How To Use Bitters In A Sentence
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American bittersweet is valued for its glossy green summer foliage followed by orange and red fruits and seeds, and several landscape cultivars are commercially marketed.
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Winners this year included drinks made using a Scottish candy with cloves and orange bitters, one with Chartreuse and rosemary, and a highly recommended refresher using peach puree, amaretto and peach bitters.
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Saturate lump sugar with bitters in a thick tumbler or mug.
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The recent availability of bittersweet chocolates coupled with our access to a global food market and unique ingredients has created an increased interest in artisanal chocolates.
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When another of Aegon's Great Bastards tried to seize the Iron Throne from his trueborn half-brother, Bittersteel joined the revolt.
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Soak with bitters and gently muddle with a spoon.
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Myrrh - adding a hint of bittersweetness, which is very important in a gardenia.
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Cook 2 cups milk, 6 ounces chopped bittersweet chocolate, 3 tablespoons sugar, 1 tablespoon cocoa powder and 1/4 teaspoon chili powder over medium-low heat, stirring, until smooth.
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Like a graduation, it is a bittersweet moment: something treasured coming to an end.
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Bittersweet is this journey to the wooden boatyards of Maine and the glorious work of ‘contemporary genius’ Joel White as he undertook what he knew would be his last wooden boat project.
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His poems on crocus, bittersweet, sycamore, sassafras and the like are celebrations of the natural world.
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If bitters were added to a rum or whisky based drink, it was known as a cocktail.
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The flavour varies according to species or cultivar, but is generally of a sharp and bittersweet taste with a strong and warm aroma.
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The oldest definition that anyone has found for the term "cocktail" describes a drink with exactly four ingredients: A spirit of course, water, bitters and sugar.
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DYNAMITE: The term applies to TNT's bittersweet Men of a Certain Age, continuing its terrific second season, but not so much to the instantly tiresome new legal dramedy Franklin & Bash, which implodes in the belief that aggressive quirkiness, smarmy frat-boy sexual innuendo and a "suits are douches" philosophy will endear its Peter Pan protagonists to a wide audience.
Matt's TV Week in Review
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It was a bittersweet end for the troubled tunesmith.
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And then in a large bowl, I melted 5 ounces of bittersweet chocolate and 10 tablespoons of butter in the microwave.
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Shared humanity isn't only the stuff of bittersweet humour, though.
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Angst is my forte, so beware the bittersweet angst that is my sword!
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He adds that the 80 or so brews on offer, including bitters, milds, porters, stouts, wheat beers and real lagers, will range in strength between three and eight per cent and alcohol by volume.
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Kitchen note: You can use other bittersweet endives - choose from witloof chicory, chicoria, puntarelle, frisee . . .
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Besides the usual bitters, vermouths and liqueurs, bartenders usually had a choice of sweeteners: simple syrup, grenadine which, if it's the real thing, is pomegranate syrup and raspberry syrup.
Cocktails That Complete Me: The Knickerbocker and Blinker
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The term bittersweet has come up all too often lately.
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Ransack your cupboards for Angostura Bitters, vermouth and lime juice, and prepare the tall glasses.
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I'm really pleased and frankly relieved to report," begins Glenn Kenny, "that, a couple of snippable minutes and some dubious music choices aside (that Cake song about the jacket is one thing, but a cover of Howard Jones's 'No One Is To Blame' is pushing it), writer/director Adrienne Shelly's final feature Waitress is a delight, a refreshing comedy that mixes a bunch of familiar ingredients in offbeat ways that payoff every time, much in the way that its title character Jenna (the fabulous Keri Russell) blends, say, blackberries with bittersweet chocolate in her universally beloved pies.
GreenCine Daily: Sundance. Waitress.
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This is the first time I feel like Iknow what the term bittersweet means.
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We ate handfuls of bittersweet chocolate chips and licked peanut butter off spoons.
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The whirling flavours release bitter-sweet lime, aromatic bitters and fiery ginger with every twist.
