Audiences seem indifferent, and the critics are verging on hostility.

Stalin's entire system was based on hostility to the West and capitalism.

They also reflected an increasing disenchantment with the art world that bordered on hostility.

Gone was the open friendliness, replaced now by fear bordering on hostility.

And I'm sure a lot of my comedy is based on anger and hostility.

Eventually he shut it and did look at Blade, with an open suspicion that bordered on hostility.

The feelings that existed between them had long since passed silent loathing and verged now on open hostility.

And the Captain himself was not only indifferent but verging on hostility toward me.

But it can be argued that wishful thinking is not a useless exercise in a region whose ideas have traditionally concentrated more on hostility.

Traditional conceptualizations of sexism focused almost entirely on overt hostility toward women.