By the time he wrote "De Profundis", Wilde's love for Douglas had turned into a sort of bitterness, and the tone of his long letter manages to capture that bitterness as well as the extraordinary attachment he felt for Douglas.
"It's not without complexity," Mr. Oliver said, "and it's an interesting, broad sort of bitterness, a British type of bitterness, which fits the sort of hops they used".
The White House brewers chose classic British hops, Kent Goldings and Fuggles, which yield a gentle, more generalized sort of bitterness than the sharper grapefruit and pine of American hops familiar in American craft beers.
"I could certainly make the case for looking at last year and having some sort of bitterness about the game, keeping me away from home at a time like that.
Mrs Palin dismisses such charges as "blood libel", arguing that they foster the sort of bitterness their proponents claim to oppose.Right-wing bloggers, for their part, have unearthed several instances where Democrats used equally violent language on the campaign trail.
"I don't say it out of any kind of bitterness or anger or anything like that.
Or any sort of stand, really.
What? "Any sort of disorder.
"No. 2, any sort of bluish light.