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When Szymanowski shifts into the parallel major, the mood is Chopin-esque and bittersweet:
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The winner for 2004 was Shawn Lane, a casino bartender whose creation, the Beau Aces (Bacardi Limon, orgeat syrup, splash of bitters, soda and Sprite) will now be featured on bar menus throughout the property.
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His poems on crocus, bittersweet, sycamore, sassafras and the like are celebrations of the natural world.
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On a whim I added some maraschino liqueur and a few dashes of orange bitters to the Auchentoshan, stirred the drink over ice, and sampled it.
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He adds that the 80 or so brews on offer, including bitters, milds, porters, stouts, wheat beers and real lagers, will range in strength between three and eight per cent and alcohol by volume.
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‘Cocktail,’ the paper stated, ‘is a stimulating liquor, composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water, and bitters - it is vulgarly called a bittered sling and is supposed to be an excellent electioneering potion, inasmuch as it renders the heart stout and bold, at the same time that if fuddles the head.’
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The bittersweet flavour of glazed chicory is the perfect foil for gamey roast partridge.
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The bitters will keep good almost any length of time, and is an excellent remedy for bilious complaints, and can often be taken when the thoroughwort tea will not sit on the stomach.
The American Housewife Containing the Most Valuable and Original Receipts in all the Various Branches of Cookery; and Written in a Minute and Methodical Manner
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Truthfully, I don’t know if I can say that a croissant is a “real” croissant if it isn’t made with real butter - and lots of it - but I am very impressed that Bittersweet was able to make Homemade Vegan Croissants without using a bit of butter.
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The next one is ‘Liqueurs, cordials, and bitters’.
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My friend swears a European bitters formula has helped her digestion.
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She sipped a bittersweet brew of Oriental herbs.
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Always take herbal bitters (used to prevent bloating and other digestive problems) five to 10 minutes before a meal.
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It's what makes New Year so bittersweet; an annual stocktaking of personal fortunes that fills the limbo between Christmas and the resumption of normal life in early January.
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Despite all of that the relationship between the two main characters, Oskar and Eli, is both touching and bittersweet and the film has earned itself an extremely devout cult following.
ARE VAMPIRES A DYING BREED? | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews
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This gently paced love song is bittersweet, grungy indie without any raw edges.
The Sun
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The bittersweet Limoncello is positively breathtaking with the ripe orange-fleshed melon and fat, sweet blackberries.
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For Nikki Haley, the South Carolina Republican nominee for governor whose come-from-behind primary win captivated her party nationwide, the final weeks of the campaign have been bittersweet.
South Carolina's Haley Faces Fire From Party Members
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He follows Cohen's bittersweet romanticism with a solid dose of Sonic Youth.
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Bouncing Bounce Deuce and creating a sparse, white brick walled space outfitted with park bench-style booths, large U-shaped leather banquettes, and Calder-esque hanging fixtures, Van's specializing in Northern Euro beers, infused akvavit, and Genever-aided cocktails like the lemon/bitters/roobis-infused vermouth B Side Sling.
Thrillist: Vandaag: Northern European Eats
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For occasional indigestion, look for herbs, from three categories: bitters, carminatives and cholagogues.
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Pimenton is usually divided into dulce (sweet and mild), agridulce (bittersweet and medium hot), and picante (hot and quite sharp).
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A slight combination of bittersweet drama and featherlight farce.
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Infected bittersweet, a weed found along river banks, has been picked up bordering the River Ouse.
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Mr. Parson's "Bitters," which itself sounds as if it should be in a small bottle on a dusty backbar, answers that and then some.
Gift Guide: Books on Cocktails
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Even the one tale that concludes with a victory contains a bittersweet tinge.
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Soft chords formed a suspended background for loud attacks that took an eternity to die away, and the aptly titled ‘Ten Thousand Shades of Blue’ diminuendoed into ambiguously bittersweet dissonance.
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The meetings are bittersweet, weighed down by regret, guilt and grief.
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A good range of bitters and game pies; what more do you want?
WHISTLER IN THE DARK
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It embitters the feelings, and hardens and brutifies the heart.
