Word: resentational
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...recognition of China would improve Washington's standing, especially among Third World nations which resent its campaigning to consign China to a kind of outcast status...
Doyle is a low-key athlete. He has no admiration for high-powered athlete programs of high-powered athletes. He was not recruited, and he went out for football because "it seemed like a good thing to do at the time," Unlike some Harvard athletes who resent the fairly de-emphasized approach to athletics that Harvard takes, Doyle appreciates Harvard's attitude...
...under the impact of Independent Study, Pass-Fail options, and generally softer or inflated grading. These faculty misgivings are not wholly irrational. But to vent them on a proposal that would demand serious examination of a student's idiosyncratic program creates a not uncommon union between pedagogic conservatives, who resent the symbolism of any change, and pedagogic rebels, whose visions of dramatic change differ so greatly among each other that I find it hard to imagine them agreeing on an alternative set of curricula. A good many students and some faculty would like to return to a system of free...
What both blacks and whites object to most is busing. Black parents resent the fact that it is usually their children, not whites, who are bused to achieve integration. White parents whose children have long been bused to avoid integration now object to their being bused to mixed schools. Those whose children now attend neighborhood schools resent their being transported farther from home to help balance schools racially...
...treadmill, chasing the illusion of higher living standards," Assistant Labor Secretary Jerome Rosow recently observed in a much remarked study. "They feel like 'forgotten people.'" Blue-collar workers in many states, Rosow notes, often have incomes only a notch above welfare payments, and they resent being taxed to pay for special benefits accorded the poor, but denied to them...