Sentences with phrase «precious little while»

Not exact matches

While «Why We Must Withdraw From Iraq» registers an opinion about what is happening and is likely to happen in Iraq, it has precious little to do with just - war thinking, rigorous or otherwise.

Reservations for seatings in the small, light wood room are made via the restaurant's website, and while all of this may seem a little precious, Burns» food manages to make it all beyond satisfying.

Cuadrado has not done enough since joining the club from Fiorentina in the winter, while Willian remains something of an enigma, keeping his place in the Chelsea starting lineup despite offering precious little in the way of end product in the final third.

You can avoid trimming those razor - sharp talons or avoid looking at where you snipped your precious baby's finger already (for a little while only)

There are many reasons to do this if you can afford to, like not having to arrange or pay for childcare, being able to spend precious time with your child at this unique age, and even just doing something a little different to heading to work every day for a while!

I was so happy to read a while back that you were pregnant and now your little one is just precious!

It's just the age, so don't worry - while your precious little tyrant will run you ragged, this too, shall pass.

It is hypoallergenic, anti-bacterial and mite - proof, assuring your precious little one will be safe and healthy while in it.

In effect, the original debate over NHS reforms under Andrew Lansley - which were so controversial they had to be paused while the prime minister tried to save them — was conducted with precious little detail about how the plans would operate in practice.

The UK has been left with no allies in the EU and precious little good will — and while in some quarters there is irritation and antagonism, mostly the UK is now so marginalised it is seen simply as increasingly irrelevant.

But while it is easy for academics and other observers to demand that armed forces should «reach out» to insurgents, there is precious little guidance on the practicalities of initiating a meaningful conversation with the people determined to bomb the foreigners out of their homeland.

While many Capitol reporters have embraced social media and enjoy offering television and radio commentary on their work and on the political scene, Precious does little self - promoting, and is only a recent Twitter recruit, @TomPreciousALB.)

But while I may know precious little about the films at Cannes, I have deduced that the designer shoe picks at the festival are phenomenal, even off the red carpets.

Amy and Sally took home matching donut sweatshirts while Krystal picked up this winking phone case... I have my eye on this precious little owl evening bag.

What results is a fairly basic thriller / comedy, and while it's entertaining, in the words of one critic, «There's precious little that will stay with you.»

Among the supporting cast, Christopher Mintz - Plasse (Superbad) stands out as Clark, a bit of a Jack Gordon fanboy with precious little outdoorsman aptitude to show for it, while Christine Ko finds some fun, sassy line deliveries as Emma, the staff's social media «influencer.»

Laurence Olivier delivers a fine performance as the haunted de Winter, still under the shadow of his controlling first wife even after she's died, while Joan Fontaine's naïve little girl in the big mansion is a bit precious but effective nonetheless.

With nothing witty to say, the creative team have little option than to go for progressively louder, cruder and sillier, all the while trying very hard to preserve the precious PG - 13 rating that it barely keeps.

In honesty, some of the firefights can slog on just a little too long, and while the combat is varied, it is also very familiar to fans of the franchise, and there are precious few moments of calm in the campaign.

While such a sensitive psychological approach has the potential to delve deep, the treatment lacks the dramatic thrill of a traditional endangerment story, offering rich parts for Saoirse Ronan and Cynthia Nixon, but precious little access to their inner thoughts — and less to grab the attention of general audiences.

Unlike so many recent comic book based movies, Miller is able to string together scene after scene of action / racing / beating / shooting while still remembering to give us reason to care about his heroes, who are given precious little time to talk things over.

«Of course, many teachers already know this but while calling children average tells us a lot about their relative strengths and weaknesses compared to other children, it tells us precious little about how an individual learns.»

He said: «The government has known for a long while that there's a paucity of sponsors in the north east and they have done precious little so far.

And while much history is contained in the past 275 words, we've told you precious little about the 2019 Porsche Cayenne E-Hybrid, which is much more fun than a capsule description of it — another V - 6 SUV hybrid — might suggest.

It generally feels detached, and while those adaptive dampers might give you a little more flexibility - you can make it a hell of a lot more comfortable when you're not driving like a psycho, for instance - they rob you of precious chassis feedback.

