| One must know how to tell the bitterest truth when the fate of a war and of a revolution depend on it. |
| Is he to be anathematised for rebelling against his father, Henry II, in alliance with Philip Augustus, destined to prove his bitterest and most unscrupulous opponent? |
| It was the bitterest pill of all, but John swallowed it, and stepped into the house. |
| And all the while people suffer, the abyss between rich and poor yawns, and exploitation continues as the bitterest fact of everyday life. |
| It was, he declared afterwards, one of the bitterest moments in his career. |
| The bitterest military conflict in late twentieth-century Latin American history came to an end with all sides claiming a measure of victory. |
