Sentence examples for bitterly sad from inspiring English sources

Sometimes that division is funny, sometimes it's bitterly sad.

Runyon's stories are often bitterly sad – Little Pinks, for instance, or The Lemon Drop Kid – while in the musical the worst anyone gets is a cold.

But the hangover by proxy you may acquire is a fair price to pay for the satisfactions of this vivid and entertaining play, as witheringly funny as it is bitterly sad.

And in real fairy tales people die and bitterly sad endings often take place.

The conclusion of The Giving Tree is a bitterly sad one -- but, as in all of Silverstein's works, it's a good, soul-enriching, life-lesson-imparting kind of sad.

Overnight Poland became a sad, bitterly divided, martyred nation whose Communist party leader was reviled in the west.

The sad yet bitterly funny opening chapters are a beautifully taut portrait of a man at the end of his tether.

Another senior backbencher said bitterly: "I think it is terribly sad.

This broadened out into an enthusiasm for accounts of polar exploration: what could be finer than being snugly tucked up in the present while a sad bunch of imperialists were getting bitterly fucked-up in the past?

The sardonic, bittersweet vocabulary of Cole Porter love songs, the sad sentimental Rodgers and Hart lyrics, all the romantic nonsense you yearned for with half your heart and mocked bitterly with the other half.

They are bitterly divided.