Word: dearingly
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...print was firm and unmistakably her own. She never raised her voice when annoyed, but her colleagues would have rather endured tongue-lashings from other editors than face her silent disapproval." She spoke and wrote in a style that was flinty and spare; she was allergic to rhetoric. "Oh dear," she would gently say, lips pursed but eyes slightly smiling, as she crossed out a writer's phrase that was more ornate than enlightening. As a result, her words had an authority and credibility that we all tried to emulate...
...think it's a timely articulation by Harvard of issues that are near and dear to [it and] to its women, and we're encouraged by that kind of leadership," she says...
...think it goes against Harvard's non-discrimination policy, which I hold very dear. What they're saying is that straight people can use Memorial Church, gay people cannot," said Sarah K. Hurwitz...
...Dear Marv...
...Oscar winner was 47 then. Now he is 50, and 50 is an age for realists. A man takes stock of his dwindling physical inventory and starts thinking not of empire building but of simple maintenance in health, family and career--the preservation, for just a few more years, dear God, of the suddenly precious status quo. Growth is measured in the spreading acreage around the waist, or in that weird cyst on your neck that makes you wonder if you've been infiltrated by aliens. The people you work with, who used to be older and as stuffy...