bittersweetness

The waters mixed, and a strange bittersweetness crossed his tongue.

It gives a demonstrative bittersweetness to a likable but small story.

"No." Her throat felt tight and she could almost see and taste the bittersweetness of that morning.

There are cherries in it, but the peel and ground almond give it a bittersweetness.

Part of it is publishers' sensing a millennium-ending bittersweetness about the past as we speed toward the eventual.

White Haven sat back in his chair, surprised, then smiled slowly, and Honor tasted the many levels of bittersweetness inside him.

The group portraits of miners have their own bittersweetness, a trace of innocent hope and trust that things will turn out well for them.

Mr. Keillor's weekly stories weave a theology of human limitation and bittersweetness at time's passing.

Shot when Kertesz accompanied a friend to visit a young woman in a sanitarium, it is an epiphany of piercing bittersweetness.

There's certainly more bittersweetness and melancholy here than in, say, "Buck Wild Doonesbury," but only as a matter of degree.

He managed to turn away without waving, but he felt a sense of bittersweetness as he began walking again, something he hadn't thought of before.

There was a soft almost-twinkle in them, a sort of gentle teasing he almost grasped laid over a bittersweetness he couldn't begin to fathom.

"There's a bittersweetness because you wonder about what will happen," said Moni Begley, the Garden's senior vice president of public relations.

The tone can be described as being saturated with feeling and sublime in its bittersweetness - demonstrated in this quote from the end of the novel:

The perfectly controlled tone of the performances is one of subdued farce with the faintest undercurrent of bittersweetness.

Karr had complimented Hannah on its bittersweetness, its lingering fragrance, but the ch'a had been the least of his delights.

Until the brutal ending, the comic bittersweetness of "Holiday Heart" suggests a latter-day "Taste of Honey."

And so I am with him here one last time even if I am alone, and I linger to savor the bittersweetness of it."

"Morning Work Train," with a naked black woman standing alone in her home as a train pulls in outside her door, has the bittersweetness of the blues.

Taking its cue from Mediterranean fish stews, this one is seasoned with the bittersweetness of orange peel and the hint of licorice from fennel seeds.

Perhaps Alvin Klein has become so accustomed to contemporary writers that he cannot fathom the bittersweetness and poignancy of "Rappaccini's Daughter."

A touching exercise in bittersweetness, this museum-quality show implies that the best American painter to fall under Mondrian's spell may actually have been a sculptor manque.

Blade, who could take his music or leave it, admitted that the thing had a certain haunting bittersweetness about it and that, once heard, you would never forget it.

He avoids cleaning up and instead procrastinates by playing songs that reflect the night before, the bittersweetness of new year, and the melancholy of a year gone by".

"Carmelites" - with its martyred nuns and guillotines - would seem beyond his bittersweetness, but there is always enough acid to Poulenc's musical mind to cleanse tragedy of the sentimental.