Word: resentatives
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...this is Pam H. from Newton, Massachusetts, and I resent you saying that everything is going to be O.K. You don't know anything about my life. You don't know what I've been through in the last month. I really resent it. I'm tired of you people trying to tell me things that you don't have any idea about. I resent it. ((Click...
...importance of reticence: "There are writers who have a need for the explicit and confrontational. When I read John Updike describing sex, it just makes me uncomfortable. I would think that anyone who has seriously read my work could come up with a sense of my interests. But I resent the demand of our times that one is compelled to provide the Polaroids of intimate moments. People make commitments to be a part of your life without committing to being in your works...
...Well," answered Clinton, "I think I've been subject to more assault than any previous President, based on the evidence. But as the Vice President said a few days ago, there are powerful forces in this country who basically resent the way the last election came out, so they keep trying to undo it . . . I wish we could just all settle down and be Americans for a while and work on ; our problems, and then evaluate me based...
...what of those "powerful forces" who resent his winning the presidency? Is politics a contact sport, or bean bag? Of course "forces" prowl and scheme along Pennsylvania Avenue. Forewarned is forearmed, unless you believe the rules of public propriety are only for others...
...they didn't know you." He is receiving friends at his business. His tone is soft, almost apologetic, but his small handlebar mustache and his pink tie and matching handkerchief suggest a healthy self-image. Some wonder whether perhaps he is too moderate. His response may relieve those who resent his judicially mandated rise, not to mention its newfangled engineering. "I'm only one person on the board," he says. "I've got to work within the system. Sure, I could take them to court every time we disagree, but that's not how it works best...