fogeyish

Perlin tells this story briskly, with a touch of the faintly fogeyish longing for older versions of America that has often characterised writing by young American leftists over the last 20 years.

Intern Nation by Ross Perlin – review 2011

And perhaps it seems equally fogeyish for the Bodleian to be keeping up its ancient commitment to paper and ink with the launch of its Swindon depository (which will house low-demand items).

Swindon provides a new sanctuary for Bodleian Library's treasures Vanessa Thorpe 2010

This may sound fogeyish, but unless one has been told that the dress is casual, I would never wear jeans to a wedding.

agrafer - French Word-A-Day 2010

And the unexceptional nature of some of his material? being fogeyish about young people's music; relating his dad's eccentric behaviour? is only just concealed by Davies's energetic, emphatic delivery.

Greg Davies 2010

But rather than dismissing Mr. Carr's thesis as old-fogeyish, as I expected, they confessed that their dependence on the Internet sometimes worries them.

So Many Links, So Little Time 2010

Jon-Tom's music tends to get a little old-fogeyish sometimes.

The Lives of Felix Gunderson Sugu Althomsons 2010

This may sound fogeyish, but unless one has been told that the dress is casual, I would never wear jeans to a wedding.

agrafer - French Word-A-Day 2010

He is fogeyish enough to make children learn Dryden, yet fluent enough in celebrity culture to bandy pop lyrics in Parliament: endlessly self-deprecating, yet the most indispensable minister in cabinet bar his friend George Osborne.

Michael Gove: Minister on a learning curve Gaby Hinsliff 2010

But he has become the embodiment of Sunday-schooled fogeyish integrity in a journalism industry looking for heroes.

Mr. Meacham's Magazine 2009

But he has become the embodiment of Sunday-schooled fogeyish integrity in a journalism industry looking for heroes.

Mr. Meacham's Magazine 2009