Sentence examples for bitter old pill from inspiring English sources

When people are driven to describe Desmond Drumm, they call this severely repressed lifelong Irish civil servant things like "a bitter old pill".

When people are driven to describe Desmond Drumm -- and he tends to drive them to do just that -- they call this severely repressed lifelong Irish civil servant things like "a bitter old pill".

Occupation: Singer, bitter old man.

The Royals' second-class status is a bitter pill for older fans who remember the team's glory days in the late 1970's and early to mid-1980's.

And, as she observes in a poem called "Bitter Pill": A bitter pill doesn't need to be swallowed to work.

That does not seem too bitter a pill to swallow.

"Failure is too bitter a pill to digest and people fear society's ostracization.

That means higher motivation, thanks to serving the bitter Math pill with a more sugary coating.

Those words are a bitter, bitter pill and even saying them is fraught with tears.

Locating a group of perfectly healthy 85-year-olds for a drug trial — people who have no "co-morbidities" (doctorspeak for other illnesses) that might confound the experiment — is tough, agrees Dr. John Sloan, a family physician in Vancouver, British Columbia, whose book "A Bitter Pill" criticizes the prevailing treatment of older patients.

This three-year-old documentary, flavored with optimism at the time, now seems another bitter pill.