Yet there is something bittersweet in his affection and such subtle intelligence in his melodies and harmonies that Eisler's nostalgia never turns treacly.
But the couple's love affair with the house has a bittersweet coda: despite their affection for it, they have decided that their extended family, now including nine grandchildren, visit too rarely.
Largely out of fashion now, Kenta Maeno nonetheless dives headfirst into the genre, recreating with the utmost sincerity and affection the bittersweet melodrama, with both his vocals and the music itself shifting in and out of its own rhythmical constraints.
There is no controversy in "Mad Women," only affection for Garland and bittersweet recollections of Mr. Fleck's past.
Fired by zesty performances that crackle and burn with energy, Tangerine is a bittersweet affair underpinned by a winning sense of empathy and affection.
Such on-air expressions of affection — often for convicted murderers, robbers and gang leaders — can be bittersweet.
As Alexei Ratmansky's fascinating, poetic, enigmatic and bittersweet new "Shostakovich Trilogy" proceeds, it includes overlapping expressions of ebullience, struggle, heroism, community, affection, wit, brilliance and inspiration — but also of fear, vigilance, alarm, apprehension and grief.
It's a bittersweet experience — the love he feels for her is still genuine and it's still there, but his affection is mixed with the ache of longing and the sting of loss.
Ms. Baker's distinctively bittersweet sounds of silence are echoing throughout the Boston Center for the Arts, where three of her works are being performed, with considerable skill and affection, by three different troupes: "Circle Mirror Transformation" (by the Huntington Theater Company), "Body Awareness" (by the SpeakEasy Stage Company) and "The Aliens" (by Company One).
