Marritza attempted to smile as he guided Daul back toward the footbridge outside the little building, and again Daul thought he detected bitterness.

The commander made a grimace in which Paoul detected great anguish and bitterness.

While it is natural to detect bitterness and envy in Werner's letter, Jones points out that the criticisms might well have been legitimate, and that the letter produced a useful bureaucratic response.

I detect bitterness, Waylander.

This was also the smell of the future that he had firmly rejected, however, and underneath the mouth-watering savour, Tommy detected a cloying sweetness that, by virtue of its very intensity, would in time sour the appetite, nauseate, and leave the tongue capable of detecting only bitterness in any flavour.

He said he detected bitterness or even desperation in the attitude of some women, because so many are competing for a pool of black men whose eligibility has been diluted by prison, drugs or unemployment.

The taste buds in the tongue detect sweetness, sourness, bitterness and salt.

I was sure I detected bitterness in his voice as he said: "What makes you imagine I should do so?"

Luke detected bitterness in Khan's tone.

If you detect bitterness in a dish from an ingredient like mushrooms or radicchio, salting tends to cancel it out.