Sentence examples similar to excessively precious from inspiring English sources
"So not excessively excessive.
Mayne plainly applied a dictionary sense of "precious" as "affectedly or excessively delicate, refined, or nice" and none of the alternatives: "of high price or great value"; "highly esteemed for some spiritual, nonmaterial, or moral quality"; "dear, beloved".
As long as we are in the confines of being socially acceptable, even if marginally so, why would anyone waste the precious moments of their life worrying excessively about what to wear or what others think of them?
However, when our kids are excessively taking and sharing selfies, it robs them of precious time which could be invested in cultivating their true selves.
For 16 of those years he has chronicled "the betrayals and treachery and deceit of Middle East history", nurturing this excessively long book - a real War and Peace, but with precious little peace.
The same goes for shops and bars, which generally keep doors wide open during business hours, letting precious cooling escape, and offices, which mostly keep temperatures excessively chilly.
In a 1959 essay for the Detroit Free Press he said, "My religion is my most precious possession.... Except for my religion, I easily could have become excessively occupied with industry, social and recreational activities.
Everyone excessively tidy, excessively generous.
