Several aspects of the game are harsh: you can only have one save per character and, as in Demon's Souls, whenever you die (and that's a very common occurrence), all the dead souls you've collected, bringing precious levelling-up Experience Points, is left as a green wisp to be collected from the point at which you died.
Nottingham Forest claimed a precious point at Middlesbrough thanks to Darius Henderson's 80th-minute leveller.
Occasionally Mr. Piano's galleries can be too precious: the level of refinement gives them a cool, almost sterile feel.
India is the world's largest weapons importer, but with its economy under stress and foreign currency reserves increasingly precious, that level of purchases will be increasingly hard to sustain.
Scotland's team against Albania was full of vast experience at club level but precious little experience at international level.
But, as uranium hoarding begins, a major shortage could arise sooner than 2013, and its value pushed up to the levels of precious metals.
Should developing countries carry the cost of repairs or flood-defence systems when the growing might of storms and rising sea levels have precious little to do with them?
Broad indices of commodity prices used by investors, which unlike The Economist's index (see article) include prices for energy and precious metals, reached record levels in the autumn.To some extent, the rise in commodity prices during the past three years can be attributed to the raging appetite of the Chinese economy.
The Swedes were quick to respond, regaining the lead when substitute Linda Sembrant kneed a cross past Nigeria's goalkeeper Precious Dede before Ordega levelled.
Even today, many Indians, while accepting the thousands of whites who have suddenly decided "that their Indianness was, at some level, more precious than their whiteness," nonetheless wish to exclude Indians who look too black.
