Later in the week, the impasse appeared to take a less hostile tone.

Randy asked, adopting a cold, almost hostile tone to mask sick excitement.

Their daughter was sick, and there was this hostile tone.

"They had allowed a hostile tone to creep into the letters," she said.

It is also the hostile tone that he and others perceived.

Killashandra wondered if Carigana gave even the time of day in that same hostile tone.

She could afford to take a hostile tone with Ishihara here to protect her.

Still, the book's relentlessly hostile tone undermines the authors' case.

It adopts a hostile tone to the military and the church.

Raymond seemed startled by her reaction, which had a distinctly hostile tone to it.