Sentence examples for a less quirky from inspiring English sources

In some ways, Johnson seems like a less quirky, more placable version of Paul: he shares Paul's disdain for welfare and warfare, but not, for example, Paul's abiding passion for gold.

Last fall, Rand Paul seemed like a less quirky — and therefore, perhaps, more electable — version of his father, the former Congressman Ron Paul, whose 2008 and 2012 campaigns for the Republican Presidential nomination were grand cultural phenomena.

Reportedly, Twitter recently received $15 million in funding on top of an earlier $5 million funding round, and this month the company will move into a larger, less quirky space about a block away.

And maybe to appeal to them, Barneys must be a little less quirky and provocative and local, and more of an accessible global brand with a glossy emporium.

Visitors to the Strand Book Store, a quirky bastion of the New York intellectual tradition on Broadway and 12th Street, may have noticed that the place has begun to look a little less quirky lately.

"NeochaEdge does so much cool, quirky stuff, but a lot of brands want less quirky stuff," Mr. Ward says.

Mo's titular assessment is, as it turns out, rather an understatement; the "she" to which the title refers, a London croupier named Helen, is less quirky than queasy, endlessly vexed by the worries of modern life.

If you're on the rural west coast, there's a place to stay that's no less quirky – the new five-star Ecopod Boutique Retreat (07725 409003; dome sweetdome.co.uk), a 70sq m geodesic dome, at Kingairloch, with impeccable green credentials and a real wow factor.

A less flirtatious, quirky femininity prevailed at the Marni show, a celebration of colour.

As peer-to-peer marketplaces have grown and matured, they've become less quirky and it's become harder for upstart sellers to gain a foothold -- not unlike the way physical stores evolved in the decades before the Internet.

Yet he is also tremendously convincing on less quirky albums.