What is "bittersweetness"

Usage examples of "bittersweetness".

The bittersweetness of this possession without possession prevented me from accepting any further invitations from Kasgoolik during their visit.

The cones crackled and spat, drops of crystallized resin flaring up into little flames, giving off the bittersweetness of burning incense into the black night.

In a great white house standing on a hill with a wilderness of grounds, with an old retainer out of a picture book, with a Whistler's mother, with a romantic bittersweetness tied to a gravestone symbol.

White Haven sat back in his chair, surprised, then smiled slowly, and Honor tasted the many levels of bittersweetness inside him.

There was still that thread of bittersweetness, that descant of sorrowful regret for all Emily had lost, but there was also a sense of intense.

There was still that thread of bittersweetness, that descant of sorrowful regret for all Emily had lost, but there was also a sense of intense .

There was a soft almost-twinkle in them, a sort of gentle teasing he almost grasped laid over a bittersweetness he couldn't begin to fathom.