bittersweet
Example Sentences
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For some daughters, the night marked the first time they’d danced with their father, a bittersweet reminder of lost birthdays, prom-nights and graduations.
From Salon
When you combine those types of experiences with loss and sorrow and the knowledge of what didn’t happen or what could have happened, then it makes revisiting this time bittersweet.
From Los Angeles Times
But Chandler’s proof, and realization, that he will make a great father feels bittersweet, given Perry’s death two years ago, as does his line “I guess I’ll be the one who dies first.”
From Los Angeles Times
The mix of clear-eyed realism with a dreamer’s optimism might be Brooks’ ultimate trick, the bedrock of his mixed-up style of sincere, bittersweet and funny: comedies with a heavy heart.
From Los Angeles Times
So it was bittersweet to this fiercely ambitious author that writing fame arrived with “The Snow Leopard,” his 1978 chronicle of a two-month trek to the Tibetan Plateau of the Himalayas.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
