Sentence examples for of incomparable worth from inspiring English sources

Material goods are normally understood to have prices, but we persons have dignity: no substitution of one person for another can preserve exactly the same value, for something of incomparable worth would be lost (and gained) in such a substitution.

Human dignity is a kind of "unconditioned and incomparable worth" (Karpowicz et al. 2005, 119) and individuals with dignity are therefore "uniquely valuable and worthy of respect" (ibid., 120).

But the lawgiving itself, which determines all value, must for that reason have dignity, that is, an unconditional, incomparable worth; and the word respect alone provides a becoming estimate of it that a rational being must give.

Dignity is also incomparable worth: it can't be compared with, exchanged for, or replaced by any other value, whereas the very purpose of a price is to establish comparative value.

Alternatively, it is argued that certain things have a distinctive kind of intrinsic and incomparable moral worth or value, often called "dignity," in virtue of which they ought to be accorded some valuing form of moral recognition or reverential respect.

Diva behaviour of incomparable scope and magnitude.

She is a woman of incomparable style".

They have magnificent music of incomparable beauty.

Yet it is a cultural institution of incomparable influence.

And eight unbroken miles of incomparable coastline, rich as an oligarch, but in life, not lolly.

Einstein himself said of the theory that it was of "incomparable beauty".