| The social respectability of science attracted the patronage of wealthy and influential figures. |
| The veneer of middle-class respectability is laid bare for the cheating, backstabbing and adulterous world it really is in Leslie Darbon's play. |
| Anxieties regarding respectability were often concealed by seemingly trivial complaints over children, gardens or noise. |
| The world would be a much better place if today's washed-up actresses saw patriotism as the route to respectability. |
| Modern dress also looks anachronistic in a world where respectability is a prime virtue and cuckoldry a social stigma. |
| Then Ida put aside her life of duty and quiet respectability in the little upstate town of New Paltz and hopped a train. |
