Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...next big film season. So, for those who saw Star Wars: Episode I this past summer -- and judging by the $792 million in box office receipts, many did -- you might have noticed a few of the trailers preceding the film promoted movies scheduled for release late in the bitter winter months. At that same screening, you might also have noticed a conspicuous lack of substance in these preview slots. One, hyping an animated feature called Titan A.E. simply featured Matt Damon voicing over images of a futuristic Earth being attacked by vicious bug-like creatures ripped off from Starship Troopers...
...ironic or falsely spiritual to believe in anything as simple and real as the value of living on a hillside farm in West Virginia, we lack a politics that functions as a repository of our hopes and dreams." Even to a reader less self-consciously worldly and less corrosively bitter than Hodge, Purdy's tone and substance--the fact that this book is about Jedediah Purdy, and that any power in the book springs from his unshakeable convictions--may seem narcissistic; and his tendency towards moralistic aphorisms, towards a Thoreauvian epigrammatic style, seems a little bit pompous...
This summer, as I scuttled around New Zealand, a victim of Let's Go exploitation, I did some thinking. I was all alone, bitter and so bored that I watched my laptop's graphics demo five times. A low-key break from civilization turned into a personal hell when I realized who I was stuck with--me. The sound of my voice in my head drove me insane as I'd crank through the same set of self-examining questions. Over and over. I would even dictate impassioned editor's notes (like this) in my head. At the time...
...open houses. Students want and need to know what readings are expected and to be able to purchase them. The Coop wants to provide the correct number of books at the best cost to avoid the Internet competition and the angry, frustrated students in line worked up about the bitter end of shopping freedom and the need to commit...
...latter of the two victories sent Harvard home from the second round of the NCAA tournament and ended its season, leaving a bitter taste in the mouths of some Crimson players...