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- noun The state or condition of being
bittersweet .
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Myrrh - adding a hint of bittersweetness, which is very important in a gardenia.
Archive 2008-04-01 Ayala Sender 2008
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Myrrh - adding a hint of bittersweetness, which is very important in a gardenia.
GiGi: Grand Gardenia Sans the Drama Ayala Sender 2008
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Obviously there's relief that the semester is over, but also a kind of bittersweetness that I'm not going to see my friends here for nearly a month.
Pajiba 2009
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There's also the bittersweetness of experiencing time passing and the impermanence of our lives.
Rachael Freed: Legacy Writing: The Urge To Preserve Rachael Freed 2011
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The poems are stark and beautiful, by turns quizzical and whimsical and grave, so the music strives to echo those qualities, as well as some of the bittersweetness of discovering a new love while parting with another....
Daniel J. Kushner: Ecstatic Music Festival Interview #5: Sarah Kirkland Snider and Rob Moose Daniel J. Kushner 2011
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When I asked her why, she expressed a certain bittersweetness in learning about this all these years later.
Bruce Kluger: Has America Lost That Loving Feeling? Bruce Kluger 2011
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When I asked her why, she expressed a certain bittersweetness in learning about this all these years later.
Bruce Kluger: Has America Lost That Loving Feeling? Bruce Kluger 2011
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There's also the bittersweetness of experiencing time passing and the impermanence of our lives.
Rachael Freed: Legacy Writing: The Urge To Preserve Rachael Freed 2011
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"The Naked Soul of Sweet Jones" is thick with the unapologetic rhymes that made the Port Arthur, Tex. native a Southern rap superhero, but its Pimp's supple falsetto that truly amplifies this posthumous album's bittersweetness.
Really quick spins: Gucci Mane, Lil Boosie, Lil Wayne, Pimp C, Waka Flocka Flame Chris Richards 2010
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The poems are stark and beautiful, by turns quizzical and whimsical and grave, so the music strives to echo those qualities, as well as some of the bittersweetness of discovering a new love while parting with another....
Daniel J. Kushner: Ecstatic Music Festival Interview #5: Sarah Kirkland Snider and Rob Moose Daniel J. Kushner 2011
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