Concerning her deliberately old-fashioned style, Blixen mentioned in several interviews that she wanted to express a spirit that no longer exists in modern times, that of destiny and courage.

If we are deliberately old-fashioned, then no one will remark if we use the old lace tablecloths and doilies.

It looks and feels deliberately old-fashioned, except for Ms. Swank, eager and raw-boned, who seems to wander in from another kind of movie altogether.

She sat up, reached for her deliberately old-fashioned spectacles, and turned on the antique two-dee vid that had been their only entertainment while waiting to extract Garvin and Njangu.

With their melancholy Romanticism, the pictures seem deliberately old-fashioned.

In February, the Times called it "magic" and "full of humour and insight", although it conceded that the "deliberately old-fashioned" style "sometimes verges on the sentimental."

Its deliberately old-fashioned wrapper, done in sepia tones, showed a Victorian father with suspenders next to his two children.

The song is a deliberately old-fashioned throwback to 1960s pop music.

This is about as dramatic as things get in Indrani Aikath-Gyaltsen's gentle, deliberately old-fashioned novel, the successor to her "Daughters of the House."

Morris is a deliberately old-fashioned novelist.