He envied them, and he envied himself as he had been.
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I envied her free time, her evening of carefree plans.
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Excisors were socially and economically envied by the other women.
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She had no idea how much Oghi envied his wife.
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He probably envied Odysseus's relatively smooth journey home to Ithaca.
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The man moved over rocks with a slowness I envied.
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I envied my teammates' sense of entitlement, their natural ease.
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Mr. Buffett operates with advantages envied throughout the business world.
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And we envied their easy access to the Mary Wards.
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Successful technology companies were widely envied as paragons of American business.
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Little did they know that I stared because I envied them.
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These were qualities that I envied and wished I possessed myself.
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I honestly envied the relationship between Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock.
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I envied those girls because I was so unsure of myself.
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Business associates envied my resolve but didn't feel it would work.
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She envied the neighbors in her building, all co-op shareholders.
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For decades, Democrats have envied the Republicans' passionate, locally attuned base.
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People have always envied my having a bookworm for a child.
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When Jacklyn sent her own children off to college, she envied them.
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Have you ever envied Woody's cowboy boots or Buzz Lightyear's moon boots?
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No one I interviewed envied May, or wished to take her place.
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Men have made women suffer, then envied how well they've managed it.
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But how I envied my friend, Tom, who had the other version.
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I envied divers for their chamois more than their actual diving abilities.
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I wasn't a crier, and often I envied those who easily teared up.
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These girls have been best friends since toddlers, a friendship to be envied!
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The leads on "Charlie's Angels" (1976 - 1981) have wardrobes that many have envied.
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He was getting married, and I envied his ability to go on dates.
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She emerges from it as a person more to be pitied than envied.
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It sounds silly, but I envied their "I Voted" stickers and Instagram posts.
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"Her rival isn't someone to be resented or envied, but embraced, even consumed."
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"I always wanted to be educated, and always envied educated people," he said.
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Gillian had adored and envied her, felt herself formless and dull by contrast.
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America is envied for having two, friendly ones, and vast oceans to each side.
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SM: The first film of yours I saw was The Man Who Envied Women.
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I envied older women when they'd open their wallets and expose multiple credit cards.
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But at 13, I didn't know what and envied the clarity Sephiroth had gained.
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Secretly, I envied his ability to understand the kind of thinking each clue required.
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I can empathize their feelings for a grand achievement that is envied by others.
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We envied American Jews, able to walk around with yarmulkes and gather in public.
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We might have secretly envied this girl, who had lived such a forbidden adventure.
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Voices I've always envied those who find peace and grace when they swim laps.
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The context: The business was once one of Wall Street's most envied money makers.
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Jenna Johnson may have just become one of the most envied women in the world.
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I envied the children whose parents took them out of Kiev on a real vacation.
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I envied her for her androgyny, something I didn't think I could pull off anymore.
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Soon, she started hearing from other women who envied her return to the working world.
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Though I envied her sharp way with words, I found Hannah's hyper-selfish personality unbearable.
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Their meeting produced the most envied and most successful form of national government ever conceived.
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At first, I envied their connectivity, as I am also guilty of obsessive phone use.
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And we arrived at something she hadn't been aware of: She had envied her children.
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But Sanders does have intense support among his progressive followers, which rival campaigns have envied.
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When a girl chose to bestow her favors, the lucky boy was envied and celebrated.
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I couldn't relate and didn't want to, yet somehow I envied them for being fighters.
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A man who has worked in the shadows is now too visible, envied and feared.
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When he described a passionate night as "delight, delight," I even envied him a little.
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From heirloom tiaras to world-famous diamonds, the Queen's jewelry collection is something to be envied.
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He envied the bulging muscles of his mates down the gym, and he knew their secret.
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He'd been recruited to run too, but he had no passion for it, which Tiffany envied.
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"Our relationship never really mirrored the father-son dynamic I envied watching '80s sitcoms," he adds.
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Today is one of the few days they are getting envied for it, and not bullied.
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Airbnb has one of the most envied business models in Silicon Valley's elite club of unicorns.
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We were sure the entire world envied our assignment — we were working with the country's elite.
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The medium understood transience and promiscuity — the alleged liberties that straights sometimes envied in gay life.
