An enigma During one passage of hostile questioning, a Tory member of the committee, Michael Ellis, became so agitated he was rebuked by the committee chair.
War stopped, and athletes, artists and their families were allowed safe passage through hostile territories seven days before the Games and seven days after.
Because of an editing error, a front-page article yesterday about the Bush administration's adoption of a doctrine of pre-emptive action against hostile countries placed a passage in quotation marks erroneously in a description of the 33-page document prepared for Congress.
It also imposed an indemnity of 40 million francs on the defeated Habsburgs and allowed the fleeing Russian troops free passage through hostile territories and back to their home soil.
In passages about the hostile and spooky natural world, or the equally mysterious depths of his characters, Cheng's talent astonishes, and the blues music that so clearly inspired him echoes through the prose.
Golden Swallow's entrance at the inn — a classic den of thieves — inevitably recalls John Wayne's shakedown of a hostile saloon in the opening passages of "Rio Bravo," and she employs wonderfully Wayne-like methods, scrupulously maintaining her cool, fighting while pretending not to fight.
He rolls and jumps well enough in "Crystal Skull," but his hostile unease in some of the dialogue passages is a real killjoy.
Many gay rites-of-passage stories are echoed here: hostile small-town environment (Chattanooga, Tenn).; rigidly masculine father; humor as armor against bullies; unrequited loves; drug and alcohol dependency; internal homophobia; weakness for rough trade.
The Pentagon eliminated the passages comparing reporting to spying or hostile acts, but gives specific examples of how an act of reporting could result in the loss of civilian status.
Denby takes up a significant portion of his book working to define snark, but this passage will suffice for me: "Snark is hostile as spit... hazing on the page.
