Sentence examples for seemed precious from inspiring English sources

It was 1985, and a basketball scholarship still seemed precious enough to be beyond her grasp.

By the end of the BBC4 Monty Python drama Holy Flying Circus all I was clear about was these men seemed precious, exhausting and not particularly jocund in the company of women.

But while the prints, and a passage of spare ivory crepe dresses and suits, looked feminine, the collection's virginal innocence seemed precious and eventually it just got on your nerves.

The platinum purity of its disc, tastefully touched with shadows named by the homely astronomy of an earlier time, Copernicus, Aristotle, Plato, Newton, Hell & Bee suddenly seemed precious like one coin we had saved never to spend.

Such passages surely echo in Moncrieff's rendering of Proust's voice in that most beautiful section of modern prose, the "Place Names: The Place," which concludes his first volume: With admiring eyes I saw, luminous and imprisoned in a bowl by themselves, the agate marbles which seemed precious to me because they were as fair and smiling as little girls, and because they cost fivepence each.

I'd stopped because the conceit had seemed precious.

None of them seems precious.

From a distance the album can seem precious.

Too soon this precision seems precious and fussy.

There seems precious little chance of this generally.

None of these objects seem precious or cute.