Sentence examples for precious style from inspiring English sources

It loses energy, falling victim to an overly precious style.

She skillfully captures the elevated, slightly precious style that Marías cultivates for León.

It's been two years since the New Beetle came along, and its precious styling and peculiar packaging continue to charm and aggrieve in equal measure.

Although they fall within a brief span of seven years, these paintings present a consistent development in which Jan moved from the heavy, sculptural realism associated with Robert Campin to a more delicate, rather precious, pictorial style.

So much for the precious, garish styling of the designer decade.

There have been precious few Tehran-style protests on the streets of Cairo.

Modernism made this short-lived style look precious and musty, but its soft, romantic glow remains seductive.

Mr. Condo is not a producer of single precious items consistent in style and long in the making.

"Loulou was a nourishing influence with her taste for fantasy, her free association of colors, her disregard for the precious and her intuitive style," Mr. Top said.

In the 17th century the lute began to yield to keyboard instruments, but the intimate music of the French clavecinistes (harpsichordists) was still a clear outgrowth of the precious and evanescent performance style of the 17th-century lutenist Denis Gaultier.

In fact, it's an essential part of jazz that is fading fast, since most jazz musicians don't come from the South or church backgrounds anymore, which makes Mr. Mabern's charging, heavily chorded style more precious.