Sentence examples for quaint material from inspiring English sources
In 2004, it was, somewhat startlingly, given to a theatrically released film-compilation called The Good Old Naughty Days, a selection of hardcore silent pornography from the French belle époque: people who wanted to view this quaint material had to do so in a licensed cinema, and had to "join" this cinema, in person, days before turning up to see the film.
He also admires the modest scale of the buildings, the wealth of bona fide landmarks, the profusion of alleys paved with quaint materials -- bricks, cobblestones and wood blocks.
Others will be amused by the quaint advertising material retailers used to display, or the blotting pads that shops embossed with their emblem and gave away to loyal customers, and of course all those ashtrays and lighters people collected and swapped.
Contemporary artists and designers sometimes think this material is merely quaint, or else they turn up their noses altogether at this decorative stuff, but a simple scan of Jury's reproductions shows that the men (and the few women) who worked in this field knew exactly what they were doing.
In that sense, his job at the Herald Tribune suited him, though he was apt to complain about the paper's editing methods, which involved such quaint practices as inserting extraneous material into an author's copy, without consultation, which appeared in square brackets.
As in Campion's previous movie Holy Smoke, this raunchy material has something tiresomely quaint about it.
"The mantelpiece was a material part of the quaint character that had endeared my buyers to the property," Ms. Cohen said.
But it's so familiar that some of this material seems stale, the humor too quaint.
