But network news acts as if an on-air admission of error might cause a meteor to land on the noggin of one of its precious talking heads.
It doesn't have to take more than 20-30 minutes, but that's precious talking time.
There was precious little talk of spreading democracy back then.
Despite the appearance of conscientious objectors as hospital orderlies there is precious little talk of heroism or even moral justification.
There is precious little talk of abortion and gay rights in this document, as important as those issues are for Christian conservatives.
As he contemplated creating the new regulatory board, he spent a lot of time talking to the firms that would be regulated and precious little talking to the people who had been pressing for reform.
Rather than spending your limited words making her sound like a crazed conspiracy theorist, you could have spent those precious paragraphs talking about the things she is trying to help educate other mothers about: soy baby formula (which is banned in many other countries), the toxins in our food supply, what genetically modified foods really are, why we should eat organic foods.
It was precisely because China was trying to reconvene their precious Six Party Talks that I ordered the sinking of a Southern ship.
You may rise up in wrath and say that a critic is not supposed to make personal remarks about an actor's appearance - but if you really take away that appearance, there is precious little to talk about in acting.
They even get quite precious about it, talking about proper scripts and storylines and production values... "I know this is a voyeuristic culture," Welsh says, faintly puzzled, "but people have become sex-mad at a grassroots level".
By precious, we're talking no-hormone, no-nitrate, no-antibiotic sausages from free-range Sullivan County animals, grilled to order and finished with your choice of sauce ($4.50).
