Word: resentful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...biggest mistake game developers make, Laurel believes, is misunderstanding why girls don't like Doom and Quake and other so-called boys' games. It's not just that most girls are appalled by the brutal violence--they certainly are--but also that they resent the programmers' assumption that these games are too difficult for girls to play. "The industry said, 'Make it easier,'" says Laurel. "'Throw marshmallows at Barbie, make the projectiles move more slowly.'" But dumbing down, she insists, is precisely the wrong way to go. Girls don't think boys' games are too hard; they think they...
...this as dancing away from the question. "Weil wants you to believe that you don't need the scientific approach, that you don't need to demand evidence," says Dr. Arnold Relman, former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine and emeritus professor at Harvard Medical School. "I resent well-educated people exploiting irrational elements in our culture, and that's what he's doing...
Writing a thesis can also help you to make new friends. You will instantly bond and commiserate with fellow thesis-writers, even if you barely know them. But the thesis can come between you and your non-honors friends, because you will resent their unfettered freedom to enjoy lazy spring days. The thesis can also wreak havoc on your love life, when your significant other finds out that you now spend most of your time contemplating another interest...
...fear of such anti-Semitic backlash makes some Swiss Jews wish the Americans would back off a bit. "Many Swiss resent that they are made to feel guilty," says Rolf Bloch, 66, president of the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities. "If they are attacked in a collective way, they will react. One reaction is anti-Semitism. In Switzerland today, there is not as much anti-Semitism as in the '30s. But it's flaring up again...
...year, I've been boxed into medicine, law or business. I paid $120,000 in tuition. I can't afford to take a job teaching or one in journalism. And hell, I can't even look outside the big cities, because my Harvard degree has tainted me. People either resent me because of it, or wonder what I'm doing there if I'm such a 'bright Ivy League man.' I just want to scream...