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"preciousness" Definitions
  1. the great personal value of something
  2. the value and importance of something that you do not want to waste
  3. (disapproving) great formality and lack of naturalness in what somebody says and does

120 Sentences With "preciousness"

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I feel like streaming on phones has maybe eliminated the preciousness of it, and I don't mean 'preciousness' in a coy way.
Their very fragility mirrored the preciousness of what they contained.
He wants to avoid the preciousness of the Brooklyn homesteaders.
The preciousness of time forces them to make certain sacrifices.
That gesture gave casual snapshots the preciousness of formal portraits.
More than just chemicals, diamonds involve preciousness, authenticity and heritage.
And the titles, despite their preciousness, develop this even further.
This is an unprecedented level of preciousness, and should be banned.
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They are alive to the preciousness of our right to vote.
For all Aronofsky's preciousness (of which there seems an endless reserve), Mother!
That book sapped me of energy ... I couldn't deal with the preciousness.
Instead, his imprisonment awakened a new sense of the preciousness of freedom.
Nor is "Aubergine" wholly free of a preciousness that got under my skin.
Another equally impactful decision lies in Haendel's lack of preciousness with his materials.
And in the opening scenes, I worried that a perverse preciousness might dominate.
The facts do remain the facts, but we know our preciousness and our fierceness.
"It's interesting to see the preciousness people have around their focused sessions," Granas said.
"We have become overly focused on this ingredient preciousness, single-origin puritanism," he said.
It makes you appreciate how adroitly Ms. Heckerling sidestepped caricature and preciousness in her film.
Bronstein argues that it's not about lock-in or preciousness, but caring about the final product.
They lived for their spouses, to whom they sought to bring feelings of preciousness and love.
Its beginning had a quiet naturalness — modest, human-scale, almost offhand but poised, with no preciousness.
The film's preciousness is balanced, to some degree, by the philosophical resignation of its unseen narrator.
"There is a constant balancing act of being precious, and total release of preciousness," she declares.
Gone is the hand of the artist and notions of preciousness, originality, emotive content, or linear narrative.
Wolfe has been creating his bibliographical art for years, and it has not escaped accusations of preciousness.
The movie was criticized by reviewers for its preciousness and over-done allusions to the "Kill Bill" franchise.
The preciousness I (and many others) feel toward it leaves no easy task for the act that follows.
Taken as a whole, the space reflects a modern way of thinking that privileges beauty but not preciousness.
The preciousness of memory doesn't make it less unreliable; the unreliability of memory doesn't make it less precious.
CreditCreditTom Jamieson for The New York Times LONDON — What defines preciousness these days: gems or privacy, gold or time?
They started to get rid of the several linings that were there to protect the preciousness of the fur.
But a sandwich of spinach leaves glossed with smoked marrow is presented without preciousness, modest and wanton at once.
He destroys any sense of preciousness in his artworks, but there is a play between delicate and solid forms.
The tender, moving pictures celebrate the preciousness of each moment shared by the couple in the face of mortality.
The clothes are silk, and they're long dresses, so there could be, like, a preciousness, but for me there's not.
It's a kind of implicit take-down of the preciousness of the white cube, the polished and commodified art world.
Those old bone-piles of American literature, Mailer, Updike and Irving, were writing psychological fantasies or books of otherworldly preciousness.
Many had creases and scars baked in: expensive clothes finished in hot presses to take a portion of preciousness out.
"When it's a performance, there is a fragility and a preciousness of it happening in the moment," Mr. Unseld said.
I do my best to realize the preciousness of life every day, and appreciate as many moments as I can.
Respect the limitations of your life, which is to say: Use and protect your time in right relationship to its preciousness.
The long-reigning bad boy of German painting has consistently poked and prodded at whatever preciousness we associate with the medium.
First, Redwall like The Hobbit and parts of Earthsea is about the preciousness and beauty of small things and modest pleasures.
I just wish it weren't written with a level of preciousness that made me want to scream my literary safe word.
