respectability and usefulness of the profession
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Does it not then result, inevitably, as the dictate of common prudence, that we should, as soon as possible, commence our naval preparations? The Naval Establishment of the United States has been heretofore so much neglected, that it is at present in a state of lamentable depression; and the question now is, whether we will suffer it to go down entirely, or attempt to raise it up to some degree of respectability
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John M'Kee, a gentleman of much intelligence and respectability, who is the present agent of the general government for the Choctaw nation
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Individuals who were depressed with poverty, and sunk in idleness, have suddenly risen to wealth and respectability
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But I know, also, and I speak without reference to political opinions or prejudices, that among our naturalized citizens are to be found men, and many men, too, of great worth and respectability, and who are extensively useful to the country