E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet Many people in the intelligence community, in their conversations with me, complained bitterly about how difficult it was to work with the Directorate of Operations, even during a crisis.
And the maintenance staff -- charged with the task of maintaining the look of modern purity -- has complained bitterly about how difficult it is to clean rain streaks off the enameled panels, not to mention grime stuck in the grouting.
Walking around between numbers, carrying what looks like a glass of scotch and chatting occasionally with her pianist Jimmy Powers Darryll G. Ivey, also the show's musical director), Ms. Jackson's Billie Holiday reminisces, often bitterly, about her difficult life.
** Many people in the intelligence community, in their conversations with me, complained bitterly about how difficult it was to work with the Directorate of Operations, even during a crisis.
Indeed, this West Wing is stacked with "hacks"–campaign professionals who are acculturated to think, act and win in the hothouse environments of elections, not to govern a bitterly divided country in extremely difficult times.
When he left us we all felt his absence bitterly, though he did make things difficult.
As Alison Light reveals in her book Mrs Woolf and the Servants, Virginia Woolf complained bitterly about her servants, and had an intense, difficult relationship with them that a psychoanalyst would surely define as co-dependence.
Jerusalem learned bitterly in its 2006 attack against Hezbollah how difficult that enemy is to defeat.
"A tough fight to push a bill through a bitterly divided Congress," Clinton began before describing how difficult it was for Lincoln to pass the 13th amendment.
In six months, snow and bitterly cold weather will make the Chinese encampment very difficult, if not impossible, to maintain.
