Traditionally, salt was scattered over sliced aubergines to encourage any residual bitterness to seep out, but generally speaking, modern varieties aren't as bitter, so don't require salting.
Why, then, dost thou encourage thy husband's bitterness against us?
Clark worried that coverage of Lanza's life would encourage other men to express their bitterness the same way.
Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, who has never given in to bitterness, has urged the United States and others to encourage more change by lessening Myanmar's isolation.
More could have been done, for example, to reduce bitterness by encouraging Israeli-Palestinian-Jordanian economic projects, he said.
Boubakar's father told him that he shouldn't live with bitterness, and encouraged him to become a griot, as his grandfather had been, and his grandfather's grandfather.
In a culture that encourages civility and forgiveness, the bitterness of the Thomas hearings might have been avoided, Mr. Carter said.
I believe that by working together and encouraging cooperative behaviors on Wikipedia -- that all of this bitterness online can grow a little more productive.
The process was therapy for each of us, and encouraged us to look back at our own past and leave behind the bitterness that had manipulated our world for so many years.
She encourages them to cook the leaves that sprout from the tops of radishes (they have a delicious bitterness) and offers a traditional French method of baking fish at high heat on a bed of fennel stalks.
The document, published in leading newspapers and in our churches, encourages prayers for citizens in Tampa and Charlotte, that they may be hospitable, and not allow cynicism to balloon into bitterness.
