Sentences with phrase «quaint now»

The museum's own interpretation may look quaint now, but it played a part in forming a bridge from European abstraction to a crucial postwar generation.

As you say, a lot of the presentation stuff in this game is quaint now, but in 1991 this was completely bananas.

This all sounds quaint now, especially when you consider the U.S. pet industry has grown into a more than $ 60 - billion business, and pet products can now be found in almost every retail setting you can imagine.

It almost seems quaint now but not so long ago, a young couple would scrimp and save for a down payment on a house and slowly build equity in their home by paying down the mortgage.

«It all seems so quaint now» A fact of life is that the younger generation will always piss on the older one.

Seems quaint now.

The seven - year, $ 27 million contract seems quaint now, considering that's what teams will pay for 180 innings of slightly below - average pitching every year, but it was a risk at the time.

Which is why they're particularly useful in stressing points, as «baulderdash», while it may have been a major swear in the early 1900s, would be very quaint now.

Not exact matches

But — as Recode can now report, because we still do that quaint journalism thing — is a very heady group of less than a dozen, comprising most of the key players in the sector.

A hundred years from now, we'll probably look back at today's Internet and think of how quaint it was.

It's quaint to look back now and see how times have changed.

Now CEO Brad Kinstler is ready to take the quaint candy maker east.

It tells the investor: hard work and clear thinking doesn't help here, for now you are in a special place where the quaint rules of Main Street do not apply.

These quaint forms are now easily ignored, all with widespread approval from the progressive forces.

This means that the reader can be assured that the book is pure of sectarian or theological contamination as it follows the by - now quaint - sounding criteria of a history objective and scientific.

This now quaint - sounding term represents, in the West, a long practice of premarital sexual union and cohabitation.

We are in a New Age, and there is an awakening to the fact, that the stories we were force fed as children (brainwashing), now seem quaint, and downright phony.

The optimistic spirit that produced the prohibition effort, for instance, seems quaint to us, and we are more alert now to racial and gender discrimination.

As an adult, I embraced the same quaint right wing fundamentalist Christian religion, being baptised into it... and ultimately became heavily involved in another branch of the same church (which was no less quaint, or right wing, or fundamentalist)... and it is only now (as I approach my 60's) that I am coming to realise (in so many churches) the great loss that has been suffered as a result of silencing at least half the membership.

Now it just seems quaint, but oddly true... Eventually this all passes.

We are in a New Age, and what most christians were brainwashed with as children, now seems quaint, and downright phony.

Now open, The Painted Lady Restaurant's owners, husband and wife team Chef Allen Routt and Jessica Bagley, have created the ultimate gourmet getaway in a quaint turn - of - the - century guest cottage set just next door to their AAA Four - Diamond restaurant in Oregon's beautiful wine country.

The main drag of German colonial homes, antique stores and family - run pizza joints feels quaint, although it is now dotted with super-chain banks, a yoga studio and a cafe serving fair - trade coffee.

The onetime teen sensation with the quaint tennis dresses is now a mother and TV commentator who still puts in time on the courts

It is incredible and inevitable: Eight years from now, and possibly sooner, the Tomahawk will seem dated and quaint.

Now, more than five years later, Albertville is a little brighter, because most main - street shops have been painted; a little quainter, with Victorian street lamps installed on a couple of newly cobblestoned shopping streets: a little trendier, with the opening of some antique stores and the brasserie St. Michel, a warm and woody combination of British pub and American saloon that has a sing - along piano and 71 brands of beer from 15 countries, including Bud en bo «Äö √ † √ ∂ «àö √ úte («in a can»).

In the light of recent changes in technology and family life, these songfests now seem quaint, as moribund as the Catskills... READ FULL POST

The de facto king of Staten Island politics, now 85, eased himself out of a wheelchair on Saturday, bracing his frail body against the stage of the quaint New Dorp Moravian Church.

In a plot twist that now seems quaint, Miranda horrified her friends by moving from a Manhattan apartment to a brownstone in Brooklyn.

Those innovations now sound quaint, but the concerns they raised are fresher than ever.

Otto wrote those words in the heat of a presidential election race that now seems quaint by comparison to the one the nation now finds itself in.

Does it bother you that the things you're excited about now may seem quaint as soon as someone comes up with a better theory?

«In 50 years, what we believe now will look just as quaint.»

«I wonder how quaint our ideas are going to look like 150 years from now.»

This rough - hewn ladder was once used at an apple orchard but now offers up a quaint spot to store extra blankets in this North Carolina farmhouse's nursery.

Britt now resides in a charming rental set in the quaint neighborhood of Normaltown in Athens, GA, where she splits her days between long painting sessions, meetings, drawing up statistics for her business, and spending time with her husband.

Dating sites rendered that notion quaint years ago, and now SNS are doing their part to obliterate it.

Attitudes change over time and what was once groundbreaking can now seem outdated or quaint.

The simple inclusiveness of that idea and the feeling behind it — the sense that this nation, with all of its troubles, is something we're all in together — may sound especially poignant now, and even a bit quaint.

Man With a Movie Camera Year: 1929 Director: Dziga Vertov Some groundbreaking movies from cinema's earliest days now seem merely quaint, their innovations fully absorbed into the DNA of modern filmmaking.

And now imagine it retold in a quaint West Country village through the cheeky, meta - tinted eyes of Pegg, Wright, and Frost.

Now, time is running out on the inhabitants of this quaint little American town, if the virus doesn't get you, the Federal Government will!

How quaint that amount now seems.

Ultra-orthodox automaker Morgan has been cooking up an electric version of its quaint 3 Wheeler for a while now — we saw a concept version of the so - called EV3 at the Geneva motor show, and before...

It might be quaint in the beta format right now, but how long is it going to take before the legions of established self - published authors abuse this community by artificial likes, comments and feedback, driving their title to the front - page?

In a decade from now, the physical book could be a quaint, archaic remnant of a by - gone past akin to wax records and black & white tube TVs, thanks to devices like the All - New Nook and the new Kobo Touch, essentially ereaders for the rest of us, especially the least tech savvy readers.

Now, the family's hope rests on The Larkspur, an old abandoned coaching inn in the quaint village of Gresham.

The phrase «Old English» might seem like a quaint way to refer to any works in English that we now consider «old» — Milton, Shakespeare, Chaucer, et al..

Now - quaint photos of systems like the Atari 2600 and Nintendo Game Boy — not to mention soon - to - be-quaint systems like the Wii — are fun visuals as Kaplan describes the progression of animation from crude to sophisticated and questions games of the future.

So here we are now, looking back to that seemingly quaint time in the present day (present time, muhahahaha).