One is that strange and pervasive hostility to the aged, apparent from bygone days in myth and legend, survives in contemporary society.

He sat on the arm of a chair and regarded Jimmy without apparent hostility.

He has never courted accessibility, and remains as unbending as ever in his apparent hostility to paragraphing and the traditional layout of dialogue.

"We offered to treat with your people, but they are rejecting our offers with apparent hostility."

Worse still, Layton's air of apparent hostility extended to the lawyers arguing before him, whom he would repeatedly challenge in a combative manner.

What's different today in New York is an apparent hostility toward public employees.

It was no good reading anything into their apparent hostility.

This may have been another reason for Adam of Bremen's apparent hostility in his accounts.

However, I am confused by your apparent hostility to our presence.

"Sorry," growled the journalist, his blatant hostility apparent, but apparently not to Brokey the Deuce.