treasurable

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She said the 100-page book "is like a faded souvenir, tatty but treasurable for its associations with the fabulous imaginary world that Márquez conjured up in his prime".

From BBC • Mar. 6, 2024

That life force comes through especially vividly in Whoopi Goldberg’s treasurable few scenes as Mamie’s supportive mother, Alma, and also in Hall’s boisterous performance as Emmett, presented here as the most gregarious of jokesters.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2022

Oborne and Roberts usefully memorialise Trump at his most naively tawdry, and preserve some treasurable illiteracies.

From The Guardian • Nov. 1, 2020

As it is, the Seventh has gained recognition as one of Beethoven’s great and weighty works in C minor, and the Eighth, in G, is treasurable as a repository of sparkling Beethovenian wit.

From New York Times • Aug. 8, 2010

Sometimes as I am falling asleep in a dark, quiet room I have for a moment a great and treasurable illusion of the past.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin