How To Use Envy In A Sentence

They will not see through the superficial machinations of modern baaskap whose heart is filled with envy at seeing the dream becoming true, of a people united in a social contract, working together black and white, to determine a better future for themselves. SPEECH BY NKOSINATHI NHLEKO, CHIEF WHIP OF THE MAJORITY PARTY ON THE STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS
The second is to realise when the goal is unattainable and turn the envy towards an achievable outcome. Times, Sunday Times
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Penis envy is right -- you notice how it's always guys like Sam and Randy leading the charge for this kind of thing? OHSU biotech breakthrough -- worthless to Portland (Jack Bog's Blog)
Making ourselves miserable by these cravings and wishes is the unwholesome pattern of envy.

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He could only envy the more galactically sophisticated Deyzara his perfect terranglo that in some ways sounded more polished than that of the administrator herself. Drowning World
The camera captures Rico's observant nature as he gazes in envy at a mob leader's jeweled cravat, diamond pinky ring, and stock of fine cigars.
And in such a case envy will be sure to work and boil up to a more than ordinary height, while the envious person frets, and raves, and swells at the plenties and affluence of his abounding neighbour, and (as I may so express it) is even ready to burst with another's fulness. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV.
These are some of the most beautiful renderings of baseball stadiums seen, and on top of that are the animated scoreboards and surrounding stadium features that are the envy of many a sports game.
Envy and greed were the mainsprings of their creativity; it would have been more accurate if some of them had been called the Envious Young Men.
The removal of the State capital from Milledgeville to Atlanta also gave the renaissant city a good start, and the wonderful manner in which it drew trade and capital to it from all sides made it the envy of its sister Georgian cities. The Great South; A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland
We shouldn't blame, laugh at and envy anyone. We should be colorful in the sunshine, run in the winds and rains, dream your own dreams and go your own way.
We say it's the envy of the world. Times, Sunday Times
Why should it be this emotional scale (as opposed to joy vs. pain, or pride vs. envy) whose expressions are subject to positive-to-negative inversion?
The remainder is paid from the general fund, in long-standing recognition of the value to the general public of having a safe, efficient air transportation system (which, BTW, is the envy of the rest of the world, including Canada). Matthew Yglesias » Nav Canada
They have done some fantastic science, and they have a publication record that would be the envy of many large research institutes. Times, Sunday Times
Many thanks for a first class mag, even if I do go green with envy at some of the kit!
Day-break from mischief of what He did make from mischief of moon eclipse-showing and from mischief of witches on cord-knots blowing and from mischief of envier when envying. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
But not with envy, but with nauseousness knowing that Mike MacLean trusted you with Murderati. COLOR ME BADD
When he found that it was for people of consequence in a private room that the articles were required, he set to work with a will and produced a polish "that would have struck envy to the soul of _the amiable Mr. Warren_, _for they used Day and Martin's at the_ '_White Pickwickian Studies
I'd look at other women and envy their curvy figures. The Sun
It's not an exclusive shop, though its turnover is the envy of many traditional merchants.
I envy your ability to work so fast.
Maybe there is jealousy, but I think the envy is more powerful.
I envy guys who are comfortable in their own voices and who speak with deep resonance.
It shows no great sense of sportsmanship, but rather invokes a suspicion of envy of some kind.
My mom is slender, I totally envy her body, but she has to have her pajama bottom's three sizes bigger.
Consumed by class envy and full of malice, they piled on as soon as they got the news.
Such acts, he said, only served envy and the ambition of enraged parties or satisfied the cravings of lust.
The envy is a constant, what changes are the socio-economic conditions - the most crucial of which was probably the invention of agriculture and storage of food. The Envy of the World, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
On the other hand, ‘bitter envy and selfish ambition’ does not come from above, ‘but is earthly, unspiritual, devilish’.
But he couldn't be got to conceive the notion of envying Champion. The Wisdom of Father Brown
He was also a keen angler and an enthusiastic gardener, with his dahlias and leeks becoming the envy of Hampshire. Times, Sunday Times
It's a funny, left-of-center film about envy in all its permeations and how it strains friendships.
