The word 'Bittersweet' is correct and commonly used in written English.
It is often used to describe something that is both pleasant and painful or a mixture of both positive and negative emotions. Example: "Winning the championship was a bittersweet moment for the team, as it marked the end of their journey together."
Nostalgia was bittersweet in Roddy Doyle's The Guts (Jonathan Cape), which caught up with the music-mad hero of The Commitments, weighed down by illness and middle age, while Elizabeth Jane Howard, now 90, added a final volume, All Change (Mantle), to her upper-class family saga the Cazalet chronicles – still comfort reading supreme.
In this entrancing bittersweet mix of comedy and poignancy, Axel shifts from past to present and between voiceover narrative and dialogue with considerable skill.
Better than its Britcommy veneer suggests is Love, Rosie (Lionsgate, 15); another reworking of When Harry Met Sally's "just friends" quandary, it surprises not with its cutesy story, but with punchy visual stylings and the bittersweet connection forged by lovely leads Lily Collins and Sam Claflin.
Above the rattle of a small boy dragging a Mickey Mouse train toy along the floor and another artlessly playing a xylophone, Cecilia explained that the reunion would be joyful but bittersweet because one of the family would not be there.
And in a bittersweet twist of political fate this quiet revolt by the people of the East End may yet lock Ed Miliband out of 10 Downing Street.
For most migrants, the boat moment is bittersweet.
Still, there's a bittersweet aftertaste to Bachmann's announcement for Democrats at the national level.
Heartburn by Nora Ephron (224 pages): the director and screenwriter based this bittersweet novel on the breakdown of her marriage to Washington Post journalist Carl Bernstein.
John Lennon (1970) Recommended by: Paul Landon and Gary Hunter We start on a bittersweet note or, as reader Gary Hunter says, with a "harrowing, brilliant song".
Jada may have gained revenge, but I can imagine how bittersweet it must feel.
A victory against Phil Brown's Southend would be welcome but bittersweet.
