darling

“Dead Outlaw,” a critics’ darling when it premiered last year at Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre, may be the only musical to make the disposition of a body an occasion for singing and dancing.

A letter written in 1945 by a woman addressed to her "darling" in the RAF has been found in a military uniform bought in a charity shop.

Such moves announce the writers’ ruthlessness when it comes to their heroes, selling the looming possibility that no one is safe in their show, not even the audience’s darlings.

For decades, the eighty-year-old Wilkinson has been a darling of the conservative legal movement.

In December 1927, it cautioned young women "to become a good cook before you marry, darling. Then you will be competent to rebuke a staff of domestics or to dispense with one".