embitter

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Both Sam and Ruth are embittered by loss and a sense of alienation, thus their shared tendencies toward self-harm — Sam with his suicidal ideations and Ruth with her relentless drinking.

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But Mr. dos Santos had fallen out with his old party, embittered after two of his children were caught up in corruption scandals.

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As the embittered Charlotte, Sierra Boggess offers a sad and hilarious sketch of a wife so steeped in the brine of her own disappointment that she actually looks pickled.

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Instead, the real coup of “Götterdämmerung” is the realization, earlier on, that the kidnapped Rheingold-boy has grown up to become the embittered, ambivalent Hagen.

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Ms. Guadarrama, whose family has had to make difficult financial sacrifices to keep their children in school, is embittered by the lack of government support.

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