The White Slave; or, Memoirs of a Fugitive
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Careful analyses by boards of health and government chemists of a great number of advertised medicines have shown that three-fourths of the so-called tonics and "bitters" and "bracers" of all sorts contain alcohol -- some of them in such large amounts as to be stronger and more intoxicating than whiskey.
A Handbook of Health
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[T] ense adventure, a bittersweet coming-of-age and an oddly touching buddy narrative.
City of Thieves: Summary and book reviews of City of Thieves by David Benioff.
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We end, as we must, with an act of forgiveness but its sweet naivety is tinged with the bittersweet taste of experience.
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But they both heard the bittersweet longing within the plagal cadence, and chose their vocabularies accordingly.
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To be sure, this is a tiny niche bar for people who want to focus on bitters and amari liqueurs for a night.
To the Bitters End
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The spleen is, I believe, an internal organ whose functions are very imperfectly understood, still it is an accepted article of faith in France that every Briton is "devore de spleen," and that this lamentable state of things embitters his whole outlook on life, and casts a black shadow over his existence.
Here, There and Everywhere
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Matt had gone, leaving me with Celeste, a beautiful bittersweet reminder of the love we'd had.
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Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to the stomach, so adversity chastens and ameliorates the disposition.
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They're halfway between a cookie and a chocolate truffle with an extraordinarily pure bittersweet chocolate flavor.
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The first showcases virtuoso dancing, the second is a bittersweet tale of innocent love betrayed.
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Our last meal in Paris which was bittersweet - it's hard to leave since it's been such a fun trip - but we all miss kith and kin and our own beds in our own homes and will be glad to regain them.
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So, OK, bear with me while I pay another bittersweet tribute to Big Al. It won't be any gushier than Peggy Noonan's foolishly groupie-esque rhapsodizing over Ronald Reagan.
Mary Lyon: The Benediction of Big Al
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So with bittersweet pride in our hearts, we watched our ursine companion quietly disappear into the woods.
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Was the Sweet 16 bittersweet or oh-so-good for your brackets?
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Some of the shells I collected were bittersweets which are also gastropods, but they are considered bivalves like the sunrise tellins, so they have two shells.
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Winners this year included drinks made using a Scottish candy with cloves and orange bitters, one with Chartreuse and rosemary, and a highly recommended refresher using peach puree, amaretto and peach bitters.
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“Of course,” Crusher said, just as she heard the audio channel being closed on the other end, and smiled bittersweetly.
Star Trek: TNG: Losing the Peace
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Multiflora rose, kudzu, and oriental bittersweet are substantially less abundant in the coastal plain, where agriculture is extensively practiced.
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The bartender presented the man with Old Tom gin, vermouth, bitters and syrup and called the drink a Martinez.
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I dropped a block of bittersweet chocolate on a cutting board.
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I believe that's a gin martini variation with sweet vermouth, bitters and an orange peel.
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August, despite its slow drag and logistical flaws, still holds surprises, sweet and bittersweet.
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Although it's not a conventional romcom, this bittersweet story will still have you smiling through your tears.
The Sun
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When I asked her why, she expressed a certain bittersweetness in learning about this all these years later.
Bruce Kluger: Has America Lost That Loving Feeling?
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The drink of revenge distorts and embitters the soul, but the meat of forgiveness strengthens it.
Eric Simpson: I Changed My Mind on the Death Penalty
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Despite the hardships, Lynch, a devout Catholic, was stirred by the biblical locales they passed—the ford of Bethabara, where John had baptized Jesus; Nablus, where Yahweh had confirmed his covenant with Abraham; Jericho, of the tumbling walls, where Jesus had healed two blind beggars; and Mount Nebo, where Moses had been granted his bittersweet glimpse of the Promised Land.
Old Salt, Dead Sea
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In the news release, the linguists described their discovery as bittersweet: Of the approximately 800 people who speak Koro, few are under the age of 20, meaning the language is endangered.
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At Embsay I found harebell, knapweed, honeysuckle, meadowsweet, bittersweet and of course lots of teasel.
