Sentence examples for if precious from inspiring English sources

This was one of those rare, if precious, occasions when everything came together beautifully.

It could be updated later this year if a current six-month pilot scheme is a success, but it isn't clear if precious metals will be included.

Though it initially seems as if Precious has a lot of costume changes for a thrift-obsessed woman, over the course of the series you start to notice the repeat appearances.

(Holden) 'INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL' (PG-13, 2 03) There's plenty of perspiration if precious little inspiration in Steven Spielberg's feature-length chase flick, the fourth chapter in a continuing (endless?) series about the archaeologist-adventurer played by Harrison Ford.

(Lee)'INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL' (PG-13, 2 03) There's plenty of perspiration if precious little inspiration in Steven Spielberg's feature-length chase flick, the fourth chapter in a continuing (endless?) series about the archaeologist-adventurer played by Harrison Ford.

But if "Bright, Precious Days" doesn't match "Brightness Falls" stylistically, it does explore similar terrain.

If this precious cargo appears to be in astonishingly tiptop shape, it doesn't always arrive that way.

It is in contrast, he noted, to super-modern, super-slick furniture whose value would plummet if its precious veneer were to be nicked.

(A. O. Scott) 'THE DARJEELING LIMITED' (R, 97 minutes) Wes Anderson's latest — in which three brothers (Adrien Brody, Jason Schwartzman and Owen Wilson) cross India by rail — is nothing if not precious.

If that precious resource is mined and sold, like West Virginia coal (hey! a third metaphor!) it will inevitably be depleted, leaving only a scarred wasteland.

(Scott) 'THE DARJEELING LIMITED' (R, 1 37) Wes Anderson's latest — in which three brothers (Adrien Brody, Jason Schwartzman and Owen Wilson) cross India by rail — is nothing if not precious.