To a degree, of course, respectable opinion was right.

The incident, a sidelight to the book, is instructive about the lengths to which respectable opinion would go in its assault on unorthodox views.

Like a prison community, it is seen by respectable opinion as an area incapable of acting in what he calls 'an approved social manner'.

This difference meant that Barnes in his later years allied himself with American and European antisemites and cranks rather than with respectable or official opinion.

After that attack, so frenzied that respectable uptown opinion was horrified, the militia had come in to protect those few khepri not fled or murdered.

Till lately, respectable intellectual opinion has held that it hardly mattered at all.

Look, men like you and me know that about most affairs there can be no two respectable and opposed opinions.

Or the record of the respectable opinion in the pre-war years which was already bewailing the corruption of morals and the decline of standards?

The answer: People who are desperately eager to associate themselves with "respectable opinion"-as opposed to actual, widespread, local opinion believed by the riffraff.

It is a very respectable opinion, but it cannot be taken into account.