Sentence examples for it dearie from inspiring English sources
"Don't ever admit it, dearie," said the girl.
Sorry, but as Mae West observed, goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.
In West's first line on film, after a hat check girl remarks "Goodness, what beautiful diamonds", West replies, "Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie".
Bang's technique here doesn't depart much from the technique of her previous work — she favors orderly free verse stanzas animated by conspicuous enjambment ("November is more of the usual / November"), clots of assonance and alliteration ("The knife never dulls, / Does it, Dearie, / on the blade side") and peculiar syntactic units ("How very gone / The nothing after").
In contrast, in Minnelli's Brigadoon (1954), she was the lovely Scots lass "waiting for my dearie" who comes in the shape of American tourist Kelly, romancing her as they dance through the Heather On The Hill.
The thousands of letters Burra wrote to his close friends, now archived at the Tate, may bounce along in high camp style – men are routinely referred to as "she", and everyone is "dearie" – but it remains essentially a textual performance.
Oh, and Shambles needs to learn what the word think means, and how to do it, because, to paraphrase The Prophet Mae West, "Dearie, thinking had nothing to do with it".
Federal prosecutors argued against unsealing the plea agreement, according to a memorandum by Dearie last week, saying that it would alert targets to "the scope and nature of the government's evidence" and that making Blazer's cooperation public could "jeopardize his safety".
Dearie's last recorded single, "It's All Right to Be Afraid," was an homage to the survivors and victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
The last record Ms. Dearie recorded was a single, "It's All Right to Be Afraid," a comforting ballad dedicated to the victims and survivors of 9/11.
The songs date from all periods of a career remarkable for its longevity and for Ms. Dearie's stubborn independence and sly wit.
