The new, younger wife knows she is going to be confronted with resentment and hostility so she goes in spoiling for a fight, to show that she is not a pushover.
The published letter, however, drew a distinction between governments prepared to risk domestic opposition by unreservedly supporting Washington and those like Germany, reluctant to offend powerful pacifist lobbies or confront a deep resentment of America's global leadership.
Obama confronted the resentments, the stereotypes, the bigotry, head-on, and suggested the urgency of a national conversation on these issues.
If we don't confront our personal fears and resentments, civility will slip away as the memory of the events that brought forth the call for civility fade from our fickle attention.
A family gathers and confronts the various resentments, grudges and other closely harbored slights they bear each other -- provoked by the publication of a book by one member of the family that delineates the failings, shortcomings and secrets of the rest.
How does a human being confront profound misfortune without sinking into perpetual anger and resentment?
China and South Korea, for example, have been getting on well lately—helped in part by shared resentment of what they see as Japan's refusal to confront the evils of its wartime past, and its intractability over territorial disputes.
This is easier said than done, but not confronting the issue allows resentment to fester and hurts the group's dynamics.
What's obvious is that Mr. Brown has had to confront racism head-on at every turn in his life and that the amount of resentment and fear he stirred up simply by standing up for himself cannot be underestimated.
Unfortunately, "now and then" seems to have included every occasion that forced her to confront her husband's sexual and emotional infidelities, occasions that Kirstein amply provided — whether out of resentment, carelessness, or cruelty — for many years.
