Word: bittersweetness
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...attacks "assume[d] our faith rests on what we can buy and build," she wrote in the hours after Sept. 11, but "that has never been America's true God." Last week the Society of Professional Journalists recognized Gibbs with its award for best magazine writing. It was a bittersweet moment for all who worked on the piece, but we are proud of her achievement...
...world that my friends with normal--or, as we call them, typically developing--kids live in until recently. Two and a half years ago, my husband and I adopted our second child, Joey. And as he has grown to be a toddler, every milestone he has reached has been bittersweet--a celebration but also a painful reminder of all the milestones our 8-year-old son Nate has never reached...
...guess it’s an honor to have something like that happen,” Crockett said about the strikeout record, “but it’s kind of bittersweet to have it happen when you lose a game that has the potential to affect the season...
...getting a lot out of it, but like any other exec I was exhausted by the long nights, the constant lack of sleep, the stress and energy it took to keep the paper running. In December I was almost counting down the days we had left; January was bittersweet...
...said Ozernoy was a “true product of the Soviet education system”—bright, innovative and industrious. Shapiro noted that Ozernoy’s move to America was “bittersweet.” Although Ozernoy badly wanted it, his emigration foreshadowed the ultimate disintegration of Russia as a great center of astrophysics—a fall that came about with the end of the Soviet Union...