My dedication made them precious, and this feeling has never left me.
That they may be opaque or banal to everyone else is what makes them precious: they aren't supposed to work for everybody.
SPORTSTHURSDAY, PAGE D4 Big Tires, Big Prices Because of a scarcity, giant tires that go on large dump trucks are selling for $40,000 each, making them almost as precious as gold and silver.
At the new hipster high-end clothing store Aloha Rag, on Spring and Greenwich, "Clothes dangle from the racks on shiny metal hangers, spaced meticulously equidistant from one another, making them all look precious and expensive, which they are," Mike Albo writes.
Metallic accents ground pastels, making them feel less precious.
For now, chanterelles and porcini seem to resist cultivation, making them all the more precious to foragers.
That makes them a precious natural phenomenon to see.
There's an added element in these performances that makes them especially precious.
I particularly like how each piece is covered with Band-Aid-like wooden patches: oddly, it makes them seem precious.
"What absolutely ruins them is the transposition, which removes their sensitivity …" The Tate's Cut-Out show aims to return something of that sensitivity to works whose frail, ephemeral, unstable and provisional nature is precisely what makes them so precious.
