Word: resents
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...said that Miro now "occupies the position of favorite with those-connoisseurs who insist that they really are connoisseurs." But, he conceded, "those somewhat stuffy people who do not respond to abstract art will fear that the connoisseurs are trying to put something over on them, and they will resent...
When the archeologist asked to join them in their temples, the Indians first refused; the gods might resent a stranger. Then they were reminded that the squash crop had been poor for several years. The stranger's visit could not make the gods' service much worse...
...veteran who will almost certainly play his role again is tangle-haired Hans Zwink-Oberammergau's twinkling-eyed Judas. He is also Oberammergau's most unpopular man. Villagers resent Zwink's sense of humor and his philosophical detachment, gossip that he is touched in the head. But his most objectionable symptom seems to be his longtime anti-Naziism. When Hitler took over Germany in 1934 Zwink retired from village life and kept to his house, painting bad portraits and canvases of church interiors. A calendar portrait of Franklin Roosevelt hung on his wall throughout...
Synthetic Glamor. But not all perfumers made easy millions by debasing their wares. Most of the old-line houses were reduced to using synthetic scents, which do not "stay" as well. But such houses as Guerlain, which colleagues in the trade call the "perfume emperor," fiercely resent even a hint that they had adulterated their wares...
Their nerves taut from worry and lack of sleep, a good number of students will resent the ubiquitous exam proctor as he casually walks around the room and stays close to people going out for a cigarette. The reason there is no honor system at Harvard is not because the students are immature or dishonest, but because the College has many men and little social compactness. Another reason is that the complaints have never been very loud...