expensiveness

On weekends I began to hear about the expensiveness of kilns.

First editions have thin flexible covers most of the time, despite their expensiveness.

Once, she even considered taking up with hand-painted china, but gave over the idea when she learned its expensiveness.

The functioning of such service, as its expensiveness when compared to other means of transportation, equals the world standards.

What is new are the amenities of today's developments, their expensiveness and the attraction they hold for the upwardly mobile (box, page 38).

"Elegant": For those who confuse expensiveness with classiness.

All the agricultural implements were pitifully antiquated, everything being governed by the expensiveness of metal.

Rice is not as frequent in rural Hazara cuisine due to its expensiveness.

Why he had not toiled the whole five years under the spell of opium was the expensiveness of the habit.

At the delicatessen he bought preposterous stores of food, chosen on the principle of expensiveness.

It was horrible to haggle on such a matter, and finally Philip consented to an expensiveness which he could ill afford.

Apart from the expensiveness of everything, there were recurrent shortages of this and that, which, of course, always hit the poor rather than the rich.

An alternative description is the "point of marginal expensiveness" or PME.

At one point, you write of Arabella, "She loved expensive things because she knew what their expensiveness meant.

His car was a bright-blue sports convertible with a peculiarly long hood, determined, it seemed, to give an impression of bestiality and expensiveness.

Yet this Waikiki house stressed no less than the rest in beauty, in dignity, and in expensiveness of upkeep.

The relative expensiveness of helicopters necessitate care in the use of this unit, though suicide attacks are a viable tactic in the game.

Hardly a bargain at around $30 a head, these brunches nonetheless make up for their expensiveness with sizable dollops of charm and panache.

His expensiveness is acknowledged even by himself, and his whole conduct declares that self-denial is a word hardly understood by him.

With the iPhone the fee isn't that big, though (unless you don't already have a Mac - then it's comparable to the expensiveness of Unity).

However, he conceded the expensiveness of these routes and noted that negotiations with Pakistan regarding the possibility of opening of the supply routes were ongoing.

Which is the America I love - the America of classic showbiz, a wee utopia of lovely surfaces and lush expensiveness.'

It cost some £1,750,000 to make - incurred by the building of a life-size working facsimile of an oilfield, among other devices of scarcely less expensiveness.

Besides the backwardness of the seasons, some lags in technological advances and just plain expensiveness of this country, I would say Australia is treating me quite well.

She took indeed great care that we were not over-rated, or imposed on, as well as of managing as frugally as possible; expensiveness was not her vice.