Hostility
noun
The state of being angry or unfriendly towards someone or something.
She sensed a certain amount of hostility from her coworkers.
Often appears as...
- sense of hostility
- show hostility
noun
Acts of unfriendliness or opposition.
The company is facing hostility from environmental groups.
Often appears as...
- face hostility
- demonstrate hostility
noun
A situation in which two countries or groups are fighting or are ready to fight against each other.
The hostility between the two countries had been escalating for months.
Often appears as...
- escalate hostility
- reduce hostility
noun
The state of being angry or unfriendly towards someone or something.
She sensed a certain amount of hostility from her coworkers.
Often appears as...
- sense of hostility
- show hostility
noun
Acts of unfriendliness or opposition.
The company is facing hostility from environmental groups.
Often appears as...
- face hostility
- demonstrate hostility
noun
A situation in which two countries or groups are fighting or are ready to fight against each other.
The hostility between the two countries had been escalating for months.
Often appears as...
- escalate hostility
- reduce hostility
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Pro Tip 1/3Interpersonal Tension
Hostility can reflect inner feelings of anger and isn't always outwardly expressed.
His silence was full of hostility.
Pro Tip 2/3Subtle Signs
Watch for non-verbal cues like cold stares or rolling eyes as indicators of hostility.
She didn't say a word, but the hostility was apparent in her glare.
Pro Tip 3/3Internal vs. External
Hostility can be felt internally without being shown to others; it's a personal state.
Despite his smile, there was an underlying hostility toward the situation.
Pro Tip 1/3Interpersonal Tension
Hostility can reflect inner feelings of anger and isn't always outwardly expressed.
His silence was full of hostility.
Pro Tip 2/3Subtle Signs
Watch for non-verbal cues like cold stares or rolling eyes as indicators of hostility.
She didn't say a word, but the hostility was apparent in her glare.
Pro Tip 3/3Internal vs. External
Hostility can be felt internally without being shown to others; it's a personal state.
Despite his smile, there was an underlying hostility toward the situation.
Pro Tip 1/3Interpersonal Tension
Hostility can reflect inner feelings of anger and isn't always outwardly expressed.
His silence was full of hostility.
Pro Tip 2/3Subtle Signs
Watch for non-verbal cues like cold stares or rolling eyes as indicators of hostility.
She didn't say a word, but the hostility was apparent in her glare.
Pro Tip 3/3Internal vs. External
Hostility can be felt internally without being shown to others; it's a personal state.
Despite his smile, there was an underlying hostility toward the situation.
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The historic women’s...
In these ways and more, black women persevered despite deep hostility from white women in the movement, and at great political and physical risk. On the day of the parade, suffragists assembled to create a powerful exhibition. The surging sections of the procession included international suffragists, artists, performers and business-owners.
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Princess Diana's Funeral...
INGRID The queen was actually extremely nervous because she could feel the hostility, and actually she heard people say, ooh, about time you've come. You know, they could hear an awful lot of things that the crowds say. And then I think a woman actually gave her a bunch of flowers and said, "Would you
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It's time to reclaim...
hostilities and religion-related violence have been on the increase all over the world. But we don't even need the studies to prove it, because I ask you, how many of us are surprised today when we hear the stories of a bombing or a shooting, when we later find out that the last word that was uttered
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I grew up in the...
It's hard because righteous indignation, that sense of certainty that ours is the right side, is so seductive. It's hard because it means extending empathy and compassion to people who show us hostility and contempt. The impulse to respond in kind is so tempting,
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David Logan: Tribal...
argue that as people see the world, so they behave. Well, if people see the world in such a way that life sucks, then their behavior will follow automatically from that. It will be despairing hostility. They'll do whatever it takes to survive,
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How reliable is your...
it created some pretty bad problems for hostilities, primarily from the repressed memory therapists, who felt under attack, and by the patients whom they had influenced. I had sometimes armed guards at speeches
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Shaka Senghor: Why your...
I felt helpless, unloved and abandoned. I felt like nobody cared, and I reacted with hostility to my confinement. And I found myself getting deeper and deeper into trouble.
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Solitary Females PIPE Big...
change from that initial full-on aggression when they first met into a much more flirtatious encounter at that time beginning to break down those barriers of hostility
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Is life meaningless? And...
For him the world is pointless and moral judgment has no place in it. This attitude creates hostility between Meursault and the orderly society he inhabits,
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Fighting war and...
I come from a part of the world that is often associated to violence and hostility but despite my surroundings I decided at a very young age that I
Video examples
The historic women’s...
