The need to salve this sort of resentment and maintain social solidarity is the best justification for the government's rich-bashing.
In The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, for example, Bauby wrote: "I maintain a level of resentment and anger, neither too much or too little, just as a pressure cooker has a safety valve to keep it from exploding".
The camp is roughly divided into ethnic groups — Hmong, Mien, Cambodian, Laotian, Mexican, and Caucasian — who maintain an uneasy peace, threaded with resentment.
To maintain his campaigns against the Latins, Michael pulled troops from Asia Minor and levied crippling taxes on the peasantry, causing much resentment.
The idea of individual coaches stoking personal resentments as a way of motivating their athlete is rather less tenable when everyone reports to the same team director; and sportspeople downplay any rumoured rifts to maintain a media-friendly image.
Murphy's emphasis on the principled overcoming of resentment helps distinguish forgiveness proper from other modes of transcending resentment, such as its dissipating as a consequence of forgetting the wrong that caused it; or silencing it by an act of will in order to maintain a relationship with a wrongdoer.
Maintain, maintain, maintain.
How the Jewish students respond -- passive or active resistance, acceptance or refusal of the "army education" -- and how the Arab students react -- resentment or understanding, maintaining relationships with a drifting group or isolation within a new community -- will be a serious test of the limits of a Hand in Hand education.
Inexplicably, she maintains the same attitude of passive resentment throughout the film.
Ms. Lohman's equally impressive portrayal of the daughter, herself a talented artist, maintains a perfectly calibrated balance between resentment and adoration.