" Indeed, the pair co-produced her latest record, which was inspired by "losing the weight of grief" and the "preciousness of life.
Even while dealing with extremely stressful lifestyles, young Jordanian and Syrian refugees are capturing the preciousness of each day through their cameras.
" If last year's booth "had a preciousness," Ms. Lévy said, featuring the likes of Ryman and Giacometti, "this year is much rawer.
When Lori tells her that C.C. doesn't like her working theaters because "it's beneath me," Eileen scoffs at the younger woman's preciousness.
And his fundamental secular cry seems right: since time is all we have, we must measure its preciousness in units of freedom.
If the preciousness and precariousness of freshwater eludes many of us, the immediate future will likely afford far fewer that privilege of ignorance.
It has the misfits-coming-together themes of "Stranger Things," the cosmic connections of "Sense8" and a dream-journal preciousness all its own.
I was especially moved by how Morrocco sheds his preciousness as he zips into the morphsuit, striking a variety of uninhibited classical poses.
By working on unstretched canvas and paper, isn't Bollinger trying to remove painting from the domain of preciousness some people hold against it?
Artist Jessica Calderwood, whose Smoking Boy (2005) effectively subverts the stereotypical tiny preciousness inherent in artistic enameling by depicting a youthful act of rebellion.
What it lacks in size, though, it makes up for in preciousness: Running here is a experiment that could help save corals from annihilation.
Presented in isolation or experienced project by project, Katchadourian's work often veers close to the kind of preciousness so prevalent in contemporary conceptual practice.
Simplicity, modesty and obviousness appear to be his bywords, all the better to disturb the assumptions of preciousness, skill and aloofness basic to art.
And readers of this review who are allergic to feel-good preciousness may already have moved on to the latest "Game of Thrones" recap.
The gesture is not subtle, but its amateur setting and execution has a kind of preciousness, a fragility that nonetheless creates a palpable tension.
And that, somehow, recognizing the starkness of those boundaries enriches the fragile space we occupy within them, imbues it with immediacy, legitimacy and preciousness.
"We are led cent by dollar from a lowly pile of common materials to a grand philosophical conclusion, the infinite preciousness of every person."
Its use in Beaux-Arts buildings, for instance, signified wealth because of the implied skill on display rather than the preciousness of a particular material.
Because while it's undeniably bad that the wetlands have become wastelands, she's also able to see the preciousness and possibility of these now forgotten spaces.
The tiny egg of an extinct heath hen is protected by a huge mound of cotton that visually reinforces the preciousness of the diminutive artifact.
I had invested nearly 30 hours into one of the biggest buildups of modern television only to have it — and my preciousness about spoilers — ruined.
Dutifully, I returned to the pot and sprinkled in a few grains of salt, treating them with the preciousness I might afford, say, gold leaf.
I think in a weird way the preciousness around that word is used to devalue it, actually—it's kind of conservative in a weird way.
How do you appreciate, and how do you still make things precious in an environment that takes the preciousness out of things because of sheer accessibility?
The teachers told those who had not already heard about the second student's death, Father Devron said, and spoke about the preciousness of life, students said.
The joke is to assign an heirloom metal to throwaway culture, glorifying its wasted preciousness like a movie villain lighting his cigar with a hundred dollar bill.
"To me it's about what I learned in the church I grew up in ... it truly is about the preciousness of each and every life," Warren said.
Amid the surreal comedy that follows, the film makes a touching argument for the preciousness of all romantic experiences, even the ones tinged with bitterness and regret.
This etymology suggests that an author's inventions are as precious as human lives and liberty, and that his preciousness is literal, in the sense of lost property.
In the men's work, gold "is no longer linked to preciousness, but to the technical malleability and elasticity that first made it precious to goldsmiths," Mr. Bazzini said.
Some of us emerge with a deepened appreciation for the preciousness of each day, a clearer sense of our real priorities, and a renewed commitment to celebrating life.
