What's the difference between bittersweet and waxwork?
Bittersweet
Definition:
(a.) Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful.
(n.) Anything which is bittersweet.
(n.) A kind of apple so called.
(n.) A climbing shrub, with oval coral-red berries (Solanum dulcamara); woody nightshade. The whole plant is poisonous, and has a taste at first sweetish and then bitter. The branches are the officinal dulcamara.
(n.) An American woody climber (Celastrus scandens), whose yellow capsules open late in autumn, and disclose the red aril which covers the seeds; -- also called Roxbury waxwork.
Example Sentences:
(1) For the embattled people of Ali Akbar Dial, a collection of disappearing villages on the southern tip of the island in Bangladesh , the distant trees serve as a bittersweet reminder of what they have lost and a warning of what is come.
(2) The revolt represents a bittersweet victory for Tsipras, who now has to rely on “pro-European” opposition parties to push policies through parliament.
(3) The song is that musical embodiment of bittersweet chemical comedown when you still feel divine but your heart skips a beat and you don't always quite catch your breath."
(4) It’s been a bittersweet week for NHS providers – the hospital, mental health, ambulance and community NHS trusts and foundation trusts who treat a million patients every 36 hours and are the backbone of our national health service.
(5) Emma's work is also showcased in the shop until the end of May in Sad Stefano and Friends (pictured), an exhibition that promises to capture the bittersweet complexities and confusion of childhood.
(6) She said the prospect of stricter gun control laws was bittersweet.
(7) This time, they held out but there were some hairy moments after Wayne Rooney’s sending off and it was a bittersweet occasion for the man Louis van Gaal had entrusted to be his captain.
(8) Winter stem fluid from the bittersweet nightshade, Solanum dulcamara L., also showed the recrystallization inhibition activity characteristic of the animal thermal hysteresis proteins (THPs), suggesting a possible function for the THPs in this freeze tolerant species.
(9) "Unless we move to adopt a new economic model, the recovery will prove unsustainable and bittersweet for those who do not benefit from it before it is extinguished."
(10) After Liverpool announced the previous day that their captain would be leaving for MLS , Rodgers’ feelings about the source of the rescue act must have been bittersweet: could it not have been someone, anyone, else?
(11) And that could be crucial.” It seems that the particular bittersweet combination of nostalgic memory is vital to such effects.
(12) He drinks and dances and talks his way through a couple of days in the city, arriving at a moment of bittersweet joy as he watches his younger sister ride the carousel in Central Park.
(13) In a bittersweet farewell, Gabrielle Giffords , the US congresswoman recovering from a gunshot wound to the head, accepted chocolates and a big presidential hug as she claimed her seat one last time in the House of Representatives during Barack Obama's state of the union address.
(14) There is another a bittersweet angle to the story: the relationship between Ramphele and the DA's current leader, Helen Zille, who is giving up the presidential candidacy, dates back to the death of Ramphele's former partner, the Black Consciousness activist Steve Biko.
(15) These memories are associated with a characteristic affective coloration described as "bittersweet".
(16) Two months later, many of the students who pushed for the change say the decision is bittersweet.
(17) It's pretty much perfect: the story of a love that can never happen, between a failing Dublin songwriter and a Czech immigrant, it has that Brief Encounter bittersweet ache to it.
(18) Everyone else has written about her, so it’s a chance to give her version.” Obama’s favourite word in recent months has been “bittersweet” as she cycles through the calendar of events for the last time.
(19) She added: "I can only imagine how bittersweet her freedom must be for her, leaving Shane and Josh behind."
(20) And in a bittersweet twist of political fate this quiet revolt by the people of the East End may yet lock Ed Miliband out of 10 Downing Street.
Waxwork
Definition:
(n.) Work made of wax; especially, a figure or figures formed or partly of wax, in imitation of real beings.
(n.) An American climbing shrub (Celastrus scandens). It bears a profusion of yellow berrylike pods, which open in the autumn, and display the scarlet coverings of the seeds.
Example Sentences:
(1) The ubiquity of Madame Tussauds, found everywhere from Bangkok to Berlin, may reflect the globalisation of Hollywood but each city gets the waxworks it deserves.
(2) "Audrey Hepburn was so beautiful in real life that her waxwork didn't do her justice, whereas Charles and Camilla were very good," reckons Moira Carrasco from Surrey, who is visiting with her daughter and granddaughter.
(3) It concerned the handover of Hong Kong, and in it he described the Chinese Communist leadership as "appalling old waxworks" and railed against Tony Blair and his coterie of advisers.
(4) Sterling was so starstruck when he first saw Steven Gerrard at Liverpool he remembers it being like looking at a waxwork model.
(5) Recreating the exact facial features of public figures of the day can be a task fraught with problems for the waxwork artists of Madame Tussauds.
(6) Matthew Parris called him a " living waxwork "; Suzanne Moore a " zombie gurning ... less popular than pig flu "; and Richard Littlejohn wrote, " If Gordon was a dog, he'd be put down. "
(7) At Madame Tussauds in London, a waxwork of George Bernard Shaw had just been unveiled.
(8) Tussaud inherited Curtius's models and her travelling exhibition of waxworks became the touring newspaper of the day, providing vivid impressions of contemporary events, particularly the revolution, in a time before photographs.
(9) In a memo about the handover ceremony, Prince Charles described the Communist party’s elderly leaders as a “group of appalling old waxworks” and mocked the “awful Soviet-style display” of goose-stepping Chinese soldiers at the event.
(10) He added: "After my speech the president detached himself from the group of appalling old waxworks who accompanied him and took his place at the lectern.
(11) I saw someone,” he said, “and it didn’t dawn on me for a few seconds that that person was a waxwork.
(12) Tussauds has always been 3D and its waxworks are now thoroughly, irreverently interactive.
(13) According to Edwards, every unwanted waxwork is archived in a warehouse in Acton, west London – a fabulously creepy place that is off limits to the media.
(14) They moved to Paris and she created figures for a waxwork exhibition, narrowly escaped the guillotine in the French Revolution, and ended up making death masks of guillotine victims.
(15) Prince Charles’s 1997 diaries on the handover of Hong Kong to the Chinese (title: “The Handover of Hong Kong or The Great Chinese Takeaway”) revealed that Prince Charles viewed officials as “appalling old waxworks” and labelled one Chinese handover ceremony an “awful Soviet-style” performance.
(16) On the day I have a child , these are the principles I will pass on.” 2015: Launches a new line of Cristiano Ronaldo underpants, buys a second waxwork of himself for his home, and unveils his new signature scent “Cristiano Ronaldo Legacy” at a PR event, backed by “an army of models in gold gowns”.
(17) The comings and goings of celebrity waxworks deliciously mirror the fickle wax and wane of fame.
(18) "Madame Tussaud believed she provided entertainment, artistic enlightenment, historical education and a place of pilgrimage," writes Pamela Pilbeam, author of Madame Tussaud and the History of Waxworks.
(19) Modern trends may be working in Madame Tussauds' favour: as celebrities turn ever more plasticky with their botox and botched surgery, so the waxworks look ever more real.
(20) Exciting but somewhat illogical whole-room pieces like rows of praying burqas made from silver foil, and the waxworks of world leaders in motorised wheelchairs in his basement.