US /rɪˈspɛktəbəl/
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Then you're someone who is seen as capable, respectable, important.
On the flip side, if you lean more towards competence—I feel like Robin is very competent, for example—then you're someone who is seen as capable, respectable, important.
For under 10 bucks per month, you could be running your own server with predictable pricing and a respectable 2 CPUs and 8 gigabytes of RAM.
For under 10 bucks per month you could be running your own server with predictable pricing and a respectable 2 CPUs and 8 gigabytes of RAM.
We may try to pass off our desire as something work-related - people generally understand a need to finish off a project - but in truth, it's a far less respectable and far more profound desire that may be driving us on.
off a project. But in truth, it's a far less respectable and more profound desire
We work so hard because we are in terror of stillness, because being scared of the world offers the most respectable distraction from a dread of our own minds, because we have no idea how to let anyone know us outside of our achievements, because it seems inconceivable that we have any value beyond what we do, because we were early on in the art of being terrified and we are still too young to question our elders, because we use the noise from without to drown the murmurs from within, because we can't read poetry for we despise anything that doesn't have a charted purpose or goal and that therefore threatens to collide us with the unexpected, because we don't allow ourselves to be acquainted with the night, because if we started with the questions we have no idea where we might have to go and what might need to be discarded, because we are in flight from untenable sadness and regret, because we haven't got too many or even any real friends, because few people ever just held us quietly, because we have no idea what to do with ourselves other than run, because we find peace so much harder than war and because the real work might lie elsewhere.
Because being scared of the world offers the most respectable distraction from a dread of our own minds.
Falwell and other white evangelicals that they could use opposition to abortion—a more respectable issue—to energize and grow their following.
He alerted Falwell and other white evangelicals that they could use opposition to abortion, a more respectable issue, to energize and grow their following.
Wickham is the son of a very respectable man, who had for many years the management of all the Pemberley estates, and
"Mr. Wickham is the son of a very respectable man, who had for many years the
"smart casual", respectable clothing.
at someone's house—maybe smart casual, respectable clothing.
The spectacle of old Kant's tartuffery, as stiff as it is respectable, luring us onto the dialectical crooked paths which lead to, or better, mislead, to his categorical imperative.
The spectacle of old Kant's Tartuffery, as stiff as it is respectable,
respectable "Awesome". But that doesn't it for tonight's films... so let's take a look
But the overly involved second act hurt this film's tempo; this film gets a very respectable Awesome.
And now there's a four-star general with a highly respectable career in the special operations community who's going to be left holding the bag.
And now there's a four star general with a highly respectable career in the special operations community.