One of the great joys of our gay culture is a heightened appreciation of things; things to do, things to see, things to have, things to buy.
Cook agreed with me in part and responded that thinking about death in a conscious way "can increase your appreciation for things" and "can be a great thing," adding that there are 30 years of research to back this up.
He elaborated, concisely, suggesting that the works would be "about things we can all, with luck, experience: love, sex, sport, family life, an appreciation of things around us". (And yes, sport does look a bit odd there, but Beale wanted to include the happiness apparently brought about by a great round of golf).
Mr. Polshek has an agreeable appreciation of things French.
Whether you like your bags plain or with bling, there's an appreciation for things you can't find everywhere.
Yue Minjun's "Garbage Dump" (2005-6) howhlights how a lack of appreciation for things scholarly caused tension between the educated and the uneducated.
"Now there is an appreciation of things that are more prim and proper, with just a hint of depths lurking underneath".
Mr. Lemke was born in Ohio; his father was a railroad lineman who built the family's house, instilling in him "an appreciation for things done right".
Murray's sensual appreciation for "things beyond our bodies" delivers her to moments of transcendence, when, she writes, "the wall breaks down that always bars my direct contact with the object".
An appreciation that things have always been about community and politics, whether literally, or through the creation and respect of systems of private property, provides a useful backdrop to the recent book, Pax Technica: How the Internet of Things May Set Us Free or Lock Us Up, by writer and professor of communication, Philip N Howard.
