It's a worthy subject, an important and, in many ways, bitter story.

It is a bitter story, in which music plays no redemptive role.

A sweet and bitter story about greatness, glory and the passage of time.

"Nothing makes a bitter story more palatable than a good wine!"

Then she told him her bitter story, in all its naked atrociousness.

For it seemed best to him to die soon and leave the bitter story of his life, since all was in ruin.

You see, I don't have a bitter story.

Whether this astounding and bitter story has any moral I am not sure, but it defies the old phrase "stranger than fiction."

This argument ignores the bitter story of the actually existing revolutions of our time.

There's no social science, no media analysis, little lecturing in the book; the bitter story is told mainly through poignantly realized details of feeling.