Alice Morse Earle

Sunken gardens should be laid out under the supervision of an intelligent landscape architect; and even then should have a reason for being sunken other than a whim or increase in costliness.

American Historian

Consider what makes something costly: rarity, quality, or demand. Costliness often implies something's value or luxury status.

Context Matters

The word can suggest negative feelings, like the burden of paying a lot or the unfairness of high prices.

Negative Emotion

Sometimes costliness is positive, associated with prestige and desirability, like in luxury goods.

Not Always Bad

 basic health care -- Basics that you cannot fall below. Otherwise, when you go below that level, there is no opportunity, and actually, the costliness of it,

Costliness

Context Matters

Negative Emotion

Not Always Bad

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