Sentence examples for bitterness of defeat from inspiring English sources

But barbecue tastes better the next day than the bitterness of defeat.

It's tempting to suppose that only the bitterness of defeat drove a once cheerfully combative iconoclast to the apocalyptic rhetoric that defined his subsequent writing and speeches.

A Liberation Tiger warrior in the Sri Lankan civil war is forced in the bitterness of defeat to abandon his dreams and also his identity in the chaos of a refugee camp.

Carlos was also on the team last year, which means that his family tasted the bitterness of defeat when Rolando Paulino lost, 1-0, in the regional tournament to a team from Goffstown, N.H., falling one victory short of going to the World Series.

We here in the land of Prop 8 (may it, too, soon fall) know well the bitterness of defeat when our lives are judged to be lesser than the lives of others.

But with so much at stake, the bitterness of that defeat is not what will drive him.

At this hour the animosities of political strife, the bitterness of partisan defeat, and the exultation of partisan triumph should be supplanted by an ungrudging acquiescence in the popular will and a sober, conscientious concern for the general weal.

Historians of the American South have long noted that the region departs from national history in one crucial way: Southerners understood the bitterness of military defeat and vanquished ambition a century before the Vietnam quagmire introduced the rest of the nation to the limits of its power.

Despite the bitterness of the defeat for Lincoln, his articulation of the issues gave him a national political reputation.

But as UCLA slips nearer to defeat, as he sits back in his seat again, his words carry no hint of bitterness.

But the bitterness of France's defeat and his anger with democracy caused him to become authoritarian.