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Beer women are envied by other women and wanted by nearly every guy in the bar.
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These matriarchal symbols envision a world where the qualities of Chinese womanhood are envied and respected.
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"Before Hitler rose to power, other Europeans often feared, admired, envied and ridiculed the Germans," he writes.
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He was the CEO others in the auto industry envied, and most knew they couldn't emulate him.
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She would so much have liked to please, to be envied, to be seductive and sought after.
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Many liberal Britons might have envied the glamour the Obamas brought to America as they toured the world.
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For years Nepalis have envied India's and China's rapid economic growth and tried to woo investment from them.
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Also, the Grecian flow of it was always something I envied and wish I had in my closet.
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The rezdora is a mythologized, beloved figure, sometimes envied by those who don't have one at home anymore.
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But I always envied the girls on the yard, casually killing it with their Poetic Justice-inspired 'dos.
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There's a reason Porsche posts some of the juiciest and most envied profit margins in the car business.
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Why, do you know I almost envied the freedom of the Indians which I saw on the plains?
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His strategy was so successful that it was envied and then copied by central banks around the world.
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What we're reading: The Austin Chronicle's profile of Kenny Dorham, a trumpeter whose talent even Miles Davis envied.
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I was embarrassed for the people I saw who pined publicly on Instagram, but I also envied them.
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He even publicly envied China's record on extra-judicial executions in an open rebuke of traditional US values.
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Although I envied Allison's online presence, I realized that my disengagement was more about shame than self-preservation.
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Not only that, but Littler needed to adjust his widely envied swing a few days before the tournament.
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JJ: I always envied how Tom Waits could just walk over to a piano and bang out something incredible.
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But that wasn't their function; they weren't supposed to be seen, but to be admired, and envied, as value.
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I envied that emotional connection they had to the show that had been their escape for so many years.
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At the same time, stay-at-home moms are envied at least as often as they are condescended to.
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They are widely adored but also widely envied, and reliant on their audience to make their films a success.
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Twain sometimes envied the financial successes of Harriet Beecher Stowe, his neighbor from 1873 until her death in 1896.
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While I heard many a "hi, ma'am," I also saw some fierce death stares that clearly envied our freedom.
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But he was a public figure who pursued his goals with principle and an intensity that his colleagues envied.
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A love of food and carefree socialising with family and friends forms the essence of Italy's much-envied lifestyle.
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Williams, as the product of a broken home, envied Doerr for the support he had received from his father.
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I know many people have envied our trip because they may have been too scared to do it themselves.
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The youth-unemployment rate in Germany is much lower than in other European countries; its manufacturing prowess is widely envied.
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I also envied the friendships that formed between my classmates who got to play with each others' hair during recess.
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He enjoyed cooking for others and often brought his leftovers for us to share as we envied his cooking skills.
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Surely they envied the couturiers of the previous century, enthroned in their ateliers, worrying only about, say, draping and embroidery?
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But I've always envied people who are into it, because I think everyone knows that alcohol doesn't make sex better.
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If you were like me, you were a child who deeply envied Sabrina's cute boyfriend, cool aunts, and talking cat.
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Lindsay (Tami Sagher), whose parents own an Upper West Side apartment, is envied by the others for her financial security.
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He'd been reading Thomas Merton, the American Trappist monk, and envied such an ordered existence, so pure in its devotion.
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"Dita said he envied my having a neutral life in which a Catholic could build a mosque," Mr. Jondo said.
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This rite had always sounded like a grand adventure, for I envied friends with a living tree in the house.
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"I often envied the other sellers who had larger and fresher berries than mine," Stordalen wrote on his corporate website.
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The short one was wearing a lace coat over her dress that I'm not ashamed to say I envied a little.
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I wouldn't have loved knowing that in high school, but hearing it years later, from someone I'd envied, made me proud.
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How my sisters and I envied their independence, and the container of Nestle Quik chocolate milk mix they brought to meals.
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I always envied the girls who seemed so peaceful waiting for boys to talk to them; I wasn't of that tribe.
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As the case against Chris Watts continues, Shanann's family continues to mourn the woman who seemed to have the life everyone envied.
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We've loved and envied her frosted tips, teal locks, and even, once in a while, long tresses that make her almost unrecognizable.
