The idea is even quainter now, and the price point has barely increased.
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"There is no quainter or more romantic spot than Gullane," wrote the Rev.
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"Homes in Radburn are definitely on the quainter side and not for everybody," Ms. Greenfield Estersohn said.
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This is a sport that seems to be a holdover from a quainter version of the Olympics a century ago.
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We celebrate a sizable overlay of fromage: tacky hairstyles, thin synth-soundtracks, jean jackets galore, and a general sense of a quainter time.
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But Silicon Valley now considers Quora — something of a relic of a quainter era on the internet — a $2 billion company, Recode has learned.
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It is seen by many in the industry as a quainter, more commercial and prettier, but less pathbreaking, magazine than some photographers would like.
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Further afield, critics have portrayed the Rhodes Must Fall movement as a quainter and less urgent British answer to America's #BlackLivesMatter and "safe spaces" debates.
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Maybe writers David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick and Will Beall tried too hard to rationalize the material, updating one of DC's weirder, quainter heroes into something modern.
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Those looking for an even quainter experience can also take the town's ferry over to Shelter Island, a small area known for serving up delicious seafood.
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The younger Mr. MacAskill travels the globe hurtling off mountains and buildings on his bike — what in a quainter time might have been referred to as, yes, feats of strength.
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There are contemporary Christmas romances, which are set in small towns quainter than Star's Hollow and involve two good-looking people completing a Christmas-related quest (see: Netflix's recent The Holiday Calendar).
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Owned by national chain Waterstones, three stores in the south east of the U.K. feature much quainter names and shop fronts: Harpenden Books in Hertfordshire, Southwold Books in Suffolk and The Rye Bookshop in East Sussex.
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The camera spits pictures out of its side, in a manner not dissimilar from a Polaroid, harkening back to a quainter time when we didn't have the technology to carry every photo ever taken around in our pockets.
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Unburdened from the pressure of churning out trendy radio singles and hitting album sales targets, performers like Jepsen have embraced an altogether different type of pop success, something quainter than the all-encompassing appeal their sound might have them pegged for.
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The dresses are lovely and > charming, and the scenery charming and lovely. ... [Pounds's] charm of > personality was as irresistible as ever, and he sang his best number, "The > Burmah Girl," as only Courtice Pounds could sing it – even with a cold. The > discovery of the evening was Miss Florence Smithson. Never has a daintier, > quainter, more plaintive little singer graced the boards of the lyric stage.
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The gradual nature of the disaster was also more comforting, in some respects, compared with the nature of modern technological failures such as air crashes. Times reviewer made this point explicitly: "This air age, when death comes too swiftly for heroism or with no survivors to record it, can still turn with wonder to an age before yesterday when a thousand deaths at sea seemed the very worst the world must suffer." It was, as Steven Biel comments, "a quainter kind of disaster" in which the victims had time to prepare and chose how to die.
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Emerald is regarded as the traditional birthstone for May as well as the traditional gemstone for the astrological sign of Cancer. One of the quainter anecdotes about emeralds was told by the 16th-century historian Brantôme, who referred to the many impressive emeralds the Spanish under Cortez had brought back to Europe from Latin America. On one of Cortez's most notable emeralds he had the text engraved, Inter Natos Mulierum non sur-rexit mayor ("Among those born of woman there hath not arisen a greater," Matthew 11:11) which referred to John the Baptist. Brantôme considered engraving such a beautiful and simple product of nature sacrilegious and considered this act the cause for Cortez's loss of an extremely precious pearl (to which he dedicated a work, A beautiful and incomparable pearl), and even for the death of King Charles IX of France, who died soon afterward.
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Mylo Xyloto received generally positive reviews from critics, receiving a score of 65 out of 100 from review aggregator Metacritic based on 39 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews." In a five-star review, Simon Goddard of Q wrote that Mylo Xyloto "will, at the bare minimum, safely sustain their imperial position for a long time to come", singling out Martin and Buckland's musical contributions and Eno and Dravs' production for praise. Mikael Wood of Spin wrote that like Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends, Mylo Xyloto "draws from an expansive palette that makes Coldplay's first three albums sound even quainter" and that "where Viva La Vida showcased Coldplay's sense of adventure, this [album] feels more eager to please". Citing the album the band's most ambitious effort, Josh Eells of Rolling Stone noted that "the choruses are bigger, the textures grander, the optimism more optimistic" and described it as a "bear-hug record for a bear-market world".
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