Sentences with phrase «for quaintness»

We uncover these mystery's with recently successful writer Juliet Ashton played by Lily James who's bubbly performance is just right for the quaintness of post-war Britain.

Two television commercials, charming for their quaintness, are nonetheless grainy and melodramatic, and a 42 - picture stills gallery showcases various poster art and lobby cards for the original release of the film.

But not often, as Tony Kushner's («Angels in America») screenplay — loosely adapted from Doris Kearns Goodwin's «Team of Rivals» — eschews grandeur for quaintness, creating a film which like a play more often than not.

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Of course, 19th - century attitudes might be dismissed out of hand for their droll quaintness.

If the movie sees board games as quaint and items of nostalgia, it also wants to channel into that quaintness and nostalgia for an older generation — those who saw the original movie as kids and, hence, are old enough to know that video games where once contained, not on discs or in digital downloads, but in plastic boxes.

But for Faces Places, Varda is pointing JR's attentions toward the people of France and to the small towns that often get branded with outsiders» touristy notions of quaintness.

I chose Smithville as the locale for The House That Love Built because of the quaintness and friendly people.

For this show, Fischl continued to paint surrealist tableaux where the quaintness of small - town America is tainted by lurid forms of sexuality and violence.