bitterness

If Deadwyler had any lingering bitterness about the furor, or concerns about déjà vu with the building excitement about “The Piano Lesson,” it wasn’t in evidence when she bounded into a Beverly Hills hotel room recently, upbeat and lively.

This election represented a chance to "move past the bitterness, cynicism and divisive battles of the past", she said to loud cheers.

But there was much bitterness and sorrow too.

Setting aside her biographical highlights and policy details, the message her campaign seems to want voters to have in mind on election day is one of contrasts – of division versus unity; bitterness versus hope; partisanship versus co-operation; past versus future.

Loraine became low-level depressed and, as the months of the pandemic turned to years, tinged with bitterness.