Sentence examples for seething envy from inspiring English sources

There are plenty of comic partnerships that start out with a shared dream and end, like Peter Cook's and Dudley Moore's, in bitter tensions and seething envy.

It seemed such a perfect idea, the sort of bucolic family gathering that would reduce me to seething envy if I'd seen it in the pages of a glossy magazine.

When he looked at Efron shirtless, there was no seething envy as if he were thinking, "damn, could this kid be taking my place?" Instead, those worthwhile moments were passed up by silly humor that fell flat.

His brother, David, who was two years older, was soon seething with envy.

Who would put themselves in the way of the free-floating ill-will, seething class envy and accusatory economic bitterness that poisons The Guardian's letters to the editor?

Hicks, who never attended an MFA program, nevertheless has perfect pitch; his characters are painfully self-conscious, seething with envy, and intent on proving their literary bona fides, even when they haven't written a thing.

The villain is Chauncey Feith, a non-combatant army recruiter in a little Carolina town, an ignorant and cowardly man seething with envy, resentment, ambition, misogyny and every other prejudice, who has to content himself with persecuting the German professor at the local college as a traitor and spy until a greater prey comes into view.

Of course, many foreign politicians seethe with envy at the supposed "imbalances" that give the U.S. nearly half of global market cap and some 30% of global GDP.

He captured seething middle-class envy in a story like "The Housebreaker of Shady Hill," where a man consumed by the inferiority he feels next to his ostentatious neighbors sneaks at night into the bedroom of a sleeping couple and steals cash from the husband's wallet.

While Apple's existing customers were locked into contracts, they didn't need to spend the duration seething with envy and resentment.

With pitiless clarity, it dissects that most unlovely part of the male psyche - seething desire mixed with mean-minded envy - and the most unmentionable envy of all, the envy of the old for the young.