Sentence examples for Precious self from inspiring English sources

The letters between them have mostly been destroyed, but the few that remain suggest great passion, with Norcross looking forward to "night after night" of "having" each other, "greedy" in anticipation, "starved" for Mary Moore's "precious self".

Her gentle arms carry us into our precious self, free from our worldly self.

I want to in-joy my precious self today, not in some pre-determined thinner/fatter/more apple-booty future.

And over the course of a day that seems to have somehow overlooked your very own precious self, you find yourself thinking, "I don't have a valentine".

I have had some time to reflect about what I've learned in the past year, and I wanted to share it with you, the gorgeous folks who have made my dreams come true. 1. Feeling beautiful about one's precious self can dramatically improve one's successes in life.

As for his "championing" of that precious, self-important beast, the theatre, much of his time was spent castigating it.

The balloons, the charmingly ambitious plants, the gimmicky gallery-cum-storefront-cum-hoarder's-paradise: was it all too precious, self-consciously cute?

But I think that we are already seeing a shift of emphasis in art away from precious self-contemplation and toward eloquent engagement with the world.

The obvious cynicism, self-whoring and back-stabbing of its art- and fashion-world characters seems like a precious self-parody.

Or, as The Times of London put it in a recent editorial, has conceptual art finally "disappeared up its own installation in a cloud of precious self-consciousness?" We'll probably never know the answer to these questions.

His latest film is a precious, self-admiring and fatally misjudged serio-comedy about three brothers (Jason Schwartzman, Owen Wilson and Adrien Brody) who, to gain emotional healing and closure after the death of their dad, travel across India on a train that, at one point, zanily gets lost, having taken the wrong rail.