Such worries, in any case, seem positively quaint, artifacts of the muddled normalcy - the precious, shattered finality - that we now look back on with longing.

Still the grumbling over the discomforts of traveling the Underground would seem positively quaint to New Yorkers.

Because of an ever-expanding blogosphere, keeping a juicy item secret until the next day's paper seems positively quaint.

For some executives, a yearly compensation package that includes a cash bonus must seem positively quaint.

It's the line between the shocking and the acceptable that has moved, making the Barris shows seem positively quaint.

(Today those payouts look positively quaint.)

The range of media, from computer illustrations to linoleum prints, is so broad that oil paintings seem positively quaint.

Compared with the old-timers, the appealing postpunk act that opened the show, TV on the Radio, seemed positively quaint, even polite.

Some comments were positively quaint, coming from such longtime antagonists.