unembittered

But time spent with this sagacious woman, so unembittered by poverty and rejection, was evidently prized.

Alice Neel: Painted Truths; In the Company of Alice 2010

He personally supervised the plantings at his various residences and took great satisfaction in tending his gardens with his own hands, remarking that this simple pleasure was unembittered by the recollection of pain or injury inflicted on others, or the loss of moral rectitude.

The Splendid Spoils of Standard Oil Jonathan Lopez 2010

“Know you then,” he said, “a blameless use of riches? such a use as not only in the broad glare of day shall shine resplendent, but in the darkness of midnight, and stillness of repose, shall give you reflections unembittered, and slumbers unbroken? tell me, know you this use?”

Cecilia 2008

And it is in Agnes — as the marvellous fourth act opens where her love for the little dear dead child is revealed, and where her patience endures all the cruelties of her husband's fanaticism — it is in Agnes that Ibsen's genius for the first time utters the clear, unembittered note of full humanity.

Henrik Ibsen 2008

And it is in Agnes — as the marvellous fourth act opens where her love for the little dear dead child is revealed, and where her patience endures all the cruelties of her husband's fanaticism — it is in Agnes that Ibsen's genius for the first time utters the clear, unembittered note of full humanity.

Henrik Ibsen 2008

I want my pleasure unembittered by any drop of pain.

Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions 2007

Are you in an box, unembittered, playing a 60-year-old Jamaican woman?

Think Progress » Pentagon Covering Up Tens of Thousands of U.S. Casualties In Official Reports 2005

How about Elizabeth Lemmon, the lovely, & unembittered and sacrified virgin, the victim of what I gradually and depressingly found was the vanity of her family.

A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994

How about Elizabeth Lemmon, the lovely, & unembittered and sacrified virgin, the victim of what I gradually and depressingly found was the vanity of her family.

A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994

Polite Society, the Family, the Church, Sound Business, the Party, the Country, the Superior White Race; and the only defense against them, Carol beheld, is unembittered laughter.

Main Street 2004