Labels, not intrinsic merit, apparently determined the scale of values.
In Japan, the concept of "wa," or harmony, is "very high on the scale of values," says a Tokyo friend.
This scale of values only encourages a young player to think he is the center of the universe.
Therefore, it would be mistaken to set up a fixed scale of values — valid for all people in all circumstances and at all times — full stop.
Honoring him reflected Germany's growing determination to place "Zivilcourage" -- the courage of conscience -- above duty in its scale of values.
Maybe my whole scale of values was gaga and this kook was a real person — not altogether human but struggling to be. . . .
I can't imagine how Woody Allen deals with the fact that Le Corbusier was a part of the same energetic, modernist Parisian culture as Picasso and Gertrude Stein, in which nothing was lower on the scale of values than sentimentality.
At the end, as the Red Army rolls back the Wehrmacht's conquests, "even in the chaos of battle, culture and the arts maintained their same important place on your scale of values".
"I have," writes Virginia Woolf — and most of them could have written the same — "an internal, automatic scale of values; which decides what I had better do with my time.
All of which, I suspect, on the Amisian scale of values, makes me just as much of a dullard and hapless second-rater as poor Mr Corbyn.
It has revolutionized the scale of values and sent soaring sky-high the prices of works once dismissed as derivative or kitsch.
