Word: sullenness
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Democracy, Schlesinger holds, is a condition of tension, in which neither side has a permanent advantage. This theory of tension distinguishes Historian Schlesinger's from Revolutionist Karl Marx's theory of class struggle, which ends each bout in a sullen victory for one side or the other, or "in the common ruin of the contending classes...
Clean Sheets. Many who had fought the Japs went ashore tense with the fear of treachery or the expectation of sullen resentment. But it was like a veteran's dream of victory...
...sullen silence he listened while Special Prosecutor Annaeus SchjÖdt read the charge-a catalog of shame reaching to high treason and murder...
...lanky, sullen youth turned into the beefy, bearded hunting gentleman-author who took a stubborn pleasure in denying that he was an artist...
Because they suspected a fellow prisoner of war of writing a "traitorous" note, five sullen and shifty-eyed Nazis had brutally clubbed him to death; an Army court-martial had swiftly found them guilty. At Fort Leavenworth last week they were hanged for their crime...