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Not the fried chicken and waffles from Jones or the bittersweet chocolate semifreddo from Novelty?
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This bittersweet and nimbly-illustrated tale of a wise girl whose bird-brained father attempts to rise above earthly sorrow will lift the spirits of readers young and old.
My Dad's A Birdman: Summary and book reviews of My Dad's A Birdman by David Almond.
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But Choi is fittingly philosophical about the often bittersweet reality of the Korean - American dream.
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The drinks were Western, with Malay names - stengah for whisky and soda and pahits for gin and bitters.
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Then, in a gesture of almost bittersweet emotion, the solo cello returns, taking up the theme against a sympathetic countermelody in the flute and oboe.
The Waltz That Defines Vienna
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These dominoes, made by Christopher Norman chocolates, combine an excellent bittersweet shell dotted with white chocolate with an intense, barely fluid dark caramel filling.
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There's something distasteful about this so-called bittersweet comedy.
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I went with the waiter-recommended champagne cocktail with orange bitters.
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The best drink discovery so far has been the bittersweet hot chocolate in Murphy's Ice cream shop in Dingle.
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It's an epic track, layered with excellent instruments, from acoustic guitars to chiming electronics, and it maintains a warm glow despite some bittersweet lyrics.
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Both sites also have sad and subtle soundtracks playing along with the images, which I find myself leaving on in the background as I move onto other things, and which set the sort of melancholy mood that makes everything bittersweetly delicious.
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Did you leave office with a bittersweet taste, or did you feel it was time?
Christianity Today
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Straus' style evokes a bygone era, her language lyric, her ruminations bittersweet and poetic.
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Another important component of leaky gut syndrome treatment is the use of bitters and carminatives.
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The finesse of his shaping of its bittersweet nostalgia collided with constant extreme changes of tempo and direction, making its emotional fragility palpable.
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The music's lyricism, irony, sarcasm, and bittersweet triumph find the composer writing at white heat.
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In a mixing glass, moderately muddle syrup, bitters, mint, orange and lime together.
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Their situation was full of the tragicomic bittersweetness that would make their sitcoms so loveable.
Times, Sunday Times
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It charted the bittersweetness of motherhood, the loneliness of being stuck in the countryside and the hilarity of daily life.
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Palate: With flavors of cassis, black cherry, plum and espresso. Offering a lean, vibrant entry with profound mid-palate density, the wine finishes with bittersweet chocolate and a hint of smoke.
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On this first morning he put aside his newspapers -- one an old established Tory journal, with all the local and county news, which was the most interesting to him; the other the _Morning Chronicle_, which he called his dose of bitters, and which called out many a strong expression and tolerably pungent oath.
Wives and Daughters
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The strike costs GM $2 billion, embitters workers, and ripples across the U.S. economy.
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Placing cut greens such as magnolia, pine, or holly, along with berry-laden branches of winterberry or bittersweet vine can produce beautiful winter holiday boxes.
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One of North Korea's cruelest policies was to intersect bittersweetly with Mr. Jenkins's life.
To Hell and Back
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It's a painfully bittersweet film, but told without any of the plodding, maudlin notes that in less sturdy hands could have sunk the entire endeavour.
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One by one they go, and not a regret embitters their departure; the young succeed them in their places, Louis Quatorze is swelling larger and shining broader, another generation and another France dawn on the horizon; but for us and these old men whom we have loved so long, the inevitable end draws near and is welcome.
Memories and Portraits
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I was raped by a doctor. Which is, you know, so bittersweet for a Jewish girl.
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Now we have Ales, with their bitters, pale ales, porters, stouts, barley wines, trappist, lambic, and alt.
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Sunset Blvd.; barkeepersilverlake.com a craft-cocktail shop for bitters and barware, and Secret Headquarters 3817 W.
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The city's best mixologist, Jen Agg, crafts zingy cocktails such as figgy caipirinhas (fig and lime with a killer punch) and bacon old-fashioneds (wherein rye is infused with house-smoked cured bacon and mixed with cherry syrup, bitters and orange zest).
