Sentences with phrase «quaint notion»

When I was a child, there was this widespread quaint notion that children ought to attend the public schools where they lived.

Yes, citizenship's a rather quaint notion these days, I know.

The reception was lukewarm: people wanted to know if and when the Chinese avant - garde would cut through certain quaint notions of oriental mystique and evolve a distinct identity.

Quaint notions about what the Founders intended or what the Constitution actually says will have to go the way of antiquated ideas about representative democracy.

But, here's the real rub for those of us who still hold on to quaint notions like that old autonomy - accountability thing: you can't just mess around with one side of an equation.

It is as dead as that equally quaint notion that ideas appear by inspiration or insight and without reference to the impinging social reality.

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.

The quaint notion of a lone scientist at the bench has been defunct for a long time.

(You will note in that story that the Globe is still clinging to the quaint notion that the Economic Action Plan ™ was a «catchphrase» related to government efforts in regards to the recession.

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

The first few seasons were still played under the quaint notion that only national champions should be eligible for the Champions League, and so quarterfinal places were filled by teams like Gothenburg, Hajduk Split, and Legia Warsaw; teams that in today's bloated elite-fest would be considered group stage cannon fodder.

I have a quaint notion that one of the purposes of editing is to make it clear why one shot follows another, or why several shots occur in the order that they do.

In this modern world, the belief that real SUVs have longitudinally mounted engines and body - on - frame construction is a quaint notion of the past — see Range Rover Evoque to illustrate that is no longer true.

A quaint notion.)

Also, I have this quaint notion I owe each stock at least one perusal of its website and latest annual report.

I mean, it already sounds like a quaint notion.

As an antithesis to Chelsea's blue - chip, moneyed galleries, 247365 breathes vital new life into that quaint notion that people support art because it's a meaningful and necessary locus of close - knit communities.

That painting can show us new realities and point toward higher spiritual states seems a quaint notion lost in the self - reflexivity of much contemporary work.

Almost a quaint notion these days.

MikeN 304 If you're worried about mitigation cramping your lifestyle, consider that «lifestyle» will become a quaint notion from a bygone era without mitigation.

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.

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.

In response, C literally laughs at M's devotion to the quaint notion of «democracy.»

Handwritten notes are such a quaint notion in this digital age.