Imagine how this malignant shame might metastasize, over time, into a boundless resentment, and how that resentment might propel this man to defy all those civil conventions by which he feels he has been devalued.
Mr. Edwards had tapped into a simmering resentment, he said.
Mr. Koizumi's tough talk tapped into a growing resentment and fear of a rising China among ordinary Japanese.
Mr. Saraiva and his Parisian peers tapped into a growing resentment against money-spinning clubs that cater to bankers and profligate spenders, and erected a velvet rope that emphasizes who you know, not how much you make.
The sales pitches by Florida and Puerto Rico tap into a growing resentment among affluent people who feel that they have been vilified by politicians or believe they have unfairly become targets for disproportionately higher taxes.
These clothes help to overcome the prejudice many inland Americans feel against military men, a feeling induced by brass buttons and fanned into a leaping resentment by the sight of a Sam Browne belt.
They may be doing this because they don't want to seem "high-maintenance," but the toll is too high - letting an issue fester into a major resentment or rift affects everyone.
His anti-immigrant rhetoric plays into Hungary's nationalist streak, a resentment over its treatment after the First World War, when it was stripped of two-thirds of its territory.
Without forgiveness, resentment builds in us, a resentment which turns into hostility and anger.
Add to that the memory of when I was so powerless, back there in Baltimore, watching that little goblin bum-rush his way to success on my friend's inspiration and labor, and unable to do anything about it, has metastasized into an abiding resentment, a core-of-the-sun rage that I now indulge to overkill extremes.
