How To Use Embitter In A Sentence

This is not good for anybody, except for a few curmudgeons and people who are embittered by nothing more than their own embitteredness.
On Christmas Eve he started on his journey, and the next four years were spent among convicts in a prison at Omsk. He has described his experiences there in his Memories of the House of the Dead (1853) experiences which, though frightful in the extreme, seem to have strengthened rather than injured him in body and mind, though they may have embittered his temper. Biographical Note
Sylvia, receiving this into a sore and raw consciousness, said to herself with an embittered instinct for cynicism that she had never heard more euphonious periphrases for selling yourself for money. The Bent Twig
Mr Papandreou's Pasok, embittered and demoralised, remains unable to evolve from unreconstructed popularism and anti-right rhetoric.
And can you envision a scenario that would not leave behind embittered relatives who would raise their boys to be the future “terrorists” or “insurgents”, battling in guerilla warfare, using suicide bombers, kidnapping and torturing individual Americans, or whatever else they could do to hurt us in the future? Think Progress » “Guantanamo ought to be closed immediately”

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In David McPhail's hands, George is laconic, with an embittered acceptance of an underachieving life.
Unlike a few I know, I was not embittered as a result.
Monique broke off her embittered harangue of the soldiers on the pier, and Professor Saito steered his wife's arm towards the reef. RUSHING TO PARADISE
He will spark of such an argument via the use of ad hominem attacks (i.e. 'you're nothing but a fanboy' is a popular phrase) (or in this case repeated accusations that those contributing are "embittered feminists") with no substance or relevance to back them up as well as straw man arguments (i.e. continual redefining of what the discussion is actually about), which he uses to simply avoid addressing the essence of the issue. Sex and the single Marvel super heroine | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
The pair clashed - Vea blocking an embittered stab with his own weapon and almost dropping to a knee in the thickening mud.
Nature thought good sense a handsome dower — but good sense in dependance is like a chef d oeuvres of Raffaelle [10] in a bog house. if the savages of America have fewer luxuries than the slaves of Europe they have fewer miseries — the artificial distinctions of birth & fortune are unknown — distinctions which though the Philosopher must despise, he must want. on the banks of the Oronoko when the young savages is born — his infancy is neither embitterd by fashionable nursing his puberty by absurd education or his life by the anxieties so frequent Letter 66
Worst of all, economically, the hard knocks and lucky breaks of life, which people generally accept when they are distributed by fate, become politicized, and therefore embittering. My Inflation Nightmare
The belated realization that these things are no longer so leads to the embittered and baffled reaction that they ought to be so.
They ignored all her pleas and she became very embittered.
For will any of sound discretion approve of my being beaten as a boy, because, by playing at ball, I made less progress in studies which I was to learn, only that, as a man, I might play more unbeseemingly? and what else did he who beat me? who, if worsted in some trifling discussion with his fellow-tutor, was more embittered and jealous than I when beaten at ball by a play-fellow? The First Book
And the situation only gets worse following with the arrival of their embittered mother. The Sun
Besides an embittered intelligentsia, anti-Chechen barriers in higher education and industry, along with the high birth rate, generated a large “subproletariat” of underemployed, rural young men, dependent on migratory work. The Return
They were like young and beautiful Dantes carved in ebony; Dantes unembittered by the world, unsicklied by the pale cast of thought, and glowing with the life of the warm South. A Thousand Miles Up the Nile
Noël, an observant neighbour in Jamaica, found her garrulous, snobbish and socially aggressive, while success had embittered him.
He has been painted as embittered, compromised and a serial quitter. Times, Sunday Times
He was without kith or kin, a lonely old man, embittered and pessimistic, fighting vermin the while and looking at Garibaldi, Engels, and Dan Burns gazing down at him from the blood-bespattered walls. DAN CULLEN, DOCKER
the embitterment that resulted from the loss of his job never left him
It took twenty years before Cambridge University actually gave him a lectureship, a fact that left Leavis baffled and embittered rather than regretting the disputes he had scattered in his wake and that had cost him a number of teaching jobs. The Grumpy Critic « Tales from the Reading Room
She found true love with a friend, while he is embittered and can't think of marrying ever again.
He spent the final six years of his political career as a disengaged and at times embittered figure on the parliamentary backbench, finally retiring in 1996.
Her perspective is one-note and angry, embittered. A Woman’s Place « Tales from the Reading Room
It embitters the feelings, and hardens and brutifies the heart. The White Slave; or, Memoirs of a Fugitive
Has your experience at the hands of Mr Howard embittered you?