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The first showcases virtuoso dancing, the second is a bittersweet tale of innocent love betrayed.
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The other two locally occurring Bittersweets are the Decussate Bittersweet (Glycymeris decussata) and the Atlantic Bittersweet (Glycymeris undata).
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Over 30 years later, the bittersweet words still resound in the cabarets of Europe and America.
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Bart asked her, if she was such a stickler, did she put bitters in her Manhattans.
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Michael rolled his tongue backwards in his mouth, savoring the bittersweet beer he clutched in his pale soft hands.
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It's oj rather than cran (and if you don't have orange bitters, it'll still be fine).
An actual, factual "meme" (survey).
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Her bittersweet remembrances were shoved into the back of her mind.
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I can feel it coming to the surface of my being, my skin ~t i n g l i n g~ with every breath, I am open, pushing forward, pressing against the bittersweet sting of needy flesh, pores of fire seeking your cooling lemon sorbet kiss.
Wendchymes Diary Entry
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Quickly follow the vermouth with a splash of olive brine, a squeeze of lime and three dashes of bitters.
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In the mouth a "pulse" of creamy mildly bittersweet slightly underripe fruit (citrus and juicy starfruit aka carambola) and some foilage.
CellarTracker Tasting Notes (all notes)
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The bittersweet combination could save the council as much as £21,000 from its winter maintenance budget, but opponents today questioned whether the product should be trialled in a small area first.
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Knowles is also the only writer who liveblogged the entirety of the In Memoriam montage, even bittersweetly punctuating with the forgotten Brad Renfro.
The Oscars: The 2008 Oscar Liveblog Awards: Vanity Fair
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Each new request that she received for her company's activewear in 2004 was bittersweet.
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He was nursing a cup of strong black coffee, revelling in the bittersweet, acrid tang and the caffeine rush it provided to his dozy brain.
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But this new bittersweet comedy drama looks more promising.
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Obviously there's relief that the semester is over, but also a kind of bittersweetness that I'm not going to see my friends here for nearly a month.
Pajiba
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A triangle chimes in the background; it's all very bittersweet.
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Examples are glossy black chokecherry, Siberian and ‘red splendor’ crabapple, snowberry, bittersweet, sumacs, American highbush cranberry, eastern and European wahoo, Virginia creeper and Chinaberry.
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For the chocolate one, I omitted the cinnamon, replaced the vanilla pudding with sugar-free chocolate fudge pudding, added 3 oz. of chopped bittersweet chocolate, and 1/2 cup chopped pecans.
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It has been exciting, though bittersweet, to see captive-born stallions - after so successfully readapting to the land of their ancestors - be dethroned by a generation of rivals that they sired.
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Cook 2 cups milk, 6 ounces chopped bittersweet chocolate, 3 tablespoons sugar, 1 tablespoon cocoa powder and 1/4 teaspoon chili powder over medium-low heat, stirring, until smooth.
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And now, we are blooming, and the fragrance is as bittersweet as a forest flower should be.
Getting ready for Omen
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Being a talented man of many resources, John Stamm is well known for the manufacture of patent medicine or bitters.
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His Pomegranate Manhattan starts off with Maker's Mark, then adds pomegranate molasses, Italian bitter liqueur Cynar and orange bitters.
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For the mutual looks of mature beauties, and that which comes from the eye, whether light or a stream of spirits, melt and dissolve the lovers with a pleasing pain, which they call the bittersweet of love.
Essays and Miscellanies
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Then he drank his lukewarm black coffee and ate the bittersweet chocolate, which went down like so much nectar and ambrosia: never a better breakfast hath man eaten, Bob felt.
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Rourke is sensational as the washed-up former celebrity wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson, but for me it's Aronofsky's handheld takes that steal the show: following Randy about his routines, achingly, effortlessly evoking the time that hangs on every choice and missed opportunity, all of it rather bittersweetly framed in the film's anti-romantic view of northwestern America.
Review Catch-Up: Doubt, Slumdog Millionaire, Defiance, The Wrestler, The Reader
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Some deal with war or politics, some deal with the bittersweet issues surrounding emancipation.
