For most of the subsequent years his occasional public transvestism was largely met with, at best, puzzlement; at worst, hostility and violence.
I asked Lieutenant Cory Cuneo, one of the Hercules officers posted outside the Israeli film festival, about the worst hostility he had encountered in this role.
Whether men, women, or children, we in the audience become conditioned, as does he, to view them with (at best) suspicion and (at worst) hostility.
At least 262 more people have been killed since January 13 in what the United Nations has called the "worst hostilities" since a ceasefire agreement came into effect in September.
When a famous person snaps up a local business the expected response might, at best, be a shrug and, at worst, outright hostility.
All too often we announce new strategies or five-year plans, or launch new documents – often with colossal price tags attached – that are received by the public with incredulity at best and, at worst, with hostility.
Tolokonnikova also has experienced friction with inmates at IK-14, who have regarded her "at best with contempt, at worst with hostility", according to a report by Aleksey Baranovsky, Coordinator of the Human Rights Center "Russian Verdict".
While I hope that this is an anomalous fluctuation, it seems almost inevitable that if campuses show at best impatience with, and at worst outright hostility to, free speech, it would eventually produce students who take free speech for granted and even show support for "enlightened" censors.
By the time of the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, which ended the worst of the hostilities, more than 3,000 people had died, many of them on the very Belfast streets where, to Mr. Neeson's astonishment, you can now enjoy a pint and a leisurely smoke without fear of your life.
With a soured economy encouraging hostility at worst and apathy at best toward illegal immigrants, the U visas are a bittersweet consolation prize.
AIDS almost instantly became an epidemic, and the response of the rest of the Federal government — of government at almost all levels, in almost all places — was indifference at best and a kind of querulous hostility at worst.
