Call this stuff precious, call it indispensable, call it clutter.
One of these children has Down's syndrome, and Precious calls him Mongo, short for "Mongoloid" – that discredited term Precious uncomprehendingly overheard and liked.
My heart goes out to mothers whose children have been removed from their care in the name of the war on drugs; to women who must carry on as heads of households because their husbands are behind bars for petty drug offenses; and to mothers who will never get that precious phone call on mother's day because their son or daughter died of an accidental drug overdose.
The only thing that sucks more than not getting any mail is not getting to talk to a person during the said very precious phone call.
That was evident last week as Mr. Romney and Mr. Ryan spent precious time calling for Mr. Akin to end his campaign against Senator Claire McCaskill for a seat Republicans hoped to win.
In the early 1770s Alexander Dow, a veteran of the East India Company, marvelled at the country's thirst for precious metals, calling it "the sink where gold and silver disappeared, without the least prospect of return".Nevertheless, the experience of the past year suggests that accounts of India's eternal attachment to gold are somewhat overplayed.
"To my mother and I, Grey Gardens is a breakthrough into the very beautiful and precious thing called life.
For the nails, the expert Antonio Sacripante used a shimmery, dark red polish — enriched with precious metals — called From Paris With Love.
Humans have turned Earth into a wasteland and, in their pursuit of a precious superconductor called Unobtanium, are beginning to do the same to Pandora.
We've got plenty of My Fair Ladies, drop-dead divas and conventional cover girls; but Ms. Zellweger possesses something more precious -- call it a feeling of inner goodness that doesn't translate into chic and shines from her unadorned face.
