Sentence examples for precious setting from inspiring English sources
A meander through a small, precious setting describes the experience of visiting the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
"When you look downtown, you're getting people like Wylie Dufresne at 71 Clinton, where you're getting really high-quality food and good service in a less precious setting".
Universities, as living and learning communities, are a rare and precious setting where dialogue can occur to help eradicate those divisive elements.
Most of the scenes take place in tranquil, orderly interiors, which seem especially fragile and precious set against the rubble and wreckage that lies outside.
Wise gathers good stories about the making of that enduring show, and adorns them with a precious set of home movies, taken on the set — in color, not black and white — and showing the cast's playful and exuberant looseness.
This island had to be reimagined, treasured as the precious jewel set in the silver sea, and its people had to be recast, brought together in opposition to a hostile continent.
The site's wares are hand-picked for their design qualities as well as craftsmanship and many pieces feature precious and semi-precious stones set in silver- and gold-plate.
(To be fair, "Precious" is set in the 1980s).
In their move, they have lost a precious nativity set.
Others, made with precious stones set in gold, are refined enough to go from the beach to fancy cocktails.
At the moment that clown is Tom Gilling, the Britain-to-Australia transplant well loved for a pair of brilliant if occasionally precious novels set in the 19th century, "The Sooterkin" and "The Adventures of Miles and Isabel".
