Sentence examples for nearly hostile from inspiring English sources
For even as Aronofsky began the film by spoon-feeding the audience the rules of his genre-bending world, he had Clint Mansell unfurl a jarring, nearly hostile D chord — repeated throughout the film — that suggested the yawning gates of Hell.
For even as Aronofsky began the film by spoon-feeding the audience the rules of his genre-bending world, he had Clint Mansell unfurl a jarring, nearly hostile D chord repeated throughout the film that suggested the yawning gates of Hell.
"They were almost hostile.
Democrats preoccupied with political survival have been nearly as hostile toward the food stamp program.
Like mainstream Republicans, they oppose most new taxes, but they are not nearly as hostile to government programs.
HOW NOT TO DO A DEAL: Marius Kloppers, BHP Billiton's chief executive, pursued the largest deal of the year, a nearly $40 billion hostile bid for Potash, the biggest fertilizer company in the world.
Mr. Rahall moved quickly last week to distance himself from the president, sounding nearly as hostile as the billboards dotting coal country bought by mining interests that declare "Obama's No Jobs Zone".
That novel, "Barbary Shore," which received nearly unanimously hostile reviews, is a work of majestically involuted paranoia, playing like early Dostoyevsky among Brooklyn Communists; it's a sort of high-voltage response to the day's McCarthyite persecutions, but it hardly seems to touch the pavement where it's set.
Today, the same giant record labels that attempted to outlaw both the portable MP3 player and the CD burner during the 1990s now have a stranglehold on digital innovation, and they remain nearly as hostile to new services as they were to Napster.
The issue of non-discrimination in the context of access to relief food was mostly discussed with caution and in some cases it nearly aroused hostile political debate.
The ageing ranks of constituency activists are nearly all unalterably hostile to Europe on nationalist grounds and deeply anti-liberal in their social attitudes.