The loss of all his money embitter the old man.
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
He still looks remarkably buff for an embittered, middle-aged alcoholic.
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
The politician does it to secure votes; but the worst class is composed of those who edit papers that circulate only among the scum of society, and embittered by the sight of luxuries beyond their reach, are always ready to denounce the rich and excite the lower classes against what they call the oppression of the aristocracy. The Great Riots of New York, 1712 to 1873
He gives a sterling performance as the lily-livered auctioneer Mick Flanagan with Shona Heffernan in top form as his embittered, feisty wife Mamie.
So you're right to order the army not to fire: The last thing you need is to furnish the protesters with a galvanizing event, or the officers with an embittering one. Being Hosni Mubarak
In health care, lockstep Republican opposition caused months of delay, and empowered the likes of Connecticut's embittered Senator Joe Lieberman and Nebraska's compromised Ben Nelson to exact cankerous concessions to forge a super-majority. Robert L. Borosage: Bipartisan Blight
No doubt his talk on this point would be true, had any such skin-dominancy as he contemplates been officially established; but as at present most officials are appointed (locally at least) according to their merit, and not to their epidermis, nothing is known of the embittered relations so constantly dinned into our ears. West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas
But the ritual requires that everyone, including the most embittered enemies, agree that it was all terribly outrageous.
On the contrary, their recollection is embittered by the cruelty, exploitation and official oppression which they recall.
Over the past couple of hours a lot of rebarbative, ulcerated and embittered people had been working hard at bedding their resentments down in sensory-deprivation tanks full of alcohol.
I actually did know a man whose embittered wife sold off his entire collection while he was away on a business trip. The Times Literary Supplement
After all, they have come to expect intelligent and sensitive cultural commentary from this site; not the lager-fuelled ravings of an embittered curmudgeon.
The strike costs GM $2 billion, embitters workers, and ripples across the U.S. economy.
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
Then he had been brought home, paralysed from the waist down, embittered and resentful.
At Oxford they formed a band of embittered political exiles. The English Civil War: A People's History
Likewise, Hilty finds her star-making gig as Karen's blonder, bustier competition, embittered chorus girl Ivy Lynn, easily accessible. On The Set: The Curtain Rises for NBC's Smash
Or better still, removed, as the banning of football was probably a reflex by some embittered council hack who always got picked last at breaktime. Your cooperation in reading this blog post is requested
Hardened and embittered by the selfish treasons that had beset his early boyhood, and which had forced him into manhood before his time, he came to England as one called thither by the late king's designation, and, therefore, the lawful heir. Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II
Their racism did not take the form of embittered prejudice.
Mrs. Dowling's spirits had strikingly recovered even before the pair passed from the corridor: she moved almost bouncingly beside her embittered son, and her eyes and all the convolutions of her abundant face were blithe. Alice Adams
One only had to look at the vast amounts of war medals sold for a pittance by impoverished and embittered veterans at flea markets.
He was essentially a decent man who loved not wisely: at times foolish but always generous and admirably unembittered. The Times Literary Supplement
It was a huge setback at the time, and an embittering one. Times, Sunday Times
Unlike communism and socialism, trade unionism has rarely inspired published ‘second thoughts’ by embittered apostates.
Their father dies in a nursing home, ‘a lonely and embittered old man.’
The socialist idealist turns into a prissy schoolteacher heading for embittered spinsterdom; the dreamer and future novelist becomes a hack journalist; the golden boy back from World War I ends up a drunk, and so on. Epic Theatre Travels Into Past, Present and Future
Duncan is too pathetic; Annie is too deadpan; Tucker is too broodily good-looking (in my imagination at least); and sideline characters, like Annie's tragic shrink, Malcolm, and Tucker's embittered love-child, Lizzie, are too hilarious to be left theatrically unrealized. Katya Wachtel: HuffPo Review: Nick Hornby's, Juliet, Naked
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. Archive 2007-01-01
'But, Sir! but my father!' cried Camilla, hanging over him, and losing in filial tenderness her personal distresses; 'if your manner of living is altered, and my dear mother returns home and sees you relinquishing any of your small, your temperate indulgencies, may it not yet more embitter her sufferings and her displeasure for the unhappy cause? Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
I mean, is this just the fact that he was fired, and so he's embittered?
He didn't let illness and divorce embitter him.
The worst thing that could happen would be for it to end indecisively, with embittered semi-losers on all sides.