Not merely daring and endurance but better still temper, self-restraint, fairness, honour, unenvying approbation of another's success and all that give and take of life which stands a man in good stead when he goes forth into the world. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph
How exciting to be invited to come to the White House, see 'the garden' (new meaning to the term pea-green with envy) as the fabulous first lady drafted us all into the service of our country's children to ensure their healthy future. Liz Neumark: Food Activist Goes to Washington
They loved him none the more, of course, and spun, prawned, and wormed as before, honestly envying just a little the purist whose fly undoubtedly often justified his claims. Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler
We shouldn't blame, laugh at and envy anyone. We should be colorful in the sunshine, run in the winds and rains, dream your own dreams and go your own way.
Do you envy other women who seem to manage their lives better?
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
He reminds them likewise of the wickedness of those that were the patriarchs of their tribes, in envying their brother Joseph, and selling him into Egypt; and the same spirit was still working in them towards Christ and his ministers. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
Cale let out a yowl of pain that the coyotes in Arizona could hear and envy.
sat completely still, sick with envy
The envy and resentment of your betters is very clear from your weak arguments. Envy and Resentment, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity. Samuel Johnson
You must mark out your territory as an artist, so that others learn to envy you and aspire to what you are doing.
That, and the envy-inducing smartness of the writing, so polished and sharp, so epigrammatic. Times, Sunday Times
Envying and fretting meet in the same persons, and are equally dehorted from.
The corner bar nowadays has CNBC playing on the TV as much as sports, and nothing sounds tinnier than envy. Aspirational Economics 101
I envy her recklessness, the roughness of her unpracticed pirouettes, the occasional clumsy misstep that inspires no apologies.
Even after the arrival of the hi-tech buses and Volvo buses, the double-deckers are the pride of the KSRTC and the capital and the envy of outsiders.
Envy is blind and kows nothing except how to depreciate the excellence of others.
They enjoyed an income and lifestyle that many people would envy.
I have, God be praised, learned to admire, and not envy every one that outgoes me: and this will, I hope, go a great way in making me easy and happy under the pressures of a very narrow fortune, and amidst the ruffles of an ill-natured world. On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions
With his place on the social scale preassigned by birth, Valentin is not so fortunate: “What I envy you is your liberty,” he observes, “your wide range, your freedom to come and go, your not having a lot of people, who take themselves awfully seriously, expecting something of you.” Archive 2009-11-01
Councillor Currie said the seed of his idea grew out of envy of the grand infrastructure in the Western Isles ‘where they've had causeways and bridges and they are all linked up’.
Add a scattering of leafy prints to complete the look, and your neighbours will be green with envy. The Sun
Her strongest character traits are, in about this order, heroic courage; wrath; vengefulness; envy; and cattiness.
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
Feel no envy for the golfing elephant and those who attend it. THROWING THE ELEPHANT
It was delightful news for me to learn that you have received a Doctor's Degree from Chicago University.To have reached this milestone at a young age is simple great.I really envy you the opportunities that lie ahead.Hearty congratulations.
They displayed their immaturity, their envy and spite and malice, in refusing to condemn this act of terrorism.
They gazed in a mixture of envy and admiration at the beauty of the statue.
The sight of people dimmed, and their voices choked with tears of disillusion, greed, envy and pride
New homes overlook the seafront, and there are hundreds of boats moored in the marina that is the envy of every other seaside resort in Britain.
Submissions - poetic, pathetic and just plain bizarre - fall into categories like Pride, Envy, Sloth and Gluttony.
Love looks with telescope; envy with microscope.
So there is envy and jealousy, yes. The Sun
But a service that was the envy of the world in 1948 is simply not up to the demands of the 21st century.
It has an electoral system which in principle should be the envy of the world.
Her colleagues were green with envy .
If possible, talk to the person you envy. Christianity Today
I envy her ability to talk to people she's never met before.
One eats endless beef and is so bored one could scream You envy us? A BOOK OF LANDS AND PEOPLES
Drop envy and jealousy, otherwise there is no possibility - because love cannot exist where envy and jealousies exist. Then your search is only for a certain type of power: that in the name of love you are just trying to fulfill the ego. And it is arduous to drop, because love exists only when all the negative elements of the mind are dropped. It is very arduous. Osho
We know envy as a state of exquisite tension, torment and ill-will, provoked by an overwhelming sense of inferiority, impotence and worthlessness.
