It's not surprising that media coverage led with the price, rather than by focussing on these more rarefied qualities.
The reflection of a similarly chiselled companion can be seen in her dark, oversize sunglasses, and his easy confidence telegraphs a coveted quality in contemporary China: rarefied urban cool.
Customers don't think "slow" equates with quality (with a few rarefied exceptions; for example, you don't want your entrée at a Michelin-starred restaurant to come out to quickly), and, generally, it doesn't; it more commonly co-exists with sloppiness.
Her music has that insubstantial, ineffable quality: it is R&B abstracted, rarefied, sublimated, with static, glitches and clicks to offer a sense of future-music with a distant connection to some long-lost past; many of her tracks appear to have sampled the sort of symphonic soul featured in this Guardian Music 10 of the best from 29 April.
At times the ethereal qualities of "love fail" become rarefied.
But there is a lulling quality to some of his more rarefied interpretations; the album's strongest moments have a hint of ruggedness in their rhythm.
But even in the rarefied realms of the (cough!) gastropub, where restaurant-quality food is the aim, the GPG's claim bears little scrutiny.
But for those who treasure the neighborhood's unique quality, particularly longtime residents who have breathed its rarefied air for decades, the threat is real.
In other words, at the very top end of British gentlemen's outfitting, in a rarefied world of fine cloth, fine leather and fine prices, there is a quality that is just as important as the cut or the stitching, the color or the yarn.
