Sentence examples similar to bitter proclamation from inspiring English sources
To the French, who believed the United States owed them allegiance on the basis of the two countries' alliance of 1778, the proclamation was a bitter disappointment.
14 Against Ariogaesus Marcus was so bitter that he issued a proclamation to the effect that anyone who brought him in alive should receive a thousand gold pieces, and anyone who slew him and exhibited his head, five hundred.
At the hook of "Guns and Horses," which arrived and departed like a speeding car, she was ecstatic, belting out a proclamation that sounded exultant but was actually far more bitter: "I wish I could feel it all for you/I wish I could be it all for you".
If Old Europe was bitter about the start of the war, it is bound to be bitter about that proclamation about how it will end -- because those in control of the power ministries will doubtless determine who gets the contracts to rebuild a shattered country, who will pump the oil and to whom Iraq will pay old debts.
("The Emancipation Proclamation has stirred things up considerable. Some of the boys are very bitter about it").
A proclamation is issued.
"Bitter, bitter," Lance said.
From bitter experience over Russian election meddling and military adventurism in recent years, Western officials have developed a deep distrust of the Kremlin's motives and its proclamations of good intentions.
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.
