• Though Fianna Fail's vote went up by just 0.2%, clever tactical voting produced a sharp rise in seats, while the tactically dimmer Progressive Democrats held their vote but halved their seats (though a resentful recount is going on over a Dublin seat lost to a Green).

    ECONOMIST: Ireland

  • The bad news (if you're a resentful Xer) is that these boomer-geezers will still be around for quite a while after they retire, forcing you to listen to such "classic rock" fossils as "Stairway to Heaven" another umpteen million times.

    FORBES: Buying A Stairway To Heaven

  • " Then, in a resentful voice, he adds, "I was at the hospital.

    NPR: 'The Swallows of Kabul' Book Excerpt

  • Various irritations may have stirred Ethiopia's fear of being cut off from the sea, and Eritrea's fear that its new independence might be infringed by a resentful Ethiopia.

    ECONOMIST: Ethiopia and Eritrea

  • Uganda then befriended a resentful rabble of Lendu militias.

    ECONOMIST: Congo's wars

  • Mr Blunkett, a close ally of Mr Blair, argues in an article for the Observer that Mr Miliband's stated aim of making Labour a "one-nation party" should be "about a great deal more than politics built on grievance and the unhappiness of a resentful and selfish public sphere".

    BBC: Labour must offer voters solutions, says Lord Reid

  • And best of all is Cate Blanchett, who, thanks to camera trickery, plays both halves of a conversation between a starlet and her resentful, bohemian cousin she alternates between the slatternly and the prim with only a wig and body language.

    NEWYORKER: Coffee and Cigarettes

  • The majority of married working moms shoulder more than 75% of parenting work and household chores nearly 80% of them are resentful towards their partners as a result.

    FORBES: Women Don't Want To Be Rescued, A Competent Cowboy Will Do

  • An identifiable pool of patrons is far superior to a vague cloud of resentful taxpayers.

    FORBES: Public Funding for the Arts

  • Such updates typically have occurred in June or July, which could make people who buy a Verizon iPhone now resentful that their new phone was bested so soon.

    WSJ: New Verizon Service Bests AT&T in Call Reliability for iPhones

  • To push through these cuts quickly, explaining them to bewildered and resentful employees, is often the hardest part of making a merger succeed.

    ECONOMIST: How to make mergers work

  • America's generals, not noticeably keen on humanitarian wars of intervention in the first place, are going to be doubly resentful if human-rights-minded liberals get them into a humanitarian war and then expose American soldiers to prosecution for what they do in that war.

    ECONOMIST: War crimes

  • Nicholas Claus (Paul Giamatti) persuades his resentful and estranged older brother, Fred (Vince Vaughn), a motormouthed Chicago repo man, to pay him a visit at the North Pole.

    NEWYORKER: Fred Claus

  • It then shifts between Milly (hiding out in their seaside cottage), Colman (the resentful adopted son), Sophie Stone (Joss's hack biographer, who scents a fortune), and Edith (Joss's Scottish mother).

    ECONOMIST: Musical crossovers

  • The poor countries showed themselves resentful at the problems they have faced in implementing the Uruguay round agreements, and this time they drove a much tougher bargain.

    ECONOMIST: The end of the beginning | The

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