bittersweet

Example Sentences

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This potentially traumatic subplot is the closest “Renoir” gets to traditional suspense, but even here Hayakawa adopts a muted approach, sidestepping shock value for bittersweet commentary about young people’s confusion around love.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

Chances are you’ll be in good company there, with me and other musical daydreamers sharing the same sense of drifting into a bittersweet beyond.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

The production is said to be a "joyful, tender and bittersweet celebration of music, ambition and the courage it takes to be heard".

From BBC • May 13, 2026

A brownie that picks a lane and commits: dense and structured, deeply bittersweet and finished with a sharp hit of salt.

From Salon • Apr. 28, 2026

He enjoyed listening to Nately, whose maudlin, bittersweet lamentations mirrored much of his own romantic desolation and never failed to evoke in him resurgent tides of longing for his wife and children.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller