Sentence examples for gently bitter from inspiring English sources

A cod steak arrived on a bed of gently bitter Swiss chard in an emulsion of pil-pil, a Basque sauce of olive oil, fish juices and garlic.

I accompany a large but rather expensive plate of moules-frites (€20) with a glass of the gently bitter, effervescent Saison Voisin.

7 February (Heavenly) East River Pipe: We Live in Rented Rooms Painstakingly overdubbed on his lo-fi home recorder, the gently bitter tales of lowlife dreams told by F M Cornog, aka East River Pipe, occupy much the same territory as Bukowski stories and Edward Hopper paintings: melancholy, neon-lit missives from the underbelly of the American Dream.

I flipped the top off a bottle of Black Isle Brewery Yellowhammer IPA and let the golden, lightly bitter, gently malted liquor course down my throat.

Stir gently and top with bitters.

"Well, you sound quite bitter," she says, gently.

This gently comic sense of ironic, bitter, and morally exhausted desperation even has its own Kafkaesque emoticon: ¯__/¯.

A Celtics-Suns game flickers on the television, sneakers spill out of the closet and a basketball hoop rocks gently in the driveway on a bitter New England night.

The tools he has put at her disposal include rotary fermenters and curving pipes that move grape clusters gently and prevent the forming of bitter flavors.

Although Britney was visibly shaken and reluctant to shatter his illusions, Simon delivered the bitter pill, albeit more gently than usual.

However, you'll need to remove the zest slowly and gently to avoid grating off the bitter white pith.