oldfangled
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You might find yourself saying “nope,” too, once or twice, in a way that’s really tantamount to saying “yes” to “Nope’s” shivery pleasures, which feel both oldfangled and new.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 20, 2022
The idea of investing in a character who isn’t essentially evil or bad seems oldfangled, even quaint.
From Salon ● Apr. 1, 2017
But as a member of the oldfangled endangered species of people who make a living writing books, the characters I identified with most this year were the creaky, wrong-headed scouts in “Moneyball.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2012
His cleverness as a songwriter — the oldfangled alchemy of wit, craft and subtext that tends to get coded as drollness — serves partly as a safeguard, keeping pathos at a manageable remove.
From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2010
During a recent visit to Harvard's Loeb Drama Center, the Open Theater demonstrated its traditional expertise at oldfangled script-drama with a superbly subtle production of Endgame.
From Time Magazine Archive
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