"I had natural hostilities," said Mr. Salah, the son of a Jordanian contractor who spent most of his childhood and early adulthood in Britain and the United States.
Then when the neighbors started dropping in to help harvest, stomp, stir and drink the bounty of the land, after we'd softened our natural suspicious hostility with a few stiff ones, we had to think up some more nuanced communication, like words.
This is amplified by a natural process of media hostility: we notice what's unusual.
By asserting that nature has a value in and of itself, Francis is overturning centuries of theological interpretation that regarded the natural world with outright hostility — as a misery to be transcended and an "allurement" to be resisted.
Donor governments also respond to emergency appeals in light of natural calamities or heightened hostilities in situations of armed conflict.
Fans of Alex Ross Perry will point out that hostility is his natural terrain, that people in his films are born to bridle, and that, if you want niceness, you could always stay home and watch "Pillow Talk".
However, the similarity between the effects of medical abortions and natural miscarriage has resulted in increased hostility from hospital staff towards all women treated for such complications.
In a final note of caution, the report also found that among Europeans anti-Muslim hostility is seen as natural or normal.
I have no firsthand evidence to support my hunch that the Czech people's views lie somewhere between Klaus' hostility and Havel's natural communitarianism.
