Word: quaintness
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...common vacation dilemma: you wake up on the last morning of your holiday and remember that you haven't sent any postcards to the folks back home. Unfortunately, the offerings in the souvenir shops don't quite capture the majestic beaches and quaint villages you've enjoyed over the past two weeks. Either they're too bawdy for Grandpa or they feature the talent-free scrawlings of a local artist. You can't help but think, "I wish I could make my own postcards." It turns out you can, if you have access to a camera phone. To send...
...common vacation dilemma: you wake up on the last morning of your holiday and remember that you haven't sent any postcards to the folks back home. Unfortunately, the offerings in the souvenir shops don't quite capture the majestic beaches and quaint villages you've enjoyed over the past two weeks. Either they're too bawdy for Grandpa or they feature the talent-free scrawlings of a local artist. You can't help Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits...
...what is not so typical about this rendition is the directing. Though some consider and portray theatrical farce quaint and Victorian, director Roxanna K. Myhrum ’05 advocates that this is “not [her] style” and that she sought to “take the story that’s offered… on its own terms.” Myhrum suggests that this approach both exposes the ever-appreciated comic chaos of Gilbert and Sullivan’s work and the beauty of a script that “does something...
Doesn't a 9-to-5 workday sound quaint? It's true. The world is just so pressured. Look at the generation we're creating, with Survivor and all that stuff. You're supposed to outwit everybody and double-deal. Nine to Five was trying to bring a female sensibility to the corporate world, which can really grind you down to nothing...
...government in “V for Vendetaa” kill people merely to show it can, merely to spread fear: the glue which holds a dictatorship in place. Even the number of people that the government oppresses during the movie are, in a certain historical sense, quaint. The high chancellor’s government killed almost one hundred thousand people? Amateurs! Even the half-baked Khmer Rouge killed over two million, while the Soviets would have considered a hundred thousand dead a mere warm-up. That we can not imagine the true scale of evil capable of being wrought...