Today, this is a city brought more sharply into focus because of the bitter events of the past two weeks.
Obviously no US-based Ryder Cup is likely to pass without Brookline resonating, even though 17 years have implausibly flown by since the bitter events that changed the nature of the contest forever.
Moreover, the direction of the actors Desplechin's justifiable claim to fame throughout his career here falls to an indulgence in puppyish halcyon tones that sinks even bitter events in sweetness and never pushes his obviously gifted and poised young performers into any engaging or energizing personal connection to the text, the action, or the characters' inner lives.
The scale of the mortality and the form which it took persuaded those who lived, weeping and lamenting, through the bitter events of 1346 to 1348 the Chinese, Indians, Persians, Medes, Kurds, Armenians, Cilicians, Georgians, Mesopotamians, Nubians, Ethiopians, Turks, Egyptians, Arabs, Saracens and Greeks (for almost all the East has been affected)—that the last judgement had come.
At the end of the war, after years of hard fighting, not only against the Germans but also the Turks, men of the West Indies Regiment were transferred to a British army base in Taranto, Italy, where one of the bitterest events of the war would occur - a mutiny.
There are demonstrations and scuffles every day and people feel very bitter about events in Kiev.
In the media, Iraq generated words as bitter as any event in modern American history.
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who considers himself a binding figure between Sunnis and Shiites, called the event "bitter and sad," and blamed foreign intelligence agencies for the destruction of the shrine.
Before extending too much generosity, consider the fact that such arrangements are more likely to make you bitter in the event of a breakup and to leave you vulnerable to your partner's poor financial choices.
