Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.

Sam Keen

He brought respectability back to the program.

Jim Sterk

We had a vision to bring this program back to respectability and these kids have done that admirably. They accomplished a lot this year.

Tom Colby

God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.

Imamu Amiri Baraka

He was a real professional and one of the nicest, hardest-working public relations folks in racing. He was always working behind the scenes to gain more respectability and exposure.

Jim Hunter

Faces enormous difficulties, and most of its members are inclined towards respectability ... this is the fundamental fact about the Orange Order. It's going to cause unease; there is the danger of splits. This is a very difficult moment for this movement.

Paul Bew

Those games were going to give us visibility and some extra money, for starters. From the get-go, we knew that in order to gain credibility and respectability and have the chance to shock the world, we were going to have to play with the big boys.

Larry Blakeney

A perfect example of the new republic's urge to drape itself with the togas of classical respectability.

John Ashbery

You hate to see yourself when you?re on the bottom. You look after you win a few and you?re back to respectability. At this point, it?s a little early to be looking every day. We?re just trying to build from game to game and put some wins together.

Trevor Letowski

And when that happens, Mexico will have really leapt forward to first-world respectability.

James Jones

RESPECTABILITY, n. The offspring of a _liaison_ between a bald head and a bank account.

Ambrose Bierce