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  • He had expected to encounter antagonism, even confrontation, and instead was being offered sly, misguided collusion.†   (source)
  • I have remembered these remarks because they truly surprised me at the time, his lordship never previously having shown any antagonism whatsoever towards the Jewish race.†   (source)
  • "It's not that I feel any personal antagonism toward him, Bella, it's just easier for both of us," Edward told me at the door.†   (source)
  • They had their first quarrel, then others, and anon the antagonism turned personal.†   (source)
  • Whatever the mutual antagonism between Boer and British, he said, the two white groups would unite to confront the black threat.†   (source)
  • His macho babytalk brought back Sofia's old antagonism towards her father.†   (source)
  • I don't see any huge antagonism there."†   (source)
  • We had settled into a companionable antagonism, wherein I threatened to kill her several times a day, as we three codefendants would sit and play cards, reminisce, compare notes on our respective prisons, or just complain.†   (source)
  • As the hostage crisis stretched out, the antagonism grew.†   (source)
  • What it boils down to is an undemocratic racial antagonism —which is exactly what our democratic country is supposed to be fighting against.†   (source)
  • The crawlway was Yossarian's lifeline to outside from a plane about to fall, but Yossarian swore at it with seething antagonism, reviled it as an obstacle put there by providence as part of the plot that would destroy him.†   (source)
  • By our last year the early antagonisms were forgotten.†   (source)
  • "Good morning," she said, betraying none of the antagonism I had expected.†   (source)
  • Ethnic antagonism, the bishop warned, had become "extremely acute."†   (source)
  • There was no mockery, no amusement, no antagonism; it was as if he did not belong in these particular moments of existence and could not be reached.†   (source)
  • They set aside one day at the very end of the year for all the companies to throw a beer party on the beach for a day of swimming and drinking, when the freshmen could challenge the upperclassmen to fights, thus allowing them to expend any unresolved frustrations and antagonisms of the year.†   (source)
  • Though he had never talked business with her, she had known it to be a fraction of him that couldn't come out even, would carry forever beyond any decimal place she might name; her love, such as it had been, remaining incommensurate with his need to possess, to alter the land, to bring new skylines, personal antagonisms, growth rates into being.†   (source)
  • That's my guess, because I might feel the same way …. and historians agree that antagonism between civilians and returned soldiers was more intense than we can imagine today.†   (source)
  • He had the instincts of a bully, and I a deep-seated antagonism toward bullies.†   (source)
  • Stung, Jamie has turned to stare at her with accusing antagonism.†   (source)
  • The beginning of Benton's end—so strongly suggested already by the antagonisms he had aroused over Texas and Oregon—came on February 19, 1847.†   (source)
  • Now the antagonism was audible.   (source)
    antagonism = hostility or opposition
  • Christian belief that Jesus said to give Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's, reduced the antagonism between church and state.
    antagonism = tension (between opposing forces)
  • I couldn't find my voice with the weight of his antagonism in the air between us.†   (source)
  • But there was no antagonism toward me now at all, just the Cullens and Bella.†   (source)
  • I was probably overdoing it with the antagonism, but I didn't want him to see how much this hurt.†   (source)
  • Had he shown any antagonism when he saw me?†   (source)
  • 'Your country doesn't need your help any more,' Yossarian reasoned with antagonism.†   (source)
  • Ian always noticed when Melanie's antagonism made me cringe.†   (source)
  • Some looked at me strangely, but I dismissed it since it didn't appear to be antagonism.†   (source)
  • 'Yes, of course,' he conceded frigidly, his manner changing to one of edgy and defensive antagonism.†   (source)
  • I'd never met that kind of antagonism before.†   (source)
  • After all, there was antagonism to our being employed.†   (source)
  • Turns on Edmund with a hard, accusing antagonism-almost a revengeful enmity.†   (source)
  • Mr Lewis apart, however, the other guests, perhaps through awe, perhaps through a sense of antagonism, kept a wary distance from M. Dupont, a fact that was conspicuous even in that generally guarded atmosphere, and which seemed to underline all the more the feeling that it was M. Dupont who somehow held the key to the outcome of the following days.†   (source)
  • And when poor Briony found the boys' letter, it was the same antagonism that had made Emily turn on her with unusual sharpness.†   (source)
  • As far as we can determine at the moment, it was a case of deep antagonism in a tragically dysfunctional family.†   (source)
  • "Tell me you didn't let go a bit on your first run, dog," Edward teased, no antagonism in his voice at all.†   (source)
  • Through the years of his struggle, he had learned that an apparently causeless antagonism was not hard to deal with, but an apparently causeless solicitude was an ugly danger.†   (source)
  • In 1988, during Deo's senior year in high school, Bishop Bududira had written a bold public letter, urging the government to abandon its "deliberate refusal to talk about ethnic antagonism.†   (source)
  • By the time the Europeans arrived, Rwandans were not only "conscious of a great divide between Tutsi and Hutu," but the "antagonism between these two social categories had already broken into the open."†   (source)
