Word: quaintness
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...Madonna Louise Ciccone, who is 26, and her Wanna Be's, such getups somehow suggest the '50s, now conceived on the evidence of old Marilyn Monroe movies to have been a quaint and fascinating though slightly tacky time, rich in flirtatious, pre-feminist sexuality. Although to her it's a joke, Madonna's "Boy Toy" belt buckle offends almost everyone except the Wanna Be's. Those who snoozed through the '50s the first time around are mystified. Some feminists clearly feel that Madonna's self-parody as an eye-batting gold digger, notably in her song Material Girl...
STUDENTS OF history often gloss over 18th century England. T.S. Eliot dismissed it as an age of retired country clergymen and schoolmasters, while that consummate Victorian Matthew Arnold condescendingly termed it. The elegant and indispensable 18th century. Sure, there were plenty of quaint leisurely settings in 18th century England but to generalize in such a way about any lengthy period of history is dangerous, and in this case quite misleading. The age between the turor of the Civil Wars and the clamor of the Industrial Revolution does not boast such climate historical events. Yet studies of 18th century English literature...
Manhattan friends joke around and tell me they like Washington, which they will not characterize as a city, but merely as a quaint town I laugh aloud but silently fume at their insensitivity...
Self's financial transactions make the phrase "filthy lucre" seem quaint. He spends in a slack-jawed trance usually associated with pornography. Wads of currency go for hogsheads of alcohol and composts of fast food. His car, an overpriced Fiasco, is nearly as costly to keep as Selina Street, a sexual acrobat and shakedown artist whose faked orgasms excite Self more than the real thing...
...main street, wandering through Sandwich and West Barnstable and Barnstable through Yarmouth Port, Dennis and Brewster. In comparison to the deadly-dull rows of afflicted pine trees along the mid-Cape, as Route 6 is known down there 6A will lead you through cranberry bogs and antique stores and quaint village squares. It may take you another 20 minutes to get where you're going, but you'll be able to savor some of the prettiest parts of The Cape...