Sentences with phrase «simmering resentment at»

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City Council Speaker Christine Quinn was widely regarded as the Democratic front - runner when the 2013 mayor's race began, despite simmering resentment in the party about the way she'd wielded power at times and, more importantly, about her role in extending term limits.

But when attempting to reveal their characters» inner conflicts or depict the simmering resentments that Anna and young Sean's relationship causes among her family, Glazer and co-writers Milo Addica and Jean - Claude Carrière are pathetically at a loss.

Aimlessly passing their days in the concrete environs of their dead - end suburbia, Vinz (Vincent Cassel), Hubert (Hubert Koundé), and Saïd (Saïd Taghmaoui)-- a Jew, an African, and an Arab — give human faces to France's immigrant populations, their bristling resentment at their marginalization slowly simmering until it reaches a climactic boiling point.

With patience and tightly honed focus (the majority of the film takes place at home and school), Al - Mansour creates a palpable sense of simmering resentment.

The change in policy could have a significant effect, both at City College, where student resentment about the community center has repeatedly boiled over, and across the entire university system, where faculty resistance to Pathways, a contested academic initiative, is at a high simmer.

I simmer with quiet resentment at those people who have no fear of being rejected or reviled — the ones who just stomp around getting their own way, everyone else be damned.