As soon as you get rid of that, you know, a lot of that preciousness just kind of naturally evaporates, fortunately.

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Women are strong and independent and have no sense of preciousness, so why would you use a term like tomboy to describe that?

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He believes, anyway, in repelling preciousness with a sense of humor.

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"He's sent a consistent word throughout the Church, and throughout society, that we ought to take into account the preciousness of life, " Bush said at the press conference with Berlusconi.

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His own callousness is at odds with the preciousness conferred by time and by reputation, but it is worth keeping in mind the irony of viewing under glass what were sometimes everyday lists and accounts.

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If your tolerance for Brooklyn preciousness is low, limit yourself to dinner and resist the urge to check out the hotel rooms upstairs: they are lovely in a reclaimed-wood-and-exposed-brick kind of way, but the twee factor is pretty intense.

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