Some of my favorite things, like chocolate and tea, blueberries, alcohol in moderation, stress management and cannabinoids found in marijuana.

One only chooses bitterness when the alternative is even bitterer.

Months of bitterness and frustration are palpable through a caustic smile. And now I just wait.

Cacambo and Candide are released and travel for a month on foot and then down a river by canoe, living on fruits and berries.

Indeed, the circumstances under which the Brussels compromise has been reached leave a bitter aftertaste.

It is alleged that the Catholic Church was involved in these events, which aggravated the bitterness between Muslims and Christians.

Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption for you have cast all my sins behind your back.

Behold, for peace I had great bitterness but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

Huawei s recent failed bids for 2Wire and Motorola will only have rekindled this bitterness.

Although Chinese investors have since made numerous lower visibility plays in US markets, the failed Unocal deal left a legacy of bitterness.

By contrast, females survived best by bonding with others and building community, since such groups were needed to gather roots, nuts, and berries, while caring for small children.

HC So if miracle berries take sour things and turn them into sweet things, we have this other pixie dust that we put on the watermelon, and it makes it go from sweet to savory.

Within 10 years of the first gallbladder surgeries being done laparoscopically, a majority of gallbladder surgeries were being done laparoscopically truly a pretty big revolution.

And it made me smile because it was funny, but it was no less sad, because kids shouldn't have to contemplate the mere thought of police brutality.

By contrast, when inequality is perceived as the result of a breakdown in trusting relationships, it can lead to bitterness, and, ultimately, social unrest.

The aftermath of the 2006 coup in Thailand was not nearly so bloody. But the bitterness lingers among Shinawatra s supporters even now, when his sister, Yingluck, is Prime Minister.

Of course, the bitterness of Sino Japanese relations since the end of WWII helps set the stage for such nationalist outbursts, but the roots of China's rage go deeper.

If these two peoples can find common ground to create two states, both democratic and free, after decades of bitterness and bloodshed, the region would have an enormously powerful model of hope.

Agriculture there has been damaged by the cutting of walnut, apricot, and mulberry trees for winter fuel, and by a failure to replant poplar, willow, and tamarisk the trees that hold fragile meadows in place.

And we're entering an era of really, truly scarless surgery called NOTES, where the robotic endoscope can come out the stomach and pull out that gallbladder all in a scarless way and robotically.

In the nearly six months since Hurricane Katrina destroyed half of New Orleans, many storm victims expectations of help have been dashed, creating a legacy of bitterness.

Nelson Mandela I take a little piece of limestone from Robben Island Prison, where he labored for 27 years, and came out with so little bitterness, he could lead his people from the horror of apartheid without a bloodbath.

They should also seize the moment to liberate themselves from the bitterness that has divided the Atlantic Alliance over the Iraq War, argue Pierre Lellouche and Christoph Bertram.

Countries can either harness this growth and in so doing, transform their development prospects or face the risk of an alienated generation embittered by the unfulfilled chance of a better future.

Worse, there is serious acrimony between Russia and the rest on many matters, including a new, alternative security architecture, which Russian President Dmitri Medvedev imagines could be placed under the OSCE s umbrella.

Instead, as the friction of recent years has amply attested, China continues to nurture the bitterness of its people, and those of other Asian countries, toward Japan. Its hope is to rule out any Japanese role in resolving regional security issues, and to diminish the potency of the US Japan alliance.

Most Turks don t want to see their country excluded from the West, but if the EU spurns them while speeding up entry for weaker candidates, Turkey may come to feel sufficiently strong and embittered to strike out on a new geo political course.

The time for celebrations will come only after the new treaty is ratified. Indeed, the circumstances under which the Brussels compromise has been reached leave a bitter aftertaste.