(1) When Hayley Cropper swallows poison on Coronation Street on Monday night, taking her own life to escape inoperable pancreatic cancer, with her beloved husband, Roy, in pieces at her bedside, it will be the end of a character who, thanks to Hesmondhalgh's performance, has captivated and challenged British TV viewers for 16 years.
(2) Was he being put forward as the foremost literary novelist of his generation, one whose best-known work stands comparison with The Naked and the Dead , Gravity's Rainbow , American Pastoral , Beloved and Underworld ?
(3) In La Shish, the beloved local halal restaurant where Wanda Beydoun has worked a minimum wage managing job for 16 years, these stereotypes are a source of amusement.
(4) The social network remains a niche product, beloved by journalists, celebrities, and a hard core of miscellaneous obsessive users — but few others.
(5) Her maiden speech in parliament celebrated the diversity of her beloved Yorkshire constituency, and passionately made the case that there is more that unites us than divides us.
(6) He has set up a "trade and growth" board for Scotland and will soon lead Scotland's "largest ever trade delegation to Brazil", a visit which will take place on St Andrew's Day, the patron saints day beloved by the nationalists.
(7) Two years later, he left his beloved Glasgow to represent Aberdeen South at Westminster.
(8) If there is a patron saint of shorts in this country, then it is undoubtedly the Chungmeister, with her beloved denim hotpants and collection of lacy and smart city shorts.
(9) Shelley Gilbert was a beloved baby, born to older parents who thought they couldn't have children.
(10) This is a party on its way to becoming a multinational libertarian sect, whose preoccupations are no longer those either of much of its electorate or of the business community – wrestling with how genuinely to innovate, invest and motivate workforces in a world of increasingly amoral, ownerless companies so beloved and promoted by the sect.
(11) Even the most hardcore fans are sceptical when the beloved franchise name is used.
(12) His Star Trek reboots are dispiriting: the quirky and beloved sci-fi franchise pureed into stimulating but unremarkable blockbuster entertainment, distinguished mainly by caricatures of iconic characters that are more branding than interpretation.
(13) Brown's beloved dog, Charlie, had fallen ill. "Brown told me that his dog was ill, had terrible tics and could hardly see.
(14) Confessions of a location scout: why the New York beloved of the movies doesn't exist any more Read more Meanwhile, those apartment and condo owners who are full-time residents routinely join landlords in jacking up commercial rents, driving out beloved small businesses and neighbourhood eateries, and reducing the cityscape to a monoculture of faceless chain stores, nail salons, bank branches and overpriced restaurants.
(15) To really be beloved in France he needs to learn to swear with the virtuosity of a Frenchman who's mislaid his linen Agnes B scarf in the Rue du Bac.
(16) Gove is an educated man and would surely acknowledge that the repurposing of art to reinforce notions of cultural identity is something beloved of, and practised by, political regimes on both the far left and far right.
(17) Still, as the crisp white stuff beloved of children turns into freezing grey slush, it's worth another laugh at the old British Rail " wrong type of snow " excuse.
(18) I recounted the events leading to his last days: with a heavy heart but scientific resolve the great polar researcher left his beloved home in the spring of 1930 to lead a gruelling, unprecedented scientific expedition into Greenland.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Shortly afterwards, Mark persuaded his beloved older brother to come and join him.
(20) His private palace, seven miles outside town in Kawele, brimmed with paintings, sculptures, stained glass, ersatz Louis XIV furniture, marble from Carrara in Italy and two swimming pools surrounded by loudspeakers playing his beloved Gregorian chants or classical music.
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(1) Managers scurry back and forth across the Atlantic with advance copies handcuffed to their wrists, critics are required to sign contracts promising that they will not so much as hum the contents to their nearest and dearest, and the music press acts as if the world is about to witness the most significant release since Nelson Mandela's.
