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Chaudhuri remembers visiting Oriel College as a student in the early 1990s and finding “its old-fogey students with monarchist enthusiasms, its conservatism … uncharming but weirdly funny”.

From The Guardian • Sep. 26, 2018

Maybe I am old-fashioned or prematurely old-fogey, but I found that stunning.

From Slate • Sep. 5, 2018

That blend, Mr. Melfi said, helped keep “Hidden Figures” from seeming like “an old-fogey movie.”

From New York Times • Jan. 3, 2017

I won’t begin to theorize about the cultural impact of all this, because no one is interested in the old-fogey perspective.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 7, 2016

Then how shall we ever progress?" eagerly took up Ruth, "if we just keep blindly following old-fogey laws and fashions?

From The Fifth Wheel A Novel by Prouty, Olive Higgins