Inimical

The two continued to look into each other's eyes, and something, it could hardly be called inimical, rather an aloofness from the tie of blood, was visible to each in the other's steadfast gaze. ❋ Mary E. Waller (N/A)

His face showed the effect of a sleepless night, and wore an expression inimical to all mankind. ❋ Winston Churchill (1909)

No, randomness is not "inimical" to free will; it is *different* from free will, to be sure, but there is nothing inconceivable or improbable about a universe in which both free will and randomness exist, are fundamental, and interact with each other in complex ways. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This, according to the outgoing DA leader, was "inimical" to the values of individual freedom and accountability. ❋ Unknown (2007)

From this time forward, Macknight became a marked man, "inimical" whether he wanted to be or not. ❋ Unknown (1920)

July 7th, 2010 NEW DELHI - The Congress Wednesday expressed concern over the situation in Jammu and Kashmir and said that "inimical" elements from across the border were trying to create tension and violence in the valley. ❋ Unknown (2010)

New Delhi: India today said it will take whatever steps are needed to prevent and defeat "inimical" elements against peace and normalcy in Jammu and Kashmir. ❋ Unknown (2010)

At issue is a report in Ha'aretz stating that Rosenthal criticized Michael Oren, the Israeli ambassador to Washington, who had described the positions of J Street, a dovish pro-Israel group, as "inimical" to Israel's interests. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The argument offered in favor of the reduction was three-fold; viz., "very burthensom to the fair purchaser," inimical "to the settlement and improvement of the lands" in the colony, and a great hinderance to "the importation of slaves, and thereby lessens the fund arising upon the duties upon slaves." [ ❋ George W. Williams (1870)

If a society is "open" to all ideas, how can it simultaneously define some ideas as absolutely inimical? ❋ Unknown (2011)

In the early 1980s, a number of decisions were made that were inimical to the brand's heritage. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The strength of the viciously strong, when inimical to society, is tempered by penal institutions and by the gallows. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Or the force of habit is so strong that their hands mindlessly gravitate toward the “DEM” candidate, even whwen the Dem is inimical to their interests. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The left should not be backing a man or an organization that is so clearly inimical to American security interests and to so many progressive values. ❋ Jonathan Cowan (2011)

But it was also important that the big windows not lure birds to their deaths with inimical reflections. ❋ Annie Proulx (2011)

But he clearly enough wants to insist there is something inherent in cyberspace and e-books that make them inimical to "serious literary work" and the reading it requires. ❋ Unknown (2010)

That literary study would come to such an end was probably inevitable, since the primary imperative of academe -- to create "new" knowledge -- is finally inimical to something so difficult to dress up in fashionable critical clothes as serious works of fiction or poetry. ❋ Unknown (2009)