Quaint, aren't they?

Can you understand my quaint English accent?

It's that dress. It's so quaint and charming.

Macgregor's a quaint little man. Know what he's doing?

Well, it's a quaint spot you've picked out foryourself.

Never could understand this quaint habit of making a billboard out of one's torso.

Well, we still have that good, oldfashioned quaint plumbing should appeal to a European.

A quaint custom, but one more honoured in the breach than in the observance.

One night a long time ago, my travels took me to a quaint little village.

And I recently said that to a venture capitalist casually at some Valley event, to which he replied, How quaint.

These peoples are not failed attempts at being modern quaint and colorful and destined to fade away as if by natural law.

And the newly emerging diseases may make H5N1 and bird flu a quaint forerunner of things to come. It's a destabilized world.

I find myself actively nostalgic these days for Mitt Romney's quaint version of crazy the dog on the car roof, the 14 income tax (but at least we knew what his tax return looked like) both of which, compared to Trump, seem very mild offences indeed.

But, for many of those who imagine relaxing in a place that offers a quaint life of undisturbed beauty, there is a strong risk that prices will rise out of reach in future decades. No economic strategy can change that, even if it produces spectacular GDP growth.

It might not be so bad if there were even a grain of truth to trickle down economics the quaint notion that everyone benefits from enriching those at the top. But most Americans today are worse off with lower real (inflation adjusted) incomes than they were in 1997, a decade and a half ago.