Sentence examples for are rather precious from inspiring English sources

They want to take Camille with them, though that's likely to be difficult given that a) the dead are rather precious about losing any of their number and b) Camille is becoming increasingly attached to Virgil, with Lena catching the pair together this week.

Members of Congress (who seem to be in a position to know) expose the petitioners' hypothesis as specious, but the government's contention that the phrase was selected as a "term of art" is rather precious.

As a result, those toys and dolls and games were rather precious to us.

Hayes himself is an intelligent man and while he resents his tenant's rather precious politics he knows unavoidable changes are coming.

That's not completely a bad thing — the stainless chassis and the soft-touch plastic that the Slate's rear is swathed in are rather nice — but there are precious few other design niceties to be found here.

So his time in Ireland today, three weeks out from the elections, was presumably rather precious.

But Ruefle's mission is not to — yawn — remind everybody how precious poetry is; rather, it's to give pleasure by showing how the mind works when it's working most pleasurably.

The race to populate space has been staggeringly slow, and the idea that someone would finally think to scan below the moon's surface for precious minerals is rather moving.

Mining stocks have, as is well known, been rather volatile in recent weeks and precious metal miners are no exception.

He was the only boy and there were four girls, so he was seen as rather precious.

"Still Lives," whose cast is completed by Meg Wolfe, is set to rather precious occasional bursts of music and sound by Kostas Kouris.