Western diplomats say this is not a struggle between the forces of light and darkness: both views are intellectually respectable.

Intellectually respectable programs about history, archeology, the arts and science are expensive to produce.

But the winds of fashion seem to be blowing composers back toward an acceptance of program music as an intellectually respectable scaffolding for their art.

Of the elements composing the rainbow coalition, Marxism is the most prominent and intellectually respectable.

What, then, is likely to happen now that free markets are going out of fashion, and state supervision is becoming an intellectually respectable alternative?

Honest cynicism, while intellectually respectable, makes it impossible to distinguish among competing human values.

Mr. Bush and the majority of Congress felt otherwise, but it was a politically and intellectually respectable position to take.

His father died shortly after he left college, no doubt hoping his brilliant son would choose an intellectually respectable profession.

Even the righties, Kemp and Bennett, are intellectually respectable.

As we come to modern times they become less respectable intellectually and more and more affected by a kind of moralizing vagueness.