Sentence examples for hostile sense from inspiring English sources

Yet in my experience of the town, where I grew up and whose local comp I attended,there has always been a palpable, occasionally even hostile, sense of class division.

Reflecting on some of the ideas in his great book Culture and Society, Raymond Williams observed that it was only when he "realised that no one ever used [the word] 'community' in a hostile sense" that he became suspicious of it.

And I think politicians try to encourage us to think in a hostile sense [of] people who have a different circumstance to our own.

Well: Having a non-hostile sense of humor builds trust.

People with a non-hostile sense of humor have the genius to know how to laugh at human nature and life circumstances without being cruel about it – and that can be the basis for building trust.

In the real world, of course, not as many people are watching, a lot of people are unhappy, and if everybody's friends, it's in the hostile Facebook sense of the word.

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".

According to a Harvard Business Review study reporting the same attrition rates, the reasons vary from a "hostile" male culture, sense of isolation and lack of clear career path.

An imaginary friend or an archenemy, the rabbit is an incarnation of all the hostile forces Donnie senses both around him and within himself.

This process is poorly understood, but it is believed that the cells, programmed to sense a hostile environment, self-destruct.

The administration's hostile attitude communicates a sense of arrogance and contempt for international cooperation that ill serves American interests.