Ejemplos de uso de quaintness
1. Earlier this year, Professor Mansfield took a breather from writing tomes on representative government in order to publish a book titled Manliness, in an attempt to reclaim traditional masculinity from what he considers to be quaintness and obsolescence.
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3. That certainly wasn‘t the modernité Charles Baudelaire was thinking of in 1863 when, in The Painter of Modern Life, he described "modernity" as an exaltation of "the ephemeral, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art whose other half is the eternal and the immutable". Nor was it what Jonathan Swift complained of in a letter to Alexander Pope – the work of English scribblers "who send us over their trash in Prose and Verse, with abominable curtailings and quaint modernisms". That was in 1737, and was the first and probably the last time that "modernism" and "quaintness" were linked in the same sentence.