| Of course, as well as penning billets-doux to gifted actors, he can also be marvellously tactless about those who don't impress him. |
| As she seems easily fooled, why not send yourself sheaves of valentines and other billets-doux? |
| And so he returns to the paparazzi and the predictable billets-doux slipped under the door by self-justifying journalists who have hypocrisy tattooed on their foreheads. |
| Contrary to what Bridget Jones's Diary suggests, e-mail has proved an equally unreliable medium for billets-doux. |
| The billets-doux Petraeus sent to his paramour-cum-biographer on an unencrypted Gmail account! |
