Word: resentments
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...pushing some big-wave surfers dangerously beyond their abilities. Hamilton, who surfed Jaws reef the same day Cabrinha set the record, thinks he might have ridden some even higher waves. But he declines to enter the big-wave competitions because he thinks they are bad for the sport. "I resent the whole concept of a bounty to try to ride an 80-ft. or a 100-ft. wave. You are provoking people that maybe shouldn't be out there...
...some students here resent the role of sports in college life. But this is not why our teams fail to draw fans...
...world of criminal defense, where the first three rules are shut up, shut up, shut up, she talked to federal investigators twice. In the world of corporate public relations, where appearance is everything, she disappeared for too long. At trial, the jury seemed to resent her celebrity cheering section--sorry, Rosie--and the fact that her attorney, Robert Morvillo, never let her testify. That might have been proper legal strategy, but the jury had spent all that time in court with her and had never been properly introduced. That's not very Martha...
...their secrecy pledges to become whistle-blowers. In democracies, at least, intelligence agencies depend on a shared public belief that their cause is just, even if their methods are sometimes unsavory. Blair never convinced a lot of people in Britain that the Iraq war was just - and those who resent him for it now form an archipelago of the disaffected. Inside the spy agencies, on the Labour backbenches and among potential juries trying government leakers, they can exercise power, too - a crude, perhaps self-absorbed, form of democracy, but effective...
...gross. Years ago, American Pie replaced American piety. A lot of movie people don't respect Gibson?s obsession with his Passion project; they are offended by it; fear it. And I'll bet, since the movie could earn huge profits for Gibson and his distribution partners, they resent...