Despite reflecting a basic democratic ethic, your words sound quaint these days.

The Terran cliches sounded quaint and strange in her mouth.

The process of dying has grown so complicated that the saying "my number's up" sounds almost quaint.

Seven years later, that view sounds almost quaint.

Concerns about breaching the line between sports and entertainment are so old they sound quaint.

This time it sounded quaint and dated, sectional rather than flowing.

It is a setting that may sound quaint now, in a peculiarly appealing way.

He tries to call Ana, but he gets their message service, which sounds quaint.

"It sounds quaint now, but the politics were very different back then," he said.

A few years ago it might have sounded quaint for a publisher to talk about concentrating on what it does best, but not today.