Passive-aggressive people express their hostilities indirectly by pushing other people's buttons without appearing to do so — like the dinner guest who exclaims innocently, "Wonderful meal, folks.
Indeed, to see high school students expressing their hostility to Sarkozy's planned slight increase in the retirement age is particularly revealing.
During the past week, as Super Tuesday neared and the betting markets put Trump's chances of winning the nomination at eighty percent, conservatives expressed their hostility toward him outright, many using the Twitter hashtag #NeverTrump.
Bulgarians and Vlachs living in the annexed territories often expressed their hostility towards imperial rule.
Anti-government demonstrators burned representations of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro instead, as a highly symbolic way of expressing their hostility toward the country's current leader.
From the moment he delivered his famous speech in the waning days of Barry Goldwater's failed but ultimately catalytic campaign in 1964, the right wing loved Ronald Reagan not because he was so nice, but because he effectively -- and sometimes aggressively -- expressed their hostility to the democratic changes that were transforming American culture.
On the contrary, children with epilepsy express their anger, hostility, physical and verbal aggression compared to children with headache and without any disease.
I'm surveying the crowd, wondering how many of these justifiably angry people carry knives or even handguns to express their palpable hostility, and what the ratio of security and police officers is to civilians, when I see a small man of no certain ethnic origin dragging a large plastic garbage bag behind him.
This week, as the Republican Party nominates President Bush for a second term, tens of thousands of people plan to express their displeasure, even hostility, toward the administration.
