Word: bittering
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...LaBute's signature characters: the brutish user of women, cheating on his wife (a cute security guard at the store) and enlisting the weakling Greg in his deception. LaBute's plays often take surprise twists, but not here; the characters play out their roles to the bitter, inevitable conclusion...
...Shaw said. “We wanted to pick ourselves up from the first game and just really prove to [Princeton] that we weren’t going to lay down and do what we did the first game.” HARVARD 5, PRINCETON 2 Left with a bitter taste after a disappointing loss, the Crimson came out looking to rebound against the Tigers. Sophomore Emily Henderson walked to set up Shaw with the opportunity to put Harvard up by a deuce. Shaw blasted the ball out of Soldiers Field and arrived at home plate, where the celebration began...
Sometimes the tea was bitter. Other times it was cloyingly sweet with condensed milk. But the whispered questions at teahouses in Rangoon and across Burma were always delivered the same way. Head flick to the right, head flick to the left. A nervous glance backward. No one listening, not even the waiter shuffling up to slosh hot water into our glasses? Good. What did I, as an American who had the good fortune to vote in one of the most exciting presidential races in recent memory, think of Burma's upcoming national elections...
...NATO doesn't have much more going on besides the bitter, remote war to which its member nations are reluctant to commit blood and treasure. During the 1990s, the Alliance began expanding, inducting nine new members from Eastern Europe's former Soviet territories and satellites that sought protection from Russian power. But that program seemed to hit a wall last August, when Georgia fought a five-day war against Russia for control of South Ossetia. Georgia, whose bid to join the Alliance had been strongly backed by the U.S., was viewed by many Western officials as having provoked a senseless...
...that the person who created the work isn't nearly so likable. Asked "Are there any musicians or groups today that excite you?" Morrison responds, "No. Absolutely not. It's all been done, you know?" In that and other responses to TIME's questions, Morrison comes off like a bitter old man - not the soulful troubadour I imagined him to be. Holley Aufdemorte, Murrells Inlet...