The social respectability of science attracted the patronage of wealthy and influential figures. |
In doing so he demonstrates a clear preference of respectability above passion. |
Kildare were a dispirited bunch but it was to get much worse before a late rally put a little respectability on the final scoreline. |
Wealth is a marker for social status, success, and respectability, just as poverty is stigmatising. |
Mere culture, refinement, respectability, morality, is simply a painted coating of varnish on the outside. |
Anxieties regarding respectability were often concealed by seemingly trivial complaints over children, gardens or noise. |