The sight of this empty-headed dandified "masher" embittered me, and I reminded him rather brutally of ten shilling he had borrowed from me. Hunger
The embittering assault on public education has created a response. Brian Jones: Karl Marx: Teacher of the Year?
Pain embitters some people; their misery taints the lives of all around them.
But in the eyes of this grizzled, embittered old observer, the all-time masterpiece is a short story written by Gene Hill. Uncategorized Blog Posts
Ivan, indulging in sensual pleasures, became more and more brutified; and Clotilda, yielding up her soul to the dominion of pride, hatred, and violence, became so embittered against her unfortunate husband that she compassed his death by violence, and seized the crown, reigning in the name of her infant son, Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside
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
And the situation only gets worse following with the arrival of their embittered mother. The Sun
At Oxford they formed a band of embittered political exiles. The English Civil War: A People's History
He was deeply embittered when he retired in 1935.
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
The artist was embittered by public neglect.
An agreement has been reached between the Governments of Chile and Peru whereby the celebrated Tacna-Arica dispute, which has so long embittered international relations on the west coast of South America, has at last been adjusted. State of the Union Address (1790-2001)
She listened in silence to these embittered outbursts, without protest. HERE BE DRAGONS
We lift high the matzah, the bread of affliction, for all to see; we taste the painful maror to remind us of embittered lives and oppressive work; we drink four cups of redemptive wine. Ari Hart: Food Justice At Your Seder Table
Those triumphs quickly turned sour when looting and lawlessness took over the thinly patrolled streets, embittering residents, stalling reconstruction and giving the insurgency a jump-start on the occupation authorities.
Ontheir eighth album, they stay true to form in their machinations of artfrom misery; pop from catastrophe and embitterment; beauty from heartwrenching bitterness.
These injustices embittered her even more
By the time the Club's membership had voted the measure down, a lot of participants were embittered and the environmental movement was tarnished in the eyes of many onlookers.
By the time he died, Crompton was an embittered man having made little or no money from his invention which was unpatented and, therefore, copied by many.
His ugliness was embittered somewhat by sunken, toothless jaws and an enigmatical stare from a cross-eye; he was also knock-kneed, and as an erstwhile gunpowder worker, had lost two fingers and a large part of one ear. Across China on Foot
By this pusillanimous act he stained the honors of a military life; and the few days which he survived in Galata, or the Isle of Chios, were embittered by his own and the public reproach. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
In health care, lockstep Republican opposition caused months of delay, and empowered the likes of Connecticut\'s embittered Senator Joe Lieberman and Nebraska\'s compromised Ben Nelson to exact cankerous concessions to forge a super-majority. Robert L. Borosage: Bipartisan Blight
The main villain is Doctor Cube, who wears a white cubic helmet with a frowning visage that resembles an embittered smiley face.
Two of these women died in obscurity; the third died as a lonely, embittered figure who was nonetheless loved by millions.
Although a solution was found, the experience has embittered me with the psychiatric establishment.
Embittered Tarn seemed finally resigned to its vassal status and paid its exorbitant taxes without a murmur. IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
The annexation of 1877, so bitterly condemned by him, followed by the treaty of peace of 1881, with its famous "suzerainty" clause, was, I think, but a stepping stone to the war which was said to have embittered the last years of the life of Queen Victoria. An Autobiography
McDougal grew even more embittered after he was indicted and tried for eight federal felony counts for conspiracy, fraud, false statements and fiscal misdealing. Living History
He spent the final six years of his political career as a disengaged and at times embittered figure on the parliamentary backbench, finally retiring in 1996.
Meanwhile, researchers continue to profile the mind of the average smoker, hoping to unshackle the cigarette debate from embittered politics they say hinder progress.
They single-handedly did more to embitter me toward opposing fans than anyone else in any sport, including Flyers fans and Duke fans.
All this was embittering, but came too late to be put down as 'cause'. The Times Literary Supplement
The conflicts of the time have been forgotten as this embittered old man has been apotheosised into an elder statesman.
The more openly this despotism proclaims gain to be its end and aim, the more petty, the more hateful and the more embittering it is. Brian Jones: Karl Marx: Teacher of the Year?
I actually did know a man whose embittered wife sold off his entire collection while he was away on a business trip. The Times Literary Supplement
Far from letting his wartime experiences embitter him towards other Europeans, he often talked about his great admiration for his German former adversaries, and his lasting affection for Italy and its people.
