The customer never books again -- and that's the problem that plagued Homejoy, the cleaning services marketplace startup that was, for a while, a Silicon Valley darling before it said Friday it was shutting down.
They are much too sanguine, I would add, about the costs of a break-up of the euro (one Tory MP yesterday called for the disorderly break-up of the euro, while John Redwood, a darling of the right and former cabinet minister, today urges an orderly break-up of the currency as soon as possible).
By the late '80s she was having seasons in big theaters like City Center and Sadler's Wells in London, while she became a darling of the French.
True, he's a toned-down version — no Ayn Rand, please, we're British — but other aspects of package are there in full force: he's articulate, has a vision that's completely at odds with everything we actually know about macroeconomics, and he was for a while the darling not just of the right but of self-proclaimed centrists on both sides of the Atlantic.
While Miller is a darling of progressive activists, including grassroots fundraising groups like the Progressive Campaign Change Committee and Democracy for America, a group founded by Howard Dean, his fundraising has been crimped ever since his bank reform efforts began gathering momentum.
And while Nest is currently a darling of the financial and tech world, my bet is that this brand has challenges with millennials.
But while goji berries may be a darling of the health food world today, not everyone knows exactly how to use them.
Happily, too, the new production has an outstanding Lulu in the Canadian soprano Barbara Hannigan, whose spot-on accuracy and pure, bell-like tone have made her a darling of contemporary composers while also qualifying her for Handel and Mozart.
I smiled gently, ever the most understanding mother, smiling as if my child was just simply having a darling moment for conversation while all the wafting, swaying mothers were looking at me worriedly now, bobbing and weaving all around me, faster and faster they spun.
Apple is a darling of Wall Street, while Nokia's fortunes have only recently began to see an uplift.
