A 1-1 drat at Manchester City was followed by a draw at Hannover a few days later; the home victory over Real Madrid came only days after a loss against Schalke in the first Revierderby; while Tuesday night's comprehensive win over Shakhtar, putting the club into the quarterfinals, came after a bitter knock-out defeat against Munich in the DFB Pokal Cup the week before.
The film (which I discuss in this clip) is something of a cinematic manifesto, a depiction of the long apprenticeship, hard knocks, bitter rivalries, and personal agonies from which an artistic breakthrough is made.
By knocking the bitter down, the sweetness – "or other pleasant tastes, such as savoury," he adds – are released from their bitter shackles.
Ms. Myers said she went to work for "a bitter, over-the-hill publicist knocked up on pharmaceuticals".
A bitter tale of a hard-knock life by a narrator too clever by half, yet with a genuine reason to view the world askance.
In the other game in the pool Munster beat Racing Metro with a bonus point to secure second, knock defending champions and bitter rivals Leinster out of the competition and clinch a trip to top seeds Harlequins in the quarter-finals.
On a thundery night at the bitter end of referendum day I was knocking on doors on an estate close to my home.
Throughout the bitter cold of January, more than 80 volunteers knocked doors in the Brentano enrollment area and collected more than 1,000 signatures from residents asking to keep Brentano open and growing.
Mr. Kristofferson, sounding more rueful than bitter, said that the reception to "Heaven's Gate" knocked him off the Hollywood A-list for good.
Mourinho then drove Inter to the Champions League in 2010 – knocking out Guardiola, Ibrahimovic and Barcelona in a bitter semi-final.
Relegation to the Conference came at the end of a 51-game first season, in the next they were knocked out of the promotion play-offs by bitter Devon rivals Exeter City and lost an FA Trophy final at Wembley.
