Her friend downed his Chattanooga Choo-Choo (sour mash, maple syrup, barbecue bitters, whiskey-smoked oak-barrel sugar) and scrolled through his phone to read the President-elect's latest social-media missives.
A bitter smell of smoke permeated the building.
And the best of Mr. Young's guitar playing on Monday was similarly unaccepting: stubborn, bitter, mysterious, like smoke still rising off ancient damages.
Its harsh smoke, bitter taste and relatively short-term effects -- it lasts about an hour -- also keep it from being truly user-friendly, he said.
In the barracks they spoke of "flowers," of "rain": excrement, thick turd-braids, and the slow stinking maroon waterfall that slunk down from the upper bunks, the stink mixed with a bitter fatty floating smoke that greased Rosa's skin.
Tens of thousands of Palestinians carrying the black, yellow, green or red flags of different factions accompanied Sheik Yassin's wooden coffin through streets bitter with the smoke of burning tires and echoing with commemorative gunfire.
The air is bitter with sawdust and smoke.
Gone are the characters that peppered Same Trailer – such as the brilliantly bitter waitresses of Blowin' Smoke – in favour of more sweeping statements, such as the self-explanatory "Can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em" stance of Family is Family, and This Town.
Bullets split trees in half, and a bitter-tasting fog of smoke drifted over the mountainside.
The tidbits that suggested privilege stoked the outrage of the men at the coffee shop as they smoked cheap, bitter tobacco and sipped sweet tea.
