Not enough, but it did take off some of the bitter edge.

The play's bitter edge does not appear to be intended.

Genetics, of course, adds a particularly bitter edge to the whole thing.

Peter cut in lightly and her voice took on a bitter edge.

There was a bitter edge on the words that made me glance up.

But there was a bitter edge, too, from the long decades of oppression and the loved ones lost then.

To the bitter edge of death the Kielmark's word would stand.

"It's still my room and I want it," he added, but the bitter edge was gone from his voice.

But there was a bitter edge to his comments, too.

Guy yelled back, and there was a bitter, hard edge to his voice.