Sentences with phrase «term respectability»

I've brought sophistication to hustling and given the term respectability.

Defense ensures short - term respectability.

Not exact matches

Dating back to the mid-1950's, the term charm offensive is commonly referred to as a concentrated attempt to gain favor or respectability by conspicuously cooperative or obliging behavior.

Perhaps «self» bears an historic halo of respectability, hence a certain marketing advantage wanting in the term «blob.»

While I understand it will annoy the fans who have paid to see the current team, in almost every sport the system is set up to vastly favor a team that tanks in terms of getting back to respectability (or at least to acquire the assets that can get a team there, whether or not they're capable enough to use them is another question).

Luca Guadagnino's wonderful and erotic love story Call Me by Your Name is in there with solid recognitions for best film and best director, but again this film might have to content itself with what looks like, in footballing terms, mid-table respectability.

Although self - publishing turned the corner in terms of respectability, there is still a stigma attached with a self - published book.

I've already taken a loss, and I don't simply mean in terms of respectability.