  • His cheeks grew tight with fury at the thought that he had just been duped into humiliation by a man who was almost the same age as he was and still only a captain, and he swung upon the chaplain avengingly with a look of such murderous antagonism that the chaplain began to tremble.†   (source)
  • Colonel Korn assured him with a flat lack of conviction, and turned back chuckling to Yossarian, his disdainful merriment increasing at the sight of Yossarian's unyielding expression of antagonism and distrust.†   (source)
  • And it just wasn't the same, for when Major Major, at the next meal, stepped from the food counter to sit with the others at the regular tables, he was frozen in his tracks by the impenetrable wall of antagonism thrown up by their faces and stood petrified with his tray quivering in his hands until Milo glided forward wordlessly to rescue him, by leading him tamely to his private table.†   (source)
  • His isolation from either political party, and the antagonisms which he aroused, practically nullified the impact of his own independent and scholarly propositions.†   (source)
  • It is as if suddenly a deep bond of common feeling existed between them in which their antagonisms could be forgotten.†   (source)
  • All the antagonism and disgust of Sunday afternoon melted when we were alone together.†   (source)
  • There are girls of my own age, for whom I feel the drawn swords of an honourable antagonism.†   (source)
  • It was a satisfying bravery; it never aroused antagonism.†   (source)
  • The antagonism between the boy and his older brother was deep and deadly.†   (source)
  • I felt it was less from horror than from antagonism.†   (source)
  • She shared in the fierce antagonism Gant felt toward his son.†   (source)
  • Of course he had to be subdued, so that we didn't have a mighty and savage animal at our backs, antagonism constantly increasing between captive and masters.†   (source)
  • Perhaps Julia recognized in Brenda Champion an intimation of what she and her friends might be in twelve years' time; there was an antagonism between the girl and the woman that was hard to explain otherwise.†   (source)
  • The old irritation and antagonism which he roused in her was hot in her heart and she yearned to speak tart words.†   (source)
  • I was crying not to someone, something, but (trying to cry) through something, through that force, that furious yet absolutely rocklike and immobile antagonism which had stopped me—that presence, that familiar coffee-colored face, that body (the bare coffee-colored feet motionless on the bare floor, the curve of the stair rising just beyond her) no larger than my own which, without moving, with no alteration of visual displacement whatever (she did not even remove her gaze from mine…†   (source)
  • Very early, as his truancy mounted, and after he had been expelled, and as his life hardened rapidly in a defiant viciousness, the antagonism between the boy and Gant grew open and bitter.†   (source)
  • Aunt Addie was the only teacher and from the first day an acute, bitter antagonism sprang up between us.†   (source)
  • There was suddenly no antagonism between them, but a quiet, hopeless feeling of comradeship, as if they were victims of the same impersonal disaster, who had to help each other.†   (source)
  • To hold an attitude of antagonism or distrust toward Jews was bred in us from childhood; it was not merely racial prejudice, it was a part of our cultural heritage.†   (source)
  • His present trouble was aggravated by the cross-complication of Eliza's thrusts at his father, and the latent but constantly awakening antagonism of mother and daughter.†   (source)
  • At these moments, after battle, after all the confusion, antagonism, and disorder of their lives had exploded in a moment of strife, they gained an hour of repose in which they saw themselves with sad tranquillity.†   (source)
  • …all new life—when their cheap mythology, their legend of the charm of their manner, the aristocratic culture of their lives, the quaint sweetness of their drawl, made him writhe—when he could think of no return to their life and its swarming superstition without weariness and horror, so great was his fear of the legend, his fear of their antagonism, that he still pretended the most fanatic devotion to them, excusing his Northern residence on grounds of necessity rather than desire.†   (source)
  • Was there reason for him to invite antagonism among his men?†   (source)
  • She did not explain that the though, however, had aroused all the antagonism of her nature.†   (source)
  • There was a triangle of antagonism between Paul and Clara and Miriam.†   (source)
  • Shefford had anticipated antagonism on the part of Joe; however, he did not find it.†   (source)
  • She divined that there was antagonism between Gulden and all the others.†   (source)
  • Feeling herself in antagonism, she was quite in accord.†   (source)
  • Assuredly there was strong antagonism toward him.†   (source)
  • These were the first words of antagonism.†   (source)
  • There were two factions here, yet scarcely an antagonism, except possibly in the case of Kells.†   (source)
  • The feeling of mutual antagonism was increased.†   (source)
  • I am equally balked by antagonism and by compliance.†   (source)
  • But as soon as she saw Anna's lovely and attractive face, all feeling of antagonism disappeared.†   (source)
  • We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience.†   (source)
  • Let us examine both sides of this antagonism.†   (source)
  • Property, in its present form, is based on the antagonism of capital and wage-labour.†   (source)
