Word: jealous
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...white man, a gaijin, and as wartime approaches, he needs to decide where his real loyalties lie. Both sides, West and East, suspect Harry of spying. His two girlfriends--Michiko, an enigmatic Japanese gamine, and Alice, the jaded wife of a British diplomat--are getting jealous of each other. Harry's archenemy, a psychotic, bisexual samurai, is stalking him with a sword. As the clock ticks down to zero, the action speeds up, blurring into a cherry-blossom-scented, sake-drenched fever dream...
...demands of home with the demands of work, all the while trying to carve out some time for his own personal enjoyment. Americans can identify with that. Even though Tony’s a lot more powerful than most of us will ever be, we’re not jealous of him because we see his vulnerable side. We see him in his workout clothes, or dealing with the groceries, or wading through his flooded basement, and we’re willing to overlook the objective, overwhelming facts that tell us he is a bad person...
...Convinced she will have no children, Sarah offers him her young Egyptian slave Hagar to produce an heir. It works. The 86-year-old fathers a boy, Ishmael. Yet God insists that Sarah will conceive, and in a wonder confirming Abraham's faith, she bears his second son, Isaac. Jealous of Hagar's and Ishmael's competing claims on her husband and his legacy, Sarah persuades Abraham to send them out into the desert. God saves the duo and promises Hagar that Ishmael will sire a great nation through 12 sons (assumed by tradition to be 12 Arab tribes...
...Sometimes when you have a star athlete, the rest of the kids will be jealous,” he says. “Not with Niall—he was loved by his teammates here. He was just one of those rare kids that you get to coach maybe one or two times in your life...
...beneath their claims is a sadder truth: these extremists are pathologically jealous. They feel like dwarfs, which is why they search for towers and all those who tower mightily. We must admit that we failed to teach these people that life is worth living. These extremists exist now, and will exist forever, so the question before us must be, How can we defend both our lives and theirs? We in the Arab world love freedom and want the chance at a decent life. We are not different from you, as it sometimes seems. We may be just temporarily backward. Working...