poor little dears, how glad they will be to come.

Ah, where are the old dears who smelled of lavender and gave small altar boys stripy mints they couldn't crunch!

Canadian indie pop kids The Dears often get compared to The Smiths (fair enough) and Broken Social Scene (not so sure about that one).

The Dears are winning the fans over, one at a time, with their constant touring.

No other system of writing Dears upon its face so clearly the history of its development as the Egyptian; yet even in this a vast amount of work is still required ~o detect, and disentangle the details.