Jordan: Insulted coaches, teammates, opposing players and anyone who ever may have "wronged him" in a harsh, negative toned and oddly bitter-for-such-a-successful guy hall of fame acceptance speech.
Its oddly dark, even bitter, taste was as much a part of the Christmas ritual as the Boxing Day post-present blahs.
Its oddly dark, even bitter, taste was as much a part of the Christmas ritual as the Boxing Day post-present blahs..
The predictable result was that a meal intended to celebrate a traditional Christmas (in an England I scarcely knew) now infallibly and overpoweringly reminds me of Hong Kong, The taste it leaves is oddly dark, even bitter.
"Oddly enough, the vitriolic and bitter character of American political elections is a sign of just how much agreement on the fundamentals of politics and public life there is.
After the French drug maker Aventis agreed over the weekend to accept a sweetened takeover offer from its national rival, Sanofi-Synthélabo, the clear winner in the strange and bitter battle is, oddly, the Swiss drug maker Novartis.
He was disappointed by his first choice of celebrity, for Emerson found Wordsworth to be a "bitter old Englishman," oddly clad in a pair of green goggles to protect his inflamed eyes and embarrassingly liable to break into recitations of his own sonnets.
They reveal an interesting, potentially bitter and yet oddly promising shift of gear.
On these walks, Kashifi says, he felt an incredible range of emotions -- sometimes bitter, sometimes defeated, sometimes oddly hopeful.
Ultimately, a gold medal is no fun if you cannot be forever feted for receiving it: there is no person more oddly lonely in sport than the bitter winner.
