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Similar bitternesses and rivalries have been apparent even in the EU's present, very curtailed form of fiscal union.
Hopes for Solution to Crisis Hang on ECB Alen Mattich 2011
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Each looked for larger patterns under the surface bitternesses of their day.
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Each looked for larger patterns under the surface bitternesses of their day.
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Each looked for larger patterns under the surface bitternesses of their day.
Two Speeches on Race Wills, Garry 2008
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With how many bitternesses is the sweetness of human felicity blent!
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My temporary bitternesses toward people have all been ended by what Freud called an inferiority complex and Christ called “Let him without sin—” I remember the day he said it.
A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994
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My temporary bitternesses toward people have all been ended by what Freud called an inferiority complex and Christ called “Let him without sin—” I remember the day he said it.
A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994
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Lillian at the Trillings 'living room, I was amazed that she was there, but it was a period at which these political -- the bitternesses of the' 30s between Communists and anti-Communists had f-- slightly faded, partly because Stalin was dead and Khrushchev looked like he might be liberalizing the Soviet Union.
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Unfortunately, too often, we hear a repetition of many of the old bitternesses, the old rivalries, the old prejudices.
Canada After the Meech Lake AccordIs the Nation Falling Apart? 1991
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She had in truth felt his long absence as one of the chief bitternesses of the last months: his desertion had wounded sensibilities far below the surface of her pride.
The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987
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