dearness
Example Sentences
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“The dearness of my father, and the outrageous pleasure of being with him when he was in good form?”
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 6, 2018
“Have I failed in fully representing the dearness and the pleasure?” she asked.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 6, 2018
“Have I failed in fully representing the dearness and the pleasure? The dearness of my father, and the outrageous pleasure of being with him when he was in good form?”
From New York Times ● Aug. 23, 2018
“Hitch-22” is among the loveliest paeans to the dearness of one’s friends — Mr. Hitchens’s close ones include Martin Amis, Salman Rushdie and the poet James Fenton — I’ve ever read.
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2010
To see of what it was made, to discover the dearness, to find the beauty, the desirability that had escaped me, but apparently only me.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
