Sentence examples for hostile tendencies from inspiring English sources
The first step in reducing hostile tendencies is to recognize how hostile you may be and the distorted thoughts and beliefs that give rise to angry outbursts.
Results suggest that individuals with low academic self-esteem may exhibit hostile tendencies because of feelings of envy, especially in highly competitive contexts.
Across three studies, with correlational (N1 = 303), experimental (N2 = 76), and round-robin designs (N3 = 330), results revealed that academic self-esteem indirectly influenced hostile tendencies through envy.
In previous research, there has been little discussion about mediators or moderators that affect the negative relation between self-esteem and hostile tendencies.
Proactive-aggressive tendencies to view aggression as an effective means to reach goals (Crick and Dodge 1996) seem to be in line with the selfish and hostile tendencies in disagreeable children (Graziano et al. 1996).
The next day, a writer for Slate declared that McMullin had "done more than almost any Democratic figure to organize opposition to Donald Trump's kleptocratic and Constitution-hostile tendencies".
In the 7th century a tendency hostile to images and fostered by both theological and political figures gained ground within the Byzantine Church and upset Orthodox Christendom to its very depths; known as the Iconoclastic Controversy, it was supported by some reform-minded emperors.
And similarly, when Nietzsche says that a "tendency hostile to life is therefore characteristic of morality," it is clear in context that what "life" refers to is "the type man" who might be "raised to his greatest splendor and power" (that is, but for the interference of MPS) (WP 897).
"The beaches are dirty, the Fire Department is terrible, the natives are hostile and have a tendency towards cannibalism".
These results suggest that one factor underlying delinquency might be impairment in understanding emotions communicated by disgusted facial expressions, especially a tendency toward hostile interpretations.
His anti-dualism would have also made him hostile to Husserl's Cartesian tendencies.
