Sentence examples for A tad precious from inspiring English sources
Nick's middle-class rebel persona is a tad precious.
The acting remains, with a few exceptions, a tad precious and self-conscious, in the manner of college students conducting a tour of a university art gallery.
Fancy French wrapping made the cupcakes from Amy's Bread a tad precious, and the side-by-side comparison of vanilla and chocolate again suggested that perhaps vanilla cupcakes are not a very good idea.
Some of his formal experiments are a tad precious — the life of Juliette Gréco is presented as a movie script, and the "festive chaos" of 1968 is laid out like a college examination — but the book successfully emulates Louis Chevalier's description of the novel: "loaded with emotions, swarming with faces, and constructed with the sand and lime of language".
Many might suspect that buyer's remorse is an issue: Maybe pairing those gloss black cabinets with a rose backsplash now looks a tad precious.
This new band is a tad too precious and sadly sounds like so many other bands looking for the big break... again.
8 p.m. 2) AMBLE TO DINNER Like many planned ski resorts, Whistler is a tad homogeneous and precious, with all those pedestrian lanes and oh-so-cute shops blurring together into a snowy maze of commerce.
This is a tad simplistic.
A tad irresponsible maybe?
