Word: resentfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...latter (which are, as was intended, the elite amongst college dorms) were conceived and constructed by President Lowell in part to break the power of the Clubs. He succeeded and, in the present era, many students become aware of the Clubs only when those who resent Clubbies sound the tocsin...
...sense my exclusion from valued aspects of those Festival Rites. Not being to that manor born, I will be forever outside a club I admire and respect. My status is an accident of circumstance and, during a particular day in June, I occasionally regret the circumstance. But I neither resent, nor would I tamper with, the privileges attendant on being a member of the Class of whatever. Similarly for a variety of other "clubs" comprising the Harvard fabric. Nowadays, the exclusive character of most is premised on members sharing some particular skill--athletic, scholarly, artistic...
...ways you can chop through the male ice. One of the best is to say "I know that my personality is hard on you." Rapid meltage occurs so regularly that the author calls the sentence "the magic words." She also recommends a verbal exercise for expressing resentment. One partner says, "I resent that you . . ." and then expresses the complaint. The other then responds with three set comments: "Thank you for sharing that. Your saying so may not change my behavior. I'm not going to defend myself...
...there thinking its black and white. You can build roads and life would be solved. But it's very gray. There are so many different variables. African governments are uncooperative or unstable. Some resent foreigners. All of these things make developing a comprehensive policy difficult," he said...
Another change resulted from concern that the first draft ignored the legitimate feelings of middle-class citizens who resent having part of their earnings transferred to the poor through taxes and social spending. The revised letter contains new passages noting that "many working people and middle-class Americans live dangerously close to poverty." The bishops made it clear that they do not seek a radical redistribution of income from the middle class to the poor. Instead, they primarily advocate higher taxes on the wealthy...