Sentence examples for abrupt bitter from inspiring English sources

She wrote A History of England, from the Revolution to the present time, in a series of letters to the Reverend Doctor Wilson during this period, but the friendship came to an abrupt, bitter end with her second marriage to twenty-one year old William Graham in 1778.

The abrupt change from bitter to warm-and-fuzzy just doesn't compute.

Meanwhile, a separate meeting of Iraqi tribal leaders with a senior U.S. official came to an abrupt and apparently bitter end after the official acknowledged that the American presence in Iraq amounted to "an occupation". The tribal leaders had been pressing for the U.S. to clarify its intentions in Iraq.

That abrupt ending left a bitter taste for the last journalists standing.

Once praised as a visionary for building the AOL Internet service, he now faces a chorus of angry shareholders bitter about the abrupt downturn in AOL's performance, directors who want him to resign, company executives who doubt his authority and federal regulators investigating AOL's accounting.

"This is the worst scenario," Landry said of his abrupt dismissal, "but I'm not bitter".

In a city still bitter about Barry Sanders's abrupt retirement three years ago, Smith was booed when he was introduced.

Unlike Reginald Owen in the 1938 Hollywood version, who came across as a stock mean person and then later as an abrupt and still stock happy person, Sim was psychologically believable as the bitter miser.

While other historians have wanted to see an abrupt break between the clubbable satire of the 18th century and the new, bitter humour of the early 19th, Gatrell is keen to show that it wasn't as simple as that.

Many millions of viewers were shocked, and almost all taken aback by the abrupt realization of tragedy amid much-loved national television and after riotous laughter to that sudden and bitter end.

Their decisions brought an abrupt end to the primary season and set the stage for what promises to be a costly and bitter battle between Mr. Bush and Vice President Al Gore.