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Sorry, they don't sell piss, so no Victoria Bitters this morning.
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By the end of the" Forever's First Day", we realize that what appeared to have been a sunshiny love song perhaps is in fact a bittersweet imagination of a deluded lover.
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So, okay, bear with me while I pay another bittersweet tribute to Big Al. It won't be any gushier than Peggy Noonan's foolishly groupie-esque rhapsodizing over Ronald Reagan.
The Benediction of Big Al
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This bittersweet drama about three best buds and their midlife crises resumes its better-by-the-week second season following the premiere of the ham-fisted legal dramedy Franklin & Bash.
Matt's Picks: May 30-June 2
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I gave a bittersweet sigh and tried not to feel selfish about the situation.
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She carves me a slice, and serves it up with a spoon of the bittersweet cloudberry compôte.
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On a whim I added some maraschino liqueur and a few dashes of orange bitters to the Auchentoshan, stirred the drink over ice, and sampled it.
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That is our system and the reason it's worth all the time and expense, and even the risk that some will escape justice, is because those speedy trials without compentent counsel can lead to gross injustice which leaves a cloud of suspicion on the system that embitters the people it governs and ultimately makes their governance impossible.
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One of them had brought a lute-like instrument out of which he plucked some bittersweet notes.
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He closed them tightly, feeling the bittersweet sensation of stinging dryness and strain wetted with fresh tears beneath the lids.
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The Adagio movement consists of a similar formula, although the bittersweet writing in the first half is broken by an extended solo cadenza that combines sad feelings with dance-like freneticism.
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Ligeti Violin Concerto, an otherworldly five-movement work, moves between chaotic yet often pianissimo textures and nebulous clustery harmonies, to spare bittersweet lyricism.
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Enjoy a single square of dark bittersweet chocolate with a glass of rich, earthy Cabernet Sauvignon or Syrah.
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The bittersweet tang of pulverized sugarcane hung pungent in the breathless void of the wind.
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The play presents an insight into that which is considered to many, unknown territory, the mind of the young person and the story that unfolds is bittersweet.
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If anybody sees her, she can bid her popularity a bittersweet farewell.
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They progress much further than Gang into late adolescence, a period more amenable to bittersweet comedy.
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Angostura is best-known for its bitters, without which a good many "Wow!" cocktails would be simply "Meh.
Tony Sachs: Yo-Ho-Ho And A Snifter Of Rum: Sipping Rums To Enjoy Without Paper Umbrellas
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He tells the story of his alienated youth in "Lightning Bug," a bittersweet low-budget feature he directed in 2005.
The Virtuoso of Blood and Guts
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His last visit to her home had been bittersweet, but the question that it had raised was now at the fore of his thoughts.
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There's something distasteful about this so-called bittersweet comedy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Pain embitters some people; their misery taints the lives of all around them.
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Climbing bittersweet is a twisting, woody vine that climbs rope-like on trees.
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Other than giant forest trees, you'll find abundant barberry, winged Euonymus, Oriental bittersweet, Japanese wineberry, and shrub and vine honeysuckles.
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The purple berries of the pokeweed and the red berries of the European bittersweet, or nightshade, are common offenders.
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FLINTOFF: Christmas spoke on what he called a bittersweet day, in which he had attended a memorial for one fallen Marine, then learned that another Marine and an Afghan Army soldier had just been killed.
Violence In Marjah Raises Questions About Stability
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The great gaz also produces Regan's Orange Bitters, which, when added to a martini, make a good cocktail great and a great one divine.
Tony Sachs: Need An Excuse To Drink Some Gin? It's Charles Tanqueray's 200th Birthday!
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It's always a bittersweet moment.
The Sun
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He pressed Israel to freeze construction of settlements on land that belonged rightly to Israel, and in November 2009 issued a veiled warning: settlement construction, he said, “embitters the Palestinians in a way that could end up being very dangerous.”
