Sentence examples for quaint, indeed from inspiring English sources
Looking across the landscape of Britain today these views look quaint indeed.
"Today the preposterous is simply commonplace, and if Mr. Anderson's little conceit is still playing anywhere it must seem quaint indeed, fud-duddy-ish even," Kerr wrote.
We need to say to the Street, 'In all the things you do, especially if it is sold to a pension fund, you have a duty of care to every party in the transaction.'" This seems quaint indeed, given the prevailing view on Wall Street that if a sophisticated investor buys a pool of poisonous mortgage loans, the seller has no obligation to keep the "big boys" from harm.
You may have noticed that quite a bit of advertising has sprung up in and around Britain's cities, and quaint villages, indeed anywhere you can expect more than one person to pass by with swamp-coloured teeth, or some other flaw that can be rapidly – nay, miraculously!
When you think about it, as David Carr suggests, the notion of a physical music product on which someone else has decided which songs to include can indeed seem "quaint".
Call me humorless, but it's hard to avoid the cover's implications: the clichéd illustration, with a snickering headline (woman's place, woman's place, get it?); the mocking question opening each review; the final insults at the bottom of each column — "quaint" and "Phew!" Phew indeed.
Financial ethics are indeed a quaint topic for the people in power.
