Her stories convey a hostility, even a revulsion, toward figures of masculine authority.
Mr. Leleux writes of a teacher at his evangelical Christian high school who knew about Robert and Michael, and who conveyed her hostility by making jibes about Robert's "imaginary" friend.
As Skarrild's suspicious residents nudge one another while ogling Robert (Jakob Cedergren), the town's new marshal dispatched from Copenhagen as punishment for misdeeds that are never completely spelled out, they convey contempt and hostility.
In the novel's most dramatic confrontation, Hay conveys the sisters' hostility with eloquent understatement.
There is another word for it - technophobe - but it doesn't convey the same sense of irrational hostility to the modern world.
It's just that they've taken on a dauntingly demanding task: to feel and convey the shifts of trust, fear, openness, anger, hostility and need that would take place during an incident like this while never losing the intensity that would have to be omnipresent.
To spurn a visit, Mr. Davis said, "would be conveying a message of hostility, and pushing Pakistan in a dangerous direction away from the West and toward the Taliban".
Intense or anxious stares may suggest hostility or anger--the opposite of what you are trying to convey.
So, Rev. Sekou was dispelling myths of exceptional hostility towards queer people from communities of colour and at the same time trying to convey that voices like his were no longer the only ones prioritised in anti-racist movements.
So, Rev. Sekou was dispelling myths of exceptional hostility towards queer people from communities of color and at the same time trying to convey that voices like his were no longer the only ones prioritized in anti-racist movements.
