Moaning, a source of entertainment in its own right, is also an important psychic comfort blanket, a way of venting resentment without taking responsibility for effecting change.
"Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television" gives Mr. O'Brien a chance to vent his resentments in front of fans who share his sense of aggrievement.
But to look on the bright side, thanks to Jeremy Hunt they will now have more time to spend venting their resentment at me.
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But the proximate cause of the break, which led to Wolfe giving vent to his resentment of Perkins, had nothing to do with text-editing or with critics' charges.
Planting himself squarely in the path of Nic Coward, chief executive of the British Horseracing Authority, Findlay gave furious public vent to the resentment he has been nursing since a disciplinary trauma suddenly turned his fairy-tale adventures on the Turf into a raging nightmare.
Even if you're secretly squirreling away money and not making overt displays of being well-off, people will sense that you're doing better and living with less worry than them and that alone bothers some enough to vent their own resentment and annoyance your way.
Like many in Egypt, most in the crowd said they doubted Bin Laden's responsibility for the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and instead vented pent-up resentment of America for its invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan as well as its support for Israel.
The fall in 2003 of the country's brutal despot, Saddam Hussein, gave vent to the burning resentment of the Shia underclass he had long persecuted, raising fears among Sunnis who had ruled the territory since Ottoman times.
Soon the combination of "Han Han" and "Time" was blocked by Chinese search engines, and People's Daily asked in a headline, "IS TIME MAGAZINE SEVERELY NEARSIGHTED?" On his blog, Han wrote: Maybe my writings help people vent some anger or resentment.
At first Roy demurs; soon he is giving vent to his own resentments.
