Sentence examples for were inhospitable from inspiring English sources

And if the print media were inhospitable then to the survival and flourishing of criticism, many of them seem now to have become actively, lethally hostile.

He spent a year and a half working on "Tannhäuser," but Wagner's long, static scenes were inhospitable to the kind of staging, with animated-film projections, that Kentridge had in mind.

Too many Americans bought into a lazy stereotype that Arab countries were inhospitable for democracy, or that the beneficiaries of popular rule would be extremists like Osama bin Laden.

"The distribution of many invasive species is today limited by temperature barriers, and climate change could allow them to invade regions that were inhospitable up to now", said the lead study researcher.

Would that be inhospitable?

The wind was inhospitable.

He said Madison Square Garden was inhospitable.

The place was inhospitable but hardly untouched.

Though the land is inhospitable, the Kyrgyz are not poor.

But the context of the times may be inhospitable.

THE Brazilian sertão is inhospitable at the best of times.