Post-American Presidency
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The wry humour and lightness of spirit in Kaurismäki's films ally them with the very bittersweet comedies of Alexander Mackendrick as well as the mercilessly austere dramas of his other cinematic godhead, Robert Bresson.
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The tender, sweet meat and its bittersweet sauce go deliciously well with buttery mashed potato.
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The color is a radiant, bright light-scarlet and the aromas are filled with bittersweet cherries and strawberries.
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He invented phenomena like chrono-synclastic infundibula (places in the universe where all truths fit neatly together) as well as religions, like the Church of God the Utterly Indifferent and Bokononism (based on the books of a black British Episcopalian from Tobago "filled with bittersweet lies," a narrator says).
GreenCine Daily: Kurt Vonnegut, 1922 - 2007.
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I am in love with fantasy and fantasies of all kinds, I always have been, but its a bittersweet romance, because when you try to really consummate itwhen you try to take the fantasy out of the realm of the imaginary, and really live itvery bad things can happen.
Lev Grossman - An interview with author
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You never doubt the ugliness of the anti-Semitism that embitters Shylock.
Michael Giltz: Theater: Al Pacino in Subtle Merchant Of Venice; An Obvious Elf and More
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I had wanted to do so much better, so it was a very bittersweet moment.
The Sun
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There's also the bittersweetness of experiencing time passing and the impermanence of our lives.
Rachael Freed: Legacy Writing: The Urge To Preserve
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Every one knows the climbing-bittersweet, or "waxwork" (_Celastrus scandens_), with its bright berries hanging in clusters in the autumn copses, each yellow berry having now burst open in thin sections and exposed the scarlet-coated seeds.
My Studio Neighbors
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Empowered with determination, he caught her by the hand, and so ensnarled her for life, for it marked the beginning of their bittersweet love.
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Through the third stanza, the poem is a recollection of young love, a bittersweet and innocuous piece.
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He invented phenomena like chrono-synclastic infundibula (places in the universe where all truths fit neatly together) as well as religions, like the Church of God the Utterly Indifferent and Bokononism (based on the books of a black British Episcopalian from Tobago “filled with bittersweet lies,” a narrator says).
Archive 2007-04-01
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So now we have a drink named the Martinez that's made with gin, sweet vermouth, and orange bitters.
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I used all semi-sweet chocolate rather than the suggested darker bittersweet which is why my pudding looks lighter and milkier than the other TWD'ers.
TWD:CHOCOLATE PUDDING
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We will continue to cry at weddings because we know how bittersweet, how fragile is the troth.
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It was an excruciatingly bittersweet moment for Winnie.
The Sun
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Then he drank his lukewarm black coffee and ate the bittersweet chocolate, which went down like so much nectar and ambrosia: never a better breakfast hath man eaten, Bob felt.
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One by one Mr. Adams tells about these medical fakes: habit-forming laxatives, head-ache powders full of acetanilid, soothing-syrups and catarrh-cures full of opium and cocaine, cock-tails subtly disguised as "bitters", "sarsaparillas", and "tonics".
The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition
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I love chokeberries...with a dash of angostura bitters.
Another Dog Café.
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Despite this, there are times when rays of golden pop sunshine fall upon the album and make me question how bittersweet the irony is.
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At Embsay I found harebell, knapweed, honeysuckle, meadowsweet, bittersweet and of course lots of teasel.
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For Groningen coach Hans Westerhof defeat was bittersweet.
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Oh, the bittersweet taste of irony.
Times, Sunday Times
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And Spain's classic Liquor 43 makes an appearance in their Manhattan 43, blended with Woodford Reserve Bourbon, sweet vermouth and a dash of bitters.
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Many of the inhabitants of intertidal sand and mud flats also occur subtidally, where they are joined by tusk shells, awning clams, bittersweets, pen shells, and gastropods such as tons, helmets, harps, olives, volutes, cones and terebras.
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The film has an austere and bittersweet beauty, but this could easily be interpreted as excessive, like drowning in rivers of despair.
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Watch the movie, read the book, and you're treating yourself to a bittersweet experience, but one that'll be worth a repeat dose.
