Word: resentful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...included well-known elements of far-right thought: tax protesters; Christian home-schoolers; conspiracy theorists influenced by the John Birch Society's fear of one-world government; Second Amendment activists (mostly men) for whom guns are an important part of an independent way of life; self-reliant types who resent a Federal Government that seems to favor grizzly bears and wolves over humans on government land...
...finishes her whiny pseudo-deep monologue while climbing on Caleb's shoulders, you can't help wincing. At another point in the production, the house lights come up and the cast sits and stares out into the audience. Even if this were a new dramatic idea, one would still resent it coming from this production. For a play this thematically weak to suddenly try to turn the tables on its audience, as if to challenge some complacency it condescendingly assumes the audience harbors, is offensive and smug...
...thing he said that I resent the most isthat police officers lie on the stand," Scalesesaid. "At no time did we teach officers...
...WORKING MALE already overwhelmed trying to survive financially, why am I paying thousands of dollars a year to support Social Security recipients, many of whom don't need it, when I know I cannot hope to receive the same benefits when I get older? It is unfair, and I resent it. What makes it worse is that the government raids our Social Security funds, turning them into bonds that it will later have to tax us to pay off. Kill Social Security? By all means. Let's put it out of our misery...
...Cass, is charging that the university has sexually harassed him by asking him about his relationship with a former student and then denying him a post to head the department's graduate program. Last week Cass was busy circulating a petition to try to block the new rules. "I resent the fact that because I'm standing up for my privacy people are drawing an inference that I'm some kind of lecher who has had numerous affairs," he says...