Sentence examples for resentful look from inspiring English sources

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The silence of those glances is filled with an agonizing mixture of emotions, including the beseeching look of the tormented in the desperate hope for compassion, for an alleviation of their burdens, for hope — and the hate-filled, resentful look of the tormented at one of their own kind who appears to have thrown his lot in with the tormentors in order to improve his own conditions.

The resentful look on our classmate's face, which bore the red imprints of our hands.

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Shouts to them for being the most resentful looking Grammy winners in history.

Similarly, columnist Simon Dumenco, last month in AdAge, wrote that the Huffington Post "likes to pretend that it's a respectable voice in the mediasphere, but it shamelessly pumps up its traffic by being just as trashy as, say, Maxim .If you're still wondering why some in the media are resentful of HuffPo, look no further.

As both men take up the Churchillian props, it's tempting to scroll back through their respective filmographies and to recall the impact they made, at the dawn of their careers, in fierce blue-collar roles — Burton as the resentful Jimmy Porter in "Look Back in Anger" (1959), and Finney as the pleasure-hunting factory worker in "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" (1960).

Mother straightened in her chair and looked resentful, for the attention had been taken from her. Hubby and the others shifted in their seats.

Some of the homeless are nevertheless resentful at what could look a little like Marie Antoinette playing shepherdess at Le Petit Trianon.

"What did you do," Glass said, "learn all that stuff off before you came up here?" A sharp something came into the young man's look, a resentful edge.

Everybody looked slightly resentful at being there and sat, arms crossed, staring anywhere but at each other.

In fact, most of his characters seem resentful of their good looks, as though they had been given a promise never fulfilled.

Torn out of the child bodies that had fitted them purely and exactly, they looked with resentful eyes at Everdene Walk, because they couldn't love it again with the same glee.

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