Many bear votive offerings: personalised M&Ms, Capri Suns, loom bands, love hearts.
Or they might walk past a looming Robert Indiana "LOVE" sculpture, made of Cor-Ten steel, that had been trucked in from Indianapolis to be saved from rust.
Rural people in his district may share Mr Goode's love of God and guns, but they don't love the looming recession, for which many blame Mr Bush.
The North Pole studio audience relocates to a beach for the water-warming; a wildly drawn, looming sun comments, "I love being a big star!" And Chef Kelvin isn't just some roly-poly Julia Child: he is both the cooker and the cooked.
He called Groupon "the fastest growing company in the world", said that Twitter is "changing the world", and was unable to say much more about Zynga (with its IPO looming) other than "I love it".
I love the looming synths and how completely crestfallen he sounds.
No one likes to talk about the looming death of a loved one, but asking beforehand avoids countless problems later.
We all have our totems and ways of exorcising the looming demons of past loves gone wrong.
Love looms large here too, songs like Supernatural (reworked and extended since the EP version) making like Anita Baker's Sweet Love, but reassembled on cloud nine by teleportation device.
When you try to write a novel, the books which you love loom over you.
