"precious way" is a grammatically correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is primarily used to refer to a valuable or meaningful approach to something. For example: "She found her own precious way of dealing with her problems."
"But not in a precious way.
Embellishment and embroidery were used in a less precious way – overblown diamond-shaped lattice pockets added a sportswear edge to floor-length cream coats.
Last week, our financial Superman, the mild-mannered Midwesterner Warren E. Buffett, swooped in again to save another bank, the financial markets, the American economy and just maybe our precious way of life.
My parents told my brother and me: "You have been born to us in such a precious way and we have waited for you for a long time". But there was grief as well.
At the lower end of the social scale, they were often the victims of agrarian capitalism, the abolition of the common land that was intrinsic to the precious way of life of Merrie England.
This had the advantage of avoiding some of the worst Saint Laurent clichés, and to a certain extent almost seemed to pick up where the last show by his predecessor, Hedi Slimane, left off, albeit in a less stylized, precious way — though Mr. Vaccarello declared ignorance of Mr. Slimane's work for the brand.
Funny how our kids can be so different in a million tiny, precious ways, yet are all exactly the same in a hundred huge, maddening ones.
At Vetements, he is part of a "design collective" that deconstructs and remodels existing clothes in a deliberately non-precious way, and eschews the notion of one celebrity designer.
With 99 Cent Dreams I was using photography in a non-precious way, more like a surveying device.
Life is too precious and way too short".
These elements are prosaic but precious, the way everyday life was to Davis.
