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Resentment (also called ranklement or bitterness) is a complex, multilayered emotion [1] that has been described as a mixture of disappointment, disgust and anger. [2] Other psychologists consider it a mood [3] or as a secondary emotion (including cognitive elements) that can be elicited in the face of insult or injury.
Though in the English language there is not any standard accepted method to denote irony or sarcasm in written conversation, several forms of punctuation have been proposed. Among the oldest and frequently attested are the percontation point —furthered by Henry Denham in the 1580s—and the irony mark —furthered by Alcanter de Brahm in the ...
The term "bitter" has been used in England to describe pale ale since the early 19th century. Although brewers used the term "pale ale", before the introduction of pump clips, customers in pubs would ask for "bitter" to differentiate it from mild ale; by the end of the 19th century, brewers had begun to use the term as well.
A brutal blast of bitterly cold arctic air engulfed the central states and spread further south and east to end the week. As the cold hung on, we saw additional daily record temperatures set from ...
The prophet Jeremiah lamenting the fall of Jerusalem, engraving by Gustave Doré, 1866. A jeremiad is a long literary work, usually in prose, but sometimes in verse, in which the author bitterly laments the state of society and its morals in a serious tone of sustained invective, and always contains a prophecy of society's imminent downfall.
Polemic (/ p ə ˈ l ɛ m ɪ k / pə-LEHM-ick, US also /-ˈ l i m ɪ k /-LEEM-ick) is contentious rhetoric intended to support a specific position by forthright claims and to undermine the opposing position.
The novel is a bitterly funny satire on life for young English Catholics in the 1950s and 1960s, depicting them juggling the pressures of youth, sexual desire and the modern world with rigid rules about the avoidance of pleasures, the shame of disappointing Christ and the Virgin, and the fear of hell.
Manu bitterly criticises and condemns Pratiloma unions which were considered as "going against the hair or grain" and holds them responsible for the degeneration of the parties involved, subsequent to the union. However, later commentators have come to accept these marriages.