To take a private sitting-room in a hotel was generally regarded in the Five Towns as the very summit of dashing expensiveness and futile luxury.
Why he had not toiled the whole five years under the spell of opium was the expensiveness of the habit.
Yet this Waikiki house stressed no less than the rest in beauty, in dignity, and in expensiveness of upkeep.
A navy is the most expensive of all means of defence, and the tyranny of governments consists in the expensiveness of their machinery.
The expensiveness of the French Monarchy is the true cause of its destruction.
The expensiveness of the government was the true ground of the oppression of the people.
To the expensiveness of the navy system were ascribed the oppression under which the people of England groaned, the overthrow of the French monarchy, and the dangers which threatened that of Great Britain.
But the principle of conspicuous waste requires an obviously futile expenditure; and the resulting conspicuous expensiveness of dress is therefore intrinsically ugly.
The marks of expensiveness come to be accepted as beautiful features of the expensive articles.
The utility of articles valued for their beauty depends closely upon the expensiveness of the articles.
These substitutes, although less beautiful to the pastoral eye of Western man than the cow, are in such cases preferred because of their superior expensiveness or futility, and their consequent repute.
There is a studious exhibition ofexpensiveness coupled with a make-believe of simplicity and crude serviceability.
The generalization for which the discussion so far affords ground is that any valuable object in order to appeal to our sense of beauty must conform to the requirements of beauty and of expensiveness both.
Therefore the latter-day upper-class canons of taste do not so consistently insist on an unremitting demonstration of expensiveness and a strict exclusion of the appearance of thrift.
The evidence goes to show that the requirement of reputable expensiveness is still present in good vigor even where all ostensibly lavish display is avoided.
The habit of looking for the marks of superfluous expensiveness in goods, and of requiring that all goods should afford some utility of the indirect or invidious sort, leads to a change in the standards by which the utility of goods is gauged.
The expensiveness of life in the city comes of the generous and grand scale on which it there proceeds, not from the superior cost of the necessaries or comforts of life.
The Filipinos also present an argument against the expensiveness of American rule, and this argument is not only unanswerable, but it is directed against an evil which is without remedy.
Constance protested against the expensiveness of the affair several times, but Sophia quietened her by sheer force of individuality.
She thought how splendid was all this expensiveness for trade.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "expensiveness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
