Word: resentational
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...wonder they resent the residents of these Black neighborhoods. Though there is absolutely no excuse for racism, there is a cause--economic injustice and the real fear it breeds...
Lottie's neurotic elder brother resumes an obsessive affair with Elizabeth, a shallow beauty Lottie continues to resent because of snubs in their high school years. Her 21-year-old son sleeps with Elizabeth's baby-sitter, then ignores her, and when she dies in an auto accident decreed by the author to get everyone's moping started, wonders fretfully whether he is obliged to attend her funeral. Other people behave shabbily, all of them, like Lottie, largely humorless and utterly self-absorbed. An occasional good line briefly clears the prevailing swamp gas, as when Lottie sums things...
...student said, "I may not be a great historian, but I'm going to be a damn fine doctor, and I resent your keeping me out of medical school," Wilkinson said...
...better analogy might be the curvy blue fiber-glass sculpture in the house's courtyard. No one can quite identity it, but some people think it is really cool and others resent...
...discredit them, most look at this as a chance to be vindicated after years of being called lunatics," says Jacobs. The medical community has been cooler. Though the office's $2 million appropriation is a pittance in NIH's overall annual budget of more than $10 billion, critics resent that any sum is being diverted from traditional research. Some carp that the office will be a refuge for quacks -- a charge Jacobs flatly denies. "We're not created to rubber-stamp questionable practices...