Sentences with phrase «quaint idea»

It seems like an almost quaint idea - but it does happen!
They also destabilized quaint ideas of Englishness on the twenty - fifth anniversary of the Queen's accession; while there is one image of village life (notably tagged with a sign reading «PRIVATE»), there are many more pictures of fashion spreads and urban ennui.
Add to this the often saccharine depiction of martyrs in Christian art and legend, and one has a situation in which martyrdom is seen as a pious, quaint idea from an earlier age.
«I wonder how quaint our ideas are going to look like 150 years from now.»
Quaint idea, I know.
It's a quaint idea, and one that is heavily promoted by the investment industry as the only reasonable choice for most investors.
It'd be a quaint idea, but no moreso than my thoughts of Santa when I was younger.
Isn't it a quaint idea.
And you still got to love the people still attached to this quaint idea that Wenger bought Ozil because of «fan's pressure» — altogether now, one, two....
While it might seem like a quaint idea to use an old, antique high chair, they are not at all up to date with current safety standards.
To be sure, that government was high on impunity (more than any military government before it); and had a quaint idea of mechanical «discipline», in the whip - coerced queues its War Against Indiscipline (WAI) programme decreed.
New ministers could quietly recast the promise as a quaint idea of David Cameron's, a policy hatched by the last regime which hasn't survived transition.
I prefer the quaint idea that principals should be responsible for evaluating teachers.
When you say «no» to their pitch, they merely smile and congratulate you on the quaint idea that you have standards.
It's a quaint idea, I know, but the» standard industry practices» of publishing -LSB-...]
The Aspen Institute Initiative on Financial Security (Aspen IFS) briefed legislators on Capitol Hill July 27, 2010 about a quaint idea: Why not get home buyers to save up for their mortgage down payments?
(A quaint idea today.)
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