Thus the bitter-sweet reflection of a presidential candidate who ends up being forced to withdraw from the race in Gore Vidal's 1960 play, "The Best Man".
What could be sweeter than the reflection of a wedding party on the bluff and an old man taking this in and feeling happy?
"If a male could rescue me the situation seemed outwardly almost normal, as though I were simply a weak female, not a sick person," she writes in her first book, "Sweet Invisible Body: Reflections on a Life With Diabetes" (Henry Holt & Company).
In our sitting room, the scent of sweet peas and water reflections playing on the ceiling.
Her unique tunings and distinctively sweet vibrato adorned melancholy reflections on nature -- both human and environmental.
And he transformed the standards "Lucky to Be Me," "Glad to Be Unhappy" and "Autumn in New York" into deeply personal reflections, his sweet falsetto distilling the yearning and uncertainty in that great Vernon Duke meditation on fall.
My sweet, sweet, sweetness.
This year's shortlist contained a number of high-profile books: Kate Bassett's biography of Jonathan Miller, In Two Minds; Michael Pennington's personal reflection on Shakespeare, Sweet William and Simon Calloww's Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World.
I liked to watch her from the mattress, the sweet, blank way she studied her reflection with the directionless gaze of a portrait.
Comparisons with Sandy Denny and Nick Drake tend to be odious and misplaced – but this reflection on the unexpectedly sweet pain of ageing and its affects on all our relationships has a phenomenal, breathtaking grace.
The group's first album, "Pentangle," was released in 1968, followed by "Sweet Child," "Basket of Light," "Cruel Sister," "Reflection" and "Solomon's Seal".
