It is precious, it is irreplaceable and it is vital to the health of British theatre.
Looking around the assembly hall at the 75 Newham faces, I realise that every minute of every day at School 21 is precious; it is the chance for those with zero privilege to thrive, for the school with zero history to make its mark.
We are not mistaken in feeling this love is precious, it is the most precious thing we have--but it is precious because it is a shabby reminder of our former mutual asociality, a pale and turbid shadow of the clear seas which enabled us to move toward and away.
The tool takes a bit of command line work, but if your Reader data is precious, it's worth the time and effort.
Life is precious (It's a Wonderful Life); air rifles are precious (A Christmas Story); booby traps are useful (Home Alone).
"It's precious, it's mysterious and a lot of the time it's not to be taken serious".
But as a new parent, this prosaic data is precious; it's all they know about this new bundle of potential and promise.
Because diamonds are precious, it's best to make sure that they fall into your inventory, not the lava, when you mine them.
In some ways, this shouldn't work -- it could be precious, it could be corny -- and yet it does, perhaps because the softness is generally wrapped around such grimy and obdurate reality.
Even though you may have a piece that is precious it may not be large enough to make a singular statement.
