Word: enviously
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...come in waves, and the past year or have seen a surge in the dark dynamic: Waco and Ruby Ridge, then Oklahoma City, a commemoration of April 19, which has become a savage Guy Fawkes Day. Five days after Oklahoma City, the Unabomber struck in Sacramento, California, as if envious and eager to reclaim the attention. The paranoid screams self-importance; insignificance transforms itself into destructive power...
...more sympathy for Dan than the fact that he is married to Jean (Maples). As mentioned before, she was obviously supposed to be more enthusiastic and excitable than anyone else in the play. But when Delia finally slapped her trying to end her hysterics, Most of the audience became envious and wished they could have done it themselves...
...America. Yet President Clinton spends much of his time saying he shares our pain. And this isn't just another example of his famously rampant empathy. Conventional wisdom has him presiding over seething economic discontent, even as he presides over an ongoing economic recovery that makes Europe and Japan envious...
...Envious rivals railed at "Leakey's luck" in finding hominid fossils--yet of course it was not luck at all but rather a combination of energy, optimism, persistence, a superb field team--known among scientists as the "Hominid Gang"--and an intimate knowledge of his native terrain. He and Mary made many significant finds, notably the fossil of the species they named Homo habilis (handy man), the earliest known tool user. Since the death of Louis in 1972, his unwavering position that Africa was the cradle of humanity has been rewarded with universal acceptance...
Alain De Botton won a lot of half-envious attention with his first book, On Love, a tale that seasoned an alan as Gallic as his name with an irony as British as his upbringing. The genius of the book, written when he was 23 and translated into 13 languages, was to chart the parabolic trajectory of a love, while showing that charts tell us nothing we need to know of love. De Botton looked at the sophistries of the heart with a mix of pop psychology and learning that made his novel sing like a Cosmo article ghost-written...