I was expected to behave presentably, never to show unacceptable emotions.

They were presentably dressed; but their faces showed them to be rowdies.

They hope to secure enough Iraqi territory to permit a presentably nationwide vote.

The man who stepped out was very presentably attired.

Surely, a small virtuoso group like this could have played another work from its repertory presentably and intact.

Does the counselor require a recess or any extra channels to array itself more presentably?"

You will find many news and social page photos of me over the years, all more presentably dressed, but all clearly me.

I'll send his nibs along to join you as soon as he's presentably dry."

Creslin slices a presentably small section of meat.

At day's end, we'd return salty and exhausted, and shower and dine presentably with the family.

So the spa offered a free shampoo and blow-dry so I could re-enter the real world presentably.

Julia had managed to outfit Gideon presentably by enlisting the aid of all of her servants.

Dress presentably," the militiaman added.

Fabrizio begs his father and his brother Giuseppe to help him dress more presentably for Clara.

Mr Cable, for all his public popularity, is seen in Westminster as more presentably plausible than correct in his judgment.

Nikwillig moved down fast, dropping beside Tred, and both dwarves set themselves more presentably, with Nikwillig brushing some of the road dust from his weathered tunic.

In Hogenakkal the river Cauvery enters into Tamil Nadu as a big river with gushing water presentably as a natural falls.

These sartorial requirements began in 1986 when the O'Farrell's then-general manager, Vince Stanich, noticed that all of his male staff members were dressed differently (and often not altogether presentably).

David saw me at once a slouching, blond, long-haired youth, bronze face and hands, the usual deep violet sunglasses over my eyes, hair presentably combed for once, body tricked out in a dark-blue, doubled-breasted Brooks Brothers suit.

In the early fifties he penned "The Ballad of Ho Chi Minh" (well-known even today in Vietnam) and (less presentably) "The Ballad of Stalin" for the British Communist Party.

Yale Kneeland, a conservator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has one look for when he is physically involved in his job and another for the rest of the time, when he is what he calls "presentably dressed."

If, on the other hand, you meant to imply that our apparel is at the opposite end of the spectrum from Mr. Belushi's toga, I would again beg to differ: our colleagues in humanities and social sciences are attired much more presentably.

I basically wear the same clothes every day, and then I change in the winter and I wear my other same set of clothes, and yet I feel I spend more time just presenting myself presentably than Louis XIV.

For that matter, Mr. Zander showed in a 1992 release of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, reissued two years ago in England by Carlton Classics, that even the Boston Philharmonic - consisting in roughly equal parts of professional, student and amateur players - could presentably negotiate a blistering pace.