preciousness

What does the preciousness of our white flesh represent in contrast to burnt brown bodies created by our bombs?

He stripped it of its preciousness, embraced its commercial, mass appeal, and turned the designer into a celebrity.

Some of his preciousness is a veneer, however, for his fatalistic streak.

He would shake them with this horror, he would thrill them with this sense of the infinite preciousness and holiness of life!

It was under your ministry I was brought to know Christ, and feel the preciousness of his love.'

I know so well the preciousness of those smiles that tell one the mind is not held out of all reach of soothing.

I am uniformly cheerful now—feeling the preciousness of these moments, in which I still possess love and thought.

She had always felt a kind of sanctity about her mouth, a preciousness that must not be cheaply cast away.