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He became a pseudo-anthropologist when he moved into an apartment with a hot, confident couple—people he envied, and then emulated.
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It gives me that natural, post-jog glow I've always envied on others — even though, TBH, I'm not quite convinced it's real.
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On a trip to Silicon Valley last year, Defense Secretary James Mattis openly envied tech companies' superior use of artificial intelligence technology.
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But it's still striking that in all of them, one artist envied another's boldness and almost animal impulsiveness, his quickness to act.
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As for political recognition, there's the pride that comes from being part of a nation whose success is envied around the world.
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Mr. Kinsley possesses what is probably the most envied journalistic voice of his generation: skeptical, friendly, possessed of an almost Martian intelligence.
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We've long envied Taylor's natural waves, which are often worn with bangs that either hang straight or are swept to the side.
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Given the hardships of his métier—the sheer slog of it—he envied the output of certain contemporaries, the English in particular.
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David B. Cornstein, a longtime friend of Mr. Trump's and his ambassador to Hungary, suggested recently that the president envied Mr. Orban.
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Other women in the village envied her success and asked for advice, so Solano has taught 17 women how to make baskets.
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While working as an ambassador for Centrepoint — a charity which helps young homeless people find jobs — Kitty told reporters she envied their situation.
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She recalled the energetic good cheer of the Movin' On Up crew, understood that she envied them, and gave the organization a call.
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I envied my friends for simply being able to have people over to their apartments for Super Bowl viewing parties or Christmas gatherings.
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At another time she confessed that she, in fact, envied my flexibility, and wished that she could get rid of her compulsive rigidity.
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The clinic she ran in one of the worst neighborhoods in San Francisco has been envied nationally and mimicked—badly—in New York.
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That I was to marry a man who could take me to America was a rare piece of good fortune, which everyone envied.
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As much as I loved that experience, I had envied the groups I saw bouncing through rapids in oar-powered rafts and dories.
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Recently I've lucked into a precisely shaped Côte-Rôtie from Domaine Jasmin and a Saumur from Romain Guiberteau whose self-assurance I envied.
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As a child she envied the summer people who breezed into town with their tennis rackets and then escaped to more exciting places.
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He envied the literary fame of Goethe and Voltaire, and could not quite understand why they were more highly regarded than he was.
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"The only models that we had seen were primarily like that of Amazon ... And at that time, we really envied that," he said.
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You can still fault the play's argument that the psychotic Alan is to be envied for feeling passion unavailable to the repressed Dysart.
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Sure, there was a backstory—Faith was too troubled to truly connect with people—but what I first saw, and envied, was her steeliness.
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There was the Sidekick, the Motorola Razr, the LG Chocolate, and the ubiquitous Blackberry, which I never owned at the time, but envied greatly.
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Non-envied lives and bodies can become a source of shame: Lots of teens (and adults!) delete photos if they don't get enough likes.
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Next is Italy, a country long notorious for making sham products, but which is also home to many of the world's most envied brands.
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Implicit in the promise of reunification was a pledge that east Germans could finally enjoy what they had so long envied in the west.
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But when he had a chance encounter with Grant, he realized that he envied the things he couldn't do well that Grant excelled at.
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My client envied her own kids their siblings, their comfortable childhood home, their opportunities to visit museums and travel, and their young, energetic parents.
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Matt Harvey, whose star has dimmed across town as he struggles to make baseball his priority, once said that he envied Jeter's social life.
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Though these characters brush against patriarchal pressures or experience the young woman's economic precarity, their lives are also meant to be envied and coveted.
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Already active on 215 college campuses around the country, the company is profitable from selling its access to a much-envied audience of open wallets.
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But one doesn't get the impression that nurses are envied; dealing with the infirm and elderly, and the anti-social hours, must be hard work.
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IT IS HARD to imagine now, but once upon a time a prominent writer in English envied the powerful role of an authoritarian French institution.
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I always envied North Jersey, because they had access to the city, and it seemed like there was plenty of people who had more ambition.
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"Amadeus" (1984) The winner of eight Oscars, director Milos Forman's look at Mozart (Tom Hulce) and the man who understood and envied his genius (F.
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These tenants (most of them elderly) are despised by landlords and the below-market-rate prices they pay are envied by just about everyone else.
