Sentence examples for sense hostile from inspiring English sources

The junior shrink, who narrates, begins to sense hostile presences in this unhappy place, evidence of "another world, a world of fevered dreams and lunacy" — strange appearances and disappearances, weird sounds, the occasional "breath of cold air".

This process is poorly understood, but it is believed that the cells, programmed to sense a hostile environment, self-destruct.

"The ethos of the Net is fundamentally respectful of and invested in the idea of collective wisdom, and in some sense is hostile to the idea that power and authority should belong to a select few," Mr. Surowiecki wrote.

They are taught to see themselves as inhabitants of a land shaped by a history of suffering, a sense of hostile encirclement, and a do-or-die insistence on survival.

At one point the crew of Gunmetal, sensing no hostile intent, refused Kearney's orders to fire.

Sensing the hostile mood, the politicians made themselves scarce.

Sensing a hostile presence inside Kor during an angry outburst from him, Lithia causes Kohaku's Spiria to shatter: aside from one fragment, the pieces are scattered across the world.

Immediately we sense Claudius's hostile suspicion towards, and cold contempt for, his moody nephew.

The argument makes sense, but the hostile raiders ruined it all.

Yet in my experience of the town, where I grew up and whose local comp I attended,there has always been a palpable, occasionally even hostile, sense of class division.

Reflecting on some of the ideas in his great book Culture and Society, Raymond Williams observed that it was only when he "realised that no one ever used [the word] 'community' in a hostile sense" that he became suspicious of it.