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Example sentences for: resentment
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Unlike the novelist, who invents (supposedly) his characters, or the historian, who grapples with a populous cast, the biographer enters into a curious intimacy with the person being written about, a relationship charged with ambivalence, resentment, love, dependency, and all the myriad other emotions that crowd in whenever we allow ourselves to become intimate with another.
"Here [in 1999] is a defeated, divided, demoralized Weimar Russia sitting there, and we are pushing it, with our NATO expansion, right into the arms of China, which bears tremendous resentment toward the West--and the United States in particular.
In both cases there is the society in a state of collapse, the government tottering dizzily from crisis to crisis, and the people increasingly gripped by resentment and rage against a West they blame for abandoning, betraying, and exploiting them.
I remember the pain exacted by Thatcherism in its early years, when half a century of disastrous socialist economics had wrought another mess of poverty, stagnation, and resentment.
The resulting cutbacks created enormous resentment among recipients who had come to see government largesse as their right.
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