  • In an equally silent tongue Mrs. Fox answered him, till the room was thick with their antagonism, while they seemed to be discussing the weather, the University, and the trolley service into Zenith.†   (source)
  • But on the instant, perhaps, some instinct was born, or he divined an antagonism in Dale that was both surprising and perplexing.†   (source)
  • A dim antagonism gathered force within him and darkened his mind as a cloud against her disloyalty and when it passed, cloud-like, leaving his mind serene and dutiful towards her again, he was made aware dimly and without regret of a first noiseless sundering of their lives.†   (source)
  • The old antagonism is gone.†   (source)
  • I think that through the cloudiness of his insanity he saw some antagonism in me, for he at once fell back on the last refuge of such as he, a dogged silence.†   (source)
  • For the rest he looked for lighthearted pleasure and propriety, and was very thankful when he found them, but if he met with antagonism and querulousness he at once retired into his separate fenced-off world of official duties, where he found satisfaction.†   (source)
  • Their antagonism must have been expressed in their glances; I know that Brown hated Jim at first sight.†   (source)
  • All at once Madeline's instinctive antagonism to being touched by strange hands or lips battled with a real, warm, and fun-loving desire to let the cowboys work their will with her.†   (source)
  • They would sit silent, more bodeful of the direct antagonism of things than of their insensate and stolid obstructiveness.†   (source)
  • Remembrance of his questions—of his assurance that she did not know the real meaning of life—of her stubborn antagonism—made her somehow ashamed.†   (source)
  • Joan's intuition convinced her that if Gulden had any motive at all in gambling it was only an antagonism to men of his breed.†   (source)
  • Nothing could have been easier than to rouse the antagonism of Jim Cleve, abnormally responding as he was to the wild conditions of this border environment.†   (source)
  • Pity and softened memory took place of the old antagonism, and in his busy thoughts about the future, as the chaise carried him rapidly along towards the home where he was now to be master, there was a continually recurring effort to remember anything by which he could show a regard for his grandfather's wishes, without counteracting his own cherished aims for the good of the tenants and the estate.†   (source)
  • She did not want strife, she blamed him for wanting to quarrel, but unconsciously put herself into an attitude of antagonism.†   (source)
  • Nicholas and his wife lived together so happily that even Sonya and the old countess, who felt jealous and would have liked them to disagree, could find nothing to reproach them with; but even they had their moments of antagonism.†   (source)
  • Hitherto, every form of society has been based, as we have already seen, on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Pardiggle, who had been regarding him through her spectacles with a forcible composure, calculated, I could not help thinking, to increase his antagonism, pulled out a good book as if it were a constable's staff and took the whole family into custody.†   (source)
  • The thus vitalized antagonism took the form of action by Henchard sending for Jopp, the manager originally displaced by Farfrae's arrival.†   (source)
  • I believe that you could not avoid this duel, which …. which to some extent is explained by the almost constant antagonism of your respective views.'†   (source)
  • …and consequently, what war is greater, than that which re-establishes social truth, restores her throne to liberty, restores the people to the people, restores sovereignty to man, replaces the purple on the head of France, restores equity and reason in their plenitude, suppresses every germ of antagonism by restoring each one to himself, annihilates the obstacle which royalty presents to the whole immense universal concord, and places the human race once more on a level with the right?†   (source)
  • Was it really possible that her interest in Wildeve had been so entirely the result of antagonism that the glory and the dream departed from the man with the first sound that he was no longer coveted by her rival?†   (source)
  • She had an active force of antagonism within her, when the antagonism turned on the defence either of plans or persons that she believed in; and the wrongs which she felt that Will had received from her husband, and the external conditions which to others were grounds for slighting him, only gave the more tenacity to her affection and admiring judgment.†   (source)
  • Arthur fancied that he heard in these praises a certain tone of custom, which he had heard from the father last night with an inward protest and feeling of antagonism.†   (source)
  • So determined was he to do nothing which should seem like trade-antagonism to the Mayor that he refused his first customer—a large farmer of good repute—because Henchard and this man had dealt together within the preceding three months.†   (source)
  • Though your views are in straight antagonism[687] to theirs, assume an identity of sentiment, assume that you are saying precisely that which all think, and in the flow of wit and love roll out your paradoxes in solid column, with not the infirmity of a doubt.†   (source)
  • Kitty had been thrown into confusion by the inward conflict between her antagonism to this bad woman and her desire to be nice to her.†   (source)
  • In proportion as the antagonism between classes within the nation vanishes, the hostility of one nation to another will come to an end.†   (source)
