Sentence examples similar to precious language from inspiring English sources

But while Schultz's rhetoric leads the action, Django himself is part action, part image, precious little language.

Prominent supporters on Twitter, in subreddits and on forums like 8Chan, developed a range of pernicious rhetorical devices and defences to distance themselves from threats to women and minorities in the industry: the targets were lying or exaggerating, they were too precious; a language of dismissal and belittlement was formed against them.

"I ought to have… made my language precious in itself, like this little patch of yellow wall" he laments.

I learned precious little sign language, even from the other deaf and mute people I met.

It is interesting to speculate on the possible relation of the term nafs to such Arabic words as nafas ("breath") and nafīs ("precious"), particularly in a language where there are no written vowels.

For the people of Oaxaca, language is precious.

Sneering at identity politics is a depressingly common position, portraying those who dare to point out the intangible soft means of discrimination (such as language) as precious snowflakes, mollycoddled by a politically correct establishment which allows free expression and academic enquiry to be undermined.

The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2431/13/15/prepub wishish to thank Dr Daniela Bonfiglio for her precious assistance in English language, Mr Giuseppe Auteri for secretarial work.