Word: preciouses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...FIRST precious liberty which Gomes reclaims from the hands of these new Puritans is the freedom of Christian ethics from the oppressive authority of the Bible and the writings of the Church Fathers, documents perhaps useful once but now so little in season...
...closer inspection, the sheer volume of scented candles, glass-blown swans and seashell ashtrays sends the mind reeling. Banners that boast I LEFT MY HEART should rightly read MY WALLET, since San Francisco's real raison d'etre is separating tourists from their money. This too-too-precious chilly, hilly city is determined to stupefy you with caramel corn, sourdough bread, chocolate cable cars and painting-by-numbers that goes by the name of sidewalk art. "It's like living in a theme park," says Lee Houskeeper, a local resident...
...burg. That's because the residents just can't stay away from needful things, buying stuff like folk medicine that mysteriously cures pain and cars that drive on no gas at all and just about anything else that can tempt greedy souls to trade away their most precious possession...
...resisting pressure from the European Community and Japan to use the Rio conference as a forum to set targets and timetables for the reduction of warming gases, among other things. It has also resisted pressure to commit new funds so that developing economies can grow without destroying precious ecosystems. Washington's posture stands in contrast to the leadership the U.S. exercised in 1972 at the U.N. Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, which first established the environment as an area of international cooperation. Now, says James Gustave Speth, president of the Washington-based World Resources Institute, "our government...
American architecture has spent the past few years in the dumps, fretful and feckless. Aesthetically, there is neither invigorating ferment nor much consensus, and the collapse of both the housing and commercial real estate markets means that even big-name architects have precious little to do right now. So when Richard Meier's final designs for the J. Paul Getty Trust's vast art center, a $360 million, six-building museum-and-art-scholarship wonderland, were unveiled in Los Angeles last week, it wasn't just his envious peers who paid attention. Meier won the commission over 32 fellow architectural...