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You used to race home from school so you could squeeze in a precious half-hour doing circles in the back lane with your best pal before it got dark and your mum called you inside for tea.
When you do secure that precious half-hour meeting with your manager, arrange for a time when the boss is not under pressure from her/his superiors, such as budget talks, holiday seasons or year-end reporting.
It would all feel too precious by half as a new development.
The show can feel too precious by half, but it has the virtue of making us rehear and rethink well-worn passages from a much-studied, much-performed play.
The whole process could seem too precious by half — a lo-fi band in a post-industrial city, building a studio from scratch to make a record — until you hear "Smart Flesh," which is out next week from Nonesuch.
"It's a long time to be out of the office," he said – when that precious, computerless half hour of fresh air was the only bearable part of my day.
The 1998 New York premiere of "Inishmaan" was too precious by half, and it wasn't until I saw Garry Hynes's straightforward staging, for the Druid and Atlantic Theater Companies a decade later, that I began to think more fondly of it.
Every 45 minutes or so, the rescue capsule descended into the rock and brought one more precious payload the half-mile back.
