Word: bittersweet
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...laments, "You were never meant to be mine/ 'Cause I came up from a dark world/ And every love I've ever known is dead." At such moments, backed by Quine's corrosive electric guitar, Sweet takes sentiments that could have been morbid or sappy and renders them bracingly bittersweet...
...games of a people reveal a great deal about them," Marshall McLuhan is quoted as saying at the beginning of this book. At the end of Game Over, the head of Nintendo leads a successful effort to purchase the Seattle Mariners baseball team. It's symbolic in a bittersweet way; the game of the present has absorbed the game of the past...
...femaleness. And Orlando's 400-year life-span -- it's a wonderful device for looking at the melancholy of mortality. I was a child growing up under the shadow of a possible nuclear holocaust; now I see young people growing up under the shadow of aids. We have a bittersweet feeling of living in the moment, knowing that shortly that moment will be gone forever. Woolf says it is important to value the intensity of your life as it is lived just...
...women, though, the story is a little more bittersweet...
...last week Scott's closet door blew wide open in front of a Senate panel probing the legitimacy of the military ban on gays. For Scott, the feeling was bittersweet as Colonel Peck strove before the committee to reconcile his unwavering love for his homosexual son with his steadfast support of the ban. For the millions of viewers watching the televised hearing, the colonel's poignant struggle humanized a search for a compromise solution that has become shrill and riddled with stereotypes...