Word: resented
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While many of the city's residents resent the presence of the drug lords, others have developed a grudging pride concerning their town's prominence -- and a visible annoyance at recent U.S. attempts to have those responsible extradited to the U.S. One afternoon, as a foreigner got up to leave Medellin's Macarena bullring, someone in the crowd shouted, "Hey, you, what about extradition?" It was an unfriendly, almost chilling challenge. The crowd parted to allow the stranger through and then closed ranks around the man again -- just as Medellin sometimes seems to shelter the wealthy cartel that has made...
Schwalbe says that some teachers may sense and resent the noblesse oblige complex. "They think, `Here's a kid who wants to do some public service to put on the resume when he gets a job as an investment banker,'" she says. In that situation, teachers "would rather teach the class [themselves] than work with the tutor," she says...
First, we resent the stigmatization of Kirkland House students as "jocks." We are in fact a diverse house--our students are active in academics, community service, the arts and an array of extracurricular activities, including athletics. If others in our community would look beyond the surface, they will find unpretentious, accepting individuals who don't fit easy stereotypes. We value diversity in our house community and seek to foster...
...also addressed the significance of Blacks' receiving an education. In one scene Dap and his friends are forced to confront some local yokels. The townies resent Dap and his friends for getting the opportunity that they never had--attending college...
Those with a taste for literary allusions will find more to savor here. Names lifted from other Hawthorne novels (Blithedale, Pyncheon) crop up in unexpected contexts; as Sarah seeks her karma in the Sunbelt, she has reason to resent "my old-fashioned Puritan conscience." But Updike's use of such references should not be taken too somberly; the stern, rock-ribbed moral universe of The Scarlet Letter serves here as a subtle counterpoint to a comic vision of anything-goes ethics in mid-1980s America...