Sentence examples for subtle resentment from inspiring English sources

But it's Sandra herself who carries most of the film's ethical baggage, her subtle resentment of her attractive prisoner complicating her apparently mindless actions.

The idea of shouldering the complete financial burden of a family sometimes causes a subtle resentment.

Africans, Asians and Europeans have mixed, but subtle resentments and snobberies endure.

In the process, they galvanized public opinion, stirred subtle white resentment even anger against anything that smacked of racial preferences, and sent a big message that pushing affirmative action was a politically losing proposition.

This explains the subtle undercurrent of resentment between Central Americans and Mexicans in the film.

In a novel that wishfully invokes "Mrs. Dalloway, Anna Kareninana," the paintings of Alex Katz and other touchstones of subtle bourgeois dissatisfaction, resentments between the two friends begin to emerge.

In Chicago, Roger's resentment was subtle but mounting.

Keeping alert to any feelings of resistance or resentment (either subtle or intense) -- whether in our writing or our personal lives -- will likely go a long way in pointing out to us where it might be good to consider following the wise advice of the recent Oscar-winning theme song from the Disney movie, Frozen... Let it Go!

There were also subtler, more personal forms of resentment.

The subtle shifts in affection, the accrual of resentment, the physical and intellectual competition on view here are remarkable – never has female friendship been so vividly described.

Most of the time they're subtle and unstated, a matter of dark looks and long-simmering resentments, that erode, rather than rupture, formerly close relationships.