The argument over Gaza has also become a bitter trial of strength between Israel's so-called "mainstream", the mostly secular Jews who say they would gladly give up land for peace, and the national-religious settler movement.
Casting himself in the role of Donissan's superior, Pialat fixes his admiring gaze on Depardieu from both inside and outside the frame and delivers lines that seem to be addressed to the character and the actor alike: "Your retreat will be a time of bitter trial and moral loneliness.... You'll be alone on your chosen road".
A bitter trial that rattled the normally quiet world of mutual funds came to an unusual end on Friday, as a jury awarded Jeffrey E. Gundlach, a star bond fund manager, millions of dollars in unpaid compensation even though it found him liable for breaching his fiduciary duty and stealing trade secrets at his former firm, Trust Company of the West.
Perhaps the wisdom of countryman, Oscar Wilde, is kept in the collective mind: "What seem to us bitter trials are often blessings in disguise".
Henry Adams, writing in the 1880s, judged Jefferson's second term a failure "under which his old hopes and ambitions were crushed," and added that the ensuing "loss of popularity was his bitterest trial".
On Monday, when the owner Frank McCourt's bitter divorce trial got under way, the team he owns — at least for the moment — allowed Manny Ramirez, the team's erstwhile savior, to leave for the Chicago White Sox on a waiver claim.
[Daily News] Dina Matos McGreevey took the stand in her bitter divorce trial, laying the groundwork for claiming she was lured into a sham marriage with James E. McGreevey, New Jersey's former governor.
Accounts of how the talks progressed and then broke down suggest that, at the least, Microsoft has become vulnerable to accusations from AOL and other competitors that its behavior has changed little since last year's bitter antitrust trial.
Members of a much older cohort remember her considerably greater celebrity in the 1930s, when, as the child heiress to the railroad fortune of Reginald Vanderbilt, she was the object of a bitter courtroom trial in which her aunt, Mrs. Whitney, wrested custody of Ms. Vanderbilt from her neglectful mother, Gloria Morgan.
In January 1971, Chotiner and his third wife, Mimi, divorced on the ground of irreconcilable differences, after five years of marriage and a bitter, contested trial.
Paolo Ferri, the prosecutor who built the case but is now retired, said Wednesday that he felt "bitter" that the trial had ended on a technicality and not in a conviction.