  • …Russia has splendid land, splendid laborers, and that in certain cases, as at the peasant's on the way to Sviazhsky's, the produce raised by the laborers and the land is great—in the majority of cases when capital is applied in the European way the produce is small, and that this simply arises from the fact that the laborers want to work and work well only in their own peculiar way, and that this antagonism is not incidental but invariable, and has its roots in the national spirit.†   (source)
  • There had arisen of late something like a secret antagonism between the two brothers-in-law; as though, since they had married sisters, a kind of rivalry had sprung up between them as to which was ordering his life best, and now this hostility showed itself in the conversation, as it began to take a personal note.†   (source)
  • Since the development of class antagonism keeps even pace with the development of industry, the economic situation, as they find it, does not as yet offer to them the material conditions for the emancipation of the proletariat.†   (source)
  • But they never cease, for a single instant, to instil into the working class the clearest possible recognition of the hostile antagonism between bourgeoisie and proletariat, in order that the German workers may straightaway use, as so many weapons against the bourgeoisie, the social and political conditions that the bourgeoisie must necessarily introduce along with its supremacy, and in order that, after the fall of the reactionary classes in Germany, the fight against the bourgeoisie…†   (source)
  • And there are situations where—antagonisms that… in short, I am at the gentleman's disposal.†   (source)
  • Its object is, and its result must be, to dissolve wrath by the study of antagonisms.†   (source)
  • With the slow unalterable persistency which she had always felt in him, he was making his way through the dense mass of social antagonisms.†   (source)
  • The result was apt to be an irreducible combination of persons having no other quality in common than their abstinence from bridge, and the antagonisms developed in a group lacking the one taste which might have amalgamated them, were in this case aggravated by bad weather, and by the ill-concealed boredom of their host and hostess.†   (source)
  • Their old relations of confidence seemed suddenly to have ended, and the antagonisms of sex to sex were left without any counter-poising predilections.†   (source)
  • We learn that it is not the rays which bodies absorb, but those which they reject, that give them the colours they are known by; and in the same way people are specialized by their dislikes and antagonisms, whilst their goodwill is looked upon as no attribute at all.†   (source)
  • Here again, as so often, nature delights to put us between extreme antagonisms, and our safety is in the skill with which we keep the diagonal line.†   (source)
  • We are armed all over with subtle antagonisms, which, as soon as we meet, begin to play, and translate all poetry into stale prose.†   (source)
  • The history of all past society has consisted in the development of class antagonisms, antagonisms that assumed different forms at different epochs.†   (source)
  • They, therefore, endeavour, and that consistently, to deaden the class struggle and to reconcile the class antagonisms.†   (source)
  • Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, possesses, however, this distinctive feature: it has simplified the class antagonisms.†   (source)
  • The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with class antagonisms.†   (source)
  • In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association, in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.†   (source)
  • The founders of these systems see, indeed, the class antagonisms, as well as the action of the decomposing elements, in the prevailing form of society.†   (source)
  • The undeveloped state of the class struggle, as well as their own surroundings, causes Socialists of this kind to consider themselves far superior to all class antagonisms.†   (source)
  • No wonder, then, that the social consciousness of past ages, despite all the multiplicity and variety it displays, moves within certain common forms, or general ideas, which cannot completely vanish except with the total disappearance of class antagonisms.†   (source)
  • But modern bourgeois private property is the final and most complete expression of the system of producing and appropriating products, that is based on class antagonisms, on the exploitation of the many by the few.†   (source)
  • National differences and antagonisms between peoples are daily more and more vanishing, owing to the development of the bourgeoisie, to freedom of commerce, to the world-market, to uniformity in the mode of production and in the conditions of life corresponding thereto.†   (source)
  • …town and country, of the family, of the carrying on of industries for the account of private individuals, and of the wage system, the proclamation of social harmony, the conversion of the functions of the State into a mere superintendence of production, all these proposals, point solely to the disappearance of class antagonisms which were, at that time, only just cropping up, and which, in these publications, are recognised in their earliest, indistinct and undefined forms only.†   (source)
  • If the proletariat during its contest with the bourgeoisie is compelled, by the force of circumstances, to organise itself as a class, if, by means of a revolution, it makes itself the ruling class, and, as such, sweeps away by force the old conditions of production, then it will, along with these conditions, have swept away the conditions for the existence of class antagonisms and of classes generally, and will thereby have abolished its own supremacy as a class.†   (source)
  • [24] The effects of race antagonism upon language are still to be investigated.†   (source)
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