In fact, a certain amount of paranoia and resentment defines many creators' relationship with the platform that pays them.
Resentment is defined as indignation or anger about having been treated unfairly.
But this vivid little film, with a star-making performance by Bob Hoskins as a London mobster who dreams of going legit, drew on the unruly energy and emerging class resentments that defined British filmmaking during the decade after World War II in films like the Boulting brothers' "Brighton Rock" and Robert Hamer's "It Always Rains on Sunday".
Even though some still criticised the pilot's participation in the US-led bombing campaign in Syria, anger and resentment against Isis defined public opinion in Jordan and beyond, including among them sympathetic individuals such as Abu Sayyaf, a prominent Salafist leader in Jordan who approved of the immolation but not the publicity that accompanied it.
The whirlwind six-hour trip brought Mr. D'Amato, a Republican seeking his fourth term, to the state's largest upstate cities -- Albany, Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo -- and provided a television backdrop for his unusually blunt appeal to the regional resentments that have defined state politics for decades.
Others, though, are drawn by strong feelings, from families with living memories of wartime loss, to people smoldering with resentment over an international order defined by the West.
Knight's understated prose presented a quietly volatile world of tight Southern communities and families, a world defined by festering resentments, fumbling relationships, affairs, divorces, sudden furies.
Mr. Khoshnaw, the Kurdish lawmaker, explained the gap between the generations of leaders this way: The older generation that suffered under Mr. Hussein and struggled against him in exile is "defined by the resentments inside themselves".
Although Holder said violence is never justified, he said the "highly toxic environment, defined by mistrust and resentment," contributed to the unrest.
The open one is infused with cosmopolitical currents, while the closed one is anti-cosmopolitan and animated by a pervasive resentment that encompasses anything that cannot be defined through the lens of a narrow view of the national community.
Syrians also harbored historical resentments of Ottoman subjugation, while many secular Turks, defined by the Western orientation of Turkey's founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, saw Syria as autocratic and backward.
