Sentence examples for Hostile gaze from inspiring English sources
No Georgian checkpoints, no need to lurch along rocky bypass roads, no rooting for documents under the hostile gaze of soldiers.
We live in a country of more or less total surveillance, but it is an indifferent or hostile gaze which indicates that our extreme individualism has isolated us from one another.
After all, if the Collins compilers are to be believed, there must have been a moment when, in some train chugging through the north country or in a double-decker inching its way along the Wandsworth Road, someone with not the least idea of the consequences for lexicography turned a hostile gaze on the person in the next seat and instructed them to "stop bloody well manspreading".
They shuffled uncertainly under the hostile gaze of Syrian troops and intelligence officers toward a makeshift processing center in a run-down banquet hall.
I remember how vulnerable I felt, emotionally as well as physically, during the first couple of years after I came out, and how thankful I was that my online job enabled me to hide away in my apartment on those days when I didn't feel equal to bearing up under the hostile gazes of others -- a luxury less readily accessible to her.
Especially astute is Chariandy's depiction of the hostile white gaze: the police officers in Brother look upon all black men as potential suspects and treat them as such.
A proffered hand becomes "a big white worm," a glass of beer a hostile partner whose "gaze" the hero attempts to avoid for half an hour; a pebble on the beach reveals the "nausea" that is communicated from the world "through the hands".
As I stood on the quarter deck, stiff under the intense gaze of a hostile crowd, I felt I was being subjected to the torture of the pillory.
Rather, the letter appears in a position that encourages the user to shift their gaze from the part of the screen that showed the hostile face.
It shows St. John's gruesome beheading taking place under the gaze of a Turkish Janissary, as if the saint were a modern knight of Malta suffering cruel martyrdom in some hostile corner of the Islamic world.