His wife's desertion had embittered him, and her name was forbidden to be mentioned. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
I think it embitters the Palestinians in a way that could end up being very dangerous. Eric Trager: Obama's "Dangerous" Mideast Analysis
Two things resulted; first, fury, which day by day was so embittered by the difficulty of obtaining money for daily subsistence, that it was a marvel all Paris did not revolt at once, and that the emeute was appeased; second, the Parliament, taking its stand upon this public emotion, held firm to the end in refusing to register the edict instituting the new company. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
He refers to the elder Dubus affectionately as "Pop" and doesn't seem embittered by the havoc the man wreaked on his family. Bareknuckle Beginnings
The characters, for instance, in The Financial Expert (1952) ” small-time con men, greedy landlords, ingrate children, embittered parents, unhappy wives, exploited villagers ” are like people locked in a trance, in what the Hindus call maya: the immense illusion of existence. The Great Narayan
Actress Patricia Doyle, the narrator, plays her as an embittered crone looking back on her wicked life.
Many of the landless farm labourers and even the low-salaried and embittered middle class men will remain dissatisfied by the reforms of the Government, because these reforms are running short of the irresponsible Nazi promises. Hungary at the Crossroads
His father had been an embittered hired hand to a poor tenant farmer in the forsaken moorlands of Jutland.
And yet this most gracious of advertisements for rationalism and humanism was unbowed, and unembittered. Times, Sunday Times
Through their numerous recensions, Sarah's memoirs became more rather than less embittered.
The very fact that European voices failed to make it clear that Hamas is condemned as well as Israel, embitters Israelis. Lord Weidenfeld of Chelsea: Gaza, Iranian Rockets and J Street
The main villain is Doctor Cube, who wears a white cubic helmet with a frowning visage that resembles an embittered smiley face.
Desmond Tutu said that long-suffering can embitter you, but it can also change you in a great way and Mandela has done the latter.
Further, the decision has the potential to embitter me to the point where I will actively campaign my classmates (which, as you know, had record levels of participation in alumni giving) to stop giving money, as well.
The Hellenes, holding them in suspicion, marched separately with the guides, and they encamped on each occasion a parasang apart, or rather less; and both parties kept watch upon each other as if they were enemies, which hardly tended to lull suspicion; and sometimes, whilst foraging for wood and grass and so forth on the same ground, blows were exchanged, which occasioned further embitterments. Anabasis
Settlement of the Tacna-Arica question, which had embittered the relations of Chile and Peru for many years (diplomatic relations severed 1910). 1925-27
When competition becomes the dominant model for social reward, only a few can succeed, whereas the rest grow embittered.
Fathers, do not embitter your children, or they will become discouraged.
He is now a gray haired old man, with one sorrow over his one act of disobedience, one wrong word embittering all his life -- with those words ever ringing in his ears, "Mother, I don't love you now. Children's Edition of Touching Incidents : and Remarkable Answers to Prayer
She was accustomed to a certain domineering authority in his language, rendered all the more difficult to endure by the sarcasm with which he sometimes embittered his words, as though he had dipped them in gall before pronouncing them, -- but this apparent abandonment of reserve, this almost touching assumption of candour, were phases of his histrionical ability which he had never till now displayed in her presence. The Master-Christian
Turati's "reformism" seems to be less opportunistic than it was, but as long as he insists, as he does to-day, that it is only conditions that have changed and not his reformist tactics, that the revolutionaries are moving towards the reformists, the relation of the two factions is likely to remain as embittered as ever. Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement
Seriously, men have become sulky load of Primates picking their ears disconsolately behind a jungle shrub and the interweb is populated by more than its share of embittered divorced males. Happy Valentines Day I Don`t Think
For will any of sound discretion approve of my being beaten as a boy, because, by playing a ball, I made less progress in studies which I was to learn, only that, as a man, I might play more unbeseemingly? and what else did he who beat me? who, if worsted in some trifling discussion with his fellow-tutor, was more embittered and jealous than I when beaten at ball by a play-fellow? The Confessions
He embittered by his dismissal in 1906 and was not averse to consorting with the rightists if that would improve his chances.
The lack of progress has hardened feelings of embitterment and emboldened hard-line rejectionists on both sides of the divide.
The perceptive and often compassionate way the series examines the forces that corrupt and embitter us - that can turn us into monsters, so to speak - raises this series above the conventional good-versus-evil horror yarn.
He had turned into an embittered, hardened adult.
This clearly upsets and embitters some of the Clinton supporters who feel, well, entitled to our unquestioning support. Obama: Hillary "Can Run As Long As She Wants"
… I think it embitters them and makes them hate learning. Study: College students rarely use librarians' expertise

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