Word: quaintly
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...each week's account of a crime and its subsequent investigation is interrupted by "interviews" with the key participants, conducted by an unseen questioner who sounds like a cross between smarmy therapist and Grand Inquisitor. The show is an odd mixture of '60s-style caper film (the crimes are quaint jewel heists and embezzlement schemes) and third-rate thirtysomething (hip relationship talk between the featured detectives). It deserves a quiet execution...
...Leap of Faith scoops out plenty of wry humor, such as when Martin orders the "KKK omelette, white only" at the diner in Kansas. Unfortunately, kneeslapping at the expense of rural folks wears thin. True, Martin holds the record for starring in movies with quaint, happy angles on life, but this one has half the humor without the angle. Martin tires. He bores...
There, just east of Traverse City, on the twin Lake Michigan bays of Grand Traverse and Little Traverse, lie the quaint resort towns of Petoskey, Boyne, Charlevoix and Harbor Springs...
While this is a universal theme, the approach is in danger of becoming outdated and reductive, a quaint artifact requiring occasional excavation, interesting for its historical worth but ultimately failing to translate into a contemporary relevance...
Does Britain need a monarch at all, or could the nation do just as well without? There are a few obvious advantages. The country profits from an enormous tourist trade, an $11.5 billion industry in 1990. London is one of the top destinations for traveling Americans, and the quaint ceremonies that surround royal life are a major part of its appeal. Then there is the less easily measured factor of the tradition and continuity that the crown represents, something to be proud of in the post-World War II decades when Britain has had to settle for considerably less wealth...