Cromwell was increasingly discovering that this does seem to be a crown of thorns, but most dangerous were the vengeful Republican Rumpers, Commonwealth's men.
So, in the next session of the metropolitan examination three years later, Wang Yangming was indeed suppressed by those who held grudges and failed again.
What keen satisfaction we find in belittling the opinions, or attacking the opinions, of somebody of whom we are jealous, or of somebody against whom we bear a grudge!
Ask any man—not some new-age, artsy-fartsy, I-wear-moisturizer type, I mean a real man—ask a real man, then he'll tell you that women are like the Olympic athletes of grudges.