Sentence examples for bitter observation from inspiring English sources

But as the film shows, Rooney's bitter observation about fathers and sons also works in reverse: fathers are eternal mysteries put on the earth to trouble their sons as well as teach them.

I second that bitter observation and would prefer that our governments not pretend that Emwazi's alleged death is a "strike at the heart of Isis", as UK prime minister David Cameron boasted in his own statement today, but a move that might play well on TV but will do little to damage the men who killed my friend.

Actually, even in this version the no-nukes angle makes minimal impact, notwithstanding Galileo's bitter observation, in the penultimate scene, that "this age of ours turned out to be a whore, spattered with blood," which might easily stand for Brecht's comments on the first half of the century he was living in.

She took this surprisingly well, contenting herself with the bitter observation that if Jasper Johns had a fire, he could check into a five-star hotel and hire slaves to clean up the damage.

Bitter observations on the last dozen years by a novelist and a child of American conservatism whose recent career has been a running disenchantment with the "permanent political class," the professionals who manage policy and those who report on it.

And in her show, which interspersed pithy light verses (some consisting of only two rhymed couplets) with songs, she suggested a Beat Generation version of Dorothy Parker, wrapping the bitterest observations in sunny nursery rhymes.

The type material was noted by Murrill to taste bitter, an observation later corroborated by Pouzar with European collections.

Drake's lyrics occasionally ring with a certain positivity, but mostly they are filled with a kind of dark sadness, and bitter, resignedly cold observations.

The slightly angular eyebrows, the slit eyes and the lips pressed into a bitter spout strongly suggest careful observation from life.

These observations indicated that ability to bitter taste might be largely determined by the number of functional genes.

There is some irony in that observation, but it is not harsh or bitter.