But nowe pryde, covetyse and envye han so enflawmed the hertes of lordes of the world, that thei are more besy for to disherite here neyghbores, more than for to chalenge or to conquere here righte heritage before seyd. The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
The speed of China's development at the moment is like a high-speed train—it's the envy of the whole world—but while satisfying our need for speed, we might be forsaking many things," said Qiu Qiming, a popular anchor on the state broadcaster's CCTV 13 channel, in an extraordinary on-air plea after the accident. Trouble on the China Express
It was delightful news for me to learn that you have received a Doctor's Degree from Chicago University.To have reached this milestone at a young age is simple great.I really envy you the opportunities that lie ahead.Hearty congratulations.
I so envy the people I meet who command a range of skills.
Renvyle House Hotel has an idyllic setting, with its own stretch of beach, superb grounds including a croquet lawn, and rambling but beautifully maintained gardens.
To confront your jealousy, make a secret list of all the things you envy… then wad it up into spitballs.
As usual, the envy is largely baseless and dumb, but it's sticky and hard to shake.
In short, no envy, hatred, malice, and all uncharitableness; no vice, or meanness, or cheating, or any of the abominations of the planet Terra, and _we come from that planet_. A Honeymoon in Space
Eyeing his father's money with growing envy, his fourth son tried to and succeeded in insinuating himself into his father's favour.
Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.
Borges' characters can similarly be said to envy women their desire that they cannot understand and do not dare explore.
The frequency of envy makes it so familiar that it escapes our notice; nor do we often reflect upon its turpitude or malignity, till we happen to feel its influence.
Envy and the feeling that it is unfair for some nations to be so rich and others to be so poor can be a powerful, driving force.
Estrada is a wonderful nominee, with stellar credentials and a record that would be the envy of practically any lawyer.
They enjoyed an income and lifestyle that many people would envy.
While whoever publishes Clinic's work might like to have a listen to the closing 'Run Gospel Singer' with relation to 'C.Q.', they might also feel a slab of envy at 'Wild Strawberries', built on repeated riffs, distorted vocals that simultaneously recall Ade Blackburn's gnomic vocalising and takes it several stages further and overdriven garagey thrash at the end of which it seems it's just a race to see who blinks first. The Line Of Best Fit
I suspect this form of expression is a local custom for elderly people to ward off the envy of jealous gods.
Certainly not, say 61%, although 23% admit to an occasional twinge of envy.
Envy is defined as discontentment with one's lot and a desire for the attributes or possessions of another person.
I almost envy you, on occasion, growing up in such a peaceful time.
You could be the envy of your fellow commuter if you whip out your Sudoku on the tube and complete the grid in double quick time.
I often envy non-readers for all the wonderful books out there that they have never read.
Yet politicians of all parties like to pretend that there is a quick-fix solution that will miraculously transform the service into the envy of the world.
Others simply envy the unimagined dimensions of her achievement.
a note of war: the passion of more-having, staunchless avarice, threatens hostility; and envy is a hateful fiend. 195 Memorabilia
Margaret's skin was a lighter shade of olive that was so smooth that she was the envy of all the other girls, purely for her complexion.
I had an envy of the cosiness, the unfailing support that these blokes were supposed to enjoy. Times, Sunday Times
Don't waste your time being eaten up with envy.
So I think senior colleagues made the wrong decision - but I can't say they made the decision in a fit of pique or envy.
Panama is angling to be the next Costa Rica, with nearly 6,000 square miles of public lands and a wildlife population (jaguars, tapirs, giant sea turtles, sloths) that'll make any tropical nation green with envy.
I envy thee, old man, aye, and every man who leads a life secure, unknown and unrenowned; but little I envy those in office. Iphigenia at Aulis
What I do envy, self-possessed control freak that I am, is other people's ability to lose themselves in unfettered delight.
The boy's new electronic toy train was the envy of his friends.
Envy was a civilised emotion, attendant upon some degree of security and the possession of things strictly unnecessary to survival.
There is also great use of ambitious men, in being screens to princes in matters of danger and envy; for no man will take that part, except he be like a seeled dove, that mounts and mounts, because he cannot see about him. The Essays
So much for civil liberties, those checks on official abuse of power that make our legal system the envy of the world. A NASTY DOSE OF DEATH
In particular, it ignores those emotions which involve higher cognitive processes, such as jealousy, envy, and Schadenfreude.
