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oldfangled

[ohld-fang-guhld] / ˈoʊldˈfæŋ gəld /








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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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