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In recent years, Mr. Paulson has struggled to regain the magic that made him one of the most envied hedge fund managers on Wall Street.
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As a Soviet, I envied the ability of the citizens of the free world to choose their leaders, among many other unimaginable privileges and freedoms.
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The hosts, Emma Gray and Claire Fallon, spend about an hour recapping an episode with Caila Quinn, a contestant envied for her bouncy, shiny hair.
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According to The Post, Sondland had envied some of his rich friends who'd been given ambassadorships in the past, and coveted one of his own.
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An 81-year-old jewelry magnate and longtime friend of Mr. Trump's, Mr. Cornstein told The Atlantic this year that the president envied Mr. Orban.
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For many years, I envied writer peers who spent their youths nurturing their artistic interests — getting to take lessons and go to camp and such.
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I&aposve always envied folks who can pull off the workwear look, but I never thought I was bold enough to be one of them.
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My friends envied that my company often flew me around the country for high-profile events in New York, Seattle, Park City, Lake Tahoe, and more.
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I always envied pretty people or beautiful people but I think what pretty people have that I didn't have for a long time was the gravity.
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Fully developed depictions of Asian Americans are rare and increasingly important — as an envied outside group, Asian Americans are in "a dangerous place," Fiske told me.
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What they mostly did was provide the Republican Party with a set of exceptionally loud megaphones, which liberals have often envied and tried unsuccessfully to emulate.
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Jada Yuan, The Times's much-envied new travel columnist, started her yearlong tour of our 52 Places to Go list with a trip to New Orleans.
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But the BMW i8 helped prove that plug-in hybrids do have a place among the envied, even if they sip gas instead of gulp it.
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I envied their ability to wear the role of self-assured host like a second skin, capable of tolerating any type of cruelty with a smile.
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Badu and her friends envied—and sometimes adopted—the sounds and slang of New York hip-hop, which seemed like the epitome of toughness and sophistication.
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The main reason I ever wanted to be a soccer girl was because I envied the confidence it takes to just kind of flop your body around.
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" Reynolds previously opened up to PEOPLE about the pair's complicated relationship and how their "relationship never really mirrored the father-son dynamic I envied watching '80s sitcoms.
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This female (and overall badass friend), whose body I had envied, was admiring my voluptuous butt, admiring my unique assets and my own form of being hot.
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Some envied the opulent lifestyle of the Americans, with their enormous bases equipped with all the conveniences of home, including air conditioning, shopping centers and movie houses.
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If Mark envied Liz at all, it was for the growing kudos that E. W. West enjoyed as a writer who disturbed edifices of gender and sexuality.
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The subtlest looks are rewarded because women who seemingly don't care about their looks are praised and envied, so long as they still meet typical definitions of beauty.
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Despite a large and much envied British rebate, the loss of the EU's second-ranked economy will leave a hole of at least 217 billion euros a year.
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The most privileged public employees were paid twice a month, and we envied their ability to shop on a day when supermarkets were not bursting with anxious families.
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The only quality I envied was how naturally my peers took up space in elite rooms, how they expected the world to accept them on their own terms.
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It has taken responsibility for building global peace as a "middle power" and developed a robust economy with a manufacturing sector to be envied by other African states.
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I was so happy yesterday walking in the street seeing normal life again, but I also envied the people in the street yesterday walking holding their children's hands.
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She admitted as much, once poignantly writing that part of her envied "gorgeously glamorous" stars like Crawford and thought she might never be as popular as they were.
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The other, filmed in black and white, showed a handsome middle-aged man with "envy" — specifically, he envied the ability of other men, women, and animals to poop.
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I am probably not the only one who, upon visiting the walled compound in Mexico City where Leon Trotsky was murdered with an ice ax, envied his writing setup.
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Since her mother—Full House actress Lori Loughlin—was indicted on Tuesday, Giannulli has become the most high-profile on-campus social media influencer, mocked as well as envied.
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New Zealand teams are envied for their ability to promote young talent year after year, without a drop in their standard of play, and 2016 has been no exception.
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We've long envied Isla Fisher for her gorgeous, fiery long locks, but now, we're wishing we had her hair for another reason: she's gone short (and it's so chic)!
