For many of the teen-agers, a caring and consistent environment is a welcome novelty.

But this film hasn't aged badly, and its daring heroines make it a welcome novelty.

At this meeting the Russian writers did not appear as spokesmen of the state, and this was a most welcome novelty.

To sweeten the deal, its manual seems to have been written by a native English speaker - a welcome novelty.

The flat floor was a welcome novelty for that era.

They tried to get him to stay the night with them--they had been on the trail six weeks and a stranger was a welcome novelty.

A welcome novelty in this production is the inventive presentation of Friar Laurence.

And for the peasants in Brazil's outback, the arrival of health care workers is a welcome novelty.

No surprise, then, that the television set, at first a welcome novelty in the living room, soon followed the children out.

In India's arena of scrappy, larger-than-life politicians, his low-key style was a welcome novelty.