Sentence examples for bitter task from inspiring English sources

Writing those checks will be a bitter task.

After 18 bitter months, a House task force upheld Ms. Sanchez's victory.

I had parboiled them, but, even then, rubbing off their papery brown skin (the merest scrap will turn the sauce bitter) is a monstrous task that also rubs the skin off your fingers.

The Haunting of Sylvia Plath (1991) by Jacqueline Rose is objective and readable; Anne Stevenson's controversial Bitter Fame takes Plath to task for self-aggrandisement.

Spears are graded by quality, neatly stacked in piles and sprayed with water to keep them fresh; huge industrial peelers offer their service to those who find removing the bitter skin too mundane a task.

John McCain, years later to be vice admiral and Mitscher's alternate as a leader of carrier task forces, was bitter in assailing the separation of aviators as "a protective promotion device pure and simple". A corps of the kind would accomplish no good for the Navy, he insisted, because the specialists would neglect the sailors and the sailors would neglect the specialists.

The television advertisements featured beautiful women with unlikely Mancunian accents and "achieved the seemingly impossible task of making bitter glamorous".

Addressing these challenges will be an enormous task — especially amid the bitter recession that most economists expect over the next year or so.

In a final set of experiments, animals were trained to report the identity of an orally applied sweet and bitter stimulus by performing a novel behavioral task, allowing the researchers to test what the animal is tasting.

Even Mr. Dreier's bitterest opponents say he is up to the task.

Although Irons thinks the task force did a "fair job," Chagnon is still bitter about the mauling he took from Tierney.