(2) It's a perfect line, that sums up not only the dearest wish of every character in the film (and some might say those outside it), but also one that lays the foundations for the film we're discussing now, Beginners.
(3) I write articles on subjects I'd previously kept secret from my nearest and dearest.
(4) Dorothy Rowe, the author of My Dearest Enemy, My Dangerous Friend: Making and Breaking Sibling Bonds, told me three years ago : "Most of us like to be seen to behave well, even if in private we're not.
(5) She was one of the most mature users of Twitter and her Twitter feed was so Tayloresque as to be nigh-on parodic, mixing passionate defences of Jackson with shout-outs to reality TV android Kim Kardashian and the occasional – and necessary – denials that she had re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-remarried ("Jason is my dearest friend!"
(6) Predominantly, rural Scotland (143.4p), Wales (143.1p) and Northern Ireland (143p) are the dearest for diesel, with London the cheapest at 141.8p a litre.
(7) In a heartfelt statement last night, Thatcher said he had been one of her 'closest political and dearest friends', and would be missed by millions of people who now lived in freedom thanks to his administration: 'Ronald Reagan had a higher claim than any other leader to have won the Cold War for liberty, and he did it without a shot being fired.
(8) Dearest addresses 1 Campden Hill Square Kensington and Chelsea, west London, (average property price £4.9m) 2 Parkside Merton, London, south-west London (£4.8m) 3 Drayton Gardens Kensington and Chelsea (£4.4m) 4 Dawson Place Kensington and Chelsea (£3.89m) 5 Duchess Of Bedford's Walk Kensington and Chelsea (£3.86m) 6 Cadogan Square Kensington and Chelsea (£3.7m) 7 Hamilton Terrace Westminster (£3.62m) 8 Cedar Park Gardens Merton London, (£3.6m) 9 Bramerton Street Kensington and Chelsea (£3.52m) 10 Hampstead Lane Camden (£3.5m)
(9) It was only when she discovered her phone had been hacked on an industrial scale (she changed her number three times in three months, but it never did any good) that she realised all her nearest and dearest were blameless.
(10) Ikea has finally broken this silence, calling upon us to stop taking pictures of our food using our dearest role models: the landed gentry of 17th-century Europe.
(11) Yet, despite this, he displays little interest in talking about those who have taken up the causes dearest to his heart.
(12) Tory donor Theodore Agnew is rumoured to be replacing Lady Morgan, while the Department for Education is so full of donors and cronies it is starting to look like a get together for Gove and Cameron's nearest and dearest.
(13) Another tactic some partners have is to set aside a little time each day to think about the dangers their nearest and dearest are facing and thus try to control or contain the anxiety.
(14) Jos Dings, its director, laughs: “I could say it changed everything overnight, but in the first vote two days ago on real driving emissions, some of our dearest member states – including Britain and Germany – stuck, in an inexplicable way, to short-term measures.” The European commission has delayed more stringent tests by a year , allowing engines to emit more than twice the legal limit of nitrogen oxides until 2021.
(15) One refugee, Bashir, 20, a film student from Raqqa in Syria, said: “All of my nearest and dearest have left Syria and my family is doing the same.
(16) The result is that at times Battle Hymn reads like an American-Asian version of Mommie Dearest .
(17) To retreat now, I believe, would put at hazard all that we hold dearest, turn the UN back into a talking shop, stifle the first steps of progress in the Middle East; leave the Iraqi people to the mercy of events on which we would have relinquished all power to influence for the better.
(18) Henry writes: Newly released figures this afternoon from the Republic's Central Statistics Office reveals that Ireland is the fifth dearest nation in the EU.
(19) In his speech last Friday at Nike’s headquarters in Oregon, Obama said unions have been “fellow travelers” with him on increasing the minimum wage and job training, but he added: “On trade, I actually think some of my dearest friends are wrong.
(20) But when I tried this theory out on one of my nearest and dearest, the answer was simple: "MacAskill hasn't the balls."