The King laughed for the first time, a cackle edged, like a burnt cookie, with bitterness.
Ms Del Ponte was, from 1999 to 2003, chief prosecutor of the Rwanda tribunal based in Tanzania, a job which she also writes about with bitterness.
Some also reflect with bitterness that Kenyans were not specifically targeted by al-Qaeda - those killed were bystanders caught up a battle between a superpower and the Islamist militant network.
But the pride felt in the rescue attempts was tinged with bitterness in Senghenydd, as many felt that the mine's owners had failed to heed the warning of a similar disaster nine years before, in which all but one of the 82 miners on shift had been killed.
When Big Scar Wu arrived in the underworld and word spread of his demise, they renamed him Smiley Cat, much to his chagrin, with the name fuelling his bitterness with every utterance and driving his thirst for revenge.
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To Husna it felt like a validation, almost like revenge, and yet with the bitterness of triumph after humiliation.
The tears that filled Chung's eyes as he spoke to an auditorium of 500 Hyundai Motor executives and employees may have been brimming with the bitterness of betrayal.
And in this season of goodwill, perhaps the level of bitterness with which they are received may say more about the "Bah, humbug" attitude of the recipient, says Ms James.
Sourness is not associated with water, but bitterness, for example, can be caused by magnesium chloride and calcium chloride.
For example, some two dozen genes are linked with different types of bitterness.
It was so hard for me to carry all that burden with that hatred, with that anger and bitterness.
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But, it says with a touch of bitterness, "only Slobodan Milosevic is on the bench of the accused, while Stipe Mesic is a witness for the prosecution".
It's hard to resist a nationwide party, so you'll find the clueless mingling with the season ticket holders, which can lead to bitterness from both quarters when apathy meets with bone-crushing enthusiasm.
Grapefruit curd with mascarpone and a crumble of pistachio and green tea demonstrated the more elegant notes of bitterness, and sunchoke cream with chestnut, black-trumpet mushrooms, and coffee expounded on the sweet-savory spectrum of nuttiness.
"Everything's tinged with irony and sarcasm and bitterness and darkness these days, " he said.
The crowd began lining up at the Store on the corner of Henan Middle Road and East Nanjing Road at 10pm on Thursday, and were rewarded for their patience and bitterness-munching skills with staff hand-outs of high-fives, full-on reciprocal man-on-man hugs with hoisting involved, and free gray t-shirts.
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"If this election is to take the political pulse of our nation, then I want every beat and every vote to show a nation that looks with hope and generosity and courage to the future, not with regret or hurt, and bitterness of the past, " he said in the final hours of the race.
It is through this that the legends of the soul's journey are re-told with all their gaiety and their tragedy and the bitterness and sweetness of living.
Consider a tasting where drinkers sample a beer with a particular characteristic (flavor from German hops, hop bitterness, smoked malt, amount of cherry juice, the options are endless) and rate the intensity of that characteristic.
And while the bitterness also comes from basic psychology operating in an economy with a growing wealth disparity, it is more complicated.
Vietnam's leaders, along with its youthful and optimistic population, genuinely seem to have overcome any bitterness about past conflicts and are looking firmly to the future.
The EU has managed grand package deals before, but the previous summit held with the intention of finalising the constitution, in late 2003, broke up in bitterness.
And I think that bitterness sometimes turns into jealousy, it gets in the way of our relationship with our child and it certainly gets in the way of the relationship between our children and their father or fathers.
Although immigration from North Africa is a century-long phenomenon (170, 000 Algerians and 130, 000 Moroccans were recruited to fight for France in the first world war), what sticks in the memory is the bitterness of the Algerian war of 1954-62, when Frenchmen and Algerians killed and tortured each other with enthusiastic brutality.
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