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Hostility in sentence

401 examples of Hostility in a sentence

That's what you discover as you go into these villages in the Middle East where you expect hostility, and you get the most amazing hospitality, all associated with Abraham: "In the name of Father Ibrahim, let me offer you some food."
And if you just go back to the previous image, and you look at this area of volatility and hostility, that a unifying design idea as a humanitarian gesture could have the affect of bringing all those warring factions together in a united cause, in terms of something that would be genuinely green and productive in the widest sense.
Okay, now why then is this curious reluctance and curious hostility to consciousness?
The ebbs and flows of hostility have not shifted with ideological zeal, but rather with changes in the geopolitical landscape.
There are, I'm sure, enough divorced people in this room to know about the hostility, the anger, who knows what.
I felt like nobody cared, and I reacted with hostility to my confinement.
Everything had been taken from us, and the hostility was intense.
And what my secular friends didn't realize was that this religious hostility, these phrases of, "Oh, all religious people are crazy or stupid."
What they didn't understand was that that type of hostility did not fight religious extremism, it bred religious extremism.
So criticism and hostility doesn't work, and I didn't listen to these arguments.
And I think that is part of Daesh's strategy to make Europe react, closing its doors to Muslim refugees and having an hostility towards Muslims inside Europe, exactly to facilitate Daesh's work.
And I bore no hostility against this, my country, nor enmity towards the non-Muslim citizens, and I still don't.
It's hard because it means extending empathy and compassion to people who show us hostility and contempt.
And one of the recurring themes, by the way, that in the work was a kind of hostility toward the museum itself, and asking about the conventions of the museum, like the wall, the white wall.
He repaired injured feelings that might have escalated into permanent hostility.
In these ways and more, black women persevered despite deep hostility from white women in the movement, and at great political and physical risk.
And you don't have to fight back with aggression or hostility or violence.
It will be despairing hostility.
And we definitely reduce the hostility and the "I don't want to be compassionate to them" to the ones we think of as the bad guys, the ones we hate and we don't like.
But nonetheless, despite the hostility, firefighters left the vehicle and successfully fought the fire.
Actually, in fact, if you look in the dictionary, many dictionaries define pursuit as to "chase with hostility."
Do we pursue happiness with hostility?
Ultimately, especially now in this world, where we live in a context of regressive and onerous immigration laws, in reality TV that thrives on humiliation, and in a context of analysis, where the thing we hear most repeatedly, day in, day out in the United States, in every train station, every bus station, every plane station is, "Ladies and gentlemen, please report any suspicious behavior or suspicious individuals to the authorities nearest to you," when all of these ways we are encouraged to view our fellow human being with hostility and fear and contempt and suspicion.
That disconnection soon festers into a complete animosity bordering on hostility.
One is a business man, the annoying kind who is aggressive and complains about everything and everyone and is a walking-talking sample of distilled stress and hostility.
I find this type of hostility is so patent in all these giants' (and their peers') comedy that even a fake title for a film deals with it.
No internet, crappy jobs, and all out hostility collide in this genre.
I mean, like one jazz musician says in the film, maybe there is no east and west, maybe it is just a myth, a lie created by the ruling leaders of "western" countries in order to keep fear and hostility alive so that they could continue ruling the world and "keep the cash flowing"?
He's greeted with hostility by the unhinged, disheveled woman (Maria Takagi) who answers the door (and promptly slams it in his face) and gets a peek at her 6-year-old son through a window.
"Antwone Fisher" tells of a young black U.S. Navy enlisted man and product of childhood abuse and neglect (Luke) whose hostility toward others gets him a stint with the base shrink (Washington) leading to introspection, self appraisal, and a return to his roots.
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