Sentence examples for sheer hostility from inspiring English sources

This mode of dealing with the writer was recently extended into sheer hostility by John Leonard.

The race between James P. Molinaro, the deputy borough president, and Assemblyman Robert A. Straniere has politicians and residents on the island amazed by its sheer hostility.

What's more, the bogeyman has done it all: he's combined 150kph pace with – whisper it – unerring control, bouncers with slower balls, sheer hostility with tactical intelligence.

The sheer hostility and irrationality of these responses — not to mention the fact that Naloxone could also save pain patients and children who accidentally take their caregivers' pills — shows the intense stigma that addicts face.

James W. Hughes, the dean of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, said it was hard to distinguish the influence of the state plan from other factors, including "the sheer hostility to sprawl and traffic congestion".

Yigal Palmor, a spokesman for Israel's Foreign Ministry, said that his government has provided some assistance to Jordanian refugee camps but that wider efforts have been hampered by the "sheer hostility toward Israel" across the region.

Because that is what it has been from the very start: sheer, crass hostility and slander.

We have failed to acknowledge the sheer scale of resistance and hostility that professionals have to bear in child protection.

She spoke of the hostility he faced from the news media, the threats and the sheer exhaustion of the struggle.

Mr. McCarthy wrings contrasts from the serene, diminutive Mr. Dinklage -- whose dignity seems unassailable until finally ruffled, when he lets loose a thunderbolt of hostility -- and the big, buffed Mr. Cannavale, whose unremitting volubility is sheer charm.

Sheer fear, sheer terror.