| 31. | But as portrayed with an uncompromising lack of preciousness by Ms . Claypool, Ida refuses to reassure.
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| 32. | By his own account, he has " an absolute horror of prissiness and preciousness ."
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| 33. | As a result, her work is sometimes accused of intellectual preciousness, of a certain academic smugness.
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| 34. | "It wasn't even the preciousness of the gems or the famous people who owned them.
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| 35. | He said Radner's life and death taught him " the preciousness of each moment ."
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| 36. | The line between whimsical wit and preciousness is definitely blurrier in the stage version, directed by Shirley Kaplan.
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| 37. | What, exactly, does such strained preciousness have to do with Truman Capote's life or work?
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| 38. | The virtue of Herzog & AMP; de Meuron's approach here is its very lack of preciousness.
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| 39. | Seduced by his craft, the craftsman all too often produces objects of fussy preciousness rather than bold originality.
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| 40. | I'm now leaning, first thing in the morning, to'preciousness and emblematic heft '.
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