/ The quality of "thing-ness," personified by the moving, talking upholstered chair from "Pee-wee's Playhouse".
In an essay in Granta, Teh writes: A publisher of photography books once said to me that the camera only captured the surface quality of things.
It refers to the quality of things that makes them difficult to insure: if you have eggs in your cargo, a normal policy will not cover their breaking.
Ingeborg Kristoffersen, the Belgian consul general in New York, said the royal visit "is a way to bring attention to the variety and quality of things Belgian".
"I do feel I have some slight corner on something about the quality of things," she said, rather modestly, late in her career.
But watch him slip onto the stage and dart, surge and amble at City Center this week, including the dark "Banquet of Vultures" (Sunday night and Tuesday), and you see someone with a gift for cutting through space with diamond-sharp clarity, his transparency giving the dances the finer quality of things seen through water.
I never told him all the things that bothered me about him, like the way he belched after eating, how he never cleaned the bathroom even though I begged him to, how he was always criticizing the quality of things, how when I asked him to have a sense of humor about something he always said it was too late for that, he'd already lost patience.
Reaction refers to people's evaluation of the Impact of things and also the evaluation of the Quality of things.
It's impossible to tell quality and cleanliness from a standard write up, photos and a star rating, let alone have any idea of the quality of things like the restaurant on site, the friendliness of the staff or the millions of other little things that can make a hotel stay a pleasure or a nightmare.
So, even if they don't go into the arts, they will understand art and have a taste about the quality of things.
That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
