Yvonne Vera is a Zimbabwean writer in her late thirties, whose previous work has confronted the bitter hardships of her countrywomen, embroiled by the political and judicial turmoil of the past sixty years.
He passed through the cities of many people and learned how they thought, and he suffered many bitter hardships upon the high seas as he tried to save his own life and bring his companions back to their home.
Some of the most powerful pieces in Chinese literature, like the Tang Dynasty Ballad of the Army Carts by the eighth-century poet Du Fu, tell of the bitter hardships of lonely soldiers sent to garrison military settlements far to the west of China proper.
Ukrainians have been forced to endure so many bitter hardships in the last century.
Domestic violence, bitter hardships, and mental illness were the leading factors in their decisions.
For Syrian refugees in the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, winter has brought bitter new hardship and at least one death.
According to Nickson, Carey chose to express her innermost feelings in her songs rather than becoming depressed and bitter throughout the hardships in her life.
The stakes are high for 65 million Turks, who are eager to shed bitter months of economic hardship, and for the United States, which needs a compliant and stable ally as a base for any military operation against Iraq.
On the Seder plate the bitter herbs, representing the hardships of slavery, consist of celery, romaine or other bitter lettuces dipped in vinegar.
Dating back to her early work with directors like Otto Preminger (1975's "Rosebud"), Jean-Luc Godard (1980's "Every Man for Himself" and 1982's "Passion") and Curtis Hanson (1987's "The Bedroom Window"), Huppert has gravitated toward weathered characters whose bitter eyes indicate lifetimes of hardship, often at the hands of men.
"We have seen from the bitter lessons of history that economic hardship can prove fertile terrain for a politics of division and hatred to take hold.
