Word: quaintness
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...Europe having such a hard time creating jobs? Ask Svatoslav Kodytek and Tomas Lenc, two florists from southern Bohemia in the Czech Republic. Soon after their country joined the European Union last May, they tried to open two shops across the Austrian border, in the quaint medieval townlet of Gmünd and in nearby Waidhofen. They planned to hire locals, but ran into roadblocks from the very start. First, Gmünd's labor office told them bluntly that no more flower shops were needed in the area. Undeterred, they set up their stores. Authorities then took two months...
...complex of low-slung buildings and neatly manicured pathways, set on a forested hillside above a small town, looks more like a country retreat than a set from M.A.S.H. Taken over by the Americans in 1951, the hospital was regarded for years by military doctors as a quaint backwater, out of touch with both Pentagon politics and the cutting-edge research of combat medicine. Dorlac says it was "a 9-to-3 life," a place where staff took weekend ski trips in the Alps and enjoyed a few sleepy European years. Putnam, the Air Force trauma surgeon, says he dreaded...
...However quaint such censorship may seem, and however capacious our tastes may have become over the past century, we still learn at a young age that a number of our great classics were once found objectionable. Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is perhaps the most famous of these. It is likely to be the first we read. And, while many of its aforementioned companions have since been let off the hook, parents and educators have continued to dispute Huckleberry Finn’s appropriateness for elementary and high school curricula. Critics may no longer find...
...point you’ll probably have stopped caring, but Uncle Nino’s disclosure does start to introduce some much needed realism to the maddeningly saccharine world of the movie. Unfortunately, the film doesn’t take this further and instead opts for the route of quaint, sitcom resolution...
...modern woman, she makes a living as an illustrator living in London. Rebounding off of a failed relationship with someone even more narcissistic than herself, she marries an older divorcee named Charlie Bovery. (Strike two!) As the routine of married life begins gnawing at her, she fantasizes about a quaint life in rural France. (Uh oh.) After hounding her husband to move she soon becomes bored and claustrophobic. So she takes a lover, a young law student, and the rest is literature...