Although he'd arrived looking wary, expecting hostility, he soon relaxed under the influence of the wine, the atmosphere, my own, slightly hectic, sexiness.

She had expected hostility, of course, but not of this nature.

Mike Keane said he doesn't expect much hostility.

Defense lawyers have come to expect hostility from her.

Some are resentful and say black suburbanites should have expected hostility.

He could expect hostility and suspicion.

I think they expected outright hostility, and our welcome has upset some of their notions.

Similarly, people may expect hostility in others and actually induce this hostility by their own behavior.

He'd expected hostility from Laura's father, not an immediate, if bleary, admission of the truth.

The Cardinal's column, which was on the general theme that Christians should expect hostility from "this world," did not mention these events specifically.