Sentence examples for derision and hostility from inspiring English sources

"I'd be afraid that it would invite the same derision and hostility that I associate with the rape," she said.

No one embraced the idea, but no one said no. "That was a sea change -- that there wasn't the derision and hostility toward the U.S. on Iraq that's been here since the beginning of the year," said one senior official who attended the meetings.

It is clear that much of the derision and hostility aroused by this case was influenced by prurient judgments and crude sexual curiosity about Terry Bollea, not high-minded principles of free speech.

The contempt, derision and hostility of the GOP toward large numbers of voters creates fear that drives up their voting turnout and donations well beyond what is suggested by polls or predicted by pundits.

It creates division and hostility".

But our collective coming out has been met with differing levels of hostility, derision and bewilderment.

At the outset, Ryanair and easyJet faced derision and even — from the established carriers — outright hostility, but it soon became clear that this aggression was fuelled by fear.

Mr Sarkozy inspires both admiration and hostility.

I was met with perplexity and hostility.

They hear the criticism, they take the potshots, they endure the laughter or derision or even hostility--and they keep on measuring themselves and their efforts by their own standards.

Derision, and how to survive it.