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"They've envied YouTube's international reach for a very long time, where even less than two years ago, 80 percent of subscribers for Netflix were in the U.S." Green said.
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Its dominant ideology no longer tolerates the idea that our market economy — which has created the greatest economic success in history and is envied around the world — is working.
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I often thought of this handsome man on the Life cover, whose name I had forgotten, and wondered what happened to someone of such promise, someone I had envied.
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Jay Gould and the robber barons would have envied the way Foxconn could benefit from Governor Walker's reckless giveaway of tax subsidies and hard-won protections of the environment.
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LAS VEGAS — Razer's meteoric rise from being a PC peripheral maker to also being one of the most envied laptop makers in the world has been nothing short of insane.
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I envied the power that he seemed to command and the fear he didn't possess, but my effort to renounce that persona in my 20s left many others to face.
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About 22 other high-end watches lay on a table to be fondled, discussed, enjoyed and envied by the nine members meeting at the Sofitel Brussels Le Louise that night.
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His flamboyantly British presence on campus reminded me that there was a larger world outside of our tiny 400-person town, and he had a self-possession that I envied.
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Dunham Dominates Durable Debutant Glenn Nobody envied Rick Glenn's situation as he walked into his UFC debut against one of the most established fighters in the lightweight division, Evan Dunham.
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The settlement clears the way for Mr. Cohen, who is 2800, to return to the hedge fund business, where his ability to mint money trading stocks has been envied for decades.
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It also comes in both men's and women's designs, but, I must make a full disclosure: I've never owned one, though I've envied them from close and afar over the years.
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Lying on my couch, I could have gone cynical with something like, "The system is hopeless," but it was manifest that I envied the devotion of these loving and generous souls.
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I chose Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe"; a local aerobics instructor named Em grabbed me by the arm and told me with wide eyes how much she envied my confidence.
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Decamping her husband (a delightfully tractable Nicholas Rowe) and daughter from north London, she moves to her crumbling ancestral pile, dreaming of renovating its once-envied English garden to its former splendour.
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Professional jealousy has existed for at least as long as human society — way back when, the hunters probably envied the gatherers, and the gatherers felt sure the cave painters had it made.
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As our mini-bus bounced over the existing road -- a muddy, potholed mess -- we envied what future travelers will drive on: the highway that will cut the nine-hour journey by half.
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Music didn't start from attempts to imitate nature; music seems to have come from somewhere else completely, and, of course, in the early part of the 20th century, painters envied that enormously.
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" Brandon McCarthy, a Dodgers pitcher, wrote on Twitter that players were jealous of Fernandez's talent, "but deep down I think we most envied the fun he had while doing something so difficult.
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Especially when he seemed to occupy that pretty envied position for chefs, wherein he could easily harness the goodwill he's accrued for the past few years and harvest it into an empire?
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There's room and cause for intelligent, nuanced observations about those and about the infinite reasons that the Chinese way — with its unbearable caps on individual liberty — isn't to be envied by Americans.
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Nike is in the envied position of being an established purveyor of performance gear and sees a future in being able to offer some value here that will sell a lot of product.
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I have always envied them that last chance to see a place and culture so rich in its own history and character, before tourism, technology and the creeping influence of the modern world.
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"There was something fresh and energetic about his work, and his peers envied the light sense of humor and the simplicity of design," the comic-book historian Mark Evanier noted on his blog.
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"It was the first time I envied the Thai people and I will continue to envy them," Yoo said outside the court after the ruling, adding he wished he were a Thai national.
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I often lay awake at night as a young child wondering what I would have done as an actor in the drama of their young lives and a part of me envied them.
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Even if you are cynical, there is no denying this image is a big element of American soft power in the world, as a nation to be envied and imitated despite its flaws.
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Meanwhile, Natalie seemed to have everything figured out in the world beyond the kitchen, and I envied that certainty: her two-bus, one-hour commute, her workout classes and co-worker happy hours.
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I suspect that neither Comey nor Rogers envied an opportunity to contradict the president, and I know, having been there myself, that neither wanted to spend a day on national TV in that setting.
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For now, the company will have to navigate a peculiar if widely envied situation — capitalizing on its apparent popularity with an audience that it cannot fully acknowledge, watched over by wary but increasingly complicit parents.
