Sentence examples for may be bitter from inspiring English sources

The contest may be bitter.

For Goldman, the wages of defeat may be bitter.

Oil-rich Libya is known for its largesse towards other African countries but may be bitter over losing its campaign to host the new parliament.

It may be bitter medicine to issue shares at depressed levels, but this may also be the best opportunity to do so.

Secondly, Philonous invokes relativity arguments to suggest that because sensory qualities are relative to the perceiver, e.g. what is hot to one hand may be cold to the other and what is sweet to one person may be bitter to another, they cannot belong to mind-independent material objects, for such objects could not bear contradictory qualities.

That may be bitter medicine, but it is the horrific truth: All private insurance plans fall far short when it comes to covering necessary care.

They may be bitter about your decision to stop goofing-off during school, but if they don't support making good grades, they aren't true friends.

Memories may be bitterest in China, where millions died and where the government uses anti-Japanese sentiment to bolster nationalism.

Second, Aristotle is willing to say that what seems pleasant to some people may in fact not be pleasant (1152b31 2), just as what tastes bitter to an unhealthy palate may not be bitter.

Some people may even be bitter enough to think you are running to show off.

But, while bishops may still be bitter, artists now seem to have cause to applaud.