This is in large part down to Miller, who plays Holmes as an Aspergic genius, jittery with post addiction, rude, resentful, with the original's clairvoyance for overlooked details.
But we usually end up jetlagged and resentful, with nothing to show for our trip but some weird European aniseed biscuits that no-one wants to eat.
Wei (Wei Minzhi) is stubborn, resentful, with a precocious sense of her pedagogic dignity being outraged by both her unruly pupils and duplicitous employers.
Carly Fiorina got seriously upset with men trading favours when she was at AT&T, but such idealism can be unhelpful for women, leading them into resentful relationships with other women and to alienating relationships with male colleagues.
Her marriage having congealed into resentful banter with a pretentious academic husband who's into cheating with coeds, she's somewhat competitive with her daughter, somewhat flirtatious with Don, and somewhat, ah, more with someone else.
Studying?...You can't go to a party without seeing" the fraternity brothers, "and besides, who wants to go to the parties that they're not at?" Unfortunately, Land does harbor deeper reasons for putting up with the abuse: his complicated relationship -- partly worshipful, partly resentful -- with his brother, a complication that extends back in the Land family.
But it also explored the difficult relationship between tetchy skinflint Vladek and his resentful son with touching and discomfiting honesty.
Within the native American world, Alexie inspires both great affection and resentful dismay, with critics objecting to his unflattering portrayal of native American society.
"He was very angry and resentful, bustling with fury, at having to wait all these years for it to come to life, so he wanted to out-evil the previous ones.
And this autumn has seen Theresa May propose moves that will make Britain a nastier, more divided and more resentful country, with attacks on foreign doctors and students as well as checks on taxi drivers.
Arestrup was outstanding in Audiard's previous film, The Beat That My Heart Skipped – also, intriguingly, in a tense, mutually resentful relationship with a younger man – but here he brings out new strains of desolation.
