Do you believe, dear, in the depth of a true, honorable, manly love?
"You won't believe, dear Louise, what a good thing this Pommade Divine is," wrote Marie Antoinette's great grandmother to a friend.
Bell isn't the only cast member who believes that "Dear White People" does an excellent job at depicting how blackness can be treated in America through this episode.
The ever-sage Sharon Osbourne made sure to remind her: "Yes, you are beautiful, you just have to believe it, dear".
He cuts a swaggering figure, but he creates an utterly convincing portrait of a mourning spouse who still can't believe his dear one has gone.
"I believed my dear leader could read my mind, I thought if I thought a bad thing he could punish me," she said.
James Russell Lowell, the nineteenth-century poet who presided over what his great-grandnephew called Boston's "rank, upholstered, Olympian era," had inherited, he believed, his "dear mother's" madness, and many times contemplated suicide by revolver or strychnine.
Believe me, dear Lady Georgiana".
"When I was 12 or 13, I completely believed the Dear Leader didn't go to the bathroom, that it was like a divine thing, that he was on a completely different level than us," he says.
