But the east Europeans are retreating into parochialism, digging into their national bunkers while nursing resentment at what they perceive to be German bullying.
While plenty of people nurse resentments against Wikipedia, having failed to win a consensus for their views, Skip's colleagues at WikiTruth have a different motivation.
While other cities might have faltered and found something else to distract them, Liverpool's talent for nursing resentments ensured that it would feel, eight years on, just as enraged about Bulger's murder as it was the first moment it heard.
But only the ever-inventive Ms. Hecht, whose intensely embittered Louise nurses her resentment like a beloved infant, comes close to creating a viable character.
Nursing mutual resentment can only do us harm.
They prefer to nurse their resentment with superstition, and they would rather feel superior than win.
Argentina went on to lift the Cup, beating West Germany 3-2; England went on to nurse a resentment they hold to this day.
It is fitting that the site of Varoufakis' grief was Latvia, given that one of the undercurrents in the five-year Greek drama has been how the smaller and poorer countries of the eurozone, notably Latvia and the other two Baltic states, have bitten their lips while nursing intense resentment about having to take part in the world's biggest ever bailout.
Long after Obama had got past the bruises of the battle with Clinton, Plouffe nursed his resentments.
Back then, you drowsed through endless sessions of the Senate, lived in a flyspecked boarding house on a muddy street, and nursed your resentments.
Americans imagine that even many firm friends have long nursed quiet resentments of the rule of their big brother, and that those historic slights mean a certain pleasure is being taken in America's waning.
