The phrase "bitter grief" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is an idiom that is used to refer to intense feelings of sorrow. Example sentence: She was overwhelmed with a feeling of bitter grief when she heard the news of her brother's death.
The state news agency reported this week that mourners in Pyongyang "sobbed with bitter grief" when they came upon posters of Mr. Kim pictured in his "cherished field jacket".
The torments of Dante's damned - in the event, more a trigger to the action of Inferno than a regular sound-track to its twists - will have nothing on their bitter grief.
Edward's loss "was a bitter grief to [the Black Prince and Joan of Kent]" and only increased the severity of the Black Prince's illness.
Her character is work-obsessed, bitter, grief-haunted – not Miss Congeniality, that's for sure – and gives her a great shot at a second Oscar, after The Blind Side.
Your spouse likely feels a range of negative emotions right now—hurt, angry, bitter, grief-stricken, depressed and you should expect him or her to make remarks that reflect those emotions.
He told himself that Angie was bitter, cruel with grief, demented by the breakup.
Many shouted their grief, frustration and bitter outrage.
Barnes said Victor's death left her grief-stricken and bitter.
The dead hate like, bitter when the living with too-small grief replace them.
When I show this criterion to parents who have lost a child, they react with bitter amusement at the idea that normal grief is so quickly considered pathological.
Then in May, when Mr. Giuliani announced before television cameras that his marriage was over, The Post's front page featured an image of Mr. Giuliani's wife, Donna Hanover, looking grief stricken, under the headline "Bitter Tears".
