Sentence examples for slightly precious from inspiring English sources

She skillfully captures the elevated, slightly precious style that Marías cultivates for León.

Angelica's early life was spent in an unorthodox and slightly precious environment.

But it helps that the presentation's slightly precious air is offset by the bracing, seemingly uncouth Americana of "In the Studio Twenty Eleven," Mr. St.

He should wear Savile Row suits, but the costume designer puts him in a black blouson and flat-fronted cream chinos, like a slightly precious soccer fan.

Robert Pattinson and Mia Wasikowska commit to the eccentric cause in this fresh, slightly precious comic western from oddball US auteurs the Zellner brothers.

Today, we've adopted this slightly precious attitude that choreographers should save themselves for the next big piece, that each work needs a long incubation period.

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.

This minimalist documentary proves its own point: our world is filled with so much noise that silence is something rare, precious and slightly unsettling.

SoHo Through Oct. 14 Imagine a cross between the early 20th-century Pictorial photography of Edward Steichen and early 90's abject art and you are close to the evocative, slightly macabre, sometimes overly precious images of Saul Fletcher, an English photographer who is having his second solo show in New York.