Word: resentfully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...actually resent allusions to impropriety with my name on them," Hanselman said. "I was called upon to serve the council, and I came and served." Liston and Gregoire agreed that Hanselman did nothing wrong, but Ferrell called his actions "ridiculous...
...several spoken word tracks on the album, she imitates a whining fan: "Oh Christ. Why is she singing? I didn't buy this album to hear her sing. I want her to bitch and complain and talk about supermodels and act sexually ambiguous and titillate me and make me resent her for not being there as a role model in the lesbian community..." Bernhard's trademark sarcastic irreverence comes off badly here. It's annoying, as well as insulting to her fans and to her self, since it's both an admission that she's better at being a bitch...
Irving gives his hero yet another reason for visiting India. Daruwalla is the secret screenwriter behind the Inspector Dhar movies, a wildly popular and controversial series featuring a sneering, tough-talking Western-style gumshoe. Every Dhar film offends some segment of Bombay's populace; the number of people who resent the main character has grown with each new release. Death threats have begun cropping up among the hate mail. The actor who plays Dhar bears a complicated and secret relationship to Daruwalla, and also has an identical twin, separated at birth, who knows nothing of his locally infamous brother...
...Chiapas, the assassination of the ruling party's presidential candidate in March, a gradual downturn in the economy, and an outburst of drug shootings and kidnappings have convinced a large segment of Mexico's people that their society needs serious repair. Just a month ago, they appeared to resent the failures of the Salinas government so bitterly that many were ready to turn out his Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I...
...presuming his innocence. Anchors are thrown together with people they are not used to working with -- at times it looks as though Peter Jennings would like to stuff a sock in the mouth of Leslie Abramson, who defended one of the Menendez brothers. The anchors all seem to resent being pressed into service during soap-opera time...