Sentence examples for bitter reflection from inspiring English sources
That was a bitter reflection".
Do her words imply a bitter reflection on the ways of the world, a wry acceptance of the "cultural realities" which seem to put France embarrassingly high up the international league tables for corruption, or are they just scorn for the protestations of the guilty?Doubtless all of the above.
In addition to treating feminist issues, de Beauvoir was concerned with the issue of aging, which she addressed in Une Mort très douce (1964; A Very Easy Death), on her mother's death in a hospital, and in La Vieillesse (1970; Old Age), a bitter reflection on society's indifference to the elderly.
All have concerns of their own, even possibly bitter reflections, as in the case of Cassatt's Portrait of Miss Mary Ellison (c1880).
As Kerry McCarthy's excellent note suggests, the composers responded with "unfailing creativity", from the sustained grief of Robert White's Lamentations to the bitter reflections of betrayal in Byrd's Civitas sancti tui.
It is in her groans over another up-and-down affair with a woman, in a mother's pride in her son's precocity, and in her continued, bitter reflections on marriage: "The thought of going back to my old life — it hardly even seems like a dilemma anymore.
The chart shown here is singled out for special mention: it "inspires bitter reflections on the cost to humanity of the madnesses of conquerors and the merciless thirst of military glory".The chart to the left is the earliest of our three.
"Mubarak after all was just a symbol, and we knew that the regime was much bigger and had not yet fallen but needed to (and still needs to)." The news prompted bitter reflections about the state of the Arab world two-and-a-half years after the uprisings in Egypt, Syria, Tunisia and Yemen.
Thus the bitter-sweet reflection of a presidential candidate who ends up being forced to withdraw from the race in Gore Vidal's 1960 play, "The Best Man".
Little wonder, then, that Welles's follow-up to "Citizen Kane," the piercingly nostalgic "Magnificent Ambersons," went home empty-handed; this was not a moment for bitter self-reflection.
