"We have a lot of songs that are very dear to us that we've written over the years," the bassist Tom Hamilton told The A.P. "And we can feel it when it's the perfect time to whip them out.
Things that are very dear to your heart, and that you feel very protective over... then it's disheartening when the initial reaction is horror.
"A lot of the issues along the border with the Central American immigrant children are things that are very dear to my heart because [citizenship] was something that was so unattainable," Gómez said.
The Little Rascals hit us all in a way that is very dear to our hearts".
It really felt to me like this was something that was very dear to your heart.
"There comes a point in a musician's life when you must assess the musical value of something that's very dear to you," she said.
ISRAEL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA The Bernstein festival continues at Carnegie Hall, with a young conductor widely hailed as his successor — Gustavo Dudamel — leading a group that was very dear to the maestro's heart.
It wasn't really a question of whether this would happen as of just how many cape-wearing professors there would be, and so I drew on a quality — a resource, a tool — that is very dear to me, and, I'd venture to say, very dear to most people who write reviews: arrogance.
As many Yahoo properties continue to stumble (or worse), one that remains very dear to my heart is Flickr, the massive photo-sharing service.
It's something that's very dear to me for a few reasons, namely because it's almost impossible to get my kids to leave the house for a walk if I tell them we're going to the park but far easier if I tell them we'll get a cookie on the way back.
