Word: resentment
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...this climate, many people resent seeing billions of tax dollars leak outside the country. But if this 'buy American' clause is adopted, it will make it harder for those in Europe in arguing for markets to stay open," says Simon Tilford, chief economist at the London-based Centre for European Reform (CER) think tank. "Also, after Europe's huge expectations for Obama, there is bound to be a huge disillusion with him if the U.S. goes down this road...
...getting better: "I don't often feel like working or doing something that's good for my brain, but I try to push myself to do it nonetheless, because, as with physical exercise, I always feel better when I've done it...I resent the effort it takes to maintain relationships or meet the tedious obligations that family and friendships can impose, and yet I know that isolation is very bad for me. I know that my happiness depends, in large part, on human contact and intimacy. And so, as with everything else, I do it and reap the reward...
Mitchell was leery of being labeled a rock star. While he didn't resent it, he wanted audiences to focus on the group. Still, he accepted his place in music history. Being a part of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, as he said in 1968, had "given me freedom...
...After dropping out of the race and initially refusing to back any of his rivals, Delanoë on Monday endorsed Aubry, who favors a more orthodox leftist counterattack on Sarkozy's neo-liberal, pro-market reforms that might also win support of Green and Communist Party voters who resent the PS's recent drift toward the center. However, it's uncertain that Delanoë's more moderate but now angry supporters will back Aubry in sufficient numbers to deny Royal - especially with Hamon splitting the party's left flank. So in the immediate wake of the Reims congress...
...biracial woman who is excited about Barack Obama and all of the accomplishments his presidency symbolizes, I can't help but slightly resent just how much focus goes onto his race. I'll teach my children that Obama in the White House was an enormous triumph for acceptance, but I hope that they, like me, will be unable to see why America imposes the racial divides that force us to choose. Jennifer Outler, Cambria Heights, New York...