| Hostile rumours circulated against him at court, and, as younger, less deserving men overtook him in rank, his embitterment deepened, and he became noticeably more eccentric. |
| Limerick is still a cardinal memory in the long story of Irish embitterment. |
| The lack of progress has hardened feelings of embitterment and emboldened hard-line rejectionists on both sides of the divide. |
| But if America came to be seen as an ally of the Shia, it would do little to assuage the Sunni embitterment that feeds IS's appeal. |
| It may be that some old personal embitterment or other prevailed over his qualifications of statesmanship. |
| Street brawls arising out of the embitterment of feeling were not infrequent. |
