It wasn't fair, I said, my voice choking with aggrievement. From Wordnik.com. [Dreams From My Father]
Demagoguery and aggrievement are nothing new in American politics. From Wordnik.com. [John McQuaid: Czarist Nonsense] Reference
Anyone who plays along with her aggrievement is delusional or a chump. From Wordnik.com. [Maybe Palin doesn't mind being 'stalked' by McGinniss] Reference
All her politics have dwindled to vanity — and a vague sense of aggrievement. From Wordnik.com. [Zip It] Reference
It takes a special dementia and a deep-seated sense of aggrievement to come up with this statement. From Wordnik.com. [Hullabaloo] Reference
Today the feeling of being aggrieved by American bigotry is far more a matter of identity than of actual aggrievement. From Wordnik.com. [Why the GOP Can't Win With Minorities] Reference
Today the feeling of being aggrieved by American bigotry is far more a matter of identity than of actual aggrievement…. From Wordnik.com. [2009 August 21 « Sigmund, Carl and Alfred] Reference
A sense of aggrievement this severe cries out for release, and one can only hope that the outlet of a backwater blog can vent some of the steam. From Wordnik.com. [All Politics is Local] Reference
It is perhaps too much to expect that a leader will emerge who can draw crowds with the message that assimilation is a more honorable goal than aggrievement. From Wordnik.com. [The Threat Of Tribalism] Reference
Still, Powell has refused to countenance the bitterness and pessimism -- the overwhelming sense of aggrievement -- that has paralyzed much of the African-American community. From Wordnik.com. [Can Colin Powell Save America?] Reference
To a superficial observer it seems that the Government, by deferring to the susceptibility of the Muslims, is encouraging their sense of aggrievement, while obtaining none of their goodwill. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Months of doubt followed before the terrible experience of August proved the futility of their pleas, to which the ducal family refused to listen, so deep was their sense of personal aggrievement. From Wordnik.com. [Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477] Reference
Having spurned U.N. talks over Kosovo's future for years, Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica and other nationalists appealed to Serb feelings of persecution and aggrievement the moment the Kosovars decided on their own to declare independence. From Wordnik.com. [The Serb Problem] Reference
Nursing its sense of aggrievement, the Popular Party refused to accept the conclusions of the police investigation and insisted for years, following the lead of populist media, that the Islamists who carried out the train bombings were somehow linked to ETA. From Wordnik.com. [Zapatero Wins] Reference
But by manipulating the suffering he himself has inflicted on Iraqis, and invoking the rhetoric of Arab solidarity, he has remained a convenient symbol for those who seek to exploit the sense of aggrievement, frustration and defeat that is still so powerful in much of the Arab world. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks By Samuel Berger At Stanford University] Reference
She doesn't push, has no underlying sense of aggrievement. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference
But she felt a womanish aggrievement at his having left her to undo her own things. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land] Reference
"So you are actually going to leave me next week?" he asked, with a note of personal aggrievement. From Wordnik.com. [Quin] Reference
She had a sense of aggrievement and a feeling of added loneliness as she sat down to her solitary lunch. From Wordnik.com. [A Young Mutineer] Reference
Owing to Bulgaria's position in the Balkan Peninsula, and also owing to aggrievement following the results of former Balkan wars. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers] Reference
Ackman's tone reminded me a lot of the air of aggrievement that pervades his friend and fellow hedge fund manager David Einhorn's. From Wordnik.com. [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference
What was good for the Provos and the "Real IRA" and the UDF is equally good for those with even less cause but more aggrievement. From Wordnik.com. [the defeatists!] Reference
I didn't want him to go, for he was an entertaining apothecary and a sympathetic person, before whom I could act my sullenness and aggrievement. From Wordnik.com. [Tell England A Study in a Generation] Reference
The rising political temper among Sikhs, after Jarnail lobbed his shoe, was indicative of the deep-seated sense of aggrievement and made party strategists assess the fallout. From Wordnik.com. [The Times of India] Reference
To my knowledge, the only available data pretty heavily contradict your thesis -- and more days without further aggrievement would only be expected to weaken calls for ouster. From Wordnik.com. [BlueOregon] Reference
With his usual sense of entitlement and aggrievement, Bill Clinton of Arkansas did not want Caroline Kennedy of New York to have the seat that Hillary Clinton of Illinois held. From Wordnik.com. [The Elephant Bar] Reference
While I'd wager that 95\% of the marchers were sane and focused, the stage at the rally on the mall was overrun with every last form of Leftist aggrievement, from slavery reparations to Tibet to abortion access. From Wordnik.com. [The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan] Reference
The neoliberal tactic has been to ignore resentment and aggrievement altogether - to maintain that such feelings are a moral, educational or pyschiatric failure of those who have not accepted metropolitan, "modernising" values. From Wordnik.com. [k-punk] Reference
But as his eyes followed his daughter's wholesome, Phyllis-like figure, a new idea took possession of him: needless to say, however, it was in the line of another personal aggrievement, albeit it took the form of religious reflection. From Wordnik.com. [A Phyllis of the Sierras] Reference
Inflamed with a grandiose sense of his aggrievement, Marcus grows more irrational, more terrified of the possibility of ending up on the bloody mountains of Korea, slaughtered and drained like the carcasses in his father's butcher shop. From Wordnik.com. [Powell's Books: Overview] Reference
Much of the BNP's appeal derives from its granting of legitimacy to those feelings of resentment and aggrievement - yes, it says, you're right to feel angry and betrayed, you're right to feel that your anxieties are being ignored, you're right to feel that there is something fundamentally wrong. From Wordnik.com. [k-punk] Reference
06 / 15 / 01: Lieberman flaunts mantle of perpetual aggrievement. From Wordnik.com. Reference
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