| We have an epistolary crisis in this country — a shortfall in valedictions, or sign-offs. |
| I uttered my valedictions, and made my way out of there very, very quickly. |
| The obituary, like elegiac poetry, is therefore life-enhancing even as valedictions are being made to the dead. |
| Ghost Dance is a book redolent of death and mortality, of eulogies and valedictions. |
| Probably the best valedictions are those that take everyone unawares. |
| The new works held their own against Mahler's monumental valedictions. |
