Sentence examples for feeling precious from inspiring English sources

The result is a genuinely exceptional and entrancing album, opaque but effective, filled with beautiful, skewed songs, unconventional without ever feeling precious or affected.

Writing about her latest album, Guardian critic Alexis Petridis said: "[It's] a genuinely exceptional and entrancing album, opaque but effective, filled with beautiful, skewed songs, unconventional without ever feeling precious or affected.

And there is lightness in this narrative, largely in memories of Kate and recollections of Charlie's own childhood, as the last in a long line of hardy Yankees with a knack for fixing clocks (the same Crosbys who feature in Mr Harding's Pulitzer prize- winning 2009 debut novel, "Tinkers").As with "Tinkers", the language of "Enon" glimmers without feeling precious.

This spread is just an example of Elle "feeling precious," Hardison added.

(Murdoch said at the screening that the inspiration for the film came simply from "sometimes when I'm walking along I wish the world would just turn into a great pop song").. Fittingly given its Belle and Sebastian resume, "God Help" has a lived-in coming-of-age feel without feeling overly precious.

But Aspen, in the end, is saved from feeling too precious or self-indulgent by the pull of its rugged past.

People are often trained to think that "all" feelings are precious when they are "me" or "mine".

But I couldn't help feeling that something precious — our old faith in a doctor's calling, perhaps, or in a healing that is more than a financial transaction or a reflexive fixing of broken parts — had been lost.

With the majority of her title rivals easing through their opening two matches, Kvitova could be forgiven for feeling she wasted precious energy on beating the world number 58.

But if Ryan can be forgiven for feeling there is precious little mileage in going off the deep end at this delicate stage of the campaign – Worcester travel to London Irish next weekend for 80 minutes of purest sporting paranoia – he must surely recognise that system failures without the ball against a team running as hot as Exeter are unacceptable.

Many science experimentalists have experienced that sinking feeling when a precious sample is destroyed just before the end of a long experiment.