Sentence examples for hostile presences from inspiring English sources

The junior shrink, who narrates, begins to sense hostile presences in this unhappy place, evidence of "another world, a world of fevered dreams and lunacy" — strange appearances and disappearances, weird sounds, the occasional "breath of cold air".

Tall and dark, Owen has an intimidating, slightly hostile presence.

The Clinton campaign sometimes viewed him as a longtime hostile presence on television.

Parents directly affected -- mainly women of color living in poverty -- often experience the agency as a hostile presence.

No doubt that the army and the entire experience of dealing with a hostile presence in the neighborhood is a brutalizing one.

She had protested so vociferously that the manager finally backed down, being by then relieved just to have her remove her hostile presence from his lobby.

The wolves (designed by Greg Nicotero and Howard Berger) are an unremittingly, unromantically hostile presence, in part because the world into which Ottway and the others have tumbled belongs so completely to them.

28, 2012], the Secretary of State shall conduct an assessment of the threats posed to the United States by Iran's growing presence and activity in the Western Hemisphere and submit to the relevant congressional committees the results of the assessment and a strategy to address Iran's growing hostile presence and activity in the Western Hemisphere.

The same might be said of Maigret, whom Simenon describes as "a hostile presence.

We had a persistent and hostile presence of the wind bearing down on [the NASA-built shelter] the Hab, sometimes just enough to ripple the roof.

If everyone thinks you're a hostile presence, you're going to be feeling the pressure a lot more often, and rather than charging around to take down enemies like a SWAT team, missions may well be more nuanced.