Quaintness

There's a certain quaintness to the whole thing, like owning a rotary telephone. ❋ Unknown (2009)

My paternal grandfather and his family were native Gaelic speakers (from the west coast mainland north of Skye) and his parents spoke only very little English; my grandfather and a number of his siblingsmade it their business to become fluent in English - cultural quaintness is all very well, but they had a living to make. ❋ Jeff (2007)

It was bare to the point of discomfort, and had it not been for a certain quaintness in the shape of the few articles to be seen there, I should have experienced a decided feeling of repulsion, so pronounced was the contrast between this poverty-stricken interior and the polished bearing of its owner. ❋ Unknown (1903)

I have a great love for this plain quaintness of speech — it is often ludicrous, but it as often beautiful — & one who wishes to write good poetry now should read old prose. ❋ Unknown (1797)

Indeed, there is a certain quaintness and pre-modern naivite in the court’s tendency to look at the role it would prefer things play in our society as being inherent in the nature of the thing itself rather than as being a social construct reflecting a social role that could be otherwise. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I think that their quaintness is a sufficient apology for the following little children's stories. ❋ Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Redesdale (1876)

It is a sort of condensation of quaintness, that is quite without a rival even in this land of laboured and curious architecture. ❋ Cooper, J Fenimore (1836)

I believe if something is well-written that it rises above any 'quaintness' of dialogue that may seem very dated today. ❋ Unknown (2007)

But compared to this, does Alberto Gonzales 'stated "quaintness" of the Geneva Conventions seem more compassionate? ❋ Unknown (2008)

Some might laugh at the "quaintness" of planting the Russian flag on the ocean floor. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Consider their sending under-equipped troops into battle under false pretenses, the widely-known ignoring of First Amendment protections of the Constitution, the "quaintness" of the Geneva Convention, or Colin Powell's ill-starred, mendacious UN presentation. ❋ Michael Caddell (2006)

Pastor Jeff and Conblogeration contrasts the coverage by different newspapers, some of which could not bring themselves to look at the faith aspect of this story and restricted themselves to the "quaintness" of the Amish. ❋ Janet Ursel (2006)

As long as it's confined to the core commercial area, this trend probably will not meet with much resistance from residents or visitors who value the "quaintness" of Pensacola Beach. ❋ Beach Blogger (2005)

We don't like to see the "quaintness" disappear from our exciting destinations. ❋ Unknown (1998)

And now, when she beheld Aunt Isabel's enchanting house, the solid, substantial furnishings left behind in Cherryvale lost all their savour for her, even the old-fashioned "quaintness" of grandma's house. ❋ Dana Gatlin (N/A)

The chief points in the Gondolier's "quaintness" seem to be that it is chopped up into as many little partitions as a roulette wheel and that all food has to be carried up from a cellar that imparts even to orange marmalade a faint persuasive odor of somebody else's wash. ❋ Stephen Vincent Ben��t (1920)