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"It was the first time when I envied the Thai people and I will continue to envy them," Yoo told reporters outside the court after the ruling, saying he wished he were a Thai national.
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When it comes to fundraising and candidate recruitment, the party committees and their allied networks of interest groups have a national reach and ideological cohesion that 19th-century party boss Mark Hanna would have envied.
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Anne's sister Margot, whose saintly composure she often envied, is drawn as a bird, gazing at an empty plate: "I feel full just by looking at the others," the thought bubble above her head reads.
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After the opening bars, a boy's voice came in, loud and perfectly in tune, its articulation to be envied by any mother in the speech therapist's office: I have often walked down the street before.
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If you've always envied those people who wake up at the crack of dawn to go to the gym before work, but you're not naturally a morning person, Lumie may be the gadget you've been seeking.
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Even the social life she'd envied had started to pall on her, the shallowness of it, the same competitive faces in the same rooms, the repetitiveness and lack of growth, the lack of tenderness or intimacy.
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Some people might have been jealous of the no email experiment, but no one envied me on Sunday, December 13, when I finally logged in to see how many unanswered emails I needed to contend with.
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China uses its currency controls to take a stronger hand in running its financial system, but it has long envied the power and influence the United States enjoys from the dollar's wide use around the world.
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"Bangkok had no gin bar!" said Niks Anuman-Rajadhon, the bar's co-owner, who sported a black T-shirt and a pompadour Elvis would have envied, as he concocted a batch of martinis with fresh pomegranates.
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Traveling the road was an envied, once-in-a-lifetime experience, and those who got the chance availed themselves of spectacular views, local culinary delicacies, hot spring baths and other more carnal pursuits along the way.
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Those are the characteristics United States Coach Gregg Popovich has openly envied in interviews since he began trying to build a cohesive unit out of a potluck group of players that came together in early August.
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It takes a certain kind of confidence to rock a shorter 'do — the kind I never thought I possessed, yet always admired and envied in women I would encounter on the subway or passing on the street.
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But as it turned out, the music industry was one of the first sectors disrupted by technology, dramatically reducing the number of companies and jobs available, and therefore putting the friends she once envied out of work.
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I envied the twins' ability to assume each other's identity (how convenient!), and I enjoyed the petty sibling squabbles (my older sister, who is now my best friend, and I had not yet reached this tier in 1994).
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If you have, then, you'll surely see it: Nash's big red hair and her character's awkward smile are eerily reminiscent to the starry-eyed teen we were introduced to (and whose witchy life we desperately envied) circa 1989.
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French Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron said in December "we have strong banks, based on a universal model, which is envied by many...and they (banks) were less affected by the crisis than others because they are more solid".
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Her Bronx-born dad had made his start in the early '60s in Greenwich Village basket houses (so-called because performers worked for tips tossed into passed baskets), a time and a scene Ms. Sherman-Palladino long envied.
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Beyond our shores, Michael Holroyd is the only biographer I have ever envied, as he got to spend close to two decades rolling around in the papers of George Bernard Shaw — producing a magnificent trilogy in the end.
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Where even the Garrisonites condescended to blacks, Brown, as the Harvard historian John Stauffer showed in " The Black Hearts of Men " (2002), envied the courage and "manhood" of the escaped slaves, and was almost ashamed of his own whiteness.
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Not because I envied her or had any desire to flirt with men at clubs, but because I had spent the whole evening talking to men who made it quite clear that talking to me was an unpleasant chore.
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He gave us access that our fellow embeds on other campaigns envied, he handed out his email address to voters, and he spent hours upon hours in conversations with people after events — all of which we were allowed to shoot.
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"Events have demonstrated how our adversaries regard free elections – and the very openness of a democratic system – as key vulnerabilities to be exploited ... authoritarian regimes possess ways of undermining free societies that yesterday's dictators would have envied," he will say.
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I envied her for being what appeared to be an impenetrable rock god force: the leader of a pack, skirt to the floor, black lace-y, platinum blonde, raspy voice and red lipstick, the bride of Stevie Nicks gone punk.
