Sentence examples for bitter paradox from inspiring English sources

That bitter paradox is the subject of Leo Hurwitz's daring documentary, "Strange Victory," from 1948.

The bitter paradox, of course, is that job insecurity is not inevitable.

For those of Pashtun, Sindhi and Baluch ethnicity, independence from colonial rule created a bitter paradox.

Adding a bitter paradox is that the centrifuge technology was first developed by scientists working for the Third Reich's atomic bomb project.

Mr. Garrel's work projects a sweetness, an innocence, that makes it more superficially appealing than Pialat's violent outbursts or Eustache's taste for bitter paradox.

When the Holocaust survivor who narrates his latest novel declares at its outset, "The trains make me free," you know at once that you are in a surreal universe of ironic inversions and bitter paradox.

Now, in one of those bitter paradoxes of power in the Middle East, it has fallen to Mohammed Morsi, the recently elected president from the Muslim Brotherhood to clamp down on militants who claim Islamic legitimacy for their attacks.

The paradox is that all this is depoliticizing public debate, precisely as campaigns become more bitter and conflictual.

Admirably, Gordon lets her mother exist in paradox — a glamorous career woman in red lipstick and business suits and also a bitter alcoholic with a body afflicted by polio.

As an example of the paradoxes of Dvorak's American years, we might note that Huneker became a bitter opponent of the "New World" when critics like Krehbiel held it up as a model for the future of American music.

"Bitter, bitter," Lance said.