| I once sat near such an one in a New York restaurant, and saw him fastidioust degust the tender flowers and growl at their costliness. |
| Indeed, the beauty of such ornaments as these seldom has any relation to the costliness of them. |
| Here every object was estimated, not for its beauty or elegance, but by its costliness. |
| In particular, he illustrates the costliness of hard bargaining if such bargaining leads to delays in exploiting this resource. |
| When costliness rather than beauty is the effect of flowers, the display is vulgar. |
| But this is less an issue of costliness than it is of principle: menstrual care is health care, and should be treated as such. |
