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Maybe his shows are too quaint for some...but I loved them.
The plot is quaint and dosn't really lead anywhere.
The only thing I liked about it was the quaint depiction of olden-days English countryside.
Today, it's a quaint notion, but at that time, the idea that a man could own a woman was accepted without any raised eyebrows.
It seems quaint to think of people discussing things like what they honestly think and feel about one another since we are much more socially advanced today (ha ha).
Quaint desert cafes.
Stunning misty landscapes, rustic sets, quaint old farm buildings, and close-ups of leaky taps do not save this stinker from a storyline that drags slower than a mini towing a b-train.
This film is shown occasionally on IFC and is worth watching,some of the performances are quaint and subtle, and the romantic comedy is understated (Though I'm from the states I don't like over the top Hollywood "romantic comedies",actually find them saccharine and intolerable.)
In an age when serial killers are deified, what Val Lewton and company wrought so long ago must seem tame, indeed; quaint.
Written and directed by people who should've known better, "Doctors' Wives" was considered pretty heavy stuff in its day (the first time it ran on network TV, there was a "parental discretion" warning preceding the movie), but its 'raciness' is now rather quaint.
She explained that the term is actually "Five Pound PARTY" and it was a quaint tradition where a sort of bridal shower was held and the gifts were geared towards helping the bride set up her kitchen: five pounds of sugar, five pounds of flour, and so on.
I settled down to watch a quaint old film from 1960s' world cinema.
The fact it won a Cannes prize makes me more hopeful of its release abroad, especially in the UK, where Italian cinema is direly underrepresented (with the exception of movies that show Italy in a quaint or picturesque light).
Oh, the little village is quaint until it gets hit by what seems to be a large cloud of talcum powder and tapioca.
What a quaint concept, that art or ideas can be so offensive and harmful that they should be banned.
In fact, he becomes a hero, saving the townsfolk of quaint Haversville from a criminal scam perpetuated by a big city gangster named Duke Sheldon.
This made for TV Film had a wonderful cast of actors, fantastic photography of the coast line of Ireland with its quaint cottages and lighthouse.
It's a little quaint by today's standards, but the writing is witty and the cinematography is excellent.
En route to California Ben finds himself stranded in the quaint small South Carolina hamlet of Grady, where he's forced to do 32 hours worth of community service.
A rich, posh young woman moves from a quaint part of London to a run-down area, where she dreams of living a social class existence and escaping the corrupt influence of money.
Oh well, even though I signed on to be in a quaint little comedy I wound up being in a schlocky horror movie.
Based on a real life, self confessed "werewolf" (well, a dude suffering from lycanthropy), Romasanta had the potential to be seriously creepy, especially with the dark forests of the area and the quaint little villages so horribly afraid of a big bad wolf.
Hardcore horror fans who enjoy gore will probably consider his stories quaint but as an entertaining read I recommend him .
In fact, the Houthis had previously joined with Sunni tribes in the south of the country to help spark Yemen’s Arab Spring (a quaint – and not particularly accurate – description of the insurgency that led to the fall of President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s regime in 2011).
That belief, too, seems quaint in the aftermath of the credit bubble that fueled the global financial crisis, which exposed economic models based on rational decision-making to stinging intellectual attack from the behavioral economists.
The third issue highlighted by Ms. Bonino is the quaint Italian labor law that allows a dismissed worker to go to court and seek reinstatement.
In short, the pursuit of the collective good looks sadly quaint.
It might not be so bad if there were even a grain of truth to trickle-down economics – the quaint notion that everyone benefits from enriching those at the top.
Kaufman’s approach – with speeches on the Senate floor as a central feature – seemed irrelevant or even quaint to critics even a few weeks ago.
It is quaint that the 1933 World Economic Conference took place in the Geological Museum in London’s Kensington, at a time when international cooperation seemed as alien as a fossilized dinosaur.
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