Three years pass surprisingly quickly when you are doing a PhD and, if too much of that time is spent on training, precious little remains for getting on with the real thing: finding out something new!
The following is a video interview with the Bulgarian-born artist who discusses many topics including his work on the film Precious, his classical training, his musical journey (partly spent as a youth in the palace of Iran's Shah), and his creative process.
Eliot, as Hugh Kenner said, "took on the role of Laforgue", and certain lines of the latter are quickly suggestive of the Eliot of Prufrock and Other Observations : "Oh how precious the missed trains are / In which I've passed my life failing to embark", etc.
Rather than use up too much precious time taking the train to the airport, I lingered until the last minute watching barges cruise down the Seine, then happily squandered all I had left on a taxi to Orly ($38.60).
Cowart was the jewel of the Jets' off-season free-agent signing bonanza, but they have seen precious little of him in training camp.
"I am not ready to be without you," the mourning T'Challa tells his papa, who gently promises that T'Challa has spent his life training for this precious juncture.
We require medical students to master a rigorous set of standards and skills, for example—and to prove their abilities with real patients, under the guidance of more experienced doctors but prospective teachers are often forced to spend precious time and money on training programs that make them no more likely to improve student outcomes.
To most efficiently use the precious time for skills laboratory training, and to accord with simple-to-complex-ordering of learning tasks [ 5, 6], it is helpful if students are well prepared before attending training.
Carnet's craftsmen also are trained in manipulating precious metals and creating molds from Ms. Ong's drawings, using materials like platinum, titanium and gold.
She is one of the very few fully trained female Rinpoches ("precious masters") in the Tibetan tradition.
