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all and bitter
Leaving the theatre after the performance, I had a flash of intuition that life, after all ( as Rilke said ), is just a search for the nonexistent cup of hot coffee, and that this unpretentious, moving, clever, bitter slice of life was the greatest thing to happen to the American theatre since Brooks Atkinson retired.
The cynicism was back in her eyes, a bitter wisdom, and I wondered if forty were not so far wrong after all.
These were all defeated, by an opposition that included a fellow Tennessean, Isham G. Harris, who later became a bitter enemy.
Upon his return to Peru in 1537, Almagro was bitter and eager to once and for all claim the riches of the city of Cuzco for himself.
By shunning the humble garment of an exploited person, ( garments which, in my opinion, are the result of all the laws devised to make our lives bitter ), we feel there no others left but just the natural laws.
Nonetheless, many of the prominent old-time Colts, many of whom had settled in the Baltimore area, were bitter and chose to cut all ties to the relocated Colts team.
In a bitter feud, he overthrew Aeson ( the rightful king ), killing all the descendants of Aeson that he could.
Though many delegates emerged in the East subservient to Justinian, many, especially the Monophysites, remained unsatisfied ; all the more bitter for him because during his last years he took an even greater interest in theological matters.
After half of all humanity perishes in the conflict, the war settled into a bitter stalemate lasting over 8 months.
: On all other nights, we eat all kinds of vegetables, but tonight, we eat only bitter herbs?
This is a typical example of Anderson's frequent motif of a tragic conflict — a story with no villains at all, with all protagonists having the best of good intentions and still forced into bitter conflict.
Different salts can elicit all five basic tastes, e. g., salty ( sodium chloride ), sweet ( lead diacetate, which will cause lead poisoning if ingested ), sour ( potassium bitartrate ), bitter ( magnesium sulfate ), and umami or savory ( monosodium glutamate ).
When Samuel found out that Saul had not killed them all, he became angry and launched into a long and bitter diatribe about how God regretted making Saul king, because Saul was disobedient.
Some scholars take the view that " they may not have been Isamailis at all at the outset, and their conduct and customs gave plausibility to the belief that they were not merely heretics but bitter enemies of Islam.
Even lightly cooked, the flavour is quite bitter and the food is not enjoyed by all inhabitants of these nations, though it is believed to be good for one's health.
# Shebb ' khol hallelot anu okh ’ lin sh ’ ar y ' rakot, vehallayla hazze maror. Why is it that on all other nights we eat all kinds of vegetables, but on this night we eat bitter herbs?
" In all the heated theological controversies of the day, particularly the long and bitter one concerning the views put forward by Dr Horace Bushnell, he was conspicuous, using his influence to bring about harmony, and in the councils of the Congregational churches, over two of which, the Brooklyn councils of 1874 and 1876. he presided as moderator, he manifested great ability both as a debater and as a parliamentarian.
Willette frequently reveals himself bitter and fierce, even ferocious, in his hatreds, being a violent though at the same time a generous partisan of political ideas, furiously compassionate with love and pity for the people whether they be ground down under the heel of political oppression, or are merely the victims ot unrequited love, suffering all the pangs of graceful anguish that are born of scornful treatment.
As He listens to the screaming of the shells, the crashing of monstrous guns, all the ghastly symphony of the reddest war mankind has ever known, His heart must recognize the bitter truth in the statement of one of the world's foremost educators — That in nineteen centuries Civilization has failed to accept honestly the teachings of Jesus Christ.
The Latin Myrrha originated from the Ancient Greek múrrā, but, ultimately, the word is of Semitic origin, with roots in the Arabic murr, the Hebrew mōr, and the Aramaic mūrā, all meaning " bitter " as well as referring to the plant.
The swineherd refuses to accept the vow that Odysseus, whom he loves above all others ( rendering him especially bitter towards the suitors ), is finally on his way home.

