Word: bittersweetly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...more explicit than in the later film, and the screenplay is full of quotations from classic radical thinkers. But the most significant difference between the two films is in the conception of the central characters. Charles is a tried, contemplative figure whose personal protest is tainted with a bittersweet futility. By the time of La Salamandre, a more optimistic Tanner sees hope residing in the largely unconscious vitality of Rosemonde...
...crafting his policies and killing his opponents as a stalling device, knowing that once he had failed, there would be nothing remaining for him in the world. Remembering Kissinger, with his fierce hatred of ideology and revolution, it is easy to imagine the final irony: future historians recording the bittersweet saga of a brilliant man who fought the progress of history and sanctioned the murder of innocents to preserve the obsolete ideals so precious...
...Sullivan. Mills admits that O'Sullivan has terrible diction, little rapport with women, and has never set foot on a stage. Despite all that, Gilbert O'Sullivan currently has the No. 1 hit single in the U.S. with Alone Again (Naturally). Last week the effusively bittersweet ballad was making the biggest sweep of Top 40 radio stations since the Beatles' salad days...
Though last week's Chinatown bust was motion-picture perfect, to U.S. narcotics experts it was another bittersweet element in an increasingly frustrating, not to say disastrous
...lover. He likes to take the boy on picnics, but he also likes to keep other women on the side. Coretta wants the security that this black man cannot give her, and Nate wants the freedom that the white world will not allow him. They are caught in the bittersweet toils of their love, and Richard Wesley has written a tender, sad and compassionate play that is utterly and luminously honest. T.E. Kalem