Word: resentment
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...later comment, Bruner said that "I resent a statement that there is an official faith." In this society of "free spirit of inquiry," he continued, there "must not be an approved dogma...
...Accept the fact that today's patient has grown up and can read current medical articles," and treat him more as an equal. This goes for fees, too: the doctor should quit thinking of himself as a saint, admit frankly that he has to be a businessman. "Patients resent having fees tied to how much their leg or their life means to them, and regard this as biological blackmail." ¶The G.P. is getting a raw deal, complained Oklahoma's Dr. Malcom E. Phelps in his presidential address to the American Academy of General Practice in Dallas. Members...
Trampled Will. The plain fact was that the U.S. faced increasing antagonism among Okinawa's 600,000 people. Despite the prosperity brought by 55,000 U.S. military personnel and their dependents, Okinawans resent the fact that the U.S. has commandeered one-fifth of the crowded island's arable land for military use, chafe under the U.S. refusal to consider returning the island to Japan "in the foreseeable future." * After Moore's highhanded tactics with Senaga, feeling ran so high that no pro-American candidate dared even enter the race...
...handcuffed her when she scratched him and attempted to break away, finally cajoled her into talking about herself. "We never spanked her," said her mother, attractive Ruth Nystrom, "but I was strict with her. That's the way I was brought up. She didn't seem to resent it. Mothers used to say to me 'Oh, if only my daughter listened to me like that. I guess she was rebelling against authority...
They take turns play-acting the part of their mistress, dressing in her clothes, speaking her lines, thinking of her lover; they resent the mistress--she has the capacity, shallow though it is, to be happy. One of the maids has tried to strangle her, and failed; the other tries to poison her, and fails. Both, spilling lines at each other terribly quickly, hurl insults and acid pessimism and gloom--"I am the dung heap on which I grow"--at one another until finally, one of them poisons herself, having commanded the other to offer her the cup. Why such...