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Sentence Examples Five months after a church was desecrated by vandals, defiant parishioners have rebuilt their place of worship. Publisher Sander Hicks is a mohawked young whippersnapper, who, despite his defiant appearance, is as slick as they come. The defiant stare, too, would have made a subtle effect, emphasised by the averted, pixellated face of the tubby, shorter guard. Key features of oppositional defiant disorder include argumentativeness, noncompliance with rules and negativism. The defiant, unamplified drum solo that followed was quite amazing and ended with Mr. Baker being carted off stage by security staff. She would tenderly caress both classic love songs and defiant heartbreakers with equal vocal skill. A satirical commentary on native genocide and its aftermath, the play tangles characters, notions and story threads into a defiant Gordian knot. She refuses to learn her place, is defiant to the queen and gives herself airs of being the grand lady! Bhangra and Bangla music and the experiences of Asian sons and daughters are used to build a picture of a defiant popular culture. It is likely that his oppositional defiant attitude will increase the risk, resulting in the need for secure accommodation. Instead, evil becomes abstract and inescapable, defiant of natural law and irreducible to a single bad person or wrong action. His nose is still the defiant beak it was when I first met him, when we were both thirteen and bullied at a new and ghastly school. We set out at a cracking pace and met only charabancs overloaded with defiant voters. Today he continued to strike the defiant, populist tone that characterized his campaign. Enid stays defiant in fat-heeled boots, tight minis, a raptor tee shirt and purple lipstick. With a jutted-out pugilist's jaw that just manages to outreach his impressive paunch, the author seems rumpled, a little silly, but defiant. She sits across from me, looking directly at me, her faintly defiant stare a mild puzzle. She had almond-shaped hazel eyes, with a pert nose, accompanied by a defiant chin. They had their chances, particularly in that first half, but as the game wore on they failed to impose themselves on a defiant Wanderers defence. But brutal conditions and the taunts of the mortician's apprentice cause a defiant Oliver to run away to London. Show More Sentences So here he is on the pavement outside Southwark Crown Court, giving another of his pawky, defiant pieces to camera. Jack, the elder, works at the coal mine and is admired by his pals for his defiant attitude. Once the war was over, they continued to identify with the most defiant commandants and generals. And despite coming under heavy fire from political opponents for alleged favouritism towards his home county, the minister is remaining defiant. Don't we all want to live somewhere with a strong sense of community and more than a few defiant unique selling points thrown into the bargain? Bridget rides them with defiant optimism, but both her bad breaks and her endearing buoyancy in dealing with them venture outside the real. It is precisely this defiant sense of outmodedness that, ironically, gives the film and its characters such an edge. The women's defiant attitude was the greatest surprise to the authorities who expected tears, supplications and general weakness. The strikers have remained defiant throughout the last year sustained by community support and collections. After all, who else would close their album with a small, quietly defiant song about the horrors of competitive sports? No lyricist has ever so articulately voiced the defiant, self-aware misery of adolescence. I like to think that the sprightly wit and defiant attitude are typical of McCay himself. Many of the pickets were young, and were experiencing their first strike. The mood was defiant. This incident catapulted the opposition into more open and defiant resistance. There were loud boos, punctuated by occasional defiant claps from isolated guests. He was defiant, telling them they'd have to earn their money through performance. Kingston were shell shocked but defiant and from the restart, charged forward. From defiant defence to absolute antis, they were all there fighting their corner and throwing in their twopence worth as the saying goes. In the same defiant way, she decided not to let it rest when she was prescribed a drug she was convinced was inappropriate. He, conversely, was portrayed as a sneak for his cowardly yet disrespectful and defiant attitude towards the United States. Show More Sentences He heard a woman's defiant shout, followed by the sound of a needler firing. In her mind, slave markets were merely fodder for tales designed to shock defiant little girls into greater obedience. Her eyes flashed and she tossed back her hair in an attractively defiant gesture. It was a last defiant gesture of a man awarded medals for serving his country in Malaya. Even his defiant courage is an in-character refusal to repent or seek redemption. Bosses hope many of the jobs will be lost through voluntary redundancies but the mood on the shop floor is defiant. There is a defiant resistance under way all over the world, and we would do well to join it. Most people are just trying to sit and occupy a piece of pavement while holding a defiant peace sign in the air. They can be cautious and indecisive, but also reactive, defiant and rebellious. Croydon continued to press but the Oxted defence remained in a defiant mood. He became a loyal follower of Gandhi, whose defiant campaigns of non-cooperation he supported. The boy cringed away but remained defiant, his anger driving the fear out of him. Savage realizes that in order to build up his men, he must first break down their defiant, defeatist attitudes. The mountains stand as defiant outposts of tradition yet have also always been the homeland of rebellion, dissidence and resistance. If Bruce expounds such views with a defiant gleam of vindication, it's understandable. As vice-captain Rahul Dravid says, beneath the happy-go-lucky exterior is a mind that is defiant and determined. He was alternately downcast and