First, the cold friction of expiring sense Without enchantment, offering no promise But bitter tastelessness of shadow fruit As body and soul begin to fall asunder.
Rumour reaches me of a bitter exchange between the Shadow Leader of the House, Angela Eagle and Messrs Hague and Gove.
Yesterday's announcement concluded a bitter ordeal that had shadowed Mr. Giuliani's second term, forcing him to confront allegations of infidelity from Ms. Hanover, who remained at Gracie Mansion while he moved out of the mayoral residence and stayed at a friend's apartment.
But he's best at his bitterest; maybe the shadows suit him better than the spotlight.
An older man, hatless in the bitter cold, stood in the shadow of an abandoned schoolhouse's steps.
Theroux seemed to say as much in a response to Ian Buruma's N.Y.R.B. review of Patrick French's "The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul," which touched on the spat, in 2009: Mr. Buruma calls my book Sir Vidia's Shadow a "rather bitter memoir".
Although Saddler won three of those four vicious showdowns, he could never quite escape Pep's shadow, remaining particularly bitter about the fact that his old rival continued to be hailed as an all-time great while he himself was relatively forgotten.
The Cards' assets-Albert Pujols, Chris Carpenter, Jim Edmonds, and Scott Rolen-are genuine blue chips, yet these Cards were shadowed by a bitter loss to the Astros in last year's championship.
As the early morning sun threw long shadows and a bitter wind whipped grains of sand across the beach, the three men stood up driftwood branches and hung bottles at the twig-ends like surreal blossoms.
Physically broken but mentally resolute, Glass struggles against bitter winter conditions and is shadowed by a band of Arikara, Native Americans indigenous to the Great Plains region.
