These days, the law allows virtually nothing; such wetlands are considered environmentally precious and subject to heavy restrictions.
Her mother Mary, the rapist's partner, takes out her self-hate in repeated spasms of grotesquely jealous rage against Precious, routinely subjecting her to violent assaults and screaming abuse: "You're a dummy, bitch!
Mr. Banhart's first few releases, which showcased lo-fi production, a nasally voice and precious lyrics about subjects like pumpkin seeds, felt equally coy.
Their opinions have been precious on the subjects referred to them by the Commission.
The most important technique, still used today, grew largely out of the experiments of the ancient alchemists and goldsmiths in seeking to find or create precious metals by subjecting base metals and minerals to heat.
The rich and inventive of Hollywood have discovered that th their houses are too precious to be subjected to the risks of cocktail parties--the stains of gin on wainscoting ripped from the walls of French chateaux are too awful to contemplate.
Yet, curiously, Salisbury is among a precious few of the subjects in the book to have commented on it directly.
But precisely by faltering in an obsessive quest, Cézanne's portraits tell me the most about him while precious little about his subjects.
The subject matter of Precious (2009, Icon, 15) seems grim beyond belief; the tale of a young black girl bearing the children of her rapist father, suffering unendurable indignities at the hands of her psychopathic mother.
The big question, obviously, is how they divide their precious days -- a subject about which the campaigns are cagey.
