Theater rarely tempted Mr. Saura before, he said, because the offers had involved old-fashioned concepts.
He likes old-fashioned concepts: integrity, self-control, character, dignity, loyalty, rootedness, obligation, tradition.
Reviving a period enriched by material comforts as substantial as a Steuben crystal bowl also represents a long-overdue return to old-fashioned concepts of quality.
The Daily Telegraph, in which I found the story, also highlighted the disappearance of such old-fashioned concepts as bishop, chapel, altar, saint, sin, devil, and vicar.
This loosely defined area of music concentrates on a kind of seriousness that isn't afraid to approach melodrama but is after bigger game: catharsis, beauty, and truth — positively old-fashioned concepts.
Scalia wrote: "It is precisely VMI's attachment to such old-fashioned concepts as manly honor that has made it, and the system it represents, the target of those who today succeed in abolishing public single-sex education".
'I am,' she explained, 'the Italian Janet Street-Porter.' With her ahistorical self-invention and ironic contempt for old-fashioned concepts like the 'truth', Lear has been in many ways the prototype of the postmodern celebrity age.
But if the first 500 online IPOs were done on "Internet time," the next ones will go more slowly, taking enough time to pursue old-fashioned concepts like profits.
It starts with the old-fashioned concept of fairness.
"But that is a very old-fashioned concept.
Jerome Groopman has revived a simpler, more old-fashioned concept: "hope".
