Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this book is a non-stop, bitter, self-congratulatory diatribe. As the writers proudly claim in their introduction, "In this book, written by two New York sportswriters with no debts whatsoever to the Boston Celtics, the tables are turned...
...Humbug/Love Sucks Theory. Necco's not letting me into the factory because the CEO is an unfeeling cold fish. He made the "no tours policy" because he's bitter and he thinks that Valentine's Day is sappy. For years he's lived a personal hell of coming up with cutesy sayings for other people's corny love lives. Every night he comes home from work, watches "Love Connection," and laughs until the tears roll down his cheeks...
...After a bitter three-year struggle between business and neighborhood groups, the City Council voted unanimously early this morning to approve a comprehensive rezoning ordinance for the Cambridgeport area...
...mentioned his "citadel of white supremacy" tag, I might as well point out that the way it was quoted out of context in the February 6 Crimson was manipulative and unfair. White people who have tried hard to be sensitive to minority concerns must have found this a bitter and unjustified rebuke. But to be fair to the Black students who clapped when he used that line, however, we should remember when it cropped up. Jeffries was only making the claim that cultural canon in America consistently undervalues the achievements of Black people, and that the universities, insofar as they...
Goudge's success has not come accompanied by generally favorable reviews. "Reviewers look at women's commercial fiction in a different light [compared to men's commercial fiction]," Goudge said, commenting on the mixed response of critics, charges: She is bitter that "military potboilers" written by men like Tom Clancy receive acclaim while her own "romantic potboilers" are merely accorded snide remarks...