Sentence examples for precious text from inspiring English sources

A precious text in an era of few publications.

"It's like dealing with a precious text," says David Page of Page\Park architects, the conservation practice charged with the daunting task of reconstruction, as he stands in hard hat and high-vis, a fluorescent sliver of hope in the blackened scene.

E-readers will be marginal hardware, much like tablet PCs, until all publishers everywhere are willing to let their precious text out into the wild, something, given the parlous state of publishing, that won't happen soon.

The precious texts were safeguarded in the Athenian state archives and were not allowed to be lent out.

Although some of what was done addressed mundane physical issues inevitable in a structure that has been in use since the height of the Italian Renaissance, the most interesting aspect of the renovation has to do with the precious texts themselves.

In his piece, Mendelsohn describes the overhaul: Although some of what was done addressed mundane physical issues inevitable in a structure that has been in use since the height of the Italian Renaissance, the most interesting aspect of the renovation has to do with the precious texts themselves.

All the precious supplies, text books, classroom gear and playground equipment were swept away.

Its main demand is to restore Meitei Mayek, the original Manipuri script, which was replaced by Bengali lettering nearly three centuries ago after one of the king's forebears converted to the Vishnaivite Hinduism of West Bengal.In 2005 the revivalists set fire to Manipur's central library, destroying thousands of precious Bengali texts.

"The Golden Primer," by Professor J. M. D. Meiklejohn, is just this sort of precious early-childhood text.

On the other, the show is accompanied by a somewhat precious and pretentious text that uses well-known postmodern terms for thinking about history, the concept of difference and how "the direction of the gaze controls how one culture sees others and how one sees oneself".

The phone that has your precious pictures and texts.