Sentence examples for quaint description from inspiring English sources

Keynes's 'adventuring wealth' is a quaint description of what people were getting up to in Wall Street and the Square Mile.

In that room — the quaint description is "living room" — there is a large comfortable chair, a good lamp, and a magazine rack groaning with the fruits of American journalism.

Whittingdale was born in Dorset to a 66-year-old surgeon and a mother whose ancestry puts him, in the quaint description of his Wikipedia entry, "in distant remainder to the lordship of Napier" (meaning he is connected remotely to the Scottish laird John Napier, who invented logarithms).

The Earth science tradition grew from quaint description, early constrained by biblical notions but later enlightened, to a better understanding of coastal forms and processes after 1800.

With its quaint descriptions of cheating partners betrayed by a cache of letters, City workers just about able to get away with two glasses of pinot at lunch, and five-bedroom houses in Hackney going for £250,000, was this an exercise in wry nostalgia or a genuine period piece, dusted off and given a new lease of life online?

That's a quaint, and woefully incomplete, description of a job that actually has a triple mandate, including the regulation and supervision of the banking system.

Although that terminology sounds quaint to modern sensibilities, LeMay thinks those descriptions make them, in some ways, more valid than contemporary reports.

Crespino's description of what followed makes the politics of today seem quaint and civilized by comparison.

There is no denying that parts of the state are quaint, a word that seems to be permanently attached to the state's description.

President Obama's description this morning of an idealized budget negotiation with Republicans was bizarrely quaint and decorous.

He certainly has a talent for evoking a place -- as in this description of a small port in Cyprus: "Kyrenia was picturesque and remote and quaint to the point where it could not have been more picturesque or remote or quaint".