Sentence examples for treasures above from inspiring English sources

These attributes have been intensified by the acute individualism of the American, vigorous speculation in land and other commodities, a strongly utilitarian attitude toward the land and the treasures above and below it, and government policy and law.

Now the question is: As it expands, how does a small organization hang on to the intimacy it treasures above all else? "It doesn't happen easily," said Peter Dunning, Bluemont's founder, president and artistic director, at its headquarters in Leesburg.

The important thing, Sean, is to keep your head screwed on.' With that, he's up and off, back to the quiet, everyday life he obviously treasures above all else.

All three films pulled the single whammy that Hollywood, in its sneaky heart, treasures above all else — not the critical and commercial hit but the commercial hit that outwits the critics and proves them superfluous, hooking up a direct feed into public taste.

He mimes running across the hotel room, brandishing a phantom treasure above his head.

When I filled that role at my Wisconsin high school, there was one task that I treasured above all else.

After working as an executive recruiter, and an event planner for the Metropolitan Opera, Hilary chose to stay home to raise her two children, Harry and Jamie, whom she treasured above all else.

With Kenneth Branagh's film version of Agatha Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express" opening today, it's worth looking at some other cinematic mysteries, starting with the Christie adaptation that I treasure above all, "The Alphabet Murders".

On her left are three well-dressed men, one of whom presents a bag and another holds out a crown; at their feet stands an open chest filled with coins and treasure; above and behind them is the ruin of a building.

One confidant believes that Mrs. Bush may never have quite given an ultimatum but that Mr. Bush told friends she had because he felt in his mind that he had to choose -- that unless he gave up liquor he would lose his daughters, whom he treasured above all.

Norman Mailer said of Burroughs that he was 'the only American writer who may conceivably be possessed by genius', but the compliment which he treasured above all others was an austere remark of Samuel Beckett's: 'He's a writer.' Burroughs was born in St Louis, Missouri, into a family that was well off but, as he repeatedly insisted, 'not rich'.