Sentence examples for a rather bitter from inspiring English sources
There are some lovely "la la la"s although one suspects they are being used to sugar a rather bitter pill.
9.40pm: Amidst the excitement of the appointment of a new prime minister, a rather bitter war of words has broken out between Labour and the Liberal Democrats.
Theroux seemed to say as much in a response to Ian Buruma's N.Y.R.B. review of Patrick French's "The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul," which touched on the spat, in 2009: Mr. Buruma calls my book Sir Vidia's Shadow a "rather bitter memoir".
It's not just because the suitor is Icahn who has already left a rather bitter aftertaste with Time Warner's chief executive, Richard Parsons Richard Parsons –but because hostile takeovers are as familiar to South Korea as American Idol is to its reclusive northern neighbors.
I did, however, find it a rather bitter experience to discover that, right up to the end, the Council was not willing to be persuaded of the indispensability of measures aimed at making our roads safer and dealing with social dumping.
You're a whore,' and a lot of rather bitter poems came out".
My least favorite dish was kitfo, a very spicy, rather bitter version of steak tartare (available cooked, as well as raw).
His outlines and statement are clear, even if details sometimes get lost in the wash, and the whole performance is radiant with a beauty that is incongruous in much of this rather bitter, martial opera (except for the final extended chorus, a joyful, Beethovenesque paean to peace).
Sophie Grigson's recipe has a familiar tang of bicarb which seems rather bitter and soapy beside the sweetness of the flatter Leiths scones.
He accepted that he was never going to get anywhere with her romantically, though in his later years, he did become rather bitter about the lack of a closer relationship.
Bitters are a very concentrated form of liqueur (yet they don't taste sweet, but rather bitter as their name suggests) used in small amounts (a few dashes is all you need) in drinks and cocktails.
