Everything that Indians hold dear, including the importance of family life, the pre-eminence of men and contempt for strong unmarried women, appears to collapse when they judge their politicians.
In our case, we want to know where the nominee stands on critical constitutional protections that the majority of Americans hold dear, including the right to reproductive privacy and decision making.
Goucher's president, Jose Antonio Bowen, said he and that school's trustees met Wednesday and "unanimously decided that Cosby's admitted actions are in direct violation of values Goucher holds dear, including our community principles of respect, communication, and responsibility".
At the same time, he is bitterly ironic about what his, and his entire milieu's, easygoing happiness rested on: the ignorance of the coming storm, of the hatred and cruelty that lay just below the surface and would lead to mass murder and to the destruction of much that he held dear, including his humanistic optimism.
Miss Steloff rushing about in an Indian print dress, Miss Sitwell wearing a gold turban that looked like a tiara from the front, Marianne in one of her large black numbers (& me in what M. referred to as a nominal hat), hordes of people, everyone, my dear, including Auden and Spender, whom I'd never seen before.
It upended my notions of truth, happiness, obedience, loyalty, and in fact all that I held dear, including my perception of the character of God.
Those who hold her dear include her daughter Karen Asnin Whitby, of whom she was forever proud, her cherished son-in-law Paul Whitby, and her loving niece Nancy Fisher.
The self-defining characteristics that Americans hold dear include their racial and cultural heritage, the language they speak and their choice of worship.
Just ask the more than half of young Egyptian women who experience sexual harassment on city streets, or the third of Tunisian women who have been abused by their nearest and dearest — including sexual violence — over the past year, or the women who are on the receiving end of rape as a weapon of mass destruction in the Syrian civil war.
She embodies the hip-hop maxim that there's no point in coming to Britain for one gig if you don't bring along 38 of your nearest and dearest, including 20 dancers, a DJ and a hypeman (a co-MC, whose bellows were eclipsed by Missy's).
So Ms. Knauer, the 35-year-old owner of TempTrends, a staffing agency in Manhattan, invited her nearest and dearest — including her mother and future mother-in-law — for a night out at the TriBeCa MedSpa, replete with mimosas and cupcakes.
