Sentence examples for quaint than from inspiring English sources

Today Demuth's industrial romance seems more quaint than inspirational.

The atmosphere here today is more quaint than communal.

Today his Oedipal struggle with the ideals of his forebears seems more quaint than shocking.

The reports look less quaint than the old-fashioned pasted variety.

Above ground, the feeling is more quaint than spectacular, with hiking and biking the chief pursuits.

Even "Pamela," prudish and didactic as it is, feels far less limited or quaint than we might expect.

I am astonished to learn that Mr. Schreiner believes that linking Lincoln's recurring episodes of depression with "emotional disappointments rather than to a chemical imbalance seems quaint rather than scientific".

But they were quaint rather than burdensome.

"We're old-fashioned," shrugged one Saudi courtier, making his country sound quaint rather than archaic.

Well, perhaps, but there are plenty of historical artefacts better left on quaint display than put to their original uses.

The current liberties of the essay will doubtless look mannered in thirty years' time; its vaunted self-consciousness will look naïve, the fractured forms quaint rather than radical.