Comedy and music mix as well as oil and water, but Flight of the Conchords – the Grammy-winning New Zealand duo of Radio 4/HBO fame – are one of the rare and precious exceptions.
With precious few exceptions, they are never happy.
With precious few exceptions, like Thomas De Quincey's "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater" in 1822 and Lillian Roth's "I'll Cry Tomorrow" in 1954, the form barely existed 20 years ago.
Perhaps the worst case is in Texas, where a proposed law would ban any abortion after 20 weeks and allow precious few exceptions for the health of the mother or the condition of the fetus.
Rather than lead, dare or innovate, the cyberart museum retreats -- with a precious few exceptions, mostly huddled until recently out in the Web's Off-Off Broadway, where obscure public, private and university galleries thrive, unburdened by slick, top-heavy design squads.
Globally, rural women and girls lag far behind urban women and girls and men and boys in every Millennium Development Goal indicator, with precious few exceptions.
When it comes to electing our next president, however, we (with precious few exceptions over the years) choose from two options only.
Though Mr. Stitt's food is never precious (with the possible exception of a cocktail known as the Orange Thing), it manages to be inventive, with small plates like baby octopus with chorizo at Bottega or a shrimp and crab salad with persimmon at Highlands.
If hackers have spent their lives devising ways to ruin our computers, what makes us think our precious smartphones are any exception?
(The exceptions are precious metals ETFs, like iShares Gold, which own bullion).
