The phrase "bitter question" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English
It is typically used to describe a sharp or harsh question that evokes negative emotions. Example: The reporter asked a bitter question, causing the politician to become defensive and hostile.
It's a bitter question, and he doesn't offer an answer, but not many people working in movies would have the courage even to pose it.
They were told to ponder "What next?" — with just two weeks to research and apply to a new set of schools — even as the bitter question "Why?" still lingered.
Here, then, is a stark situation that may compel democracies to answer a bitter question that haunted most of the last century: How much business can good guys afford to do with bad guys?
So there was a palpable sense of relief here this weekend when Prime Minister Zhu Rongji of China soft-pedaled the bitter question of Japan's conquest of his country in the 1930's as he made the rounds of official banquets and meetings with business groups and ordinary Japanese.
Deindustrialization turned the upbeat declaration "We Are Family" into a bitter question.
The forgery became the object of widespread, and bitter, questions in Europe about the credibility of the United States.
The bitter questions can't be escaped: At what point is a prolific worker a kind of sucker?
In Italy, bitter questions were asked in Parliament about Italy's "humiliation," and the general disappointment and bitterness of the Italians caused eight deputies to ask for "a more dignified and moral reorganization in the most popular sport in Italy," noting that the results had "placed the Italian sporting world in a condition of extreme embarrassment abroad".
Those who, still enslaved, ask themselves these bitter questions grow frenzied in the asking, because those whom they envy have not only made their getaway but have left their work to be done by replacements, inexpert and themselves heartsick because they are not free to pass over to peace.
She notes she and François Hollande "are different", but had managed to find a compromise.Mr Hollande, for his part, is already looking forward to the next summit in November to decide the alway-bitter question of the EU's next seven-year budget.
But one of the bitterest questions of the day was whether the federal government could ban slavery in new American territories, such as Kansas and Nebraska.
