Once inequality becomes very acute, it breeds resentment and political instability, eroding the legitimacy of democratic institutions.
This has been a tournament played out amid an acute sense of resentment from many sectors of the population over the public money lavished on the event.
In particular, Bagehot suspects, the Tories are vulnerable to a nuanced but acute form of class resentment: that of the ordinary middle classes for the upper-middle, who can afford the houses, holidays and school fees that the lumpen middles can't but still covet.
Although without such serious disorder, the cities also revealed acute social tensions and resentments of inequalities of economic opportunity and visible status.
The emotions displayed by these people were particularly acute, representing the intersection of anger, resentment, embarrassment, hopelessness and fear.
Younger people are increasingly relatively disadvantaged compared with their elders, yet at the same time they have high amounts of cultural and social capital, and their resentment is likely to be increasingly acute.
The resentment over Ms. Black's selection seems especially acute outside Manhattan.
It suggests, they believe, that the English might be able to develop a more acute sense of their own identity that does not depend on resentment of Europeans or Scots.How might such an English identity be defined?
Divorce can result in both acute and chronic stress for adult partners, with significant emotional upheaval that can include conflict, resentment, anger, and sadness [ 52].
The government's rescue of Wall Street combined with the acute difficulties of a middle class struggling to get by on stagnant or falling incomes has sharpened resentments.
Resentment.... Embarrassment.
