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Note the admiration for Cohen and the chanting musicality of this passage (beautifully translated by Giovanni Pontiero), the echoes and variations circling around a bittersweet theme.
And the LAT lead editorial sees the development as a "bittersweet victory for the president."
The second is dvandva , a Sanskrit redundant compound of dva + dva pair, couple, which is used to describe compounds in which the elements are linked as if joined by a copula, as in prince-consort, attorney-general, postmaster-general (n. + n.), bittersweet (adj. + adj.).
This "bittersweet" British "working-class comedy" (Kevin Thomas, the Los Angeles Times ) about out-of-work, out-of-shape steelworkers turned male strippers earns praise for its politics and humor.
Deadly nightshade and woody nightshade , the narcotic plants commonly known as belladonna and bittersweet, have their origins in Old English nihtscada, niht night and scada shade.