I've taken that theme of the preciousness of time, which in its mundane sense is measuring someone overdue in their car park spot, and the value of that.
Some of us emerge with a deepened appreciation for the preciousness of each day, a clearer sense of our real priorities and a renewed commitment to celebrating life.
There's an internal rhythm to the prose which is rarely stymied by sentimentality or preciousness, and yet the deep well of emotion just below the surface is palpable throughout.
This only underscores the preciousness of American democracy, and every time a new abuser is unmasked we're reminded of the power of our freedoms of speech and judicial action.
Primarily used by the right to taunt the assumed preciousness and entitlement of the left, liberals have taken to returning fire with the very word used to attack them.
His visual vocabulary is sparse, gentle, and considered; its preciousness telegraphs Wilmarth's minimalism with an aura of affection, a unique warmth that alludes to the linguistic dexterity of Mallarmé.
Erdemci wants us to be present, to look at the land of Cappadocia and its heritage, but also to disassociate from its preciousness and instead revel in its vitality.
"Will this work destroy the stuff that actually has to do with wisdom, preciousness, imagination, the things that are actually critical to who we are as human beings?" he asks.
But she'd already written two novels, and her time as a journalist had instilled in her a helpful work ethic and lack of preciousness: She could write fast, under pressure.
But until ABC launches its planned eight-episode reboot in 2018, there is only one mom on television that those of us tired of the preciousness can turn to: Selina Meyer.
Since succeeding his father, Hirohito, to the throne in 2628, Akihito has used his position to remind domestic and foreign audiences of the preciousness of peace and the catastrophe of war.
But in a world where avocado toast, kombucha and wheat berries have become overused signifiers, Kali infuses them once more with meaning that skirts preciousness in favor of seriously beautiful food.
Matthew Angelo Harrison's casts of animal skulls and Maya Stovall's ensemble of vessels made from broken glass found on the streets of Detroit suggest that preciousness and damage are inevitably intertwined.
One way of preserving things is to assign them the blanket positive value of preciousness, which can override and obscure realities of history, and make objects with dubious provenance look innocent.
With Golshifteh Farahani radiant and funny as his supportive but frustrated wife, this is a slice-of-life drama that makes the everyday feel extraordinary without an ounce of cutesy preciousness. 4.
Material preciousness became an end in itself, turning Qurans into prestige objects and political currency, valued as diplomatic gifts, as war booty and as pious, grace-earning donations to mosques and mausoleums.
Then, as if to provide a gratuitous refresher course in the preciousness of life, Mr. Prine again learned he had cancer in 2013, this time with a spot on the left lung.
My childhood was surrounded by baby animals of every variety — and yes, I can confirm that kittens and puppies are indeed delightful — but chicks will forever remain my gold standard for darling preciousness.
These early-life scenes in "Little Women" are so tender, so brimming with mischief and merriment, that it feels as if the film will collapse under a duvet of forced frivolity and preciousness.
In this day and age – when seriousness seems to be a required stance when it comes to art making – Clippinger's modestly scaled works are a welcome relief, particularly since they never devolve into preciousness.
I have always had a mix of admiration and distrust for dishes that are "institutions," knowing that they have withstood the test of time but also questioning the preciousness that seems to surround them.
But at some point, a woman with a 40-pound bundle of incalculable preciousness secured to her hip must run a cost-benefit analysis and determine whether it makes sense to continue doing so.
But flipping through the completed issue, we have a surprising amount of archival content, too, all handled with a sense of preciousness and admiration, the kind reserved for anything that evokes strong feelings of nostalgia.
These discounts are a significant uptick from the 5-10% seen in previous weeks, which led some shoppers to take to social media to scoff at Barneys&apos "preciousness" and decry its reputation of exclusivity.
It's partly symptomatic of a kind of art-film preciousness — shh, we're watching art here — but also of people habituated to viewing images at home, where you can view in silence or while in full yammer.
