Word: bitterness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...righteous whining or high-mindedness of the writer interfering. Gornick uses George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant,” as an example of the importance of narrative voice. In life, Orwell was often an ugly and brutish man, falling prey to his own bitter insecurities, sexism, rabid anti-communism and other flaws. But in “Shooting an Elephant” Orwell adopts the persona of “the involuntary truth speaker, the one who implicates himself not because he wants to but because he has no choice...
Scented candles and incense from the memorials, and traces of bitter smoke from the collapse created a sweet, heady stench that hung over the area...
...post-apocalyptic resumption of U.S. stock trading Monday was also arguably the most breathlessly anticipated session of all time. Three thousand traders crowd the floor of the NYSE every day, but as we all milled around outside in the hours before the reopening bell - breathing air still gray and bitter with smoke and dust and dawn - they were easily outnumbered by the professional gawkers who had descended on the Big Board from all over the world, panning for soundbites, owing copy...
...second item on the agenda was money. There would be no arguments: A truce had been called in the bitter political war over dipping into the hundreds of billions of dollars piling up in the Social Security surplus. They'd dip into the fund. The men huddled in Hastert's office debated how much would be needed. The White House already had told Congress it wanted $20 billion to help rebuild the damaged Pentagon, deal with the New York catastrophe and bolster security. But $20 billion might not be enough, one of the leaders said. "You're probably right," Lott...
...gathered together on couches and chairs in Speaker Dennis Hastert's private office in the Capitol. Hastert and House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt sat together on a couch. In the previous two days, they had talked to each other more than they had in the entire past year. (So bitter had been their political feuding in the past, when Hastert had information to pass along to Gephardt he had Minority Leader Dick Armey make the phone call.) Now Hastert and Gephardt sat side by side - grumpy old men who had made up, at least for the moment. On another couch...