"It's all we've known". Her vulnerability was in stark contrast to the demeanor of the other women, most of whom had a vaguely hostile, boys-will-be-boys attitude toward their husbands.
(He could be one of the hostile frat-boy Visigoths from Mr. Phillips's documentary).
His old girlfriend, Tamara, is wary of him but not actively hostile, whereas the boy rejects him.
The 2 Supera children were sometimes hostile towards the boy but he found a comfort in their home.
When the father says his company is fighting a hostile takeover, the boy envisions barbarians rushing a castle, flaming arrows flying, and his father fending off attackers with a sword.
A year earlier, Megan had committed suicide after an exchange of hostile messages with a boy who had befriended her on MySpace.
Some readers might be surprised that they weren't hostile to a Jewish boy from SoCal.
The landscape through which Jonas travels with the kidnapped baby is not the landscape I saw inside my head; the cinematographer gives us something vaster, more magnificent, and infinitely more hostile to a desperate boy trying to save an infant and the whole world.
As mentioned above, McConnell and Kerig (2002) found positive associations of observed (overt) hostile-competitive coparenting with boys' self-rated anxiety, and also with mother-rated internalizing problems of boys (r = .36, p < .05).05
The vocational students milled about in their corridor, sullen and even hostile, and some of the boys stood their ground when Hudson tried, smiling, to shoo them out.
As for sex differences, the results of the current study are similar to those found in earlier studies, in that boys reported more hostile thoughts and positive thoughts than girls.
