"This is a bad day for Europe," said the prime minister as he voiced bitterness over the nomination of Juncker.
Outside, local residents voiced bitterness over the conversion of the landmark, which sits on the main crossroad at the center of the historical town.
Some voiced bitterness over President George Bush's failure to back a Shiite uprising in southern Iraq immediately after the 1991 Persian Gulf war.
One of the most celebrated songs asks who can be proud of India (Jinhe naaz hai) while another voices the bitterness of the artist confronted with the shallowness of the money-seeking world (Yeh duniya agar mil bhi jaye to kya hai?).
If you decide to wear the Islamic headscarf in solidarity with me, by all means, please do so knowing that I and millions like myself will take the hand you extend and form a circle to drown out the divisive voices of bitterness, intolerance and hatred that ring in our midst.
"Thank you, Italians," he says, his voice breaking with bitterness.
"All Germans recall the Wembley goal," he said in a voice tinged with bitterness rather than nostalgia.
During her few minutes' remonstration, with her voice full of bitterness, hurt and disillusionment, I managed to make out that her fiancée had bumped into his ex-girlfriend in the club and had lavished attention on her and that the ex-girlfriend, sensing the opportunity, had played up to this by flirting back.
"I terminated the two social workers who had been here part time counseling our kids, and I also let our E.S.L. — you know, English as a Second Language — person go," he said, his voice laced with bitterness, as Harry J. Single Jr., the president of the club's 14-member board, and Randi Ross, a retired schoolteacher and board member who volunteers here as a tutor, exchanged resigned nods.
