We hear faint picture music, with one brief, bitter reference, in D Minor, to Moussorgsky.
It's a lengthy anecdote that includes an ever so slightly bitter reference to the Emmy nominations Leonard Nimoy received for the original "Star Trek".
Given the amount of lurid media speculation about the Knowles-Carter union, you could have reasonably expected Beyonce to step discreetly around the subject of what you might call Hova's legova, for fear of giving the gossip mags further fuel: perhaps a knowing allusion here and there, the odd bitter reference to the press intruding on her personal life.
Both candidates aggressively wooed party leaders and voters and both offered alternative solutions to national problems, but increasingly bitter personal references marred their campaigning.
In that hour, we were captivated by Mattias Hägglund, the bartender, with his hand-labeled bottles of liqueurs, tonics and bitters, his reference books and his passion for his craft.
Our study looked more closely at the effects of stimulus concentration for sweet, sour, salty, and bitter stimuli without reference to water.
Mr. Greenspan refrained from directly criticizing either the Bush administration or Congress, and he made no reference to the bitter battles under way in Congress over making President Bush's tax cuts permanent.
In a pair of large, murky charcoal drawings done in a way-out-of-date Socialist Realist style, two young women face off on a smoking battlefield, one carrying a Japanese flag, the other a Korean flag, in a reference to the bitter shared history of the two countries.
Mr. Maehara said that such military cooperation faced obstacles like Japan's pacifist Constitution, which limits the uses of its forces, and also the "feelings" in both countries, an apparent reference to the bitter emotions in South Korea over Japan's early-20th-century colonization.
It said the Chinese stance underlined the "strong resentment" felt by its public to drug traffickers, in part based on "the bitter memory of history" – a reference to the First and Second Opium Wars.
What began as a promising and non-controversial community project between the writer of Billy Elliot, Opera North and the people of Bridlington has become a bitter row over whether explicit references by a gay character to his sexuality can be included in a work that involves primary school children.
