Sentence examples for bitter age from inspiring English sources

Gather round, friends, and savor a holiday fable for our bitter age.

A Kafkaesque literary thrust at the bitter, age-old struggle between power and freedom?

It is easy to picture Patrick Ewing as a bitter, aging ex-star who still wants the most shots, still wants to be the franchise player and still wants the glory.

"Neither disease nor bitter old age is mixed / in their sacred blood," the poet Pindar wrote of the Hyperboreans in the fifth century B.C. "Far from labor and battle they live".

The result: Differences simmer and then suddenly members end up bitter at age 60, he says.

The flesh becomes bitter with age.

But this isn't the story of an athlete who is washed up and bitter at an age when most are just getting a foothold on life.

He was 66. Six months later, on 26 August, Kate suffered another bereavement, less public, but just as bitter: at the age of 48, her mother, Mell, a book illustrator and Rothko's second wife, had dropped down dead as Kate's brother, Christopher, watched cartoons in the next room.

If Chuck were really an "old cranky uncle", he'd be rubbing old wounds and grouching about how things were better in his day but he describes himself as "a realist and an optimist", qualities that save musicians and activists alike from a bitter, disappointed middle age.

The flavor becomes bitter as they age.

Mr. Begley's bitter portrayal of aging is neither universal nor inevitable.