Frontage on The Way carried an old-fashioned appeal, Odrade thought.

But there has often been a less openly acknowledged goal: old-fashioned appeals to ethnic voters.

The Bent Spoon's vanilla cupcakes ($1.85), part of a revolving lineup of baked goods, have grainy, glopped-on frosting and an old-fashioned appeal.

This attractive spa town has some excellent independent shops with a charmingly old-fashioned appeal.

The ingredients for an old-fashioned populist political appeal would seem at hand.

If Africa's approaching peril is not enough to motivate the West to act with greater generosity, many hope that old-fashioned appeals to profit might.

Most architects prefer screens made of copper or bronze for their old-fashioned appeal - and their durability.

This plant seems diminutive with an old-fashioned appeal at first, but it soon spreads.

At the same time he furnished the hotel with all the old-fashioned appeal of an English or French gentleman's house, in order to make clients feel at home.

Only a few recent best picture winners, like 'Kramer vs. Kramer" and perhaps "Terms of Endearment," have had anything resembling old-fashioned, broad-based appeal.