In some parents' view, the more compassion they gave their baby sitters, the more bitter the parting.

A sitter's sense that she is not respected can also lead to a bitter parting.

Nelson then returned to Golden State after a bitter parting with the Mavericks' owner, Mark Cuban.

She shook her head in disbelief, remembering the harsh words she'd exchanged with this man at their bitter parting.

But that only made her songs more approachable, and more telling, as she shared scenarios of desire, betrayal, bitter parting and wary connections.

At the time of that bitter parting, the child had seen her governess in the same walking-dress which she wore now.

The two men had a bitter parting in January 1999.

"In a way, he is the emblem of his generation," says Deborah Karl, an agent who worked alongside him for the better part of a decade before a bitter parting in early 1995.

Smith, Keenan's boss until their bitter parting of last summer, complained about Keenan's free spending for free agents.

Larry Brown After a bitter parting in Detroit, Brown, below, can show he is a mastermind at mining talent to build a team.