Sentences with phrase «respectable if»

«Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.»

But seeing Bruce Nauman's latest effort, «Contrapposto Studies, i through vii,» brought me back to a scene in the film Chinatown in which John Huston's Noah Cross delivers a rather acerbic view of reputation and longevity: «Politicians, ugly buildings and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.»

It would be more respectable if they would give you an upfront answer and tell you that they can't approve your request and your payment will still go through no matter what and this is what it will be.

The large cap version of the strategy has been around for five years and has been perfectly respectable if not particularly distinguished for good or ill.

Is a book only respectable IF it earns a million dollar advance, earns best seller status on the New York Times, and is published traditionally?

Sixty mph came up within 6.95 seconds, making it quite respectable if a little slower than the stodgier - looking Omni GLHS.

That's respectable if you're comparing the Veloster to two - door coupes, but most compact hatchbacks have at least 10 additional feet of space.

Overall, the Legacy has a respectable if not revolutionary look, which is probably what Subaru is looking for as they aim to make the Legacy as ubiquitous as the rival Accord.

Motivation is provided by a 3.6 - liter V6 that's rated at a respectable if unremarkable 302 horsepower.

In the process, however, NASDC also appeared to be distancing itself from its «revolutionary» free - market approach to education reform and was increasingly looking like a respectable if rather corporate member of the education establishment.

Cutting down to the chase, The Golden Child is one of those films that could have been respectable if they didn't stick in the world's hottest comedian into it, whose fans are going to expect constant wisecracks and irreverence, doing just what he did for another film originally meant to be serious, Murphy's superstar - making Beverly Hills Cop.

They have also never had a high quality disc release (the DVD release a decade ago from VCI was respectable if unspectacular) until this Criterion double feature.

Kusturica's original 142 - minute cut was released in Europe (where it did respectable if not ground - shaking business) and to a few art houses in America; the shortened 120 - minute version is available on home video.

It would be perfectly respectable if you are one of those people who are just not interested in the theory.

«It's respectable, but it would be more respectable if they were a new service that was just starting and people had to trust them,» said Ted Cohen, a former music executive who is now managing partner of TAG Strategic, a digital entertainment consultancy.

Not exact matches

If warmer weather follows the floods, there might still be a respectable harvest this year, he added.

«Ignorance is one of the professional world's least respectable traits — if not the worst,» Roberto Rocha writes at AskMen.

If you are in no rush, it will probably be worth holding fire until you have a respectable sum.

And if you're looking to get an upgrade to first class, while other considerations like frequent flyer status will be made first, it's still a really good idea to look respectable.

«No matter how ridiculous an idea, putting it into numerical form makes it sound respectable, even if the implied measurement is transparently absurd,» writes Seife.

If you're going to run a business out of your home, your home has to look neat and respectable - at all times.

If you wish to earn money trading binary options without any experience, or prior knowledge, you can easily utilize a respectable binary options signal service.

There's no way you can avoid risk in the financial markets if you hope to beat inflation over the long - term and earn a respectable return on your portfolio.

Because if we really wish to do something about making this place a more respectable spectacle, we would not worry about parsing Mr. Toet, we would wonder why Mr. Toet was up asking this particular question in the first place.

If anything, the report states that munis may offer a compelling opportunity to achieve social impact while still earning a respectable market yield.

I am impressed, and really wish more Americans would focus on highlighting the positive aspects of all respectable men and women in this country and in the world, instead of trying to dig up every mistake, to slander and degrade as if we ourselves were perfect.

If we followed Farley's suggestions, education for the tasks of the professional clergy would have more theological integrity and theology could be taught as a respectable university discipline.

But if that's worthwhile and respectable for women then it ought to be worthwhile and respectable for men too.

He figured that if he was going to serve the system, it might as well be one with a long history and some kind of respectable tradition.

Yeah, but they are biased in that they seek to prove everything through the lens of evolution so they often look in the wrong direction, and a large number of scientists are in fact Christians My point is this, if you take the time to look for the evidence and be open to it, you will find that there is a respectable amount of evidence to support the fact that there is a god and that he is the God of Christianity

But if those rights become contingent on poor people's having the same moral virtues as the «respectable» middle class, then departures from these traits provide a way of avoiding responsibility.

If the Church has nothing to say that challenges, remakes, upbuilds human life, it is only a respectable and semidecadent human institution, and nothing to worry much about if it goes out of businesIf the Church has nothing to say that challenges, remakes, upbuilds human life, it is only a respectable and semidecadent human institution, and nothing to worry much about if it goes out of businesif it goes out of business.

Perhaps most of all, Short praises Mayhew as «a truth - teller,» who, «when so many of his contemporaries were celebrating the Great Exhibition... was content to study the direst poverty imaginable in rookeries and alleyways where respectable Londoners seldom, if ever, ventured.»

An analogy may be found in recalling the time when churches would allow certain forms of recreation but only if they took place a respectable distance from the church sanctuary.

Witness we must, by word and deed, if the gospel is to mean anything more to the world around us than an inherited body of moral platitudes, eminently respectable but of doubtful practicality.

Which leads me to a hypothesis: having observed the determined efforts of pastors to «clean up» weddings and make them respectable, dignified and holy, I have come to wonder if weddings make many of us so uncomfortable because they judge, as do few pastoral activities, the inadequacy of our pastoral theology.

Systematic exposition can not get over this problem by simply relegating the use of scripture to «proof texts» if it is to be academically respectable.

The first thing to bear in mind (especially if we ourselves belong to the clerico - academic - scientific type, the officially and conventionally «correct» type, «the deadly respectable» type, for which to ignore others is a besetting temptation) is that nothing can be more stupid than to bar out phenomena from our notice, merely because we are incapable of taking part in anything like them ourselves.

If mind - cure should ever become official, respectable, and entrenched, these elements of suggestive efficacy will be lost.

Cooking scrambled eggs at that time was not really an option if I wanted to have a decent amount of sleep and look half respectable!

Make half the batch if you want things to be a bit more respectable but it keeps pretty well.

However, I think if you made these breads on their own, they are perfectly respectable breads!

It felt a little strange to deviate from my aunt's famous dish, but I managed to fill the buffet table with a respectable, if not, entirely perfect, slab of soft, slow - cooked meat.

I read that Wenger will only be given 100mil to rebuild but if he wants more then he will have to sell players, # 35 mil is a respectable amount and we have plenty of HG talent waiting to come through, might be worth selling him if we could get in a better player while promoting a youth.

But more than that, the Texans, if healthy, have respectable players at important positions.

While we don't expect much in the way of managerial changes at the top end of the table between now and the end of the season, it's worth considering whose job might come under threat if the desired climax to the campaign is not secured — be that a top four finish, a trophy, or just to remain respectable.

Despite being heavily criticised over the years, the former Montpellier man has 98 goals in 226 appearances for the Gunners, which is a very respectable goal return, if not prolific.

Over the years, Baltimore has slowly transitioned into a respectable offensive force, which it needs to be even more if key defensive players end up missing significant time.

If arsene wenger has any respect for arsenal fc he would do the respectable thing and leave at the end of the season!

If I'm paying $ 500 million for a hockey team, I'd demand something respectable as well.