How To Use Self-respecting In A Sentence
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Not long ago, Comdex was the one and only place where any self-respecting technology company would demo a new product line.
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No self-respecting actor would appear in a porn movie.
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At one time, every self-respecting choral society programmed his cantata Hiawatha's Wedding Feast.
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As every self-respecting Yorkshireman knows, this is the highest inn in England, perched at 1,732 above sea level.
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Nor will any self-respecting woman.
Times, Sunday Times
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As hellfire-spiced love muffins go this beauty rates five big ones in any self-respecting cookie jar.
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No self-respecting gambler would play odds of 14 million to one.
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No self-respecting politician can ever be seen to be alone nowadays, and so whenever there is a camera around, the party leader and candidate are mobbed by pretend voters.
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No self-respecting pasta-maker would use anything else for making fresh pasta or pizza, come to that.
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I am married and have a grown-up daughter, also married, and I am a normal, respectable and self-respecting person.
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As a rule, he and his mates rose betimes and, clad in slippers and pajamas, raced up and down the decks to keep their muscles in hard order, before descending for the tubbing which is the matin duty of every self-respecting British subject.
On the Firing Line
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So for the next four days I shall list in order, with pictures and vague explanations, the films which any self-respecting philosophy lecturer, Laibach aficionado and soi-disant Communist should acquaint themselves with.
GreenCine Daily: Lists, 12/4.
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No self-respecting pasta-maker would use anything else for making fresh pasta or pizza, come to that.
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In fact, in years past, no self-respecting bass fisherman would be caught dead with a spinning rod in his boat!
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The rightmost column in any self-respecting periodic table should certainly be the noble gases (Helium, Neon, Argon, Krypton, Xenon, Radon, Ununoctium).
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However, the great actor Patrick Stewart manages somehow to remain self-respecting, even when Portia, stupendously performed by Susannah Fielding, spits out "Jew!" at him with heartfelt venom.
Recurring Daydreams
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No self-respecting politician would miss the chance these days to big-note themselves at a major extension of a beleaguered railway system.
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No self-respecting journalist would ever work for that newspaper.
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Gentlemen and friends, Jotham Gale is repentant, he feels his ostrichism '-- whatever he meant by that --' he desires to become self-respecting, and he asks us to help him.
The Depot Master
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It goes without saying that she makes great use of narcissism; no self-respecting artist of this period could live without that particular reflecting pool.
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EVERY self-respecting 80s fan knows that bright nail varnish can polish off your look perfectly.
The Sun
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It is the sort of dull nitty-gritty subject believed to be vital for the survival of any self-respecting congressman.
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Now that every self-respecting traveller has a tri-band mobile phone, there is a high risk of either the globetrotter or the loved one at home disturbing the slumbers of the other.
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Would any self-respecting sovereign nation accept such blatant intervention in its internal political affairs?
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What not to have on your bookshelf There is a whole genre of books that no self-respecting person ought to have on their shelves.
Times, Sunday Times
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The clamorous ticktock, ticktock of his watch would have put any self-respecting alarm clock to shame.
THE LONELY SEA
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Almost every self-respecting teacher wishes to write autobiographically or biographically at some stage of his or her life -- but with no knowledge of how to do so, beyond self-help books such as my little How to Do Biography: A Primer, which Harvard University Press published in 2008.
Nigel Hamilton: On Biography
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I'd go to him and make him confess to being something no self-respecting photographer should ever call himself: an artist.
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I've used a bill-hook and you don't cut tree branches with it and no self-respecting shepherd would attempt to wrench branches from trees with his crook - it would not succeed and he would become a laughing stock.
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No self-respecting actor would appear in a porn movie.
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Like any self-respecting garage rock band, they take it to every track, with no breaks for sissy ballads.
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No self-respecting editor would ever ask that question.
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I love praline—perhaps not quite as much as chocolate, but I know from sampling Mr. Torres's other wares that he has the populist touch; while he's fully capable of concocting those frilly French desserts that make you feel like titled nobility when they hit your taste buds, he also knows that chocolate is an essential arrow in any self-respecting pasty chef's quiver.
Seeking Layers of Heaven
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This threatens tribal equilibrium and inflames the sensibilities of self-respecting alternative-leaning young people.
Down and Delirious in Mexico City
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If that is the independence we're talking about, no self-respecting American would hesitate for a moment to challenge it.
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After that no self-respecting highbinder could hold up his head.
The Conversion of Ah Lew Sing
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It might be called discreditable enough to move any self-respecting people to shame.
American Eloquence, Volume 4 Studies In American Political History (1897)
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We are a throwback to the 18th century, when everyone was really nelly and no self-respecting dude went into battle without a perfumed mouchoir.
Queer Eye, My Eye! Cast Harasses Hairy Heteros
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His lechery made him the enemy of every self-respecting husband and father in the county.
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Och, no self-respecting Heelander would be seen oot and aboot withoot a Glengarry bunnet or a kilt.
