All that is more dear and optimistic and '70s to me than Donna Summer or feathered haircuts.
Mr. Mohamed, the religious scholar, justified it this way: "Our prophet is more dear to us than our family and our nation".
"Dear trader, dear industrial worker," the notices said, "proclaim loud in the face of the tyrant that one drop of blood from a Syrian father is more dear to you than evanescent money.
Nothing is more dear to a finance company, especially one with a heavy hand in the subprime market, than its access to credit, something Countrywide Financial and others are finding out all too painfully.
I know, because my three sisters are more dear to me than I could have possibly imagined when I was young.
Were it not a very daring thing to say, I would like to add that to a true lover, the halting confession of his beloved is more dear than the most beautiful poem.
And as nothing is more dear to us than the loving conservation of our subjects' hearts, what an undeserved doubt might we have incurred if the abusers of our liberality, the thrallers of our people, the wringers of the poor, had not been told us!
The format was more narrative device than "Dear Abby"; Ms. Ackerman at times wrote the questions along with the answers.
Dear Grace, Sid was more than a friend, he was family.
One hundred and twenty pages, my dear wife explained, was more like a "booklet" than a book and did I really want to be known as a writer of booklets?
