The pictures are often set-decorated — or so I tell myself — to generate envy: big, bright windows overlooking old-growth forests, floor-to-ceiling bookshelves containing only first editions, gleaming hardwood floors, rarefied art works, antique globes, a thriving fern.
At one panel in Jaipur an earnest young woman in the audience told him it was high time he now attempt something weightier, earning his defensive response: that everyone likes a love story.His popularity generates envy.
Still, 2.2 percent was enough to generate envy in Europe, where many countries are already in recession and where this week Britain announced that it had entered the dreaded "double dip".
The habit of walking in another's shoes has the same objective, not to generate envy, but to be better protected against the evil eye.
It creates a few very wealthy grandees--what the 1992 billionaires survey in FORBES called "the trickle-up phenomenon". And this phenomenon has generated a lot of envy among those less fortunate.
And the trend has generated everything from admiration to envy to outright alarm.
Though Evans seems to have escaped the widespread public resentment and envy the others generated, and Henriques's portrait is carefully nonjudgmental, it is difficult for a reader to work up much sympathy for him.
And Miller offered insight into the real thing, noting the "waves of envy" the movie has generated as operatives wrangle over credit for felling Osama.
Senator Patrick J. Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, and the ranking minority member of the committee, said the intellectual property generated in the United States was "the envy of the world".
