To some, the American Dream may seem like a quaint idea from a bygone era.
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When speed of execution is normative and rapid-fire decisions are a constant, the art of reflection can seem quaint, a holdover perhaps from earlier, more sedate times.
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Value comes from those using it and when those using it mutually assign no value, it disappears, becoming a quaint linguistic oddity or a neglected modifier.
We set out on this new adventure, finding a quaint restaurant that had white tablecloths and a wine list.
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Sometimes the massive and expensive institutions that deliver health care are worse at dispensing practical advice than a quaint how-to book available at a used book store.
The accordion, for so long associated with Paris's riverside guinguettes, gives a quaint touch to songs which blend homesickness and a tribute to French popular music.
Cap off your day with a film at the Lev Smadar Theater, a quaint art-house theatre just off Emek Refaim that attracts a young, secular crowd.
"Seriously, I hope that you're not disappointed that there won't be a big coming-out speech tonight because I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago back in the Stone Age, very quaint days when a fragile young girl would open up to trusted friends and family, co-workers and then gradually, proudly to everyone who knew her, to everyone she actually met, " she continued.
Sir Michael and his staff of officials have a uniform of knee breeches and swords, which appear to many as quaint throwbacks to a previous age.
Named a klotok, this is a quaint wooden Indonesian houseboat that comfortably sleeps four people.
It was a quaint forbear to today's industry paranoia over CD-burning and Internet downloading.
And then there are the hot springs, one in a quaint bathhouse and two outside.
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In Waveland, Mississippi, a quaint street of shops and trees called Coleman Avenue is nothing but rubble.
Something more than a quaint commitment to keep his word may also be motivating the prime minister.
Since 1991, film making and tourism have revived Port Douglas, a quaint former sugar and gold town, from near-death.
An already tenuous customer relationship may well weaken further, while loyalty is increasingly a quaint notion from the past.
On the other hand it is a quaint place with none of the pretention that most similarly priced ski resort towns have.
Palo Alto itself is a quaint town: home of Stanford University.
It was Lucas Candies, a fourth generation family-owned company with a quaint storefront shop in Haverstraw, NY, along the Hudson River near West Point.
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Just a ferry ride from Shelter Island and the rest of the Hamptons, Greenport feels like a quaint seaside oasis, untouched by any power scene.
Ice palaces have been a winter feature of Saranac Lake since 1898, fitting for a quaint mountain village where winter temperatures can plunge to minus 30 during cold snaps.
Mark Kurlansky is eating a steaming plate of chipirones en su tinta (squid in its own ink) at Marichu, a quaint, brick-walled Basque restaurant near United Nations headquarters in Manhattan.
Oxford, with a population of about 20, 000, has a quaint downtown of two-story brick storefronts surrounded by neat housing developments, most clustered around the two dozen lakes within the township.
And the family farm is largely a quaint historical artifact: today agriculture increasingly is big business pursued by shrewd corporate operators, who are even more adept at politics than economics.
Those very quaint days when a fragile young girl would open up to trusted friends and family and co-workers and then gradually, proudly to everyone who knew her, to everyone she actually met.
The hotels also have to turn a profit, and most know that they will make more money by catering for an upmarket clientele than by remaining a quaint tourist attraction housing budget travellers.
Big city dwellers do the same thing only in reverse when they take a drive into the country to shop in a quaint little town in search of something unique to buy or an off-the-beaten path restaurant.
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