Sentence examples for hostile figure from inspiring English sources
Lennon can be an aggressive, almost hostile figure on the touchline during games, prowling and leaping and yelling.
Indeed, McCourt also pointed beyond Selig at Rob Manfred, an executive vice president of M.L.B., as another hostile figure.
He's then incarcerated under the direction of kindly psychiatrist Dr Rosen Christopher Plummerr), who is at first viewed as a hostile figure.
At times, the movie will appear to allude to Antonioni's Zabriskie Point, with that suspect property company despoiling the deserts of southern California, and at other times Doc is like Captain Willard in Coppola's Apocalypse Now, heading far upriver and steeling himself for a succession of hostile figures, with no guarantee of any solution to the mystery.
In America the counter-revolutionaries ensured that the country was hostile to figures like Paine.
And then you had to set it up, which meant that you had to go to that place where no one ever wants to go — behind the TV, a hellish domain of dust and hostile cords — and figure out where to put yet another cord.
Thus, these functions may work together to provide nutrition and bacterial cell protection in a hostile host environment (Figure 5).
His conversations with them and with other friendly, hostile and quizzical figures, give "Impolex" the episodic structure of a fractured fairy tale or a Beckett play.
ODD is characterized by a recurrent pattern of negativistic, defiant, disobedient, and hostile behavior toward authority figures, and CD by a repetitive and persistent pattern of behavior that violates the basic rights of others or age-appropriate societal norms or rules.
If we had to visualise this establishment, it would resemble an Edwardian board of aesthetic censors presided over by a stern TS Eliot type figure inherently hostile to innovation (the irony, of course, is that Eliot was the greatest revolutionary in modern poetry) and keeping a perpetually wary eye on the likes of a Terry Eagleton or a James Kelman.