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No self-respecting German would deny a beer request with your wurst at any hour (remember that in Bavaria you eat a second breakfast of weisswurst in the late morning and a nice brew is a necessary accompaniment).
First Look: Hallo Berlin Express | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan
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No self-respecting chick is going to agree to a first date in proximity to your Star Wars sheets.
Meredith Fineman: Fifty First (J)Dates: 5 Places You Should NEVER Go on a First Date.
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Any self-respecting Country Party MP would have taken to the economic dries of the Liberal Party with an axe years ago.
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No self-respecting upscale São Paulo residential building omits from its glossy prospectus, featuring lap pool, sundeck, gym, and fully equipped gourmet kitchen, the sala de relax, or “relaxation room.”
The English Is Coming!
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Masterminded by founders and senior pastors Brian and Bobbie Houston no self-respecting mega-church is seen dead these days without an alliterating husband-and-wife team at the helm, Hillsong's brand of 'prosperity theology' found a hungry market in Sydney's affluent, conservative Baulkham Hills district during the 1990s.
Christopher Price: Australian Idolatry: Evangelical Christians Resurrecting the Music Industry
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Why would any self-respecting Protestant want to participate in idolatrous behavior??
Holy Communion and Non-Catholics
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It's got soy and hoisin sauce - enough salty ingredients for any self-respecting cabbage salad.
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No self-respecting journalist would ever work for that newspaper.
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What mature and self-respecting person could do anything else?
Times, Sunday Times
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Any self-respecting Italian wears dark glasses, in winter, in summer, indoors and out, while eating or sleeping.
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No self-respecting activist desires to have his cause championed by any such horde of loud-mouthed, blatant blatherskites.
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No self-respecting actor would appear in a porn movie.
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Yet no self-respecting third-party candidate runs for election simply to destroy one big party and elevate the other.
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Ranging from scarlet to carnelian to a kind of raspberry-magenta blend, they would have induced psychosis in any self-respecting interior designer.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Debate on a Strange Red Planet
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And like any self-respecting vanguard, this one started under very lowly circumstances.
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The clamorous ticktock, ticktock of his watch would have put any self-respecting alarm clock to shame.
THE LONELY SEA
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The balance between treble and bass is just right and there's no doubting this is a top-notch system that any self-respecting audiophile would be happy to own.
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Any self-respecting 17-year-old vegetarian would have flounced away in disgust, but instead my response marked the first flicker that my veggie years may be short-lived.
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Some pitiable excuses were pleaded, and in a great many instances it was said that lack of boots and clothing had compelled self-respecting parents to keep their offspring at home.
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So far as any self-respecting mechanic was concerned, he knew nothing.
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I seriously doubt that any self-respecting lover of ramps would celebrate the ramson in West Virginia or anywhere else in the U.S.
Don't Confuse Your Ramsons With Ramps
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Under the ancien régime, no self-respecting local would be seen in the glitzy hotel bars, as only the party faithful and their gangster hangers-on frequented them.
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This brand new quartet has a sweet spin on '60s pop that any self-respecting Britpop and mod fanatic should check out.
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He celebrates accordingly with a strong dab as any self-respecting 10-year-old would.
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Who now remembers the days in that glorious decade, the 1990s, when all self-respecting metropolitans felt the need to bluff their way in conversations about ‘postmodernism’?
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Any self-respecting philosopher ought to be prepared with some gnomic sayings that can bear several interpretations, at least some of them scandalous.
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What if homeschooling is a choice of which self-respecting women should be proud?
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As hellfire-spiced love muffins go this beauty rates five big ones in any self-respecting cookie jar.
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But they want that from a self-respecting woman who has a backbone and who first and foremost loves herself.
The Sun
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No self-respecting government would allow such atrocities to be carried out in its name.
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No self-respecting shopkeeper would touch the defeated currency, instead rattling off a long list of what was acceptable, everything from Dutch guilders and Indian rupees to francs, pounds, and the rare American dollars.
A Covert Affair
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You know, if I was out all night playing poker or hanging out in titty bars, like any self-respecting dyke, no one would think this the least bit strange.
All Innsmouth in one handy vanilla-flavored pill.
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People dress up in preposterous costumes, drink large quantities of beer, and take part in -- or toast -- the parade floats that every self-respecting town puts on.
Boing Boing: July 9, 2006 - July 15, 2006 Archives
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Any self-respecting superfan doesn't just see the movie six times: he buys all the official merchandise he can find.
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‘I cannot imagine how any self-respecting female could possibly conceive of doing such a foolish thing, let alone begin to consider entertaining such risible notions myself,’ I replied curtly.
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It was the kind of station, and nobody tried to disguise it, where self-respecting disc jockeys were never found.
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What self-respecting jazzman would see things any other way?
Times, Sunday Times
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And the ghost also wears his periwig, which is so ridiculous that any self-respecting spectre would refuse to copy it.
The Queen Pedauque
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I'd go to Lexington and make him confess to being something no self-respecting photographer should ever call himself: an artist.
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Any self-respecting metalhead should have this album, or be in the process of acquiring a copy.
