"building animosity" is a perfectly correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to the growing ill will or tension between two or more parties, or between a group and an individual. For example, "The recent political rhetoric has done nothing but build animosity between the two countries."
In one episode that dramatized the building animosities, Gen. James L. Jones, the national security adviser, wrote to Ambassador Eikenberry in February, sympathizing with his complaints about a visit Mr. Holbrooke had recently made to Afghanistan.
There was so much animosity building up.
We're talking about years and years and years of offensive tactics used by the LAPD, of apprehension and animosity building between the authority figures of this city and the lay people, of depressed economic conditions, depressed ideals, depressed cultures, and all these things came to a fruition.
By the time Charles Taylor emerged from the bush in the early Nineties, he was able to take advantage of long-festering tribal animosities, building his empire from the ashes of civil war.
For the clergy members and churches active on the foreclosure issue, however, the animosity began building years ago.
After six years, the Safts moved to a larger co-op at 1040 Park, a building that still harbored animosity traceable to a 20-year-old feud over a $60,000 redecoration of the lobby.
Forgiveness was about them and their freedom, their choice to not let racism kill them in another way ― through not letting the building of resentment and animosity destroy them from the inside out. .
Forgiveness was about them and their freedom, their choice to not let racism kill them in another way ― through not letting the building of resentment and animosity destroy them from the inside out.
Indeed, his undoubted talents for encouraging settlement-building and cultivating diplomatic animosity have proved a destabilizing force, both for international politics and the state of Israel itself.
