More than any of the actors, Ms. Spearman appears natural as the exasperated caseworker who finally blurts out bitter commentary.
The resulting work, some 85 minutes long, is as much a bitter commentary on war as an impassioned prayer for the departed.
James returned to the finals last June with the Heat, only to lose to the Dallas Mavericks in six games — a series remembered mostly for James's tentativeness in fourth quarters and his bitter commentary on his critics afterward.
Instead he sits on his front porch chugging can after can of cheap beer in the company of his yellow Labrador, Daisy, watching the world at a safe distance with a squint and a stream of bitter commentary.
"Our parents are still asking us when this independence is going to be over," the narrator says mockingly in a recent satiric novel, "The Catapillas, Those Ungrateful Ones," by the Ivory Coast writer Venance Konan, a bitter commentary from a country racked by civil war and government misdeeds.
APRIL Bernard's first book of poetry, "Blackbird Bye Bye" (1989), introduced her considerable talent for cryptic, often bitter commentary on the frustrations and fascinations of youth and urban life; its fragmentary and self-conscious forms presaged those that other American poets would invent in the 1990's.
The fact that a report like this can be published without any kind of bitter commentary on the decline of paper books is telling.
That's precisely what happened in the long march to the Pennsylvania primary - Obama's mystique got penetrated in a number of negative ways, chief among them being his "bitter" commentary and the Reverend Wright fiasco.
In a bitter commentary published in 1947, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People NAACPP) magazine, The Crisis, highlighted the uphill struggle blacks faced in undertaking recreational travel: "Would a Negro like to pursue a little happiness at a theater, a beach, pool, hotel, restaurant, on a train, plane, or ship, a golf course, summer or winter resort?
Sam Jordison Buy this book at the Guardian bookshop Although he spent years working on this bitter social commentary, Mark Twain died before he could bring it to publication.
