The set was a vision of New York as a place for runaways and oddballs, slow-building bitterness and romantic memories, all paced by a streamlined, insistent momentum.
It is also building up bitterness.
This bitterness began building in January.
Through the taste buds, Dr. Cowart said, we can detect the building blocks of flavor: sweetness, saltiness, bitterness, sourness and the savory-glutamate nexus known as umami.
Ms. Clarke said the city's failure to consult the building's tenants had led to bitterness and division, because some were against using an outside developer.
He also raged at the Viacom building just above, with a playful bitterness about his short-lived, under-appreciated MTV sitcom, Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous.
Le Corbusier was bitter, however, and his bitterness increased when he was named a member of the jury of architects for the construction of the United Nations building in New York City instead of being asked to design it himself.
Several of the closings went smoothly, although bitterness and sadness lingered outside the buildings' front doors.
Mr. Tsvangirai's bitterness about his relationship with Mr. Mugabe has been building for some time.
Certain commentators have been critical of his manner of achieving these changes, claiming that it was acrimonious and divisive, and left a legacy of bitterness and "victimhood" that inflicted long-term damage on the building of a cohesive modern society.
At the office building construction site at the corner of Michigan Avenue and Monroe Street, the talk among union workers the other day was tinged with bitterness.