"There had become a kind of preciousness about some of those spaces, the library in particular," said Ms. Calvert, who, as a lecturer at the Glasgow School of Art, would occasionally hold classes in the library.
It seemed that the progression of my life, if I were to put stock in what people said, meant becoming a public speaker who visits high school assemblies to lecture teens about life's preciousness: The darkest outcome.
In the shadow of this loss, it was no wonder that Urban, Schlapman and her bandmates – Phillip Sweet and married couple Jimi Westbrook and Karen Fairchild – lingered on the preciousness of family in their remarks during the ceremony.
It takes a certain lack of preciousness, let's say, to take that kind of feedback in and look at the implications of it and make adjustments, which is something that most creative cycles had a difficult time doing.
As data and our digital existence continue to expand, where every keystroke and every step of our lives can be counted and saved, objects themselves have also become suffused with a curious preciousness, a value both sentimental and otherwise.
As data and our digital existence continue to expand, where every keystroke and every step of our lives can be counted and saved, objects themselves have also become suffused with a curious preciousness, a value both sentimental and otherwise.
And it's that refreshing lack of preciousness and pretension about wine that has helped him grow his enological empire from a single barrel in a backyard in San Luis Obispo (the SLO of SLO Down) into an upstart national juggernaut.
Theoretically their modest sophistication could turn the Christmas tradition ironic, only it's the wrong kind of irony, and reflexive self-awareness backs the album into a corner as Deschanel's delight in preciousness, aiming to deflate it, accidentally heightens it instead.
We become lost, not in the good sense of roaming anonymously through the hustle and bustle, but just in the sense that we feel indifferent and disconnected from our environment, adrift in the sterile familiarity, left absent and detached by its urban preciousness.
Take, as an example of the way her attentiveness to detail never tips into mannerism or preciousness, a little moment in the first movement of Szymanowski's "Mythes" for violin and piano, a brief bit of give-and-take between the violinist and pianist.
But an anti-abortion movement that is seen for what it affirms and protects, and not just for what it leaves out, could transcend fractious politics, whataboutism and hypocrisy, and offer a deeper understanding of the preciousness of life and the importance of human dignity.
And protest can easily stray into preciousness: the University of California, for example, suggests that it is a racist "micro-aggression" to say that "America is a land of opportunity", because it could be taken to imply that those who do not succeed have only themselves to blame.
"In a sense, his 'outlaw' persona, while it's in part a way of camouflaging himself away from preciousness and self-regard, is also completely earned, in artistic terms," the novelist Richard Ford told The Pittsburgh Tribune Review in 22014 on the occasion of Mr. Kinder's retirement from teaching.
"We hope to teach them the social value of work and the preciousness of their own territory, so that they can later choose to work here, already having the right skill set," said Rita Russo, the director of Lecce Penitentiary, which is the largest in the region of Apulia.
They are home to the bulk of the show's 20th- and 21st-century jewels, including those by the designers Elsa Schiaparelli, Art Smith, Elsa Peretti and Mr. Leane, as well as historic houses such as Cartier, Lalique and Tiffany & Co. Given that jewelry and value are so inextricably linked, the question of preciousness pervades the exhibition.
Of course we stand behind it, but by us letting go of a preciousness that I felt when I was 21 when we were recording North Hills, even though it was a scrappy band's first record, I was more serious back then because I didn't know what I was doing and if this music thing was going to pan out for us.
Though there is a tendency to focus on intricate patchwork styles, quilts made of true necessity often had to prioritize using every inch of spare fabric over symmetry or preciousness, and the abstract aesthetics achieved by impoverished female artists making of quilts is on par with these men of painting, who made such a great impact on the concept of fine art.
This comes at a time when and a place where the scarcity and preciousness of H20 has become a part of the public's conscience all across a dry and thirsty Western U.S. "Paradise Park is ... taking advantage of imagination and fantasy on property that we own for zero (dollars), with water rights that we own for zero — and we're the only ones that have them at this size," Wynn said on a May 5 earnings call.

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