| They've not only squandered their inheritance but blown their sense of chosenness, of specialness. |
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| Painting, for me, had become the way to demonstrate my worthiness, lovableness, specialness. |
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| It was this matey mentality that he, obsessed with his specialness, found maddening. |
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| The picture of salmon swimming against strong current or leaping waterfalls confirms the specialness of this animal. |
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| Because of their infinite diversity and unique appeal, flowers never lose their specialness. |
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| We both knew it would ruin the specialness of our friendship. |
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| We'd like to believe that our apprehensions signify our specialness. |
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| The narcissist defends against feelings of catastrophic failure by resorting to a fantasy of specialness, an illusion of mastery and control. |
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| Only Europe's wonderful regions can safeguard that specialness and they must be able to rely on the protection of the European Union. |
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| Semantic twist theory locates metaphor's specialness in a special kind of on-the-fly language learning. |
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| It's a luxury, a beautiful wine, and a good way to impress a lady and celebrate the specialness of the moment, he said. |
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| He was vain about his specialness until he realized he was really very common. |
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| All the high-quality linen and cotton fabrics in this group enhance the creativity and specialness of free embroidery and are optimal for iron-on embroidery transfers or free-hand embroidery designs. |
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| Beneath all this is the peculiar British combination of bragging and bewilderment, an air of expectations great but unmet and of unrealised specialness. |
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| That's when I started to be convinced of his specialness as a performer. |
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| And in each meeting, food was brought out and she was urged to eat, to share the stew and the bread, and whatever sweets had been prepared to mark the specialness of the event. |
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| I chose it because I knew I was coming down here to see you all, and because I wondered what he would say, particularly about this place and its specialness. |
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| We heard her refer to various things which we have in common, such as a common commitment to balance, a common commitment to equality, and a common commitment to a specialness for the province of Quebec. |
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| You might be tempted to suppose that any old rag-bag of laws would produce a complex universe of some sort, with attendant inhabitants convinced of their own specialness. |
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| The specialness of this place stems from a synergetic combination of natural landscape and the urban interventions which have both responded to and reshaped the landscape. |
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| Cantaloupes and strawberries, peaches and apples Their specialness gone, despite your taste bud's grapples. |
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| Our specialness on the motorway extends to so many areas that we even amaze ourselves. |
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| We want to bring that specialness back through a new brand of 'proper hospitality' that specifically caters to our generation of well-heeled travellers. |
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