Nature will not be Buddhist; she resents generalising, and insults the philosopher in every moment with a million of fresh particulars.
A fool resents good counsel, but a wise man= 65 =lays it to heart.
A member of a reputedly cultured community or class naturally resentsattack upon those views and customs which in his estimate denote civilisation, and are of its very essence.
The labourer who resents the lordling's contumely, and indicts him for living a lazy life, may only work when he is starving, and perhaps not then.
He resents any interest being shown in him, and the only time I took him out shooting he all but shot me by accident.
Intelligence, yes; but as to consideration, who at the present moment most bitterly resents the tender solicitude of Lancashire for the welfare and protection of the Indian factory operative?
Not only does he disapprove of them on this account but he resents having been taken in.
A difference of temperament: the Englishman may be better or worse, but he knows where he is and resents being fooled.
To be sure she may have her favourites--very few and very seldom; but she mostly thinks them stupid or conceited, and impartially resents either their awkward attentions to herself or their assumptions of superiority.
My mother frequently takes things away from him, and he never resents it to her as he would do to any other person.
Naturally he resents the established spelling of English which preserves the form of words while allowing the words themselves to decay, thus sacrificing speech to print.
We know how deeply the Anglo-Saxon mind resentsany social "ticketing.
Mr. Jobling quite resents this liberty; several times returning to it with such remarks as, "There are places enough to die in, I should think!
Simpson cannot see the justice of obeying my orders, and lets his inferiors see that heresents them.
T is best I should; he makes it a point of honor then to stand still and wait for me, and resents a stranger's hand, being young and impatient.
Society resents being disturbed at its pleasures, and the man who had offended was now made conscious of his rudeness.
If the teacher asks a boy when and by whom America was discovered, he resents the implication of crass ignorance; but if she asks how Columbus came to discover America in 1492, he feels that it is conceded that there are some things he knows.
When this spirit of anarchy gains access to the school, it is not easily eradicated for the reason that the home is loath to recognize it as anarchy, and resents any such implication on the part of the school.
A spurious patriotismresents as unpatriotic the far truer love of country which sets a trumpet to its mouth to tell the people their sins.
He resents it, as he resents the tone of the "Playboy of the Western World"; yet it is the direct modern representative of the tone of mind that produced the Ossianic lays.
So shall his blue-eyed daughter learn to dread 490 A father's anger; but for the offence Of Juno, he resents it less; for she Clashes with all his counsels from of old.
On the other hand, the action of the deity as such, is purely ideal, and can have no other foundation than the belief that Apollo sternly resents ill usage of his priests, and that too in the way here represented, viz.
But the man who is most to blame is he who resents plain speaking and allows flattery to egg him on to his ruin.
The crowd always resents the Carlyle, William James, Nietzsche, Goethe theory of genius.
Dare I to take his life, Who butresents an outrage?
Valentine resents the insult, but his sword is broken in his hand, and Mephistopheles draws a magic circle around himself and bids defiance to the rapiers of the soldiers.
For a man who resents the extra taxation that would be necessary to make one in his city.
For a white-haired, kindly old professor of Greek, who resents the intrusion of science and labor.
Jan resents having to pay outspan money: he will wriggle out of it if he can," said Constance.
The new General in no wise resents this jest, being blandly tolerant of a backwoods sense of humor which suggests it.
Not content with half the Cabinet, Statesman Calhoun resents privily his failure to control the war portfolio.
The child at work resents the mis-education received at school and suspects that he has been following false gods.
If he pooh-poohs or resents board of health regulations as to isolation of scarlet-fever patients, he is a dangerous man, no matter how noble his personal character.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "resents" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
