But that was better than open hostility, so he went on.

She was the first person he'd met ever to claim open hostility to his free verse.

The open hostility between those two was not the whole story.

She is met with the open hostility of her husband and children.

North turned and peered down, this time with open hostility.

Virginia turned away from the window and found the other woman staring at her with open hostility.

She and the general glared at each other with open hostility.

What possible excuse could they use for such open hostility against me?

And to put himself in open hostility was madness, too.

Turkey is certain to bristle at the overt hostility to its membership.

The jurors were now looking at the defendant with overt hostility.

The glass door to the center was recently broken, but by all accounts overt hostility from the community has subsided.

This ends the overt hostilities, but both sides are unhappy.

Black workers often report encountering overt hostility when they start work.

What's worse than I expected is the overt hostility from some of those who don't want me here.

Following this event there was no overt hostility between the two powers for many years.

There was no sign of overt hostility from the Mongs, only silence and dark looks.

As the years have passed, there is less and less overt hostility.

We've gone from expecting applause to being relieved that there is no overt hostility.

Until they give us instructions, try everything possible to avoid outright hostilities.

Everybody also knows that the two communities tend to view each other warily, if not with outright hostility.

On one level, the film can be seen as the director's declaration of independence from, if not outright hostility toward, the Hollywood system.

But a lack of support, and sometimes outright hostility, from elections officials is a significant factor.

Much of that solidarity with America has morphed into outright hostility.

They also say there may be outright hostility to waterfront growth among some environmental officials.

The proposals met with skepticism from some Republicans but little outright hostility.

In the town hall meetings across the country, there is little outright hostility to the contract.

Still, he did not expect the outright hostility he got.

For most of those years he had faced cold indifference or outright hostility.