Word: quainted
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Seek out the comfort of a quaint warm zone...
...because we can understand a character who blurts, "Well, me and Aggie Wainwright, we figgers to git married we are an' they ain't nobody can stop us!," better than one who exclaims "dayle I sholde have kyssed the...sispyte of Quene Gwenyver." The first is immediate, the second quaint...
...Quaint and somehow childish, it sounds to the sophisticated modern ear, to say "I should have kyssed the." We read The Grapes of Wrath instead of Arthurian tales also because the 20th-century novel seems more logical, more intellectual, more "grown-up." The nakedness of Arthurian events seems too simple, the characters sound naive. But the characters and events of Arthur's court are in fact as psychologically complex and possible as those of any novel. If they are considered simplistic, bare chains of events (Lancelot loves Gwenyver but she's married to his lord, Arthur), its's because modern...
...playwright by trade. Just guessing, I'd call him a former New York social worker harried with guilt and looking to stir up public sympathy for and insight into juvenile delinquency. The form this effort has taken in The Indian Wants the Bronx is, well, kind of quaint...
...confined to the Cambridge area this weekend, you can watch the first game of the World Series, which will be played in the back waters of a quaint Ohio community. Red Sox fans will be hoping for a subway series between the Cincinnati Reds and the Kansas City Royals. Anything to get the Yankees out of the picture. The second game of the series will be played Sunday, after which the Reds should hold a 2-0 lead...