Perhaps the booze run devalued French chicness, replacing it with French cheapness. |
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It allows deep significance to be read into mediocrity, vacuity, cheapness, meanness. |
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A taste of La Dolce Vita and the cheapness of the local property could have you planning an early retirement. |
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In the colors and shapes of all of these offerings, and in their cheapness and goodness, there is enormous beauty and life. |
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Architects of the northern hemisphere are envious of the relative cheapness of Australian hardwood. |
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Conventional manufacturing is predicated upon the assumption that product variety and cheapness are incomparable. |
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It conjurs up images of spangly cheapness, itchy Christmas party dresses in lurid colours, and hangover discomfort. |
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The simplicity and cheapness of this ordinary household material has often recommended it to painters, as well as for use in schools. |
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Various techniques were used, including lithography, but woodcut and linocut tended to be favored because of their cheapness. |
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The apparent cheapness of the shares hasn't escaped the attention of those on its discussion board. |
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The weakening of lordship and the cheapness of land had provided conditions which the yeomen and gentry were best positioned to exploit. |
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He knows how to hide the cheapness of the sets and gets a decent performance out of Williams. |
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Despite the deep leather seats, thick carpets and polished dashboard, the feeling is of cheapness. |
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Its wartime advertising promised a plastic miracle world, but homefront substitutes reinforced an image of cheapness. |
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Most of the shots of the old man under the sea were done in the dark or underwater, so the cheapness of the model is generally masked. |
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I appreciate an environmentally friendly design, but the packaging smacks of cheapness disguised as sleekness. |
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If you can get this beer to nearly freezing temperature, it would be able to hide the extreme cheapness in quality. |
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From the first, its imitative qualities signified both technological ingenuity and second-rate cheapness. |
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Of course, the interior isn't finished in lacquered bamboo, but somehow they've kept the feeling of plasticky cheapness at bay. |
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Criticizing the minister is all very well, but the cheapness of the shot does his opponent no favors. |
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The only satire going on, as far as I can tell, is the cheapness of this sort of prurience-as-moral-outrage. |
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This shoddy production design just reeks of cheapness and gives the entire film yet another air of unbelievability. |
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In the morning, the bright lights are on and all the cheapness, pockmarks, and dribbles of vomit are visible. |
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Our reference is a cheap and nasty shot, as pointed out by a reader who, without stooping to cheapness and nastiness, can't even spell his name. |
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His opus ends up on top for the sheer indifference, cheapness, humorlessness, pointlessness, meanness, and ineptitude of the entire production. |
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She was peering at me intently, as if she hadn't insulted the size of my rooms, the cleanliness of them, and my cheapness in paying my servants. |
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This was a conscious choice on the part of the filmmaker, rather than a result of cheapness or lack of effort from the studio. |
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We share an unwholesome interest in matters like the appalling cheapness of Canadian game-show prizes. |
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It wasn't just those close to me who had to deal with the results of my cheapness. |
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No one enjoys being smeared as a cheapskate, especially when that cheapness has been presented as a ruthless desire to take a profit at any cost. |
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If Jobs cultivated a priestly air of élite taste, Walton catered to cheapness and averageness. |
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The advantage of skin repellents is their relative cheapness and the speed with which they can be freighted and distributed in an emergency. |
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Desktop PCs will remain competitive, but only because of their amazing cheapness. |
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In an era when consumer credit is freer than it ever was before, people buy less for cheapness than they used to. |
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One other incidental problem caused to engineers by the rise in computer systems is their very cheapness. |
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There's a cheapness about the value of life that often shows in the way many folks treat handicapped people. |
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The relative cheapness of the technology has made the spread of information more democratic than ever before. |
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Or a honeycomb made of cardboard combined with coconut husks coated with a semi-transparent layer of coloured polyester to achieve strength, cheapness and lightness. |
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Just as displaying great wealth is vulgar, so is excessive cheapness. |
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It didn't take long for his reputation for cheapness to spread. |
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The cheapness of sugar creates an incentive for food manufacturers and retailers to sell consumers more of it in more formats, and drives sugarless foods out of the market. |
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The cheapness of so many extrovert renderings was here entirely absent. |
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During the recession and the recovery, fast-food more than held its own because of its sheer cheapness. |
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The emphasis each year on the cheapness of services is deceptive. |
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Is cheapness the main consideration or is flexibility in use important? |
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In fact, its cheapness is the main thing that palm oil has going for it. |
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Its two main strengths, strapwork and spiral turning had found favour here because of their relative cheapness of manufacture. |
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Their widespread availability and cheapness in developing countries, where other medical resources are scanty, tempts doctors to overprescribe them. |
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The advantage of the PDP was to have been ease and cheapness of manufacture, as compared to LCD, since it could take advantage of printing, rather than photo-lithography, in its production processes. |
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To conclude my argument, I think it is wrong for Napster to charge people for inferior quality downloads and the cheapness of this service is going to bring the music industry down. |
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He was also interested in the cost of book production, as can be seen in his article on the cheapness of papyrus as a writing material. |
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Mrs. Jallatt didn't study cheapness, but somehow she generally attained it. |
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Sib Siber takes action in the new environmental problems relating to the control of emissions in the atmosphere with thermal and regenerative afterburners, which couple respect for nature with economical cheapness. |
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They have opted for cheapness, which is not economy, given that the results are worse than neutral: negative, putting in evidence the open abyss between rich and poor countries. |
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The cheapness of commodities demands, caeteris paribus, on the productiveness of labour, and this again on the scale of production. |
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The African Council of Religious Leaders meeting heard this week how the easy availability and cheapness of small arms has made them the weapons of choice in world conflicts. |
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This seems to be ultimate common sense but it is far from what we readily encounter where deadlines are not respected, promises broken, cheating and cheapness the rule of the day and attitudes sullen and negative. |
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This argument about cheapness was the one with which she most successfully met Theobald, who grumbled more suo that he had no sympathy with his son's extravagance and conceit. |
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