This was the year that Christie's celebrity went stratospheric, with the release of both Darling, for which she would win an Oscar, and Doctor Zhivago.
Those phrases could equally apply to The Neon Demon, a film driven by the same guilty pleasures that have long underpinned Refn's work, making him both the darling and bête noir of auteur arthouse cinema – the beauty and the beast.
Both were media darlings, both were leaders of multi-million dollar foundations.
No, it's not because they are both originally from Beirut, and not because they both styled darlings of the pageant world, but because there is an innate legacy in both their works that seems to stem from some common point of origin.
Both became darlings of the middle class and business community for their "can do" persona, but were labeled autocratic by critics.
Still, some of Brazilianfashion's most important names — Glória Coelho andReinaldo Lourenço, both current darlings of Vogue Brasil —are largely unfamiliar outside their country.
Directed and co-written by Alfonso Cuarón, the meticulous filmmaker behind "Children of Men" and "Y Tu Mamá También," both critical darlings, "Gravity" stars Ms. Bullock and George Clooney as astronauts adrift in space after surviving a shuttle mishap.
"Baaah you're all sheep," or "Huh, far more Samsungs are sold anyway!" Can't have it both ways, darlings … Apple has often innovated, but being first to the market is not the point or focus of the corporation: the iPod wasn't the first MP3 player, iPhones came late to multitasking.
Both Alistair Darling and George Osborne have toughened their rhetoric.
In 2014, both Alistair Darling and John Prescott broke cover to express their opposition to the project.
Both Dr. Darling-Hammond and Dr. Sahlberg said a turning point was a government decision in the 1970s to require all teachers to have master's degrees — and to pay for their acquisition.
