"Bitter" is the word he uses to describe his parents.

Which I feel certain could not describe your parents.

He described his parents, a successful architect and a teacher of bilingual education, as "first-generation middle class."

She describes her parents as very good people.

It was a typical response, neighbors said, describing the 14-year-old's parents as doting but strict.

"I feel I described my parents in a careful refinement of words."

Bill Stevenson, who still lives there and works for a local cable television company, described his parents as "hard-working, honest people."

They'd talked at length about members of his family, but he'd never so much as asked her to describe her parents.

This seemed odd, but then she described her parents too; quite like his in some ways, it sounded.

He had described his parents as domineering to co-workers.