Sentences with phrase «quaint notions of»

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.

We are often told in portentous tones that these words do not occur in the First Amendment (or anywhere else in the Constitution), that there has never been «absolute» separation of church and state (seemingly with the implication that therefore there shouldn't be any such separation), and that the concept has become outmoded with the demise of the quaint notion of limited government and the expansion of the activities of both governments and churches.

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

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.

I don't think hell is the quaint notion the populous has of hell as fire, brimstone, and little devils poking at you with pitchforks.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

In part one of our story, I rode out to battle against what now feels like the absolutely quaint notion that barraging the game's community with media hyping future cash shop products that conspicuously excludes pricing, then releasing those products at absurd price points with only a few days of availability was a predatory and anti-consumer way to market a product that leveraged fear of missing out to take advantage of players of a certain mindset.

While the idea of historically identifiable «-- isms» has largely been jettisoned as a quaint 20th — Century notion, there are certainly notable areas of artistic practice that seem to, for whatever reason at certain moments, gain traction with large numbers of artists.

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.

The notion of spending a day «doing» the Chelsea galleries now seems downright quaint, since it would take at least a week to see them all.

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.

Empirical faith in AGW has been sustained largely on the basis of corrupted or diddled time series and quaint ad hoc notions of «trend.»

No wonder, it makes a mockery of his quaint 19th Century notion of an economy with no central planning.

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.

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.

Really, in 20 years time, the whole notion of law firm sizes may very well seem quaint.

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.