Sentence examples for indirect hostility from inspiring English sources
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.
The possibility of using indirect hostility to get around regulations implies that even stronger anti-bullying legislation may fall short of ending this pernicious phenomenon.
The BDHI is a self-reported true/false questionnaire with 75 items, 7 subscales (Assault, Indirect Hostility, Irritability, Negativism, Resentment, Suspicion, and Verbal Hostility) and a global hostility score.
Persons with passive-aggressive personality disorder express their hostility through such indirect means as stubbornness, procrastination, inefficiency, and forgetfulness.
Like backhanded compliments, sarcasm is a common tool of a passive aggressive child who expresses his hostility aloud, but in socially acceptable, indirect ways.
As there is no firm legal constraint of irregular status on this activity, the direct and indirect effects, or lack thereof, will reflect factors such as hostility or tolerance of immigration policies, the risk of deportation, and the presence and composition of co-ethnic social networks.
Although his two-month term expired in April 1293, Giano continued to exercise indirect control over the government in the following two years, arousing the hostility of the magnates, who started a whispering campaign against him.
Hamas, which according to some reports is involved in indirect behind-closed-doors negotiations with Israel to secure a long-term end to hostilities, has recently arrested dozens of members of hardline Salafist groups it accuses of supporting the Islamic State and of being behind a string of bombings in the strip.
Given the intense hostility, hatred, and total lack of trust between Israel and the Palestinians, the resumption of direct or indirect negotiations will lead to nowhere as neither side is able to deliver the major concessions that will be required to reach an agreement without full public support.