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I envied everything about her, not least her bluejeans, which were faded and soft, unlike my own immutably dark, stiff ones; in those days, you couldn't buy pre-faded jeans, you had to earn the light-blue color and the softness.
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The Great Recession served to equalize my generation somewhat—some of the kids I envied for their annual trips to summer camp are now adults working alongside me for tips by the hour, ending one gig and going to the next.
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Since March 2017, she has been running the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, with its envied collection of French 19th-century masterpieces, and the Musée de l'Orangerie across the river, for which Claude Monet produced a celebrated series of water lilies.
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As an official in Fujian and Zhejiang Provinces in eastern China in the 1990s and early 2000s, he repeatedly visited Hong Kong, seeking investment and business lessons from the wealthy port city widely envied across the border in the mainland.
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And I do hope that in addition to some of the writing and the philosophy that he envied in his writing people also take away the incredible lesson at the end of his life and internalize that for their own in the future.
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I envied them because I wished I still wanted what they wanted; I wished I was not carrying this personal burden of making it in America all by myself; I wished I could desire something simply because I was told to desire it.
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But, stateside, Markle has already achieved the absolute highest honor — more important than a place in the royal family, more envied than a tiara full of diamonds, more priceless than a lock of Harry's auburn hair — she has been Madame Tussauds-ed.
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Those boys who cheered for the Colombian soccer team, made a ruckus on our independence day, and lived their lives with an effortlessness I envied were the same ones who'd call me a marica during school lunches and mock my effeminate tastes.
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In "New York: Sights Unscene" (KMW Studio), Brad Libenson toured the state with his family for a decade to provide a kaleidoscopic regional and seasonal reminder of a diversity that New Yorkers take for granted and, which he says, can only be envied.
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Many of the achievements of the past century that helped make the United States an envied global power, including gains in life expectancy, lowered air pollution and increased farm productivity are the result of the kinds of government research now under pressure.
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Having crafted a musical empire, taken on his industry to fight for the rights of artists and survived with a career artists half his age would have envied, Prince was careful and built his inner circle almost as meticulously as he did his compositions.
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But ask yourself: Is a jock-turned-junkie something to celebrate, or do we need to cast our teenage pettiness aside and root for the people we once envied because we understand that high school was a weird time for everyone and people change?
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The notion that Trish envied Jessica's abilities to the point of submitting herself for surgery feels like a stretch, but what doesn't is the principle behind it; Trish woke up in the hospital berating Jessica for wasting her abilities and not rising to the mantle of hero.
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So I think that it sounds simplistic in a way, Peter, but at the end of the day, if you have an incredibly successful personal brand and your content is prized and envied and desired by a lot of people, then, yes, you can get downright entrepreneurial.
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Usually but not always this means romantic love, although "How I Tell Him" cuts that distinction close and those first two songs make you wonder exactly how secular this humanistic Swede might be--the Mormon is envied, the cancer survivor learns his friend was praying for him.
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He envied the "gush of prose" he attributed to two of his rivals, John Updike and Saul Bellow, but lamented his own writing process as a grueling "fight for my fluency" that dragged on sentence to sentence, paragraph to paragraph, until the novel reached the finish line.
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"Having crafted a musical empire, taken on his industry to fight for the rights of artists and survived with a career artists half his age would have envied, Prince was careful and built his inner circle almost as meticulously as he did his compositions," CNN's Lisa France reports.
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In the liberal circles depicted in Get Out, everything that was once reviled—our eyes, our skin, our backsides, our noses, our arms, our legs, our breasts, and of course our hair—is now openly envied and celebrated and aestheticized and deployed in secondary images to sell stuff.
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I envied them this world where the biggest problem was not quite liking each other enough, or being stabbed in the back by someone they had known for three weeks, and whatever happened there was a pool to jump into, a sun bed to lie on, a chance to try again.
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Pausing for a cigarette on his horse while his sheep and cows vanished into the mist on the ice-covered steppe, Mr. Kozhakov, who learned to ride when he was 93, said he had seen American cowboys in films and envied what struck him as their cushy and carefree lives.
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She let her mind dwell on the large parlors, decked with old silk, with their delicate furniture, supporting precious bric-a-brac, and on the coquettish little rooms, perfumed, prepared for the 220 o'clock chat with the most intimate friends, men well known and sought after, whose attentions all women envied and desired.
