Sentence examples for become resentful from inspiring English sources

Most grantees were not startups, and were liable to become resentful if foundation officers started meddling — though of course they would hide that resentment for fear of losing the grant.

Almost immediately, though, she felt frustrated, and worried that she would become resentful.

When you're a little bitter and a little angry, then you're going to become resentful.

Parents can become resentful of repeated demands for cash; children can bite the hand that feeds.

Workers have also become resentful of the president, who many laborers had expected to support them.

Their pay, we were constantly reminded lest we should become resentful, reflected their performance.

Monika, whose dreaminess is more petulant, becomes resentful of life's compromises.

Eventually he became resentful of Stanley Kubrick for having wound up this clockwork monster and decided the film was a travesty of his own novel".

The second is with her husband, a decent father and breadwinner who becomes resentful when Rita neglects him and their children to pursue her new career and threatens his manhood.

He had been to see the family doctor and was now on a course of anti-depressants, while Stephen, who had already lost his father and saw little of his mother, became resentful at losing John to an outsider like Natasha.

In an ad-libbed section on the origins of the capitalist system, he said he thought that it really started when some "smart ape" began setting aside coconuts fallen from trees and selling them to other "apes," some of whom lacked the spirit of enterprise and became resentful at having to buy what formerly was a bounty of nature.