Sentence examples for bitter world from inspiring English sources

Drawn from dark contemporary trends, the bitter world of The Handmaid's Tale is ruled by a repressive American religious regime.

The deaths of young children from disease and hunger were accepted "without weeping .Traces of that bitter world survive in Timbaúba.

OK, that sentimentalises it, because it can be a bitter world, it can get factionalised, and lots of us can be sitting there scowling about White Cube gallery.

There are a few words of lament—"Oh why, / Why back to the bitter World / Are we borne by our intent?"—and the Chorus sings lyrically about the uncertainties of life.

I have had 70 years now, more than I expected, and I don't enjoy living in this bad bitter world, and would spare some years retroactively for someone as sweet and worthy as Maureen.

One of Ms. Lee's disarming ways of exposing a naïve girl from the Midwest to bitter World War II bloodshed is to describe the sight of forks planted in the snow by freshman boys; suddenly, this image resembles a graveyard.

After China's bitter, controversial World Cup defeat, today's draw was cathartic.

Nevertheless, the book's depiction of a dark and bitter dystopian world without art was too radical for Jules Hetzel, Verne's publisher.

George Stevens, the creator of the classic Astaire-Rogers musical "Swing Time" and the Anglophile adventure "Gunga Din," had actually tried to adapt Humphrey Cobb's bitter First World War novel "Paths of Glory" but was unable to persuade his studio, RKO, to take it on.

HISTORY FREDRIK LOGEVALL "Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam" (Random House) How did the United States get drawn into war in Vietnam, ignoring France's bitter post-World War II experience there?

The 163-year-old SSV Ulm club is in many ways a microcosm of the bitter-sweet world of German soccer, a blighted, little reported universe of shattered hopes, financial woes, low-level corruption and rarely realized dreams.