Sentence examples for perhaps precious from inspiring English sources

It aimed not just at what was retrograde but at what was still stubbornly alive and perhaps precious.

"They're people who have seen a lot, and so they're not perhaps precious in the way you might imagine," says Layton, "even though there's a missing child at the heart of all this.

Or perhaps a precious codex from the Vatican library?

Perhaps most precious is time, the leeway to have informal conversations.

The manuscript they rejected turned out to be something more original, and perhaps more precious.

He believes equality is more vulnerable than liberty, and perhaps as precious.

Riders will find not only snacks and Internet access, but also movies and, perhaps most precious of all, peace and quiet.

At the end of the exhibition is the final, and perhaps most precious, souvenir Peter the Great brought home from his travels to the region: a genuine Rembrandt.

With Congressional scrutiny mounting, and the Justice Department investigation now at hand, both Mr. Raines and Mr. Howard have something at stake that is perhaps more precious to them than money: their reputations.

His deliberate and perhaps somewhat precious diction was nourished by the contrasts between the German classics he read at home and the fervently religious to mildly secular Galician Jewish jargon he encountered on the outside.

The design of Structure Brought to Light is perhaps over-precious but leaves sufficient room for Labrouste's legacy.