Strong and deeply polarized emotions -- anger, bitter indignation and stunned disbelief on one side, and expressions of relief and vindication on the other -- rippled across the metropolitan area last night as politicians, community leaders and ordinary New Yorkers reacted swiftly to the acquittal of four white police officers in the killing of an unarmed black immigrant, Amadou Diallo.
"If you want to know why people all over this country are anger, bitter, disenchanted with government… they are asking why it is the people on top who are doing fantastically well, and yet their standard of living is going down".
BAGHDAD Iraqis on Friday reacted with disbelief, anger and bitter resignation to news that criminal charges in the United States had been dismissed against Blackwater security guards who opened fire on unarmed Iraqi civilians in 2007 in a fusillade that left 17 dead.
The reality of their existence is to provide the means of expression for some old, resentful hostilities, and when the two sides meet again tomorrow, for the seventh and final time this season, the wonder is how the two sides will endure all the tension, the anger, the bitter indignation, and even the angst, of the occasion.
To older fears about loss of sovereignty, mass immigration and (more recently) the rise of Islam have been added an equally potent anger about bitter austerity, rampant unemployment and inequality – a cocktail that means contemporary Euroscepticism is alive across the political spectrum.
People who have been harmed by others have a right feel anger, to feel bitter.
But the case has laid bare a bitter anger across the racial divide He was a seminal influence on punk, a ferociously funny performance poet.
Her convent is badly shaken when the prioress, rather than offering her daughter nuns an example of acceptance in the face of mortality, dies with delirium, bitter anger and abject fear.
By talking only of the Polish Catholics who had died there, they hoped that the Poles might focus any anger at their bitter fate entirely against Germany and not against the Soviet Union.
Some of the worshipers expressed bitter anger that the national security forces had been unable to protect them and said that they believed the Sadr militia, which has largely been disbanded in recent years as the Sadrists emphasized their identity as a political and social movement, should be allowed once again to patrol.
When Achilles, in the Iliad, learns that his best friend, Patroclus, has been killed, Homer compares him to a lion who's realized that a hunter has taken his cubs: "Coming back too late, he grieves, and following the track of the man, he goes out and searches the mountains to find him, for a bitter anger has seized him".
