preciousness

How To Use preciousness In A Sentence

• Collaborative writing is an exercise in freeing yourself of your ego, of your preciousness. Letting go « Write Anything
• He had nothing to tell them regarding the preciousness of water and the apportionment of supplies... given they were in their sane minds. HAMMERFALL
• Memory's pearls, in all the purity of their gleaming preciousness, were counted one by one by the flute and dulciana; and the sadder tones of the waldflute proclaimed the finding of the cross. The Rosary
• Arc strikes a balance between form and function, highlighting both the preciousness and scarcity of this rich resource, and highlighting the elemental beauty inherent in cascading water. Multi-Functional Furniture : KEWB
• The origins of Euphuism and of that later form of preciousness which is sometimes called Gongorism and sometimes Marinism have been much discussed, but the last word has certainly not been said on them. A History of Elizabethan Literature
• Here character, diction and motive come together, and all the preciousness and self-flattery drop away.
• How can we make sense of such drastic variations of a subaltern woman's identity with the invaluable preciousness of a human life at stake?
• For you therefore which believe is the preciousness: but for such as disbelieve, The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the head of the corner; and, A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence; for they stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed. The Epistles of St. Peter
• There is an indefinability and preciousness about her, a mystique which informs her, an exceeding of what is seen, a nature and wondrous mystery, like that of a companion and lover, a creature and friend. Renegades Of Gor
• Perhaps what is most remarkable about this elaborate congeries of thematic threads is that they never lead the poem into preciousness or turn it into an exercise in facility.