Word: resentment
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...really, almost angrily jealous. Because it's not like I have particularly tortured eating habits, compared to most girls I know. I've gone through that a bit, in and around high school, and I'm endlessly happy and grateful to have left it behind. But looking back, I resent the amount of mental and emotional energy I lost to those thoughts--to planning what I was going to eat for dinner, and berating myself for what I'd eaten at the party last night, and forcing myself through ridiculous exercise routines and talking about dieting with my friends--when...
...should all resent that loss, and recognize it, even in its mildest form, as something we consider briefly and in the back of our minds. Even every time we enter the dining hall and fill up our trays with salad or soup or pasta or french fries...
...Burnham's wife (Annette Bening), on the other hand, has taken a career-centered path to happiness, hoping to gain power and meaning by climbing up the real-estate business ladder. She sacrifices everything for career and seems to resent her daughter and husband, whose existences have impeded her upward mobility. This, too, of course, leads not to happiness but only more frustration and more powerlessness...
Harding says other teachers sometimes resent the TFA Corps...
...would rather not have anyone speaking for me," he said. "I resent bold proclamations made by the U.C. when the representatives are elected by such a small number...