Word: bittersweet
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Even for a bank president or an adman, there is a kind of bittersweet and earthy sense of participating in the past when he hikes up his ol' guitar, puts one leg up on a chair, tunes up his face to consecrated mournfulness and sings...
GARY: WEST SIDE STORY continues to be the best in town these days. All the bittersweet flavor of the Broadway play has been faithfully preserved. Leonard Bernstein's superb score and Jerome Robbins' choreography more than make up for occasional bad acting in this version of Romeo and Juilet in gangland...
Loss of Innocence. The mood and melodrama of bittersweet 16 are evoked with irony and charm in this British adaptation of Rumer Godden's thriller of sensibility, The Greengage Summer...
Loss of Innocence. The mood and melodrama of bittersweet 16 are evoked with irony and charm in this British adaptation of Rumer Godden's thriller of sensibility, The Greengage Summer...
...bare on the screen the inmost, intimate mystery of maturation. Too often the view is obscured by the arabesques of an intricate and suspensefully entertaining plot, but often enough the onlooker is left quietly alone with Actress York, who at 22 can still quite easily pass for bittersweet 16. who with marvelous urgency seems to writhe and swell and blush and suffer and ripen and resolve into physical and spiritual womanhood before the spectator's eyes. It is a heart-shaking thing...