Sentences with phrase «respectability that»

That act set in motion Tom's entrance into the boxing world and Granville's and his ticket to wealth and respectability.

So with this much change in such a short amount — and the widely acknowledged respectability that a growing number of authors have brought to the process — why is self - publishing still mentioned with an apologetic air?

However, while the above developments can add some respectability to the device, it otherwise needs a bump in its specs to emerge as a serious challenger to the mainstream smartphone devices rather than remaining confined as a niche product.

With all of the buzz — both positive and extremely negative — surrounding the large number of literary agents now exploring ebook - only titles for their author clients, a new level of credibility and respectability has come out in the form of a major publishing house expanding to release the digital rights to out - of - print and author - held rights» books.

Toshiba earned some respectability in the tablet space when it had released its Thrive tablet PC, which fared better than its disastrous first tablet release.

When a refrigerator (along with the television) finally made its way into our cozy apartment, we knew we had finally climbed that last rung to middle - class respectability.

Some things were worth more than respectability.

About its OS, the PlayBook 4G is exactly identical with its stable mates by running the PlayBook OS 2.0 that had brought some degree of respectability to the tablet.

«Now we have to hold out for pretty much what the sticker says; we're evolving toward the respectability we need.»

Having become woefully outgunned by the competition in the early 2000s, the 2006 Civic Si coupe brought respectability back to the sporty Civic.

It hasn't reached the swan stage, but this is only its second year on the market, and it was quite a feat just making the changes that give the sport - utility vehicle more respectability for» 02.

With its poised handling and contemporary design, the LaCrosse does a really nice job of appealing to the younger demographic, without alienating the traditional buyer who likes its quiet respectability.

This city — so earnest in its embrace of irony and counter-culture that any symbol of mainstream respectability risks cold dismissal — seems an odd location for Buick's introduction of its newest LaCrosse.

And the Audi A3 e-tron has the right size, the right science, the right price and the right respectability to deliver the right glamor in this town of software engineers and movie executives.

This suburb of Los Angeles is the epicenter of worldwide EV respectability, the place where the Toyota Prius hybrid changed the way that even the most self - indulgent Americans think about cars.

The 2015 Audi A3 e-tron combines laid - back, no - hassle convenience with a deeply thoughtful approach to environmental respectability.

«The last generation brought respectability.

This policy brief recommends (1) implementing more teacher recruitment programs and scholarships that target Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI), (2) increasing positive representation of AAPI in the education sphere, and (3) improving the respectability of careers in teaching.

(1) implementing more teacher recruitment programs and scholarships that target Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI), (2) increasing positive representation of AAPI in the education sphere, and (3) improving the respectability of careers in teaching.

Beyond just increasing favorable representation of AAPI in the media, establishments should seek to increase the prestige and respectability of the teaching profession.

Previously, she worked at disability rights advocacy group RespectAbility as a communications fellow.

«Engaging in progressive pedagogy means moving beyond respectability [in order to] create the components for students to engage,» asserted Emdin.

These bastions of respectability are difficult opponents for the government to paint as the «usual suspects».

During World War II, B.F. Skinner embarked on what he later called a «crackpot idea, born on the wrong side of the fence intellectually, but eventually vindicated in a sort of middle - class respectability».

Murray's following is less visible, largely because his views on these matters lost respectability in polite company after the publication of The Bell Curve.

He adds, ««no excuses» slogans provide ideological respectability for those wanting to hold schools accountable for inevitable failure.»

The fact that consumption as opposed to production assumed a central role in identity construction and ensuring respectability, contributed significantly to the loss of the respectable status created / earned through being a worker during the pre-1980s.

For educators, online libraries offer a haven of respectability in the search for accurate and appropriate Internet resources for classroom use.

At a time when squatter neighborhoods were regarded as the biggest obstacle before urban development by the urban elite in Turkey, and residents of squatter houses and thus the urban working class were regarded as «backward» villagers, workers from both Hasköy and Güzeltepe earned respectability due to their working class identities.

[22] These young people who are very much aware of the fact that they are unable to earn respectability through their current social identity, try to deal with the rejection and exclusion they are subject to by immediately gratifying their desires.

For respectability earned through labor per se see: Sennett 1998, 2003.

For educators, online libraries offer a haven of respectability in the search for accurate and appropriate Internet resources.

The film avoids the Lawrentian ring of her sexual escapades, and part of its appeal lies in Katherine's laying waste to the pretenses of respectability as a 21st - century adolescent might.

Bigfoot is the scowling face of fascistic police oppression who's out to harsh Doc's mellow, while Doc is the incorrigible hippy - freak who wants nothing more than to play Hacky Sack on the hissing summer lawn of white - bread respectability.

The film wanders in and out of respectability.

It's a movie that you have to see to believe, and even if it never really ends up being the hilarious action - horror film you expect it to be from the description, it does surprise by being true to the characters and situations in a way that merits respectability where it could have easily gone for exploitation.

It currently carries a 6.0 user rating on IMDb, which you might consider the edge of respectability for a film of its age.

With the notably entertaining exceptions of the hyperactive Scott and the kooky Haningan, the entire cast seems to have phoned in their parts, embarrassed to still be tethered to this pubescent rubbish now that so many of them are trying (and for the most part failing) to move up a rung or two in respectability.

Courting the respectability of a career profile, Andre agrees to spend time — a lot of time, preposterously — with a New York Times journalist, played with slippery sincerity by Rosario Dawson.

Stephen Thrower's monumental Murderous Passions: The Delirious Cinema of Jesús Franco fervently embodies that consciousness, serving as culmination of a quarter - century of impassioned proselytizing by fans once on the margin, until, at some point, the balance shifted toward unexpected respectability.

Bill Condon directs both films, which could lend them an air of respectability.

Slater (who's starring in yet another action pic, Soldiers of Fortune, opening on the same day) goes through his predictable paces in professional fashion, while Sutherland and Spall are seemingly on hand just to lend some respectability to the enterprise.

That's the good side of her contempt for respectability.

Carlyle clues Barnum in to who she is, and he hatches a plan on the spot to tour her around America, sell tickets, and make bank — and, it's implied, gain some respectability that hanging out with society's misfits can't provide.

Together these powerful voices bring, at once, a respectability and realism to the animated story.

He reconnects with Colin Farrell in «Dead Man Down» as Alphonse, a mobster struggling with respectability as he tries to keep his close - knit crew together from an enemy that's closer than he thinks.

Things sink to new lows when tired flatulence, forced colonic irrigation, and gay jokes are trotted out for laughs, throwing all semblance of respectability out the window, as the desperation overtakes the final half hour of this painfully unfunny comedy.

Banned in several countries, The Last House on the Left had a hard road to critical respectability, even though it was explicitly based on an Oscar - winning Ingmar Bergman film.

Kick - Ass is both shockingly violent and riotously funny, with a script from Vaughn and Jane Goldman that pushes at the boundaries of respectability and then breaks right on through.

Perhaps the best thing I can say for Affleck is that he seems to walk a fine line between respectability and entertainment.