41. But in changing the tone from the retrospective calm of the book to childlike sincerity, a strained preciousness emerges. 42. Though much of this has great visual appeal, it also has considerable preciousness and much slighter purpose or emotion. 43. But their own voices were lost somewhere; instead, there was a preciousness to these street-inspired clothes. 44. The diverse characters and the beauty of the landscape combine to make a movie that veers away from cloying preciousness . 45. "There's a preciousness to having a living thing that's a status symbol," 46. What would happen to him if he could be brotglt to understand the preciousness of the lives he has destroyed? 47. He embellished his cathedral in Metz with works which rank among the highlights of Carolingian art in beauty and preciousness . 48. I was hell-bent on putting my preciousness at stake in order to find something worth singing about ." 49. He has hard feelings but his parents have instilled in him the value of the preciousness of life . . .. 50. At its best, " Get a Life " mocked TV conventions without getting mired in its own preciousness .
