Sentence examples for quaint out from inspiring English sources
It was quaint, out of date, something like a vegetable allotment in the age of the supermarket.
By now, it seems almost quaint to point out that voter fraud in the United States is vanishingly rare.
It feels almost quaint to point out now, in a cultural moment in which we're rethinking the whole of gender dynamics, but, in the early nineties, O'Riordan helped further the then-iffy-seeming idea that a woman could be both beautiful and ferocious.
Empathy, Rifkin tells us -- and backs up with new scientific data -- is not a quaint behavior trotted out during intermittent visits to a food bank or during the Haiti telethon.
But by 1910, Méliès's films became quaint and out of fashion, and World War I completely killed his sales, shutting him out of the film business by 1914.
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But for today's multi-billion dollar deep water oil drilling industry -- which only took off in earnest in the mid-1990s -- the $75 million cap certainly looks quaint and out of date.
This was, it turns out, a quaint scenario, grossly simplistic and deeply melodramatic.
The stations themselves are small, quaint affairs, often decked out with flower boxes and vintage clocks.
"It's all about how quaint those people are out on Staten Island," Mr. Shepherd said, "and it goes on to this day".
Believing that English law might offer suitably quaint employment, he set out to train as a barrister in the Dickensian chambers of Lincoln's Inn, supporting himself on income from a California service station that he had inherited.
