ressentiment
noun
res·sen·ti·ment
rə-ˌsäⁿ-tē-ˈmäⁿ 
: deep-seated resentment, frustration, and hostility accompanied by a sense of being powerless to express these feelings directly
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The smaller art world resents the larger, commercial art world, but in a particular way, without what is sometimes called ressentiment, based on envy and faltering self-esteem.
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Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 6 June 2023
Television and music, monuments and memorials have all been prime levers of a political project, a campaign of cultural ressentiment and national rebirth, that culminated this May on the blue-green carpets beneath Hagia Sophia’s dome.
—Jason Farago, New York Times, 25 May 2023
But in between justice and ressentiment is a rich, gray area where schadenfreude can serve a valuable political purpose.
—Lee M. Pierce, The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2020
This weaponizing of ressentiment — a term borrowed from German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, capturing the deep grievance produced by feelings of both envy and humiliation — is possibly the defining theme in global politics right now.
—Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 26 June 2018
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Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 6 June 2023
Television and music, monuments and memorials have all been prime levers of a political project, a campaign of cultural ressentiment and national rebirth, that culminated this May on the blue-green carpets beneath Hagia Sophia’s dome.
—Jason Farago, New York Times, 25 May 2023
But in between justice and ressentiment is a rich, gray area where schadenfreude can serve a valuable political purpose.
—Lee M. Pierce, The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2020
This weaponizing of ressentiment — a term borrowed from German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, capturing the deep grievance produced by feelings of both envy and humiliation — is possibly the defining theme in global politics right now.
—Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 26 June 2018
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ressentiment
noun
res·sen·ti·ment
rə-säⁿ-tē-ˈmäⁿ
: deep-seated resentment, frustration, and hostility accompanied by a sense of being powerless to express these feelings directly
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