For a media-glutted population the relatively static, linear and language-oriented world of theater (and even the most cutting-edge theater is often quaint in comparison to other media) is not merely boring but incomprehensible.
The fact that Leica's M-range (M is for Messsucher or rangefinder) has a spare, old-fashioned look means that it is often considered quaint and quirky – hardly the type of camera a war reporter or a celebrity-hunting paparazzo would choose.
In a quainter age, women's underclothes were often referred to as "unmentionables".
But the island is often playing some quaint small town or fishing village far from New York.
In perpetually made-over Manhattan, seediness is often seen as a quaint precursor to fabulousness.
Mr. Bloomberg is often a man of quaint politeness in public.
Visitors are often surprised by the quaint porticos that cover the Uptown business district.
This quaint phrase is often a euphemism for infidelity and conveys the relative innocuousness of the sin.
I am often told it's irreconcilable with the quaint, bookish and aloof culture of jazz.
In Italy, small boutique hotels are often on back streets, tucked into forgotten corners of quaint, quiet neighbourhoods.
