Sentence examples for bitter discontent from inspiring English sources

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Most of all, however, he had bronca, the word used repeatedly in Diego Maradona's autobiography to refer to "anger, fury, hatred, resentment, bitter discontent... [it was] his motivator, his fuel, his driving force".

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She seemed bitter and discontent with the way things worked out.

Significant, but less than half the movement's peak of 13.2 million in 1979, the year of the bitter Winter of Discontent and Margaret Thatcher's rise to power.

The hosts went into the match having lost their last seven league games, picking up just one point from a possible 30, and were seemingly heading into a bitter winter of discontent.

Nor will it offer specific advice to any of the movements with which it is in touch, ranging from Palestinian discontents to bitter exiles from Belarus.

Union unrest, induced by rapidly increasing prices, made the late 1970s a period of almost endless industrial conflict, culminating at the end of 1978 in the "Winter of Discontent," a series of bitter disputes, which the government seemed unable to control and which angered the voters.

But since Mr. Schulz's death seven years ago — in fact even while he was alive — the image of him as an unhappy, lonely and bitter man who drew deeply on his discontent to create his comic strips has gained ground.

Of the few remaining countercurrents of discontent, some take the form of bitter irony.

A circle of sorts is closed: Two decades ago, Iran's tidal wave of protest, a revolution of a thousand discontents, saw Jimmy Carter off into a bitter political end.

Readings of Richard's famous opening speech, "Now is the winter of our discontent," convinced Mr. Eyre that it was less a hunchback's bitter complaint against nature than an army officer's lament over the coming of peace.

One of the more obvious reasons for DeGale's discontent is the fact that Warren has also signed George Groves, a bitter rival from their amateur days who deprived the then unbeaten Olympic champion of his British super-middleweight title on a controversial points decision 15 months ago.

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