Sentence examples for slightly less precious from inspiring English sources
Abbas' soul is slightly less precious to him than the delicately designed bamboo flutes he carves.
Cinemas can reasonably hope for better from the coming weekend, when both Monsters University and Pacific Rim should enliven the market, and audiences may by then view sunny afternoons and warm evenings as slightly less-precious commodities.
It covers similarly gentle, empathetic tonal ground to 2011's Le Havre, with slightly tarter, less precious results.
Iridium is a relatively rare precious heavy metal, only slightly less dense than osmium.
True yellow sapphire is a pure yellow, but similar, less precious imitations often have slightly different hues.
Those themes are delivered in "The Paperboy" with slightly less ferocity than we've seen in the other films Daniels has had a hand in — "Precious," "Monster's Ball" and "The Woodsman" come to mind (the first he directed, the others he produced).
He was slightly less abrasive.
It actually costs slightly less.
Slightly less jagged capitalism?
