Sentence examples for expressed envy from inspiring English sources

Some villagers have heard the news and expressed envy, wondering if the Mtulus might become rich.

He also expressed envy of the team that signed Mike Mussina, the Yankees.

Tells how Toddles expressed envy of Diana at the end of her life.

The nonprofit groups linked with the four other finalists in the contest expressed envy at the potential reach Mr. Allgood's idea has thanks to his corporate affiliation.

Sure enough, they spent more time contemplating the ones toward which they expressed envy: the good-looking students with new BMWs and rich parents.

But, as case histories, they won the approval of Sigmund Freud himself, who called Schnitzler his doppelgänger_,_ and expressed envy that he seemed able to intuit "secret knowledge" that he himself could discover "only after arduous examination".

Mainlanders express envy when they hear how he bought nearly 100 acres of Hawaii's Big Island for just over $100,000.

There you have it: a freethinking Montreal Jew, in whose bones the Torah was bred, inventing precise English lines to express envy for French Catholic piety.

"I said, 'Don't think that you're one of the rich kids, because you're not.' " Though her daughter rarely expresses envy of her more affluent friends, Ms. Gilbertson said, it was an "unedited moment" revealing her anxiety over being in a world where other parents have more money than she does.

If it wasn't enough to get creeped out hearing grown men express envy of the breast-feeding 4-year-old boy latched onto his attractive mother, the question posed on the cover seemed to encompass not only the article's attachment parenting debate, but also the self-doubt that all mothers perpetually face.

Norms in the workplace always oppose expressing envy openly and few people want to be labeled envious (Smith & Kim, 2007).