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Resentment in sentence

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And also, the bitterness and even resentment towards the rich and the powerful is quite widespread.
China and the U.S., despite the recent meta-meeting in California, are locked in all kinds of anger, resentment, and rivalry for number one.
It's usually presided over by religious leaders and village elders, and jirgas are often used in rural countries like Afghanistan, where there's deep-seated resentment against the formal system.
So here we are, in a scary but not inexplicable moment of demagoguery, fracture, xenophobia, resentment and fear.
Among the hostages, they sparked betrayals, jealousy, resentment, mistrust.
People usually assume some kind of favoritism, some kind of inside knowledge, and there can be resentment stirred up by that.
From resentment couched in pleasantries to arguing that masks attraction, her work explores the bewildering collision of emotions and etiquette.
Ours is the age of anxiety, anger, distrust, resentment and, I think, lots of fear.
This is generating anger and resentment, especially in Islamic societies.
The resentment I had for my dad I now realize had nothing to do with him.
Incarcarees faced discrimination and resentment from workers and tenants who replaced them.
At 20 the torch of resentment was lit.
These parents feel enormous guilt, but then resentment, and then more guilt.
While Connery had been less visible in the latter, his woman-seeker qualities had maybe not cast a frown on the face of embittered spectators as it would in this latest rendition which, to most involved, approached the 007 theme with kind resentment, albeit while the general flavor had been altered.
One, a druggie, just wants to score some bucks for his next fix, but the other has a far more sinister agenda fueled in part by a resentment of his father.
The bitterness and resentment of the filmmaker towards his stepfather is obvious.
The final twist, designed to make you laugh at the three main characters, only instead inspires the same kind of resentment towards Peet.
Giving it all to one person can cause enormous resentment among the rest of the local community who still live in the same run down houses.
Though good-natured, the fact that he is a "shanty Irishman" and a social climber builds resentment in Olympic Club members; most of them can't wait to see him lose a fight, and they bet against him.
My dad then said 'I bet you wished to be an Eagle' and of course we all know that wishes are broken if someone guesses so more tears and a little resentment to this day for not being able to fly away...
Instead of showing us how exactly Harilal dealt with this betrayal and what went on in his head, the director just moves along with the story, thus never letting us be witness to the growing resentment Harilal feels towards his father.
Moore often seems past caring,often simply following cook's lead but perhaps it is the strain of Cook's obvious resentment that knobbles him.
This "film" served no other purpose than to create deep hatred and resentment.
To this day I have a resentment towards her for that - I remember too the stupid boys on my block used to hurt and kill cats - swing 'em by their tail off rooftops or chase the dogs/cats till they got hit by cars.
Debby's mother Virginia(Rowlands) is strong, yet her daughter's resentment to her new boyfriend lead to her own remorse when the boyfriend died of a heart attack.
The resentment was caused when her father left the family.
As the film progresses, Don Ru becomes intimate with a young sales boy while his machismo shifts to envelope his anger and resentment towards his wife and disapproving poet friend.
It was as though the veterans of the series were just going through the motions because they had resigned themselves (with great resentment) to being typecast and performed mechanically out of some sort of obligation (or necessity?).
On the surface she seems to be the perfect worker and an excellent cook, but underneath festers years of resentment at being mocked because she can't read.
Maybe it was the actress' resentment about having to come back for guest appearances?
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