Richter, Kempff, Schnabel, Barenboim, Brendel, Ogdon, Pollini, Gilels, Arrau, Michelangeli, Fischer-Dieskau, Schreier, Schwarzkopf, Sutherland, Lott, Vickers, Pears — all the precious names of childhood.
Precious (silly name, don't you think, for a grown up woman! I suppose it's a good nickname).
Google's planned public offering a "Dutch auction", where any investor can bid for the company's initial shares over the Internet has Wall Street guessing just what value the public market will place on the precious brand name.
Now he wanted to aim higher -- a black man from the South Side of Chicago with no money, no statewide organization, and precious little name recognition," Axelrod writes in his new book Believer: My 40 Years In Politics, an advance copy of which was obtained by The Huffington Post.
Ira hated the precious literary names that people gave pets — characters from opera and Proust.
Nikolic awarded him a large medal and chain of precious metals, named the Order of the Republic of Serbia, the country's new highest honour, having been specially created for the occasion.
But how could she have known how precious those names are to us? We've been carrying them around in our hearts for years, if not in our arms.
Streets tend to have cute names: Lemon and Lime intersect at one compound, while others are named after precious jewels and metals like Gold, Topaz and Sapphire.
For all the jokes about the name "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire," at least the title forestalled any copyright claims.
Finally, we decided, that, darn it, "Precious" was her name, and what right did we have to change it?
