Sentence examples for far from precious from inspiring English sources

And the couple's attitude is far from precious.

The objects, many far from precious, were beloved treasures either donated or sold to the society.

That is what his colleagues used to do when he worked as a young engineer in the once-vibrant aerospace industry here in the Los Angeles region, far from precious Northern California.

Designed by Dior jewellery designer, Camille Micele, and inspired by the kind of earrings more usually found in shops such as Cyberdog – but much more refined – they're exactly how to wear pearls now: shiny, understated, and far from precious.

Far from being precious about her unbeaten streak in singles play, which currently stands at 470 matches, Vergeer is encouraged by the increased depth of talent in her sport and the new challenges that brings.

I am far from a precious writer: Again, I want to make a buck!

The stock carries a price-to-book multiple of 3.7, not far from a world precious metals average of 3.4 and below a ten-year average of 4.2.

In these communities, sand is far from disposable; it is a precious commodity.

Again, if he was like me, he was far from anticipating the hardest, most precious lessons taught at Harvard Law: the finitude of one's own powers; the twin, paradoxical necessities of self-reliance and interdependence; and the humanity that comes when one finds oneself a long way from perfection, and then finds new ways of striving.

It was not pure fiction – the self-sacrificial resolution of that hour really was fine – although we were far from "alone" even then: this precious stone set in the silver sea was sustained by the great material and human resources of the Commonwealth and empire, not to say by Polish and Czech fighter pilots and the Norwegian merchant fleet.

Out on the street and equally entertaining are the young ladies bent over the gutters, friends surrounding them holding the precious hair far from the vomit spume.