Despite his disappointment over the Court's positions on some issues, Minton remained popular among his colleagues on the Court as he didn't take sides in their personal disagreements; he proved a soothing presence during a period marked by bitter personal feuds between strong personalities such as William O. Douglas and Felix Frankfurter.
Bitter personal experience.
There were issues in the campaign, but they were often overshadowed by the powerful personalities involved and the bitter, almost personal tone of the battle as the primary neared.
His descriptions of life as a young man in the crazy, cutthroat world of Venetian theater, with all of its magnificent, oversize personalities, bitter rivalries and profound triumphs, make this one of the great theatrical memoirs ever, and probably one of the most inviting descriptions of 18th-century life that anyone has written.
Gramps still had the remnant of a folksy, plain-spoken charm, but the dominant note in his personality was a bitter contempt for humanity in general and me specifically.
From the start, Dench's voiceover uncovers her real personality: she's bitter, lonely and vindictive, and especially self-deluding, seeing herself at one time as "nurse, beloved friend and wise counsel" when "vengeful leech" might be more appropriate.
And then, suddenly, it disappeared; it dwindled away in a flash, its leaders forming rival and shrinking personality cults, locked in bitter internal struggles, until the party had desiccated into a gang of obsessive hobbyists.
What she didn't love or like was how her mother's negativity had so completely taken over her personality and reduced her to a bitter, angry shell of a person.
He also derided the writing, claiming it "employs depression as a substitute for personality, and believes that if characters are bitter and morose enough, we won't notice how dull they are".
