Her note had summoned up the whole evening, and he answered in a bittersweet mood that was more bitter than sweet.

Mr. Karas repeats the image of a street saxophonist in sunglasses throughout the text, setting a bittersweet mood almost as effectively as if you could actually hear his instrument.

His mysteriously oblique narrative paintings are well made and imbued with a bittersweet mood, but the blotchy, childlike style looks too much like that of Donald Baechler (Johnson).

"We're two bad guys who did good," said Mr. Wikberg, who at 49 years of age was departing Angola in the most bittersweet mood imaginable.

The father-son strife is powerfully conveyed in calm, sorrowful performances that establish the movie's bittersweet mood.

There was a bittersweet mood among some of Mr. Dukakis's supporters as they watched him hit his stride over the last few weeks.

With their alternately muted and acrid colors, they project enigmatic narratives and exude mysterious, bittersweet moods.

Before the last peg reached home and the last at-bat was statistically put to rest, a bittersweet mood lapped at the bleachers.

All of this generates a certain narrative intrigue and a bittersweet mood.

In a more bittersweet mood, the Russian offers razbliuto, ros-blee-OO-toe, "a feeling a person has for someone he or she once loved but no longer feels the same way about."