Word: resentment
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ALANIS MORISSETTE'S 1995 album, Jagged Little Pill, provided an anthem for a generation of breakups and, to the delight of music retailers, sold 30 million copies. Ten years later, Morissette is getting dumped by those stores, who resent the Ottawa-born singer's hawking an acoustic version of Jagged exclusively at Starbucks for the first six weeks of its release. HMV Canada and indie U.S. music stores are removing Morissette's old CDs from their shelves in protest. "Anytime there's a paradigm shift like this, people are going to be resistant," the singer says. "It happened with...
Under the heading “riots loom as Harvard murder jury deliberates,” a Sunday Herald reporter based in Mass. predicted that “if Wilson, who is charged with first-degree murder, is acquitted, commentators believe that locals, some of whom already resent the excesses of wealthy Harvard students, will be convinced that the privileged can get away with anything, even murder...
Denying that young, upwardly mobile Chinese resent working for Japanese corporations, the mayor of Dalian, China, says to Thomas L. Friedman: “When it comes to the field of economy, we only focus on the economic problems...
...black violence in the province was directed not only at white authorities but also at the Indian community in general and particularly at Indian shopkeepers, whom blacks traditionally regard as symbols of exploitation. Many blacks also resent the fact that under the new tricameral system, the Indians now have a voice in Parliament, however muted, whereas the blacks have none. Most of the time the two communities coexist in an uneasy peace, but periods of economic hardship tend to accentuate the differences between the have-nots and the have-littles...
...said,” Jenkins continued, “’I resent the implication that I’m not genuine with my audiences...