6 sentences with 'resentful'
Example sentences and phrases with the word resentful and other words derived from it.
• « Julie was still resentful when Walt Disney asked her to participate in a musical film he was planning to shoot: Mary Poppins. »
• « Working through a native translator, Malinche, who had already learned Spanish, Hernán Cortés was able to convince native groups resentful of the Aztecs to fight alongside the Spanish. In practice, this meant that the native groups suffered most of the casualties. »
• « As the ideas of the Enlightenment spread and the groups that made up the Third Estate of commoners became increasingly resentful of their subservient political position, a virtual powder keg was igniting beneath the political structure of Europe. The subsequent explosion began in France in 1789. »
• « The result was that elite Indians too often came up against a 'glass ceiling' in the British Raj, able to rise to positions of importance but without real leadership. In turn, resentful elite Indians became the first Indian nationalists, organising what later became the Indian independence movement. »
• « Despite not having achieved its production goals, where collectivisation "succeeded" was in destroying the old ties between the peasants and the land. In the future, Soviet peasants would be a class of resentful and inefficient agricultural workers, rather than peasants rooted in the land who identified with traditional values. »
• « Britain began its transition to what it is today: the dynamic and wealthy financial and commercial centre that is London, surrounded by an economically stagnant and often politically resentful nation. »