Sentence examples for hostile characters from inspiring English sources

Ben Stokes has promised to handle Australian aggression in the Ashes by going toe to toe with their most hostile characters.

Meryl Streep plays one of her most hostile characters ever, Mr. Allen's lesbian ex-wife, who is writing a nasty tell-all book.

During earlier workshop runs, Mr. Hoch said, many upper-middle-class audience members told him they felt excluded or alienated while watching the show, particularly when the more hostile characters were onstage.

The narrow-minded and hostile characters are portrayed as cartoonish grotesques; at the same time, however, Welty's accurate depiction of small-town Southern life lends an air of uncomfortable realism, and her perfectly nuanced dramatic monologue gives the story a wickedly funny air that has made it a classic of American literature.

Featured across the map are hostile characters referred to as "neutrals", which are not aligned to either faction and are primarily located in the forests.

In the course of his surreal adventure, he braves various dangers, meets a host of friendly and hostile characters, and rises to become a reluctant hero who just might break the titular curse and bring down the witches' reign.

They develop toward their physician emotional relations, both of an affectionate and hostile character, which are not based upon the actual situation but are derived from their relations toward their parents (the Oedipus complex).

If there is a hostile character who constantly shouts at the main character, it is a chance to show patience and careful thought or impatience and insecurity-driven anger.

Murphy tears through this bleak space, playing a cast of increasingly hostile small-town characters, and engaging in a ritualised dialogue with the disembodied voice of his "Mammy".

When that didn't work, he took his free-form approach to art, politics, and identity to more hostile extremes, having characters in his novels attack his rivals for him.

In Half-Life and its three expansions, Vortigaunts are frequently encountered by the player as hostile non-player characters.