novelty value

The novelty value was so great that she agreed to join him.

Will it continue to be fun once the novelty value wears off?

The novelty value of what was going on below soon waned.

The single was immensely popular through its novelty value, and after making it to number one would stay there for another month.

"And this technology," he said, "while maybe having some novelty value, does nothing to address those more pressing issues."

Well, I suppose you do have some novelty value.

She got the message, which was exhausting its novelty value at amazing speed.

Some novelty value because he was the first Russian they'd ever had in the car, but that was all.

We have a certain novelty value: face it, technically we're aliens from another planet.

Proof of the present: will the appeal outlast the novelty value?

The unwieldy new beast might run for a while, but it turns heads only because of the novelty value.

What the Pencam does have going for it is size and novelty value.

I thought home-grown produce would have a novelty value.

The novelty value of an in-house puritan had worn very thin.

Chrysler's new coupé certainly turns heads, but will that novelty value be enough?

It did not quite have the electricity or novelty value of a Soviet leader mingling in a democratic style.

Ms. Peters tended to milk the show's lighter songs for their novelty value.

It was a big story partly because of the novelty value of a visitor from outer space.

But we won't stock something simply for the novelty value - it has to taste fantastic."

I'm not against e-readers, but I don't think they offer me, personally, any more than novelty value at the moment.

"I do admit their act has a certain novelty value when considered on a very large scale, but still, what's a dragon to do?"

Now after two months of daily tantrums and broodiness the novelty value had been exhausted.

We had major novelty value - it's strange enough for a foreigner to visit the area let alone pose in a raft.

The models are often the first to acknowledge that directors seek to cast them for their novelty value, and sometimes they resist.

Just for the novelty value, of course.