| The historical quaintness described at each river-side town the men pass glorifies the grandeur of a long lost Britain. |
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| And adding to the quaintness, I noticed that the bank's drive-through teller lanes were equipped with pneumatic tubes. |
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| That custom lacks the quaintness of lobola and in my world, it would be called kidnapping. |
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| There's a quaintness in these tableaux that's at first charming but eventually slides into overkill through sheer grating repetition. |
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| In a sense, can one culture's madness be seen as another culture's eccentricity or even quaintness? |
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| The opening sequence paints a portrait of the quietus and quaintness of suburbia and the stifling boredom it can induce. |
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| Yet for years a cloud of quaintness hung about many of the country's founding-places. |
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| The people are so nice, the city so pleasant and full of history, but what I see so far is that it has English quaintness yet all the luxuries we are used to in America. |
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| Tempting though it may be to view the cozy quaintness of Ann and Abby through rose-tinted glasses, advice columnists have always been known for downright chutzpah. |
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| Others found its quaintness incongruous: British Rail, the nationalised owner of Britain's railways until 1994, wanted to turn it into a bus station. |
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| The lukewarm smiles of the cabin crew did little to alleviate my aerophobia and the only distraction I found was in the quaintness of the destination. |
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