Sentences with phrase «quaint notions about»

Quaint notions about private property and free enterprise would be discarded in favor of a «single payer» model for the entire US economy — namely the Fed.

In short, CSR moves from being a quaint notion about doing nice things to being understood as meaningful to the culture of the company when the number of women in decision - making roles increases.

Not exact matches

The rest of this post is for the dwindling band of citizens who adhere to the quaint notion that politics should be about policies.

A sweet little fable about how a delusional man - child is helped by the loving ministrations of his family and community, the kind of throwback flick where human nature is seen as inherently good — a notion so quaint that it feels damn near buoyant.

The picture begins in a selfconsciously quaint mode, with turn - of - the - century brochure illustrations (and sometimes fulsome, footnote - laden character descriptions) to introduce the various players; John Addison's score supports this tone entertainingly enough, and the performers (surely with Ross's assistance) manage to maintain a nicely judged attitude of self - importance and overdeliberateness that permits the audience to be comfortable about these anachronistic types without going so far as to guy the whole notion of recreating Conan Doyle affectionately and respectfully.

I bet they never will, whatever might said about their quaint notions and the baselessness of these, because if they sue the court will require full disclosure.

There is a quaint notion out there that facts don't matter on appeal — that's where you argue about the law; facts are for sissies and the trial courts.

arguments that legalisation of such practices will inevitably result in the exploitation by the rich (recipients) of the poor (donors) to their profound disadvantage, qualms about the ethically suspect source of the organs to be transplanted, namely, as here, from executed prisoners; and quaint and idealistic, but arguably antiquated notions that donations are always made altruistically.