(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."
Sweetheart
Definition:
(n.) A lover of mistress.
Example Sentences:
(1) The European commission is investigating “sweetheart” tax deals between the Irish state and Apple, and last month Brussels provisionally found that the iPhone maker’s tax arrangements in Ireland were so generous as to amount to state aid .
(2) The son of a civil engineer, who lives in a rented apartment in a run-down district of Athens with his high-school sweetheart and two young children, Tsipras belongs to a generation untainted by power.
(3) Earlier this year, HMRC made a sweetheart deal with Google enabling the company to settle its 10-year tax liabilities with a payment of £130m, an effective rate of less than 3%.
(4) As a candidate he was accused of palling around with terrorists, cutting a sweetheart deal for his home, and following the lead of an anti-American preacher.
(5) I’m not sure what my 14–year–old, Catholic schoolgirl self would have thought if she’d been given a preview of the past week’s news, and the role her teenage sweetheart played in making it happen.
(6) She began as a ringletted country singer, teenage sweetheart of the American heartland, but between 2006’s eponymous first album and now she’s become the kind of culturally titanic figure adored as much by gnarly rock critics as teenage girls, feminist intellectuals and, well, pretty much all of emotionally sentient humankind.
(7) Moreover, many non-doms prefer not to advertise they qualify for such sweetheart deals with HMRC.
(8) It's the kind of sweetheart deal you'd love to make with your own bank.
(9) So, sweetheart, thank you.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tom Hiddleston , meanwhile, went full humanitarian, closing with a story about a recent trip to South Sudan with the UN Children’s Fund and dedicating his prize to aid workers everywhere.
(10) The prime minister now has serious questions to answer after she stood at the despatch box and called suggestions of a sweetheart deal ‘alternative facts’,” he said.
(11) Then, zipping his cagoule purposefully, this sonic sorcerer and eccentric sweetheart issues a parting shot.
(12) Demirtaş’s wife Basak – his childhood sweetheart, also from a poor family – is a teacher, and to judge from the glossy portraits that a mass-circulation newspaper printed last year of the couple with their two daughters, there is little to distinguish this handsome, modern, white-toothed family from many around the world.
(13) "Oh my sweetheart one, I love you so much more and more.
(14) But movement doesn't mean childhood sweethearts are given the heave-ho as the young and upwardly mobile make their ways to cosmopolitan city centres or exotic destinations.
(15) Patriotic family man Mick is described as a "bloke's bloke" who is also a big softie and he and Linda were childhood sweethearts.
(16) The Labour leader pointed to what he described as a gulf between what the Tories expect from the wealthiest and from ordinary taxpayers, as he highlighted what have been labelled sweetheart tax deals .
(17) As she points out, Dave Hartnett, the former head of Revenue and Customs, eventually resigned following the revelation that he had agreed to a sweetheart deal for Goldman Sachs (the bank was excused interest charges amounting to some £10m).
(18) It’s another sweetheart deal for the owner.” Michnuk points toward Corktown businesses within eyeshot.
(19) Not back to New York where Meredith was doing her best to keep him out of trouble (Jim Hobart: “Is he on a bender, sweetheart?”).
(20) Kacey Musgraves tours the UK in October New sweethearts of the rodeo: the female country stars determined to break the mould MIRANDA LAMBERT It's arguable that the seeds for country's current crop of straight-shooting radical female voices were first planted in the unlikely environment of Nashville Star .