quaint

And that’s pretty much how I imagined it; what I never imagined is that the future reader might look back on any of this, or on my own peculiar experience, and say, “How quaint.”

In a country best known for quaint houses and tidy landscapes, politics can be messy.

A pivotal town in the Civil War that hosted numerous major battles, Gettysburg is a quaint town with no shortage of legends, which lend life to its more metaphysical residents.

We realize it’s quaint these days to talk about the Founders, but they granted an unlimited pardon power because they anticipated at least a modicum of presidential restraint.

The old daytime trading system—developed at a time when stocks needed to be traded in-person—looks increasingly quaint.