Sentence examples for bittersweet symphony from inspiring English sources

The music was from Björk, John Barry and the Verve's "Bittersweet Symphony".

Cue the bittersweet symphony – for the third time, the Verve have broken up.

Knowing Bittersweet Symphony would become a monster record, the Verve had to cave, in the process eating a massive loss.

The album cut is a sweeping, kitschy, string-section fantasia; its opening sounds like the Verve's "Bittersweet Symphony".

Pulp's "Common People" has been named the top Britpop anthem in a recent poll, beating classics such as "Wonderwall" by Oasis and "Bittersweet Symphony" by The Verve.

The single "Bittersweet Symphony" became ubiquitous, and its title turned out to be far more prophetic than the group's front man, Richard Ashcroft, could have imagined.

As a former Black Panther whose bittersweet symphonies with Chic exuded bourgeois sophistication, Rodgers knows all about music whose shiny surfaces conceal darker truths about society.

The ultimate mallrat, bittersweet teenage symphony".

To the unbearably bittersweet strains of the adagietto from Mahler's 5th symphony, Aschenbach sees the beautiful Polish boy, Tadzio, get beaten up by an older boy, before he himself is carried off in a Wagnerian liebestod.

The concerts that the New York Youth Symphony is presenting at Carnegie Hall this season are bittersweet affairs: each brings closer the impending departure of Paul Haas, the group's dynamic young music director, who will step down in May.

Mr. Galante's arrangement of the Adagio from Mahler's 10th Symphony, for 21 players, ably preserved, and in some instances amplified, the bittersweet caprice and agonizing pangs of its source.