Despite what must have been a very difficult childhood, she had a refreshing lack of bitterness, and spoke with a sense of humor, even a guarded optimism.
No tensions, no wondering whether this or that person would or wouldn't get on with him, no lectures, no unenthusiastic mother and daughter, no crotchety friends, browned off with listening to my hours of repetitive bitterness-speak, no sullen presence casting a pall over daily life.
Wherever did these "speak bitterness" sessions come from, Mao's China?
"We live-streamed Speak Bitterness for the first time in 2008, I think.
Teams of activists moved through the villages, organizing the poor in "speak bitterness" meetings to struggle against landlords and Nationalist supporters, to punish and often to kill them, and to distribute their land and property.
But he doesn't speak with bitterness.
So its defenders speak without bitterness and their vision prevails, even if on the streets outside people are celebrating something else.
Many officers speak with bitterness about their salaries, in part because they say their standard of living fell even as their workload and accomplishments rose.
Bajeux's voice is full of bitterness when he speaks of Aristide.
Their voices were tinged with sarcasm and bitterness as they spoke of their experiences.
There are chuckles, rather than bitterness, as he speaks fondly about gifting Garfunkel with the vocal, "which is probably one of the bigger mistakes I made".
