Sentence examples for silent hostility from inspiring English sources

Her car was vandalized, and she endured the "silent hostility" of her mostly white, high-achieving classmates.

"Whites on one side, exhibiting silent hostility, and blacks on the other side, barely able to restrain their pride.

I have to say that I don't really remember hearing any growls, and I was sitting close to Heaney, but there was certainly silent hostility.

There was a widespread assumption that their children would get over it and that indeed it would be better for them if warring parents broke up rather than make the whole family live through years of fighting, abuse, silent hostility or the countless other forms of misery that unhappy couples can generate.

At the end of that bench sat a man with five or six plastic bags, and although he was perhaps 20 yards away, I did sense that he might be someone to avoid because even at that distance he gave off an aura of silent hostility.

When a third passenger arrives, the first two bond in silent hostility against the intruder.

Young Michael registered no outward hostilities or silent tensions in the home, but, then, he was neither observant nor sensitive, and was often in his room after school, building, reading, gluing, and later took up pornography and masturbation full time, and then girls.

During the war, for example, many Arab governments effectively encouraged rampant public hostility to the United States by staying silent as their newspapers and television stations confidently reported that American forces deliberately killed Iraqi civilians and looted museums.

The jokes illustrated Hicks' precocity, and suggested how comedy both masked and admitted the hostility that kept him sullen and virtually silent around his family.

While Israel is surrounded by the hostility of its Middle East neighbors, Cuba faces the silent complicity of Latin America, which has always coddled the island's totalitarian dictatorship.

And the movement was sustained by a spirit of resistance that refused to be silent, that refused to cower, that refused to bow to continued hostility from the state.