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This article is about the phrase. For the film, see Terms of Endearment. For other uses, see Terms of Endearment (disambiguation). A term of endearment is a word or phrase used to address or describe a person, animal or inanimate object for which the speaker feels love or affection. Terms of endearment are used for a variety of reasons, such as parents addressing their children and lovers ...
Terms of Endearment is a 1983 American family tragicomedy [3] film directed, written, and produced by James L. Brooks, adapted from Larry McMurtry's 1975 novel of the same name.
The giggling children, who responded in English, called her "auntie." ... but this gesture—which she made into a yearly event— was a brilliant way to endear herself to Luxembourg citizens ...
The poem incorporates a complex reliance on assonance, which is found in very few English poems. Within "Ode on a Grecian Urn", an example of this pattern can be found in line 13 ("Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd") where the "e" of "sensual" connects with the "e" of "endear'd" and the "ea" of "ear" connects with the "ea" of "endear'd".
The preface to their joint production quotes a letter that Moore wrote to Stevenson about the need for it to set the record straight on the Irish origin of many melodies that had come to be associated with "our English neighbours". Toward that end, Moore devised lyrics to replace British ones such as "My Lodging is on the Cold Ground".
Chara is an English feminine given name that is a diminutive form of Charlotte as well as an alternate form of Cara and Kara from the Latin cārus meaning “darling, beloved, dear, loved one”. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Chara is also a Spanish feminine given name as an alternate form for Sarah . [ 3 ]
Oi / ɔɪ / is an interjection used in various varieties of the English language, particularly Australian English, British English, Indian English, Irish English, New Zealand English, and South African English, as well as non-English languages such as Chinese, Tagalog, Tamil, Hindi/Urdu, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, and Portuguese to get the attention of another person or to express surprise ...
Since "BC" is the English abbreviation for Before Christ, it is sometimes incorrectly concluded that AD means After Death (i.e., after the death of Jesus), which would mean that the approximately 33 years commonly associated with the life of Jesus would be included in neither the BC nor the AD time scales.