While perhaps great for emissions and fuel consumption, there's precious little torque available at such low rpm for parking space maneuvers — leading to frequent and annoying stalls.

Obviously, touchscreen manufacturers have been caught off guard while Apple, making good use of its superior economic clout, contracted for most of the touch panels that manufacturers were able to produce, leaving precious little for all the others to purchase.

Meanwhile, you'll see precious little new lending from them, while international banks will be slow to take up the slack.

While some people might cringe at the thought of putting their precious little baby dog into a crate, the truth is the dog is not a little person.

Teachers often work five and a half days a week, leaving little time for travel, and while working as a dive master means you'll be diving all the time, you'll have precious time for little else.

While the visuals offer a nice retro look with a consistent theme, there is precious little variety, while the actual layout is different every time, the levels all have the same look to While the visuals offer a nice retro look with a consistent theme, there is precious little variety, while the actual layout is different every time, the levels all have the same look to while the actual layout is different every time, the levels all have the same look to them.

In honesty, some of the firefights can slog on just a little too long, and while the combat is varied, it is also very familiar to fans of the franchise, and there are precious few moments of calm in the campaign.

There's precious little depth and the combat is shallow, while some sections seem designed to show up Frank's inability to cope with tooled - up human foes.

Mojang founder, Marcus «Notch» Pearson, has been incredibly vocal about the proceedings, taking to his Twitter account to reccount his dealings with Bethesda's lawyers, colouring the proceedings as a corporate behemoth picking on the little, indie developer, while Bethesda responded that they're simply protecting their precious franchise from possible harm.

Being somewhat limited in my freedom to be entertained as a kid, for many years of my life, gaming served as a diverse means of escape for me away from the trappings of a mostly mundane, repetitive life, at the end of the school day I would often think to myself «alright... so what are some of the good things that I have to look forward to when I get home...», one of the first things that I would do as soon as I got home after school was play FINAL FANTASY on PlayStation, I would eagerly walk home as quickly as I could just so that I could continue playing from the part where I had last left off the day before, as pathetic as this may come across, I can confidently say that many of the happiest moments that I have had in my life have been while being utterly enthralled by the developments in the games, I think that reminiscing about aspects of a video game with great fondness is a hallmark of an impactful form of entertainment, I would often be so «in the zone» while playing that anything aside from what was taking place on the screen would become completely null and void in my mind to the point where I forget that I was playing a video game, even though I did not live the events of the game, I can emphatise with them as if I had, that is the sort of impact that the emotional depth of the story, the characters, the music, the design and the overall world of the series have had on me, what appeals the most to me is that FINAL FANTASY allows us the luxury of divorcing ourselves of our current reality to assume that of a world of fantasy for a precious moment in time, which is a sentiment that makes me wish that our world as whole had a little more «FINAL FANTASY» within it so as to make us all want to wake up as soon as possible to enjoy another day

And while you can nominally explore Springfield, there's precious little to do once you enter places like Moe's Tavern.

Robert Rauschenberg's cardboard box pieces, currently on view at Gagosian, are striking precedents for Sibony's transformation of materials, though Rauschenberg aestheticized these boxes comparatively little, even while they both translate materials with precious, miniscule steps, or none at all.

Everything is changing constantly, but I thought if I can identify six or eight really precious things — people, cultures, places — and go out using the best filmmaker that I can possibly convince to come along, to savor these places as they are while we can — create little time capsules to say when Olivia was 11 this was what the Galapagos looked like.

While moves like these made precious little sense on older phones, there's a method to the madness on the Galaxy S8.

While there is indeed a whole lot of information to take in from Apple's WWDC 2017 keynote on Monday, there's precious little question that iOS 11 is the star of the show.

While there is precious little question that Samsung travels its own path more so now than it ever has in the past, some old habits are difficult to shake.

One «typical,» «average» cover letter attached to your resume can KILL months of your precious time, producing little to no results and costing you thousands of dollars in lost income while providing you nothing but stress and anxiety in return.

We see a parent digging up historical grievances that while they could be valid, they have precious little connection with a parent's current ability to parent effectively.

While vegetables abound, the time is ripe for picking those precious little black nuggets — blackberries!

Things I've picked up while on vacations with my husband... pictures my sweet little boy has drawn for me... oooh, thank you for reminding me how precious these things are to me!