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Can you understand my quaint English accent?
And the newly emerging diseases may make H5N1 and bird flu a quaint forerunner of things to come.
And I recently said that to a venture capitalist casually at some Valley event, to which he replied, "How quaint."
There's also a quaint scene of a guy pimping at the diner.
A nicely evoked 1930s setting provides much interest for a viewer in the early 21st century; unfortunately, "London Belongs to Me" has little else to recommend it besides lashings of quaint English charm.
Yes, it's quaint, and certainly a product of its time, but as a film it's only two notches above worthless.
But five decades later it seems quaint, just another cinematic relic of the dreadful 1950s.
There's quaint old preacher(for quaint read smelly), and the oily guy finished off the old guy(surprise, surprise) and tries to steal all the gold.
The country is like all countries, areas that everyone loves, quaint country areas and desolate areas.
It all seems so quaint now.
The psychology in this crisp antique, one of Warners' many efforts to assert its place as the "socially conscious" studio, doesn't run deep: Digges is bad just because the script requires him to be, and there's the quaint notion that juvenile delinquents will turn into swell kids if they're just given a dash of autonomy.
Yet it is the scope of drama overwhelming the senses that makes quaint language fit perfectly into each and every scene.
The Lives of the Saints starts off with an atmospheric vision of London as a bustling city of busy, quaint streets and sunshine.
The most interesting part of this movie is how quaint Ms. Page's "naughty" photos seem in 2007.
It's quaint, but not worth the nausea.
The movie's storyline is pat and quaint.
Notable for the copious nudity and sex this film is neither sexy nor gruesome, playing now more as quaint.(though
Naturally if you mix a quaint Cornish village - largely populated by retired genteel ladies - with a liberal dose of marijuana, a certain amount of silliness will ensue.
His films started to look positively quaint next to DEEP THROAT and other hard-core porno blockbusters.
That INS set with the manual typewriters and clacking teletypes seems quaint and ancient today, yet that was part of the appeal.
Richard Crenna, looking haggard and possibly inebriated, and Yvette Mimieux, who acts as if she never got over the brutal rape she endured in "Jackson County Jail," sluggishly portray a disgustingly nice and respectable suburbanite couple whose quaint, dull, sleepy small town existence gets ripped asunder when the cute German Shepard they take in as the family pet turns out to be some ancient lethal evil spirit.
It's a much simpler and more graceful work than the more frenetically paced animated films of today, which makes it simultaneously quaint and highly gratifying.
Seeing this movie about British royals spoken in German adds to its quaint charm.
With pornography, we consider ourselves 'enlightened' and our forefathers to be hidebound by quaint ideas - usually involving fire and brimstone, but the definition of what is obscene can easily fall prey to ignorance and unscientific interpretation instead of evidence.
Oddly, while shocking, the group at first seemed to take this in stride--I guess they didn't want to pass judgment on quaint native customs.
Pure technological historians will see quaint real work references to 70's bleeding edge technology and can appreciate the advances over the last 40 years.
This movie is a rather quaint combination of a very thin plot idea stretched way too far and the seldomly successful occurrence of the writer, the producer, the director and one of the main characters being the same person, in this case Gregory Christian.
The chief interests (the hazy, early-morning ambiance and cinematography, the quaint Winton Flyer which gets traded for a racehorse) nearly salvage the rest of the production, which was reportedly troubled after McQueen and director Rydell butted heads.
Devoid of so much of the nonsense that has been known to permeate other melodramas, "Peyton Place" is a beautifully filmed, effective film that uncovers the hidden scandals of a quaint, New England town.
I felt the filmmakers presented the facts, but ultimately lets the viewer judge Peter Berlin and draw our own conclusion; is he crazy, or merely the quaint and eccentric archetype you'd expect to find in San Francisco?
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