And "The Green Shore" effectively captures a mood: the bitter sorrow of seeing a beloved nation hijacked.
Wegener is always more an adventurer than an academic, and this becomes the source of both his genius and his bitter sorrow.
"Eddie was the stereotypical person who lived his entire life to do something absurd like this," said Senator Williams, exemplifying the bitter sorrow engulfing this gentlest of farm towns -- one of the least violent in Mr. Capps's busy, four-county portfolio of prosecuting crimes big and small.
A mix of bitter sorrow and twisted logic makes it easy to justify almost any action.
According to Victorian Flower Language, asphodel is a type of lily meaning 'My regrets follow you to the grave' and wormwood means 'absence' and also typically symbolized bitter sorrow.
The first question Snape asks Harry Potter is, "What would I get if I added powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood?" According to Victorian Flower Language, asphodel is a type of lily meaning 'My regrets follow you to the grave' and wormwood means 'absence' and also typically symbolized bitter sorrow.
The other characters have withdrawn into carapaces of bitter sorrow.
On one level, it speaks to the issue of teens struggling with same-sex attraction, of course, but it's more about how all parting -- of friends, lovers, expectations, dreams -- is such (bitter)sweet sorrow.
Of bitter aloes wreathed, 31My sorrow must be laid On your head like a crown.
The slow, bluesy "Not Gon' Cry," about leaving a long marriage, went from fury to sorrow to bitter righteousness: "I said he wasn't worth tears".
Perry's most celebrated works are his ceramics, big pots in various shades of black and gold that chart personal stories of his transvestism and alienation from mainstream British society, works that carry more than a hint of sorrow and bitter sarcasm.
