the winter of our discontent

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This truly is the winter of our discontent, not just in the present but in our thoughts about a dystopian future.

From Barron's

“Now is the winter of our discontent/Made glorious summer by this sun of York.”

From New York Times

I understood its real value at that evening’s “Richard III” performance, in which Colm Feore, as the title character, delivered the play’s famous first line — “Now is the winter of our discontent/Made glorious summer by this son of York” — in what he later told me had been a whisper.

From New York Times

In role, Hughes stepped into the middle of the party, veering through the revelers to deliver the play’s famed opening speech: “Now is the winter of our discontent,” he began.

From New York Times

He began speaking into his prop phone; had someone passed by, they could have heard him reciting Shakespeare: “Now is the winter of our discontent …”

From Seattle Times