But why? "No one truly knows his own begetting," Telemachus bitterly observes, early in the Odyssey.
"Children are powerless," Jeremy bitterly observes; but it turns out they are not.
For those not guaranteed seats because "silver-spooned", Trollope bitterly observes, campaigning entails "wading through dirt and dishonour".
As Domenico bitterly observes late in the film, everything comes down to money, which he is forced to borrow.
In one of the early episodes of the television series M*A*S*H, Col. Henry Blake, the Army surgeon played by McLean Stevenson, bitterly observes that there are two rules of war.
When a deserter tries to kill himself, Elisabeth bitterly observes, "We must try to save his life, help him recover until he is well enough to be stood up against a wall and shot".
Dennis Halliday, an Irish Quaker who was the UN humanitarian co-ordinator, resigned from his post last summer, bitterly observing that by his estimate, sanctions have killed a million Iraqis, including 500,000 children.
"They're finding themselves, exploring their sexuality," he observed bitterly.
A cousin, Khamis el-Sayess, observed bitterly, "Even our dead have no land".
