If you show that you are offended by biting, passive aggressive sarcasm, the hostile joke teller plays up his role as victim, asking, "Can't you take a joke?" The passive aggressive child is a master at maintaining his calm and feigning shock when others, worn down by his indirect hostility, blow up in anger.
Caught in the crossfire of hostile racial jokes, the most polite and community-conscious member of the group, Lena (Dickinson), finally loses her cool.
The customary intended purpose of exploding cigars is as a form of hostile practical joke, rather than to cause lasting physical harm to the butt of the joke.
I'm not surprised that the response from critics in particular has been mostly hostile; I made jokes, after all, about a lot of critics' favorite movies, and critics are critics because they take taste personally.
"It was very hostile," the mayor joked yesterday at a news conference in describing this year's negotiations, arousing laughter from the Council members assembled, before one Council member joked about a "kinder, gentler" mayor.
The works are also peculiarly hostile and festooned with jokes — whether overt, like Marilyn Levine's leather jacket made of carved wood, or covert, like Steve Sinner's vase of painted, lathe-turned maple that looks more like blown glass or ceramics.
Studies indicate that men with a high tolerance for sexist jokes or hostile language towards women also reported a higher proclivity to sexually assault women.
He issued "Metal Machine Music," which was a joke and a hostile action and a burnishing of avant-garde cred all at once.
Men tend to tell more jokes, tease and disparage (hostile humor), and enjoy slapstick humor, whereas women tend to prefer telling a story, usually in a self-deprecating manner, that elicits a response of group solidarity from other females.
If Freud is right that the energy released in laughing at a joke is the energy normally used to repress hostile and sexual feelings, then it seems that those who laugh hardest at aggressive and sexual jokes should be people who usually repress such feelings.
