Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary (originally published in 1906 as The Cynic's Word Book) is a volume of ironic, even bitter, definitions that has often been reprinted.
Paw Paw, a pure act of imagination, reveals, in its empathy, regret, tenderness, and confrontation with death, July's own grandeur, polyphony, mordant wit, metaphysical seriousness, and bitter wisdom — and her definition of art in those very terms.
In a bitter skirmish over the definition of depression, a new report contends that a proposed change to the diagnosis would characterize grieving as a disorder and greatly increase the number of people treated for it.
Doing such a thing in a small town in western Pennsylvania, which fits Barack Obama's definition of a "bitter town" almost perfectly, is unheard of.
But the most pertinent words in the above definition are probably "slightly bitter", because that's how people become if you get their tea wrong.
These are, almost by definition, marked by conflicting accounts, bitter allegations and at least one if not two unreasonable parties.
Obviously the Republican Party and its Tea Party surrogates have not learned the bitter lesson Clinton learned when he famously tried to parse the definition of "is" during the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
Subsequent disagreement between Sedgwick and Murchison over the definition and placement of the Cambrian-Silurian boundary led to a bitter controversy that involved many British geologists.
The couple - a genuine definition of a power-couple - were divided over an affair and the bitter recriminations that followed.
There is a growing definition of economic competitiveness that breaks away from the ancien regime that countries need to remain locked in a bitter, zero-sum struggle for resources and geopolitical gains.
