Sentence examples for was not hospitable from inspiring English sources

The turbulent 16th century in Flanders was not hospitable to art and produced only one great master, Pieter Bruegel.

(It should be noted that Abstract Expressionism was not hospitable to minorities either, and they are virtually invisible in "Ab-Ex Re-Con").

Slavery was not hospitable.

The terrain of Attu Island was not hospitable for such an operation – much of the island's landmass not covered in snowy peaks was covered in muskeg, a marshy soil type that is almost impossible to cross by foot.

Schultz initially struggled to secure the support of exhibitors; they were skeptical of the film's commercial prospects, and believed "the environment was not hospitable" for a film critical of the US so close to the start of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

When he was young and going to art galleries in New York, "no one would keep you out, but it wasn't hospitable," he recalled at one point.

Devotees of the Anthropic Principle consider this all moot: if alpha wasn't hospitable to life then no one would be around to call it alpha.

— Jeff Gordinier Wine, Naturally: Bordeaux is not hospitable to natural winemaking.

But the cold weather is not hospitable to players, and even less so to the handballs.

She sees the Harmons, but the visit was tense, and the Harmons were not hospitable.

Some local farmers are not hospitable to the traffic through their property - not hospitable, specifically, to the traffic of me.