He meant the term as a pejorative, for underneath the mock academic tract lay bitter social commentary.
Chekov thought he heard echoes of someone else's voice in the boy's bitter commentary.
It is a bitter commentary on our society when superficial parents use the formative years of their children for social-climbing purposes.
The title track was a bitter commentary on the treatment of Vietnam veterans, some of whom were Springsteen's friends and bandmates.
The Soviet press struck an expectant tone, after a week of sometimes bitter commentaries about the American uproar over embassy security.
"That, if you remember, was a bitter commentary on his blindness."
Their lives are entirely given over to a bitter commentary on the world, the light, the time of day it is.
I thought all this bitter commentary was a creation of their weird imaginations, because it is so at variance with the men I know.
By design that could be a bitter commentary on the state of the arts, not merely a jarring reality.
So Will's celebrity becomes a prominent part of the story, even if the film means to make a bitter commentary on the media and its feeding frenzies.