That, and its bittersweet quality.

That simplicity was deceptive, though: the music Ms. Charles wove around it had a bittersweet quality that recalled late Beethoven.

The thing about Hitchhiker's is the wonderful bittersweet quality he gets in.

But whether at the beach, in the city or in the country, the sense of summer's coming to an end has an inevitable, bittersweet quality.

Mrs. Schulz managed to get over the guilt, which is probably what her husband - as a master of life's bittersweet qualities - would have wanted.

Toward the end of the hour, after the equations and graphs, there came a bittersweet quality.

Mahler grieved for himself, hence the bittersweet quality, the mingling of happy fantasy and despair.

On the recording, the deeper, bittersweet qualities of this chipper early-1960's-style revue seep to the surface.

As a not so light comedy and a perverse romance, it can also disturb, stimulate and transmit a bittersweet quality, a sense of unattainable fulfillment.

Performed for the first time this season on Friday, "Divertimento" contains especially inventive choreography for the male lead that captures the bittersweet quality of the ballet.