Belief in the possibility of peace has given way to bitterness.
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.
Now, outside the giant factory on Chocolate Avenue, the sweetness has given way to bitterness as strikers accuse the Hershey Foods Corporation's current chief executive, Richard H. Lenny, of betraying Milton Hershey's paternalistic ideals.
Yet he rarely gave in to bitterness, and he never despaired.
In a conciliatory note, Mr. Gbagbo called on his supporters not to "give in to bitterness or resentment".
That glory gives way to bitterness as he recalls the fickle public's abandonment of fasters, and his own degrading death in a circus cage.
But it was a cynically managed affair that gave way to bitterness when it ended, and led the Chinese to think, in the 1970s, that the Soviet Union, rather than America, constituted the greatest threat to their country.
By formally acknowledging the depth of feeling here -- an approach virtually unheard of in the history of the conflict -- the inquest is helping Omagh recover from its anguish without giving in to bitterness.
Their own hope alloyed with optimistic polling will have left many viewers believing Romney had a chance, but it soon gave way to bitterness (Sandy did it, "the white establishment is now the minority," bemoaned Bill O'Reilly, triggering a storm of his own yesterday).
