inhospitability

Even so, the Bilbao museum is famous for its inhospitability to art.

It is known for its extreme heat and inhospitability.

I apologize for the inhospitability shown thee by our impetuous young.

Only their willingness to breed in captivity and the inhospitability of their mountainous habitat prevented this.

Strangers were discouraged by the permanent layer of dust in the bar and the inhospitability of Eli and his ageing wife.

The ancient repair base for Zeroth Law robots had been chosen for its remoteness and inhospitability to organic life.

This house has clearly stood empty for a long time, and after taking in its eccentricity, the first thing we notice is its inhospitability to new tenants.

In spite of their apparent inhospitability, soda lakes are often highly productive ecosystems, compared to their (pH-neutral) freshwater counterparts.

Inhospitability is the norm, though, and along with the desert proper that is the Sinai, the arid Negev, which extends north of the Sinai, is practically such.

Despite the extravagance he bestowed on his men, many chose not to fight due to the inhospitability of Ifat's mountainous and arid terrain and the complete absence of roads.

The inhospitability of the land emphasizes the spare precision of the narratives and helps to give them an atavistic power, as if they were tales that had been handed down since the beginning of time.

Last season, however, 10 new plays closed on Broadway without making a profit - including work by Arthur Miller, Frank Gilroy and Neil Simon - proving, perhaps once and for all, Broadway's inhospitability to nonmusicals.

Dating adviser Ali Binazir described the friend zone as Justfriendistan, and wrote that it's a "territory only to be rivaled in inhospitability by the western Sahara, the Atacama, and Dante's Ninth Circle of Hell."

Mr. Armitage's words reflected a factor that has brought the Tigers, who were known for their use of suicide bombers and child soldiers, to the negotiating table: the world's increased inhospitability to such tactics since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States.

"The Conversations at Curlow Creek" has to do with the rawness of nature and its inhospitability to human morality, which, like the locals who need something outlandish, operates by its own mythology, its arbitrary ordering of things into lawful and unlawful.

For centuries the tribes of the Amazon had been targeted by Jesuits, slave catchers, rubber tappers, and even some military operations, but remained elusive, eternally able to rely on the size and inhospitability of their native terrain to blend and forever maintain isolation.