The boy's parents decide to call in The Crab Catchers to guarantee their precious boy his wish.
He or she becomes the container of another person's intimate thoughts, fantasies, fears and wishes – precious materials that must be handled carefully.
Dorothy, capable and clear-sighted from the start, needs only to accept the grayness of home as a precious color, and to wish to return as ardently as she wished to escape "Over the Rainbow"—the movie's grand theme song, nearly removed from the final cut.
So my response is congratulations, celebration, and I wish your precious mother and father were around.
A. C. Grayling's "The Good Book: A Humanist Bible" is a marvel, a "distillation" of over a thousand authoritative texts, edited, redacted, and assembled in the manner of the (Holy) Bible, though by one man rather than many; written in a crisp, beautiful English; printed and bound like the precious object it clearly wishes to become.
By Macy Halford May 3, 2011 A. C. Grayling's "The Good Book: A Humanist Bible" is a marvel, a "distillation" of over a thousand authoritative texts, edited, redacted, and assembled in the manner of the (Holy) Bible, though by one man rather than many; written in a crisp, beautiful English; printed and bound like the precious object it clearly wishes to become.
2/25/01 Four darling little girls and a precious little boy--I wish you could know them...and them you.
Even today, many Indians, while accepting the thousands of whites who have suddenly decided "that their Indianness was, at some level, more precious than their whiteness," nonetheless wish to exclude Indians who look too black.
At this Skyride event at Glasgow Green, one of a series of initiatives across several UK cities to promote cycling, Hoy is guided from one commitment to another by a small team of advisers, as carefully and insistently as if he is a precious thought none of them wish to forget.
For Ms. Cohen, at the age of 102, time is so precious and so is her wish to meet you.
