But arguments for inequality of worth or rights between the sexes have wholly lost intellectual respectability.

Not-looking has been endowed with a kind of moral sanctity and intellectual respectability, which I don't think it deserves.

It spoke of class and intellectual respectability, while evoking the piety of medieval Christianity.

Rapid growth rates in East Asia gave this proposition a veneer of intellectual respectability.

It found support in the professional and middle classes, and Treitschke gave it intellectual respectability.

Only a slight uneasiness of the eyes belied the picture of stolid, intellectual respectability which he tried to present to the public.

It is the fig leaf of their moral and intellectual respectability".

Their badge of intellectual respectability is the "new trade theory," a modern critique of the century-old logic of free trade.

In layman's terms, he is trying to give dance the intellectual respectability that many of its practitioners say it lacks.

It's "Harry Potter" with intellectual respectability and deep cultural roots.