Word: bittersweet
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MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM'S LAST book wasn't supposed to be the next big thing. The Hours was an audacious, challenging, bittersweet literary novel arranged as an elegant theme-and-variations on Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, and Cunningham expected it to end up in the dustbin of quiet critical acclaim, just as his first three books had. Instead, The Hours won a Pulitzer Prize, and Nicole Kidman, playing Woolf, won an Oscar for the movie version...
...home where I didn't have anyone to race," she says. Of course there were homegrown successes too. Back home in Warsaw, Poland's Otylia Jedrzejczak - who doubled her country's all-time pool haul by taking medals in three events - trains with men. The meet was a bittersweet finale for some fine athletes: eight-time relay gold medalist Jenny Thompson of the U.S., who failed to win the solo gold that has eluded her; Inge de Bruijn of the Netherlands, who won a gold, a silver and a bronze but couldn't match her triple gold from Sydney...
Balestracci recorded eight tackles and nimbly slipped through the Yale offensive line in the Crimson’s 37-19 victory to end a disappointing season on a bittersweet note...
...like that, it made everything that much better,” Chiampa said. “But it also made it a little more bittersweet. It just makes you want to keep playing...
...through the machines, the gritty smell of oil and ink, the way your heart beats faster and faster to match the pounding of the presses—but watching the production of a paper into which you’ve poured your heart and soul fills one with a bittersweet combination of pride and nostalgia that is difficult to put into words...