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-- As budding radicals, it does seem as though Eva and Franco Mattes wanted to give the finger to the art world and art history, with its hero worship, its veneration of dead objects, its stale preciosities.

Couple stole more than other artists' ideas 2010

Art is not a "hole and corner" thing, an affair of professional preciosities and discriminations, a set of tiresome rules to be learned by rote.

Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations John Cowper Powys 1917

For the solace of books is never selfish -- the book-miser is never the book-lover, nor does the mere collector of rarities and preciosities deserve that name, for the one hoards, but does not own; the other serves

The Book of Delight and Other Papers Israel Abrahams 1891

Instead of which he rushed into the temple with his armed men; smashed down, with his own battle-axe, the god Thor, prostrate on the ground at one stroke, to set an example; and, in a few minutes, had the whole Hakon Pantheon wrecked; packing up meanwhile all the gold and preciosities accumulated there

Early Kings of Norway Thomas Carlyle 1838

It is a thing admired by the vulgar, and rewarded with seats in the Cabinet and other preciosities; but to the wise, it is

Latter-Day Pamphlets Thomas Carlyle 1838

She also published _Lycidus, a Voyage from the Island of Love_, returning to the Abbé Tallemant's dainty preciosities.

The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I Aphra Behn 1664

Instead of which he rushed into the temple with his armed men; smashed down, with his own battle-axe, the god Thor prostrate on the floor at one stroke, to set an example; and in a few minutes had the whole Hakon Pantheon wrecked; packing up, meanwhile, all the gold and preciosities accumulated there (not forgetting Thor's illustrious gold collar, of which we shall hear again), and victoriously took the plunder home with him for his own royal uses and behoof of the state.

Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History 1906

Love, returning to the Abbe Tallemant’s dainty preciosities.

A Memoir of Mrs. Behn 2002

a wide outlook will help us to avoid exaggerations, preciosities, and fanaticisms.

Nature Mysticism John Edward Mercer 1889