Baseball in the Bronx, the reporter concluded, could often be "a repository for rage, bitterness, desperation".
Increasingly unable either to accept that Sarah, whose ability to bear children makes her an outlier, may be more important than she is, Rachel's actions have been largely fuelled by a cocktail of rage, bitterness and jealousy.
Out of my nature has come wild despair; an abandonment to grief that was piteous even to look at; terrible and impotent rage; bitterness and scorn; anguish that wept aloud; misery that could find no voice; sorrow that was dumb".
Each page positively pulsates with the kind of rage, bitterness and self-pity that would be understandable from somebody still trapped in poverty and racism, yet Thomas seems frozen in a desperate denial of the obvious: he would never be sitting today if his skin was not black and if he had not repeatedly been a beneficiary of the kind of affirmative action he finds so repugnant now.
Rage, bitterness, revenge, heartbreak, pain, triumph and reconciliation are addressed.
The battle raged with bitterness for several decades but died away as the theory of evolution gained more general acceptance.
Their rage and bitterness creates meaningless violence, too deep to be swayed.
But in "Ya-Ya" and "Enough," the rage and bitterness are cartoonishly extreme.
Ten years' experience required.' " Not unlike their law-abiding counterparts, they are filled with rage and bitterness — and violent apprehension — at their economic prospects.
The novel will be his revenge on celebrity culture, X Factor vacuity and the decline of England in all its "rage, dissatisfaction, bitterness".
