Sentence examples for rather precious from inspiring English sources

He looks rather precious and over-preened.

So his time in Ireland today, three weeks out from the elections, was presumably rather precious.

If all this might seem rather precious, Mr. Perez and Mr. Heffner have heard that before.

Something rare, and rather precious, seems certain to happen at Anfield on Saturday afternoon.

The whole thing sounds utopian, loopy and rather precious, and I'm kicking myself that I missed it.

Where Iñarritu uses the theme of the afterlife as rather precious meta-phor, Hereafter is straightforwardly preachy.

It's all fashionably diverse and ephemeral but rather irksomely precious.

Sprouting branches and bits of dried plant, they appear pagan rather than precious.

But Ken Hall, the library director in Fond du Lac, said he would rather spend precious library funds on books that had literary or artistic value.

Japan may, however, seek a slow phase-in of the farm cuts.The prime minister has also promised to draw up a plan for farm reform aimed at promoting export-oriented agriculture, rather than precious yet unproductive paddy fields.

We can trace the disastrous attempt to introduce responsible government into Afghanistan to the idea that democracy and the rule of law are the default conditions of mankind, rather than precious achievements resulting from centuries of discipline and conflict.