And this strip of green must surely be envy. What the Bee Knows - reflections on myth, symbol and story
The local printer and binder was drop-jawed with envy. Times, Sunday Times
She felt a stab of envy when she saw all the expensive presents Zoe had been given for Christmas.
Rutgers fans speak with envy of Midwest football schools such as Nebraska, where the fan support is rabid and the local kids stick around.
Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.
The boy's new electronic toy train was the envy of his friends.
They did not succeed without arousing resentment and envy. The Search for Justice - a history of Britain and the British people Volume III
Of course, the idea of crocus in January tickles a Michigan gardener is very very optimistic OK, an impossible dream, but we understand and envy your warmer climate! A Calender « Fairegarden
The smith is a brawny native Maltese, with a form a Hercules might envy. Miss Caprice
It is where the great man lived and worked, and bequeathed an architectural legacy worthy of envy. The Sun
Electric trams and buses and a new underground system would be the envy of many western cities.
They were all consumed by envy now on top of the original dislike.
Robert's new job sounds very nice - I'm envious of him / I'm full of envy / I envy him.
You must mark out your territory as an artist, so that others learn to envy you and aspire to what you are doing.
There is yet some good in public envy, whereas in private, there is none. For public envy, is as an ostracism, that eclipseth men, when they grow too great. And therefore it is a bridle also to great ones, to keep them within bounds.
There is too much envy out there. Times, Sunday Times
They always comment on my height which sometimes leaves my friends green with envy. The Sun
The happiness of the saints is the envy of the wicked, and that envy is the rottenness of their bones. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
The right amalgam of commercialism and professionalism in marketing has ensured that the flow of money is the envy of many.
The broadcast invariably communicated something about their great society, envy of the world, then gave a rambling weather report, and ended with frocked maidens dancing a polka. Lorelei Kelly: Meet the New Soviets: Gingrich, Walker, Breitbart
It has been quite a year for blockbuster exhibitions of the sort that made London the envy of the creative world. Times, Sunday Times
Commentators with a taste for proving the unprovable have brought forward evidence that virtually every poet of Shakespeare's time - and even of other times, such as Dante and Tasso - aroused Shakespeare's envy.
Sometimes I feel like one of those girls that other girls envy.
A lady, sir, though it was said she much resembled me, was yet of many accounted beautiful: but, though I could not with such estimable wonder overfar believe that, yet thus far I will boldly publish her: she bore a mind that envy could not but call fair. Act II. Scene I. Twelfth-Night; or, What You Will
As such, he is the object of much spiteful envy and petty jealousy from members opposite.
I lifted my glass in salute to all my American friends, enjoying the big Thanksgiving meal, and thought with only a tinge of envy of the delights of roast turkey with all the trimmings.
If Scotland be to rest under the happy reign of Robert Bruce, then envy cannot again assail Sir William Wallace, and my father has not shed his blood in vain. The Scottish Chiefs
“Envy,” it has been said, “permits every one to be the panegyrist of his own probity, but not of his own wit.” A Philosophical Dictionary
This first step in the enserfment of the American people was taken in envy. How Freedom Was Lost
We will put a stop to Labour's politics of envy and give to tenants in London what is every other tenant's birthright and reinstate the right to buy.
Outsiders envy our nearness to the lake and the life's-a-holiday vibe, even as they see it as a distant outpost, some eastern outpost of the moon.
But you should turn those feelings of pity into feelings of rampant envy.
Love cancels resentment, envy and jealousy and replaces them with kindness, forbearance and cordiality.
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
I don't envy anyone that thespian task, but she gets the job done superbly.
Contemplate on one hand, the unenvying, the benevolent friend of mankind. Sermons on Prevalent Errors, and Vices and on Various Other Topics
Yet Sarah Palin's leaked demands (including three deluxe hotel rooms, a private aircraft that "must be a Lear 60 or larger", and a "bendable" straw) have made her not only the envy of our former expense-claiming MPs, for whom a simple moat is now an unattainable dream, but also the peer of many rock stars. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
His expense account was the envy of his colleagues. Times, Sunday Times
Just four years after the council leader criticised police for allowing ‘rampant lawlessness’ to grip the city's clubland, they are now the envy of the rest of the country.
Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity. Samuel Johnson
I detected a tinge of envy in her tone.
One eats endless beef and is so bored one could scream You envy us? A BOOK OF LANDS AND PEOPLES
We all envy the Bill Gateses of this world .
