(1) When Tod, a dedicated if misfiring womaniser, talks to his latest inamorata, the exchanges have no sensible direction: "you could run them any way you liked – and still get no further forward".
Valentine
Definition:
(n.) A sweetheart chosen on St. Valentine's Day.
(n.) A letter containing professions of love, or a missive of a sentimental, comic, or burlesque character, sent on St. Valentine's Day.
Example Sentences:
(1) A lysogenic conversion by a group A phage to production of Panton-Valentine leucocidin and by a group F phage to staphylokinase production could be demonstrated.
(2) A modified form of the model of Valentine and Allison (Biochim.
(3) "I think on a college application you shouldn't even be able to print what your ethnicity is," Kaitlin Valentine, a biology major.
(4) Calling London … Prince and 3RDEYEGIRL at Shepherd's Bush Empire Fresh from his Valentine's night double-header of shows at King's Place, beneath the Guardian's offices in north London, Prince has announced his Sunday night appearance at Koko in Camden Town will take the form of three separate gigs.
(5) Iain Valentine, the zoo's director of giant pandas, said: "The annual panda breeding season is imminent and the next 24 hours are critical.
(6) The structure determined here for Amb a V is topologically similar to the structure determined previously for the homologous allergenic protein Amb t V [Metzler, W. J., Valentine, K., Roebber, M., Friedrichs, M. S., Marsh, D., & Mueller, L. (1992) Biochemistry 31, 5117-5127]; however, significant differences exist in the packing of side chains in the hydrophobic core of the molecules.
(7) The role of antagonistic muscles is clearly showed by Bouvier in 1851 on the level of the metacarpo-phalangeal joints and by Valentin and Tubiana in 1962 on the level of the proximal interphalangeal joints.
(8) The single most depressing thing one could say about a baseball franchise, of course, would be that they hired Bobby Valentine as their new manager, which is just what the Red Sox said after the worst September collapse in their history.
(9) It was Valentine's Day the other day and I had enough in to buy flowers for the missus.
(10) Those being scrutinised include Diack’s son, Papa Massata Diack, who resigned as a marketing executive after being accused of involvement in corruption aimed at covering up doping scandals in Russia, and Valentin Balakhnichev, a former IAAF treasurer who left his post as president of the Russian athletics federation after similar allegations were made against him.
(11) Is it all down to pitcher-whisperer Farrell or a return to norm after a wasted years Valentining?
(12) For those who argue that we should not judge the values of the past by those of the present,” Cornwell told the Guardian, “one could, and should, object that it’s important to learn the lessons of history.” To Native Americans like Valentin Lopez, the chairman of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band based in Sacramento, those lessons are not complicated.
(13) joined with AME to send 3,000 roses to federal politicians on Valentines Day and hosted a dinner for three same-sex couples with then prime minister Julia Gillard, hoping to persuade her to change her stance.
(14) Valentin Brylev, 65, a Ukrainian Cossack, said that Donetsk is not divided.
(15) It's a Valentine's Day present – perfect for our new place.
(16) Accordingly a number of valentines, which had been sent this year to country postmasters, at a distance from the place where they were written, with a request that they might be posted at those remote offices, have been sent to the Dead-letter office , and thence to the parties for whom they were destined, accompanied with a statement showing where the valentines were written, and the means that had been taken to elude detection.
(17) On Valentine's day ( V-Day ) Together for Girls hosted a Twitter chat asking for innovative tactics that can end violence against women and children.
(18) In a move that will be seen as part of a Russian attempt to limit the damage, its National Olympic Committee asked former Russian track federation president Valentin Balakhnichev to resign from its executive board.
(19) There is going to be a huge call on ensuring that those who do business in Sierra Leone pay their fair share of taxes so that Sierra Leone stands a chance of rebuilding its systems,” said Valentin.
(20) On Valentine’s Day, the Twitter account of Kellyanne Conway, one of the president’s most prominent surrogates, shared a tweet from a self-described “white identity” “nationalist” account attacking liberals, noting: “Love you back!” Conway later said that she had not been the one to share the tweet.