"He was very embittered by the experience," said lawyer Andrew Frey, a longtime friend who worked for Bork in the solicitor general's office.
This view is echoed by filmmaker John Carpenter who said, "Nigel was very embittered about the way of the world, as was shown, I think, in The Quatermass Conclusion".
The talks played out in an atmosphere embittered by a dispute over a military spending bill.
In the third piece, "Lagrime mie," a lyrically elegant yet fraught vocal cantata by Barbara Strozzi, one of the very few published female composers from that era, Ms. Antonacci portrayed a man embittered by the indifference of the lovely Lidia.
In another person these might cause a brief period of angst, followed by a lifetime of mildly embittered surrender.
The record is the reflection not of a confident and eager youth but of a man buffeted by long experience, embittered and despairing.
In spite of his amused public image in later years, he was a man embittered by a sense of social grievance and often depressed.
It was a grippingly embittered monologue by the greatest of Soviet composers, denouncing Communism and chronicling a life lived in fear.
So it would probably be no less corrupt and be won anyway by Mr Karzai, further embittered by what he thinks is a Western plot to rob him of victory.
Nor is there much prospect of change in Taiwan as long as a generation still embittered by the KMT's repressive rule remains in power.
