Sentence examples for inimical in from inspiring English sources

But that does not explain why young people in China and Japan today are more inimical in their views of one another than their forebears — even immediately after the war — were.

"The reason I'm not surprised is because I personally have spent 25 years in U.S.-Iran relations and that relation has been the most inimical in the last three decades of any foreign policy matter," he said.

It was shot during the spring and summer of 1938 in the months leading up to Neville Chamberlain's capitulation at Munich, and Iris and Gilbert are passengers on a ship of fools, a compartment of British clowns adrift in a hostile Europe, surrounded by inimical foreigners in a world on the brink of war.

I have lurid flashbacks to the time I used the word inimical twice in a fifth draft when I meant inimitable.

Meanwhile a truly inimical force in the world — a lunatic geezer player by Hal Holbrook — is busy kidnapping girls and poisoning them so that they start to look 55 at 7. It isn't rogue terrorists our society really needs to fear, apparently; it is wrinkles.

Consequent upon such influences was a change, inimical to idealism, in the whole style of doing philosophy, a change characterized by the development of formal logic and the new respect paid to the deliverances of common sense and of ordinary language.

Whenever a ball from Bowes flashed past Woodfull's bat a thousand voices howled "How's that!" Australia were in the corner, fighting for life in an inimical air.

One gets a particular sense of the sexual frustration at the root of so much violence in the world -- the naked prisoners chained with women's underwear covering their faces, lines of men wearing hoods forced to masturbate in a long row, men placed in position inimical of intercourse, Lynndie England holding a prisoner on a leash, walking him like a dog.

However, the effectiveness of these alternative delivery options in reducing inimical effects of niacin and maintaining drug efficacy is still largely unknown and requires more in-depth investigation.

Britain is suffering a crisis of confidence in foreign policy that leaves it "sidelined in Syria, ineffective in Ukraine, unwilling in Europe, and inimical towards refugees", as a report by some of Britain's most senior former diplomats, intelligence officers and foreign policy academics has warned.

Britain is suffering a crisis of confidence in foreign policy that leaves it "sidelined in Syria, ineffective in Ukraine, unwilling in Europe, and inimical towards refugees", a report by some of Britain's most senior former diplomats, intelligence officers and foreign policy academics has warned.