Sentence examples for precious to get from inspiring English sources

'It's a bit precious to get upset by animal cruelty, though.

Yet nobody questions overpaid athletes, musicians or actors, who we seem to think are too precious to get a real job.

The highly over-determined reconstruction equation effectively cancels the information from most optical measurements, which are usually precious to get.

Bystanders said he'd had no hesitation, just leapt over the parapet to his death as if he'd dropped something precious and wanted to get it back.

In simple terms they take precious seconds to get up to speed and get power into the blades.

If the producer and director understand you have the show's interests at heart, rather than a precious desire to get your own way, things will be fine.

"Conveyor belt justice," as the president of the A.B.A., Dennis Archer, calls it, falls short of the promise the Supreme Court made in Gideon, and wastes a precious chance to get young defendants on the right track before it is too late.

Might he retract specific laws, even parts of his precious constitution, to get the badly needed IMF loan, we asked.

He identifies how Daniels uses one of the rich scenes created by Fletcher to position Mo'Nique in a painful confrontation with Sidibe that results in a masterful and thought-provoking performance that delivers the final "push" needed by Sidibe: "The more Precious tries to get away from her mother, the more she's pulled back".

There will be precious little time to get back there once the jury makes a decision.

There are precious few ways to get there in a timely fashion.