Sentence examples for about the inimical from inspiring English sources

"Talking about moral failure is less stylish than talking about the inimical workings of patriarchy," she writes.

He loathed the Yankees as baseball tyrants, the inimical forces, and from him I learned to do the same.

Both plays were based on that: the inimical past was making Blanche and Willy crazy and wouldn't let go.

Why? Sookhdeo has dismissed the "myth of moderate Islam", says Islam is a "religion and political ideology that puts our British way of life in grave danger" and believes "everything about the west is inimical to Islam".

In an address Monday to Russia's foreign envoys, Putin spoke about the West in his habitually inimical but non-concrete tone, accusing it of "unilateral actions that contradict international law" with "so-called humanitarian operations" and "intervention in internal conflicts".

I'm unironically grateful to Emily for a line in her piece on "Louie"; she captures more fully and more clearly in four words than I could in a lengthy diatribe about what I find inimical about much of what I've seen of quality television: "TV is a conversation".

The fundamentalist clerics who ran the country deemed the arts, including music, inimical to the new order.

"The point I wished to make is that something about the Muslim cultural tradition seems to be inimical to doing science.

But there's something about the self-declared efficiency of online dating that seems inimical to romance.

Whatever your views about income inequality among the parents, inherited privilege is inimical to the promise of equal opportunity, which is central to the social compact in Western democracies.

And I wanted to honour in this book the lessons learnt from a woman whose beliefs were inimical to mine and to talk in the abstract about the necessity of conversion and of revolution.