A recently published Korean commonplace book defines it as "resentment, sorrow, sense of loss and hardship, stifled passion and love, or the frustration of the downtrodden".
Dr. Henry, who works in Wesleyan University's office of student mental health, says that, while he helps a patient define issues like anger and resentment, Mr. Pfeiffer's use of prayer helps get past them.
In this paper I will demonstrate that the attribution of this definition of forgiveness to Butler is in error: he did not define forgiveness as the overcoming of resentment but rather as the checking of revenge, or forbearance.
Knight's understated prose presented a quietly volatile world of tight Southern communities and families, a world defined by festering resentments, fumbling relationships, affairs, divorces, sudden furies.
Mr. Khoshnaw, the Kurdish lawmaker, explained the gap between the generations of leaders this way: The older generation that suffered under Mr. Hussein and struggled against him in exile is "defined by the resentments inside themselves".
But what if their resentments -- after generations of servitude or during constant, current struggles to overcome others' resentments and attachments to protocols that define "legally present" -- make those neighbors awkward partners in deliberation?
Or that "future preference," which once seemed to define the United States, is yielding to something more like fatalism and resentment?
They free us from feelings of resentment, anger and frustration, for example, because they help us define with clarity how we will treat and honor ourselves.
Unveiling the report at a press conference in Washington, the US attorney general, Eric Holder, blamed Ferguson police for creating a "toxic environment, defined by mistrust and resentment" that had been set off "like a powder keg" by a white officer shooting dead an unarmed black 18-year-old.
A climactic scene between Jody and Melvin, whose relationship has been defined by jealousy and resentment, is played out in Jody's bedroom under a wall-size painting of Tupac Shakur, the hip-hop star who personified some of the paradoxes this movie explores.
"Seen in this context, amid a highly toxic environment, defined by mistrust and resentment, stoked by years of bad feelings and spurred by illegal and misguided practices, it is not difficult to imagine how a single tragic incident set off the city of Ferguson like a powder keg," Holder said during a news conference Wednesday afternoon in Washington, D.C.
