We all know Americans place far too little value on unproductive diversion.
There are multiple ways that society places too little value on the contribution of women, then tells them they're not contributing enough.
In a sense Faulks is profligate with his own talent, and sometimes seems to put too little value on what this talent can do with idiosyncratic ease, and too much on what does not lie within its range.
Montaigne felt oppressed by une erreur d'me: "I attach too little value to things I possess, just because I possess them; and overvalue anything strange, absent, and not mine".
Mr. Shattuck gives this theme historical resonance by tracing Marcel's particular kind of self-doubt back to Montaigne, who three centuries before Proust wrote: "I attach too little value to things I possess, just because I possess them".
Too many school drop-outs; not enough respect or authority in the classroom (pupils, he says, should stand up when the teacher enters); too little value placed on the teaching profession; too little art and sport in the curriculum; too much passive rote-learning; and too much "theory and abstraction".
The confiscated stone objects and architectural fragments, which remain in police custody, were in the house and were shown to a local archeology official when she bought it; old stones found on the island are often incorporated into Paros houses, and the official deemed them of too little value to require registration.
The transactions have always ultimately been based on the same pathetic reality: poor women — and lots and lots of them in those countries that have large populations and place too little value on the female sex — must peddle their bodies and their dignity to whoever has the power to demand them.
I could grow, too, in appreciation for who they are as young people, as opposed to young users of endless plastic cups and generators of mess and clutter; in a chance to rediscover what I would do if some measure of "free time" were returned to me; and probably in my tendency to place both too much, and too little, value on experiences I've never had.
Too big k might not be useful for the decision maker and too little value for k as a parameter might not solve business problems.