They're not hard to spot; many of them dressed in stubbies and shearer's singlets, with long beards most bikies would envy.
Their success should not be a matter of envy or begrudgery.
One eats endless beef and is so bored one could scream You envy us? A BOOK OF LANDS AND PEOPLES
I look at my grandparents in envy because they received a good retirement plan from Duke Power and are in their late 70s, still healthy and without the worry of money. Reality-Based Retirement Club, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
Her ingenuity, her creativity in approving reimbursements is the bondage. .er, envy of the free market. Think Progress » Army Secretary says Gates has placed a de facto moratorium on DADT discharges.
I sometimes look with envy on those whose faith brings comfort and assurance.
Maybe the couple wasn't even Jewish--now non-Jewish couples are getting them, too I call it ketubah envy. Stephanie Caplan: My Favorite Ketubot
It betrays an intimacy that any son must envy. Times, Sunday Times
Freudians attributed couvade to "fetus envy," but recent science has found that it's not so cuckoo. The Plight of the Pregnant Man
To the extent that egalitarians are sincere and consistent in the embrace of their principles, this counts against the charge that their occurrent motivation is envy.
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
The house was big, not as big as the one that had just infected her with a bad case of money envy, but still big.
The popular press calls it envy; Dr. Range prefers the term inequity aversion. Archive 2008-12-01
Gradually he began to acknowledge his feelings of envy towards his mother.
That's another reason why fellow golfers are green with envy. The Sun
Summary Despite the problems that women students felt, they did not envy their female friends studying other courses.
If everywhere can become as good, our health service will be the envy of the world.
That's understandable: Jobs was an iconic iconoclast who thrived as a businessman and as the envy of his field.
When I came back again to prison, as I was musing at the slender answer of the justice, this word dropt in upon my heart with some life, For He knew that for envy they had delivered Him. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
What motivates Maurice is not lechery but a yearning envy of Jessie's youth and a longing for his own.
They looked at him with a mixture of horror, envy, and awe.
Gradually he began to acknowledge his feelings of envy towards his mother and both wives. Know Your Own Mind
Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.
Were we green with envy at these floating palaces? The Sun
And I sympathize with the state and with the governor, and I definitely do not envy his decision to do this.
All the envy, exasperation and spite he filtered out of his own quiet, grid-based paintings he dumped into hellzapoppin 'art-world cartoons (wisely prologued in William Rubin's conservative but razor-sharp installation as big photostats near the entrance). Every Picture Tells
‘By venting such indecorous spleen, some might consider that I am indulging in the ‘politics of envy’, as it is called.
But how far should we be swayed by this envy or the awe we feel for their feats on the pitch? Times, Sunday Times
But, intimately acquainted with the Kirshner world through his familial ties, Andras's repugnance is complicated by a potent blend of envy, exile, and secret longing.
Once a year, a few of the mothers took time out to envy Kate, whose family, in contrast to theirs, was centripetal rather than centrifugal. BARN BLIND
And we are supposed to have a judicial system that is the envy of the world? The Sun
There is much poverty and anguish in the world, and it breeds resentment and envy.
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
O how I envy those people who can get up have a leisurely breakfast of something healthy and wholesome, browse through the papers before stress free, amble through the park to work.
As Danielle Gardner, whose brother Douglas Gardner worked at Cantor Fitzgerald and died in the World Trade Center, wrote in a remarkable essay published in 2005, I have learned about the whacked-out phenomenon I term trauma envy. The Truth About Grief
She felt a stab of envy when she saw all the expensive presents Zoe had been given for Christmas.
Envy and resentment attach themselves to football. Times, Sunday Times
In the absence of these old-fashioned helps, he was content that his own unassisted efforts should gain for him a certificate of capability to the world, and that the choice reputation which he thus earned should, with his own qualities, bring round him the unenvying love of a host of friends. Charles Lamb
That's another reason why fellow golfers are green with envy. The Sun
It is agreed that envy involves an envier (“Subject”), a party who is envied (“Rival”)—this may be a person or group of persons—and some possession, capacity or trait that the subject supposes the rival to have (the “good”). Jose Huizar: C'mon, Say Yes to the Kids!
When I came back again to prison, as I was musing at the slender answer of the justice, this word dropt in upon my heart with some life, FOR HE KNEW THAT FOR ENVY THEY HAD DELIVERED HIM. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners

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