Sentence examples for bittersweet knowledge from inspiring English sources

The audience watches the scene with the bittersweet knowledge of the woe to come.

And as much as Berlin wrote about love, his lyrics never plumbed the depths of angst and bittersweet knowledge expressed by Hart.

They also revealed the pride in finding out she had passed 11 GCSEs, tempered with the bittersweet knowledge she was not there to open her own results letter, nor wear the lilac dress she bought for the school prom.

The parents of this year's freshmen have just returned from dropping off their children at college and are now coming to terms with the shock of their absence, but also with the surreal, slightly bittersweet knowledge that it will be possible to clean their bedrooms for the first time in years and open their windows to let in something resembling fresh air.

I look at "Alcatraz" and I see a show that recalls the early days of another product of Abrams' TV factory -- this new Fox drama is a little like "Fringe," before it rejected bombast in favor of bittersweet knowledge, before it allowed itself to get weird and emotional and truly ambitious.

His anticipation of the days activities is bittersweet, tempered by the knowledge that this will be the last time he will greet graduates and guests as president of MIT.

Her single-mindedness could be both scary and admirable, and watching Amy, her friend Tyler Mike Whitee) and ex-husband Levi (Luke Wilson) grope toward new aspirations and scattered glimmerings of self-knowledge was by turns funny, bittersweet and profound.

This knowledge of an ending makes each mission somewhat bittersweet for those involved, Major Behnken said in an interview.

Once, we were relaxed about chocolate, secure in the knowledge that it came only as milk (for us), bittersweet (for deranged Europeans) or unsweetened (for bakers).

Marked by methodological sophistication, extraordinary evidence, and deep knowledge of Rwanda, this is an authoritative, nuanced, and bittersweet account of one of the most important experiments in transitional justice after mass violence.

But it is also bittersweet, undercut by the present-day closure of public libraries, and the grim knowledge that reading, and writing, may only serve in "passing time that passes anyway".