Word: resenter
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...prison farm. His battle is with Big Nurse, the white-starched emasculator who bulls his ward, and he beats her every round except the inevitable last one. And, capering defiantly toward the lobotomist's knife, he pipes the other inmates toward self-respect, a service they resent all the more because the journey terrifies them...
...satisfied. He doubted that Gold water could "consistently, conscientiously and in good faith use the powers and prestige" of the presidency to carry out the civil rights law. Goldwater flushed, but held his temper. "When you use that argument," he said, "you are questioning my honesty, and I should resent it but I won't." Parker insisted that he was doing no such thing. Said Goldwater: "Well, you are, sir. I will uphold that law because it is the voice of the majority. And if I'm your President, I will do something about this in more ways...
...present-day South was best demonstrated in three notable character portraits (one Negro, two white) he painted in Intruder in the Dust, which was his first novel in seven years when it was published in 1948. Lucas Beauchamp (rhymes with reach 'em) is what the local whites violently resent as a "damned high-nosed impudent Negro." As the book opens, he is about to be lynched for murdering a white man. He proves himself a model of imperturbable courage that any civil rights leader should envy...
...handed his resignation to President Antonio Segni, who accepted conditionally but asked Moro and his Cabinet to remain in office until a new government could be formed. It may take some doing, since Moro has long been under fire from right-wing members of his Christian Democratic Party, who resent the "opening to the left" through which Moro brought the Socialists into the government. Socialist Nenni has been under equally sharp fire from leftists who charge that he has given in to Moro time after time on what were fundamental Socialist demands...
...lives in the South, as one who has never been ashamed of being a Southerner, and as one who believes that the people of the South are as good citizens as people anywhere else in the country, I resent this political foray." He also had a word of warning for Dirksen. "Unless I am badly fooled," said Russell, "he has killed off a rapidly growing Republican Party in the South, at least so far as his party's prospects in the presidential campaign are concerned...