Word: resents
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...oppose his charges with denials. The average student has somewhere in the back of his mind, at least a slight understanding of and respect for the real purpose for which he is in college, even though his academic record may not indicate it. This same average student, therefore, may resent President Lowell's speech as doing injustice to his intentions, even if not to his achievements. But why? To say the obvious, it is because scholastic glory appears to the average undergraduate as an inferior glory, not so brilliant, and intrinsically of less worth, than other glory to which...
...phase of the affair that I resent is my brother's inflammatory language directed toward our Secretary of State. I don't mind how he expresses himself, so long as he does it with the tact obligatory on a member of Parliament...
...shots in the campaign: Governor Smith: "The fathers and mothers of New York resent Mr. Hearst's interference in the politics of this city, because the example of his life is such as to make it undesirable that our youth be impressed with the fact that a man like him can wield any considerable amount of political influence in any community...
...more "moderate" Communist than Frau Fischer. Dr. Hugo Eckener, veteran Zeppelin pilot, made a speech at Leipzig, appealing for funds to build a Zeppelin to make a flight to the North Pole. He announced that Roald Amundsen would not be invited to go along, since the German people still resent Amundsen's bitter anti-German spirit during...
...following quotation from Whitman is characteristic and anyone familiar with his writings will, I think, like myself, resent the statement on Page 3 that he was an atheist...