Sentence examples for is precious from from inspiring English sources

Every aspect of this book is precious, from the gold leaf that makes the pages glow to the image painted by Rogier van der Weyden.By contrast, the bread and butter of illuminators was the "Book of Hours": a pocket-sized breviary, sometimes no more than three inches high, which was designed as an intimate object of devotion to guide the reader in prayer.

A vast and isolated continent gave them the freedom to save what was precious from the Old World and to seek perfection in the New.

Most licensed video games are farmed out and there is precious little involvement from the people who created the brand.

There is precious little evidence from recent elections to suggest that the citizens of the rich countries want to see a radical cut in the size or scope of the state.

"Banks live on confidence, and there is precious little coming from the new Treasury secretary," said Gary B. Townsend, a former federal banking regulator who runs his own investment firm, referring to Timothy F. Geithner.

"This is precious cultural heritage plucked from the ground before experts have even had a chance to see it".

Something from the 1860s is precious.

Tucked in one of the boxes were precious backups from a deceased laptop.

But it was a childhood fascination with ancient history that prompted him to become a primary organizer of expeditions to the Middle East in the 1990s that traced the trail of frankincense and myrrh, gum-resin plant products that were precious commodities from at least 2000 B.C.

There's precious little from TV's "Family Guy" that I can show comfortably here online, but this scene passes muster.

And yet there was precious little incision from them and one moment summed things up.