Word: dearer
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...legacy and perform at the highest level is going to fall more squarely on the very broad shoulders of freshman heavyweight Bode Ogunwole—considering his all-star performance this weekend in the Show Me State—they’d be overlooking someone much nearer and dearer to Jantzen’s heart...
...whose enemy is real and whose presence we have already felt. Now, for the first time in a generation, we must accept the fact that there are times when victory comes at a cost. But it is difficult indeed to imagine that the cost will be dearer than the ideals we fight to defend...
...official reason is squeamishness about the fate of the foxes. No principle is dearer to the English than the protection of animals, especially cute, furry ones. In a priceless understatement, a recent commission report on the practice concluded that the experience of being torn limb from limb by a pack of hounds "seriously compromises the welfare of the fox." But as the spirited parliamentary debate revealed, this principle is as slippery as a wet fox in a rabbit hole...
...young naval officer eyed each other erotically. Nothing more than that happened, but she tells her husband, in language that is almost identical in novel and screenplay, "Had he called me--I thought--I could not have resisted him...and at the same time you were dearer to me than ever...
...purpose is not to take women away from Raza, but to allow women to gain an experience dearer or closer to them, and then to go on to lead other organizations," she said...