His quarrel is not with priests but with the specious notion of the priesthood, which, he argues, finds no precedent in the early church and precious little warrant in the New Testament.
That has turned the seemingly uncomplicated process of cashing in on gold's surging value into an emotionally fraught experience, bringing new meaning to the notion of a precious metal.
At Vetements, he is part of a "design collective" that deconstructs and remodels existing clothes in a deliberately non-precious way, and eschews the notion of one celebrity designer.
NOT long ago, rock stars would turn up their politically correct noses at the notion of using their precious songs to sell anything as crass as cars or cornflakes.
Or the notion that cutting budgets of precious public services is the only way to tackle the deficit.
Precious, for instance, is introduced to the notion of organic food (though it doesn't take) by a thoughtful male nurse.
Even more spurious is this notion that there would be precious little empathy flying around if Peaches had been some random junkie mother on a council estate.
In his stories, Zuckerman seems most to enjoy exposing the belief that being Jewish makes one precious or special; he derides the "conviction of Jewish superiority" and contests the notion that Jews deserve eternal compensation for having survived the Holocaust.
"I want to bring drawing back to the basics, make it about the pleasure that it can afford and remove the notion that it's some kind of precious or difficult activity.
Activists had pushed for such an action for years, but most local groups and the tiny new national organizations opposed the notion and called it a waste of precious resources.
