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For dear means beloved, affectionate, precious, and the like; but the exclamation Oh! dear! is one that denotes something very different, something that is lamentable or calamitous, and very far from being pleasant.
In 1557 the 14-year-old boy-king Sebastião ascended the throne, the beginning of a calamitous reign that was to end at the battle of Alcacer-Quiber (Morocco) in pursuit of a vain crusade.
Press, contends that it was Schulz's "calamitous artistic misjudgment" that allowed Snoopy and cuteness to overwhelm the "left-field" magic that characterized the early strip.
In London, the Times, which has opposed Pinochet's arrest, criticized the British government for rejecting "the best way of settling this calamitous affair, allowing General Pinochet to fly home on Chile's waiting jet" and, instead, permitting the court decision in his favor to go to appeal.
An unscientific mind, noting the tendency of relief aid to gravitate toward electorally rich states, might even conclude that the gods of mayhem conspire with incumbents to provide calamitous occasions for the demonstration of political compassion.