Word: resentful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sons, ages 8 and 4, are having a deprived childhood, and they resent it. Although virtually all their friends have seen Batman and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, my wife and I have stubbornly refused to let our children join the crowds at the box office. We cling to the old-fashioned, even reactionary, notion that watching one act of violence after another may be harmful to very young minds...
...mean to equate the Holy City with the West Bank or to prejudge its ultimate status. Rather, he was expressing his impatience with Shamir's settlement policy. But Bush's comment was read in Israel as a signal that the U.S. might be hardening its own policy. Israelis resent American pressure in part because they are so vulnerable to it. The body politic, which was already in a state of paralysis, suddenly went into spasm. Within 13 days the government collapsed...
...Angeles, as in other cities across the U.S., tension has arisen between Korean Americans and members of the black community, who resent the influx of "foreign" businesses that take money out of their neighborhoods. In a wider context, even though Canadians until recently owned more of California than Japanese did, it is the latter who are looked upon as encroachers. "I've heard more anti-Japanese sentiment in working-class bars than I can remember," says Richard Kjeldsen, a University of Southern California financial specialist on the Pacific Rim. Japan bashing easily becomes Asian bashing. The most famous case...
...world wars in the first half of this century. There is still, as there has been for decades, a German question. Germans and their country have arrived at the end of the 20th century burdened more than others with the curse of their history, a fact they may resent but cannot ignore. "The Germans want to think of the future," says Columbia University's Fritz Stern, a leading American expert on German history, "but their neighbors are thinking of the past." In Paris last month, former Prime Minister Michel Debre spoke warily about the prospect of a unified German nation...
Nicaraguans are bound to resent niggardliness from the U.S. They feel that their proximity and the long years of damaging American involvement entitle them to go to the top of the aid list. The U.S. in recent years has had a bad habit of spending millions on wars but little on peace; yet the few millions Washington contributed to this election proved a far better investment than the hundreds of millions sent to the contras. U.S. help to the opposition during the election has raised high expectations that its victory will automatically bring a huge infusion...