In these ways and more, black women persevered despite deep hostility from white women in the movement, and at great political and physical risk. On the day of the parade, suffragists assembled to create a powerful exhibition. The surging sections of the procession included international suffragists, artists, performers and business-owners.
Video examples
Princess Diana's Funeral...
INGRID The queen was actually extremely nervous because she could feel the hostility, and actually she heard people say, ooh, about time you've come. You know, they could hear an awful lot of things that the crowds say. And then I think a woman actually gave her a bunch of flowers and said, "Would you
Video examples
It's time to reclaim...
hostilities and religion-related violence have been on the increase all over the world. But we don't even need the studies to prove it, because I ask you, how many of us are surprised today when we hear the stories of a bombing or a shooting, when we later find out that the last word that was uttered
Video examples
I grew up in the...
It's hard because righteous indignation, that sense of certainty that ours is the right side, is so seductive. It's hard because it means extending empathy and compassion to people who show us hostility and contempt. The impulse to respond in kind is so tempting,
Video examples
David Logan: Tribal...
argue that as people see the world, so they behave. Well, if people see the world in such a way that life sucks, then their behavior will follow automatically from that. It will be despairing hostility. They'll do whatever it takes to survive,
Video examples
How reliable is your...
it created some pretty bad problems for hostilities, primarily from the repressed memory therapists, who felt under attack, and by the patients whom they had influenced. I had sometimes armed guards at speeches
Video examples
Shaka Senghor: Why your...
I felt helpless, unloved and abandoned. I felt like nobody cared, and I reacted with hostility to my confinement. And I found myself getting deeper and deeper into trouble.
Video examples
Solitary Females PIPE Big...
change from that initial full-on aggression when they first met into a much more flirtatious encounter at that time beginning to break down those barriers of hostility
Video examples
Is life meaningless? And...
For him the world is pointless and moral judgment has no place in it. This attitude creates hostility between Meursault and the orderly society he inhabits,
Video examples
Fighting war and...
I come from a part of the world that is often associated to violence and hostility but despite my surroundings I decided at a very young age that I
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Quote examples
Frans de Waal
Dutch Scientist
Chimps cannot tell us anything about peaceful relations, because chimps have only different degrees of hostility between communities. Whereas bonobos do tell us something; they tell us about the possibility of having peaceful relationships.
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Tina Brown
American Editor
Prince William's smiling hostility toward the press is his non-negotiable core value. I am told he is so protective of his privacy he has been known to plant false tips with friends he distrusts and watch the media to see if they play out.
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Wilhelm Reich
Austrian Psychologist
Honest pioneer work in the field of science has always been, and will continue to be, life's pilot. On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation.
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Octavia E. Butler
American Writer
Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
American Poet
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
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John Keats
English Poet
The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.
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Phan Thi Kim Phuc
Canadian Activist
My dream is that one day, all people will live without fear, in real peace, with no fighting and no hostility.
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Klas Pontus Arnoldson
Swedish Author
Without peace, there is no freedom, individual or national. War and hostilities are a form of slavery.
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John Bolton
American Statesman
I'm not running around the world looking for ways to create hostilities.
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Peabo Bryson
American Musician
Life is too short to harbor any hostilities towards anybody.
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Frans de Waal
Dutch Scientist
Chimps cannot tell us anything about peaceful relations, because chimps have only different degrees of hostility between communities. Whereas bonobos do tell us something; they tell us about the possibility of having peaceful relationships.
Quote examples
Tina Brown
American Editor
Prince William's smiling hostility toward the press is his non-negotiable core value. I am told he is so protective of his privacy he has been known to plant false tips with friends he distrusts and watch the media to see if they play out.
Quote examples
Wilhelm Reich
Austrian Psychologist
Honest pioneer work in the field of science has always been, and will continue to be, life's pilot. On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation.
Quote examples
Octavia E. Butler
American Writer
Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
American Poet
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Quote examples
John Keats
English Poet
The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.
Quote examples
Phan Thi Kim Phuc
Canadian Activist
My dream is that one day, all people will live without fear, in real peace, with no fighting and no hostility.
Quote examples
Klas Pontus Arnoldson
Swedish Author
Without peace, there is no freedom, individual or national. War and hostilities are a form of slavery.
Quote examples
John Bolton
American Statesman
I'm not running around the world looking for ways to create hostilities.
Quote examples
Peabo Bryson
American Musician
Life is too short to harbor any hostilities towards anybody.
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