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Thanks to the primaries, Sanders has emerged as a substantial factional leader inside the Democratic Party — someone whose statements and tweets will garner media attention, whose email list will be coveted and envied by other Democrats in Congress, and whose support or opposition to a measure will matter to a national constituency.
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All his most envied and celebrated qualities have been simultaneously ridiculed by the relentless popular laughter: his speech capable of convincing anyone, his ability to say one thing and do another, and of course always blaming Yankee imperialism for all his setbacks; his intransigence—until the opportunity to say and do exactly the opposite arrived.
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CreditCreditAndy Cross/The Denver Post, via Getty Images Forty years ago this month, a visitor at the Dallas Cowboys' cheerleading tryouts described a scene that was "as tense as that at an open casting call for a Broadway production," with 150 women — "the most envied, celebrated and sought‐after" in the country — shivering in an overly air-conditioned room.
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Sometimes in the evenings he talked to Valerie for hours about university politics or other historians he envied or resented—or even about the Civil War or the Long Parliament or the idea of the state—without noticing that she wasn't listening, that she was thinking about new curtains or counting the stitches in her knitting.
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Though I had the nagging suspicion that the e-book startup's cofounders might be jockeying for a place on the wrong side of the issues I cared about—the side of the online superstore, the side that was already winning—at the expense of publishers, authors, and agents, I envied their sense of entitlement to the future.
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Since the start of Mr. Sanders's first presidential campaign in 2016, his colossal online support base has been by turns a source of peerless strength and perpetual aggravation — envied and caricatured by rivals who covet such loyalty, feared by Democrats who have faced harassment from his followers, and alternately cherished and gently scolded by the candidate himself.
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In "Before the Storm," Perlstein describes Welch as a "very curious" combination of "arrogance and innocence," and Terry Lautz, Birch's most recent biographer, believes that the founder may have envied Birch's religious certainty and seen in him "the heroic figure that he always wanted to be," something beyond a prosperous executive in his brother's candy business.
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"We will stop him when we start believing in ourselves again and when we remember that our exceptionalism hasn't anything to do with what we are — prosperous, powerful, envied — but with who we are: a people united by ideals, not ethnicity or geography, and determined to stand by those values, not just here at home but throughout the world," he said.
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Starting as a répétiteur — a pianist who plays at rehearsals and coaches singers in their roles, who serves as assistant conductor prepping an orchestra for performance and who perhaps matures to full-fledged conductor, learning and leading a stylistically wide swath of repertory — the young European can be immersed in music-making to an extent only envied by most Americans.
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It appears to have been taken at Stallone's house around Christmastime, where, for whatever reason, Guy Fieri was cooking what must have been a funkalicious, bomb-dot-com tasty meal for the three of them—along with some sportswriter named Jay Glazer, who is absurdly lucky to have been a part of this, and who is now the most envied man in America.
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By which he meant, I believe, that heaven and hell alike are both within us all, in varying degrees, and that, for some, the idea of hell is the treasury of their most secret, most cherished hopes — the hope of being proved right when so many were wrong, of being admired when so many are despised, of being envied when so many have been scorned.
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Because if Trump is removed from office and the country is healed afterward, it will only be because a majority of Americans understand that this is, at its core, a fight between these noncorrupt, apolitical civil servants — whose norms and institutions make America's government so envied and respected around the world — and Giuliani and Trump and their pals, who care only about serving themselves and their conspiracy theories.
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" Most of what Eve finds there leaves her cold, but there's so much of it, and in so much variety, that she can always ferret out a clip in which "the couple on her screen would seem inspired, or even blessed—you could see how alive and happy and unself-conscious they were—and maybe you envied them a little, but you also wanted to thank them for sharing this moment with you.
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But I do believe, and I've said it to multiple C-levels at Netflix, that I do believe that it's inevitable that ... I mean, I think they'll always have the premium offering where if you want to avoid them, you can, but they've envied YouTube's international reach for a very long time, where even less than two years ago, 23 percent of subscribers for Netflix were in the U.S. When you look at our median household income's at $2500,203-ish, roughly, a year ... compare that to all the places where there's growth in the world, which is also where advertisers are willing to pay ahead.
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