valentine
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Analysts say the rest of the strategy often reads like a valentine rather than a sober national security communique.
From Salon ● May 19, 2026
Instead, a good 50% of the tracks retreat to safer ground - slowly strummed songs of devotion, packed with valentine card sentiments.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2025
Like the letter itself, the score is part valentine, part elegy—and John put his heart into it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2025
Eli Roth’s holiday slasher began as a fake trailer, sandwiched between Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s segments of the 2007 exploitation movie valentine “Grindhouse.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2024
I didn’t expect anything, but if I had, I would have expected he’d send me a funny valentine.
From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia
Feb. 14 was just a few days away, so the first action Rickman and other students took was delivering hundreds of valentines to the governor, expressing their support for university employees.
From Slate ● Feb. 19, 2025
Americans do spend a lot on their valentines.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2024
These valentines were not of the handmade or heartfelt variety, but rather bought in bulk from CVS, from the red-cellophane aisle, on the shelf next to the seasonal Whitman’s Samplers and conversation hearts.
From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2024
Its tone is admiring — as the series title implies, “American Masters” documentaries tend to be valentines, and there are more supporters than critics onscreen here.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2023
He had us decorate little mailboxes for our Valentine’s Day party and then we exchanged valentines like we were in kindergarten.
From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy
