Sentence examples for sort of precious from inspiring English sources

"The Golden Primer," by Professor J. M. D. Meiklejohn, is just this sort of precious early-childhood text.

It's not the sort of precious, quippy scene that'd be at home in a John Green novel or a movie starring Zach Braff.

His response was all sorts of precious. .

In recognition of this terrible but inevitable outcome, we asked our international offices to put their research caps on and find out which sorts of precious materials and resources their countries were running out of the fastest.

As the 7th century wore on, however, there was scope in Attica for enrichment of an entirely new sort, involving concentration of precious metal in marketable or at least exchangeable form as a result of contacts with elegant, rich, and sophisticated new worlds across the sea.

"I ain't sayin' that you treated me unkind," Willie sings as he nears the end, citing what, at this point, is a far greater offense: "You just sort of wasted my precious time".

This sort of housing is a precious commodity in our age of unbridled financial capitalism, and it's often the only way the non-rich can afford to live in gentrifying neighborhoods; 47 percent of NYC's total housing stock was rent-regulated in 2011.

Here, ZooBank could help by providing some sort of guarantee that such a precious asset will not vanish in a puff of nomenclatural smoke.So ZooBank should deal with the naming problem.

On one wall in the back of the gallery, Ms. Fujinami offers a series of photo-collages that have a certain immediacy, while embracing a sort of cold Modernism, making them precious.

Perhaps my generation is more precious about this sort of thing.

These clumps of human cells -- not yet shifting toward life as a liver or a spinal column, nor degenerating into a tumor -- are a sort of family tree, one made more precious by President Bush's Aug. 9 announcement that only lines already created will be eligible for federal funds.