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  • noun Plural form of darling.

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Examples

  • Tis the season for all of the critical darlings from the Sundance Film Festival to invade cinemas, with BIG FAN being the latest one to surface.

    Flixnjoystix.com! » This Week@The Movies: HALLOWEEN II, BIG FAN, & More! A Quick Look At This Weekend’s Cinematic Offerings! 2009

  • HE: I just checked and the “out” file where I put all my murdered darlings is 234 pages long.

    Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Hallie Ephron, part one 2009

  • But what was clear to me long before I had these little darlings is that once you have them, um, you have them.

    Babies Having Babies | The Stiletto Gang The Stiletto Gang 2008

  • Sons whose parents had impoverished themselves by paying the fine for non-appearance for military duty, in order to save their darlings from the inevitable sins of violated Judaism while in the service, sent home portraits of themselves with their faces shaved, and the grieved old fathers and mothers, after offering up special prayers for the renegades, and giving charity in their name, exhibited the significant portraits on their parlor tables.

    The Promised Land 1912

  • The action leaps off the page, supported by characters so well-drawn you fall in love with them, but in the hands of an author not afraid to kill off her darlings, which is a heart-pounding combination!

    Another review of Stormlord Rising Glenda Larke 2010

  • The action leaps off the page, supported by characters so well-drawn you fall in love with them, but in the hands of an author not afraid to kill off her darlings, which is a heart-pounding combination!

    Archive 2010-05-01 Glenda Larke 2010

  • While two of the three animated categories are huge commercial successes, the best-picture race is a mix of big commercial hits and smaller critical darlings, which is what academy organizers wanted when they expanded the competition to 10 films.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2011

  • While two of the three animated categories are huge commercial successes, the best-picture race is a mix of big commercial hits and smaller critical darlings, which is what academy organizers wanted when they expanded the competition to 10 films.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2011

  • While two of the three animated categories are huge commercial successes, the best-picture race is a mix of big commercial hits and smaller critical darlings, which is what academy organizers wanted when they expanded the competition to 10 films.

    chron.com Chronicle 2011

  • While two of the three animated categories are huge commercial successes, the best-picture race is a mix of big commercial hits and smaller critical darlings, which is what academy organizers wanted when they expanded the competition to 10 films.

    The Seattle Times 2011

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