Word: quaintness
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...services with private contractors. Chastened he was not. The Prime Minister promised even more privatization, in a keynote speech that confirmed that while he may not be emotionally of the Labour Party, he undoubtedly commands it. Playing the role of paterfamilias, seldom smiling, he exhorted delegates to shed their quaint affection for the one-size-fits-all welfare state, which he argued cannot deliver services that satisfy voters raised in an era of consumer choice. Without saying much of anything about how he planned to reform services, he painted his quest to do so as heroic: "The radical decision...
...leads me to the machines, which aren’t exactly the quaint little ice cream cranks I’d envisioned. Tosc’s uses two “White Mountains” and one “Emery Thompson.” The White Mountains are large green metal barrels, each holding a smaller eight-quart tub in a mixture of ice and salt. The ice cream mix is poured into the tub and rotated for half an hour; the results are soft-serve. Mix-ins are added and the resulting mess is flash-frozen overnight...
...that's the quizzical response many Thais give when foreigners ask for information about this quaint, little burg set in a pastoral mountain valley 135 kilometers northwest of Chiang Mai. "You mean Phrae?" they ask. No. The savvy foreigners mean Pai, which, until recently, was one of northern Thailand's better-kept secrets...
Coffee tables were hot sellers between $20 and $40, in styles ranging from quaint wicker to functional polyurethane. Bidding was frantic, jumping in five dollar increments...
...Mauritius, he insists that the Foreign Minister Gaetan Duval "isn't black. He is a brown-skinned, straight-haired man of forty." Though some of the numerous racial distinctions in this book might be described as old-fashioned, others are less ambiguous?at best patronizing, at worst suggesting quaint inadequacies in the author, if not moral faults...