all and in-fighting
Themistocles claimed that the Allied command was in-fighting, that the Peloponnesians were planning to evacuate that very night, and that to gain victory all the Persians need to do was to block the straits.
Arnold gained significant experience in aircraft production and procurement, the construction of air schools and airfields, and the recruitment and training of large numbers of personnel, as well as learning political in-fighting in the Washington environment, all of which helped him significantly 25 years later.
It is a widely held belief that if the Skaven could put aside their in-fighting and distrust of each other, they could potentially take over the world: fortunately their innate paranoia and deceitful, treacherous natures make such an occurrence all but impossible.
Subversion in the army, a series of local cantonalist risings, instability in Barcelona, failed anti-federalist coups, calls for revolution by the International Workingmen's Association, the lack of any broad political legitimacy, and personal in-fighting among the republican leadership all further weakened the republic.
Arends was noted for his generally conservative voting record, his successful re-election as whip amid Republican in-fighting after the 1964 election, and his unwavering loyalty to President Richard M. Nixon at all stages of the Watergate scandal.
At the time, all three branches of the US military were in the process of developing their own rockets, which led to considerable in-fighting between them on the priority of future developments.
In 1974, the house was closed to complete renovations required by updated safety regulations, but cost over-runs, corruption, and political in-fighting all added to the delay and it remained closed for twenty-three years, finally re-opening on 12 May 1997, four days before its centenary.
However, his victory came at a price, as it would lead to almost two decades of party in-fighting, leadership challenges and the need for political power at all costs.

all and squabbles
Following mutual atrocities of the Oddi and the Baglioni families, power was at last concentrated in the Baglioni, who, though they had no legal position, defied all other authority, though their bloody internal squabbles culminated in a massacre, 14 July 1500.
Nearly all of them were portrayed as being cold and cruel in their attitude toward humans if not outright insane due to their power and long lives and would rather carry on their petty squabbles from ancient times.
Unicron attacked this Cybertron early on in its history, presumably after all but one of the Primes left once their squabbles escalated into murder.
‘ You must understand once for all that we have changed these matters ; or rather that our way of looking at them has changed … We do not deceive ourselves, indeed, or believe that we can get rid of all the trouble that besets the sexes … but we are not so mad as to pile up degradation on that unhappiness by engaging in sordid squabbles about livelihood and position, and the power of tyrannizing over the children who have been the result of love or lust.
" He also said: "... But basically I enjoyed Slums of Beverly Hills -- for the wisecracking, for the family squabbles, for the notion of squatters who stake a claim in a Beverly Hills where money, after all, is not the only currency.
Internecine squabbles and continued deteriorating business conditions all around undermined the effectiveness of this pooling effort, and coal prices and revenues fluctuated year by year.

all and over
`` You mean you dragged your wife all over hell's half-acre looking for work ''??
There were tracks of cattle all over his six hundred and forty acres.
If, when this was all over, she found the words to tell him about it, she wondered if he would ever understand.
Elena, you'll get mud all over your dress ''!!
The company herds were being raided less often, and cabins and soddies all over the range were standing deserted.
one with blood all over it, Arbuckle's blood ''.
this is not so, for education offers all kinds of dividends, including how to pull the wool over a husband's eyes while you are having an affair with his wife.
He already had that slow pace that comes over the elderly, while she herself had all the signs of one who appreciates the joys of living.
It's all over now, the driver thought as he saw the patrolman turn and walk rapidly down along the trailer toward them.
He stood there, towering over them all: gentle, mighty, determined, the moving force in the group ; ;
`` It's all over Branchville.
Real big, with shoulders out to here, and hair all over him like a grizzly.
As for progress, the `` backward South '' can boast of Baton Rouge, which increased its population between 1940 and 1950 by two hundred and sixty-two percent, to 126,000, the second largest growth of the period for all cities over 25,000.
At one time she felt impelled to make dances that `` moved all over the stage '', much as Pollock's paintings move violently over the full extent of the canvas.
The dweller at p is last to hear about a new cure, the slowest to announce to his neighbors his urgent distresses, the one who goes the farthest to trade, and the one with the greatest difficulty of all in putting over an idea or getting people to join him in a cooperative effort.
So in these pages the term `` technology '' is used to include any and all means which could amplify, project, or augment man's control over himself and over other men.
Carl thought the question over slowly and answered: `` I know a starving man who is fed never remembers all the pangs of his starvation, I know that ''.
And after all this, Shann went over all that Bang-Jensen had brought up ''.
The Hearst dollar mark is all over them.
By 1783 her legions had managed to annex the Crimea amid scenes of wanton cruelty and now, in this second combat with the Crescent, were aiming at suzerainty over all of the Black Sea's northern shoreline.
Fosdick had found the installations surrounded by a battery of saloons and houses of prostitution, with filles de joie from all over the country flocking to San Antonio, Laredo, and El Paso to `` woman the cribs ''.
His metier was the American tropics, and he had lived all over Latin America and among the primitive tribes on the Amazon river.

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