"There's a quaint view of Scotland — all kilts, bagpipes, whisky, misty mountains and clear streams," Mr. Laverty said recently.
The movie, which opens nationwide today, trots out a quaint view of the C.I.A. as not only bottomlessly malevolent, but also endlessly and terrifyingly competent.
Hermanos twits the Fox network for not focusing on the beauty of the sport but instead zeroing in on Homemade signs of varying hokitude, Sleeping infants, Quaint city views, In a poem subtitled "Chernobyl, Texas," he second-guesses Manager Ron Washington for resting his best reliever while a game gets away.
I have gone through all the stages of grief for the loss of my quaint old view and the genteel town house.
The sidewalk fish and vegetable stalls that most New Yorkers once saw as quaint are viewed by some of our new neighbors as dirty and smelly inconveniences.
Having grown up together, and traveled along a familiar circuit of approved schools and drowsy summer places, the Old Money people actually did know each other and also tended to hold the quaint-seeming view that birth, marriage and death were the only valid reasons to find one's name in print.
We continued up the coast to L'Île Rousse, known for its port, quaint streets and views of the big blue from its lighthouse.
Waterfront views, quaint cottages and the charm of antique shops were the ambience Patricia Slater hoped to find in her search for a new home.
Its harbor is impossibly quaint and its views breathtakingly beautiful; its center is indifferently maintained and virtually paralyzed by traffic at 8 o'clock every morning, when the workday begins.