defiant, becoming more animated in his exchanges with the judge as the hearing went on. She crossed her arms across her chest with a defiant look as if expecting him to gibe her. His death, still defiant, still beyond the reach of the infidel, with a video testament to follow, would be just the job. And it was when he spoke directly to his supporters, some tearful, some defiant, all deflated, that his voice choked. Show More Sentences Her most memorable roles are stamped with her trademark characteristics, by turns wry, matey and spikily defiant. The press remains scrappy and defiant, but its skepticism about lawyers has been embraced by the mainstream. But many relatives of those trapped aboard the Kursk arrived with a defiant hope that their boys would be saved. Record numbers of supporters heard defiant messages at Boxing Day hunt meets in the Vale, Cotswolds and Warwickshire. Toussaint had honed his defiant style for years as a leader of a rebel faction whose positions sometimes seemed like militancy for its own sake. Kurdish politicians were defiant, rebuffing the Shi'ite alliance's attempts to blame them for the deadlock. The 53-year-old's resolute focus is often manifested in a defiant courtside air punch during critical points. He was as defiant as he was in school when he was caned because he had refused to salute visiting white military officers. The first wave of post-war rebels, beatniks were arty, defiant and left-field. His combative language and his defiant shouting were full of bravado, and he had the large frame and muscular build to back up his boasts. In a defiant show of solidarity, fans are planning a peaceful march through the city to the ground prior to kick-off. Their defiant ignorance of the national welfare borders sometimes upon the psychopathic. Aerin glared defiance at him, but beneath that defiant facade, Cole detected fear. It's a snap of the matador's red cape, a defiant baiting of Fox News and talk radio. On Monday, Wall Street reopened for business in defiant tone but more prosaic realities quickly took over, dragging the Dow to its largest ever one-day points fall. Coursing beneath the polished surface of the love poems is something deep, dark, and defiant. Sculpted, smoldering, and defiant, he is first presented as the natural enemy of Bohannon, a former slave owner. To his credit, snider was initially as defiant as his song encourages its listeners to be. Up from vicious poverty, abuse, and segregation, Holiday was a defiant and challenging presence. Orlando itself, that is, is a form of escape from novelistic conventions, perhaps even a gypsylike text in that it is adventurous, marginal, playful, and defiant. Show More Sentences Matthew Axelson is given the most Stoic and defiant death and it carries the most power. For now, though, the self-styled rebels have seized the day, bulldozing over their quieter, more process-oriented neighbors like a defiant road in the wilderness. And you know, when you describe him as defiant and combative, I think that this is a really interesting case of where the video clashes with reality. He was just as defiant, hand resting upon her shoulder and moving up towards her neck, lightly grabbing some of her flyaway hair and making to put it behind her ear. These adorable, fairytale-like creations, which recall Alice In Wonderland and smack of defiant frivolity and impracticality, are the recessionista's status symbol of choice. The Turfers are freakish, passionate, half-baked, dignified, defiant, rude, anarchistic, but they are not Republicans. And he seemed defiant and unrepentant and unremorseful, in their words. The marchers' defiant smugness started to make an enemy of me. She contended in a defiant whisper just above the crack in her voice. Given such gloomy prognoses, it's surprising how defiant and upbeat the small army of programmers working to bring alternative fare to their audiences seem to be. As Di Giacomo corkscrewed around red shirts and Murray treated opponents like cones on a training field, the defiant hopes of the visiting fans quickly evaporated. A defiant single mum plans to create a haven for her children and their friends to rebuild community spirit after standing up to nuisance neighbours. Speakers, including the anticorruption blogger Alexei Navalny, attempted to keep the tone defiant and angry. The model Ireland Baldwin is less ambiguous but even more defiant when it comes to her relationship with the rapper Angel Haze. After a battery of psychological tests, Sean had been diagnosed with oppositional defiant disorder. Plus, if this kid had oppositional defiant disorder, the school would be calling the parents. Despite Cal's returned stare he remained defiant in his obvious scrutiny of Cal from behind the glossy sheen of spectacles framed in yet more ductile gold. The posture is somehow defiant, although her expression is anything but. Laurie Sansom's production hits its emotional straps, and Jones delivers moving scene after scene of rising, fractious, heart-rending drama and flinty, defiant humour. Architect Frank O. Gehry has made a career out of bending vertical and horizontal lines of building construction into something defiant and sometimes poetic. Show More Sentences In the face of popular ill will, however, Gabriel remains defiant. Ashley's coded statements about escorting are laced with implications of regret, yet she can also be sharp-tongued and defiant. For many people, this defiant act of jaywalking alone puts Brown and his friend in the wrong. He stands there and launches into a tauparapara or traditional chant, accompanied by vigorous actions and defiant brandishings of his stick. He and his two best friends, Diggy and Jib, are defiant counterstereotypes. Love My Name conveys the defiant swagger of old and Silver Tongue is marvellously infectious punk-funk. He has the look of Bruce Lee down pat, with the same defiant expression and spare but muscled frame. The incandescent vocal harmonies collide with fractured, defiant soundbite lyrics and their see-sawing, splintered instrumentation. Opening with the punch-drunk country stomp of Black And Blue, it was one defiant heartbreaker after another. Mrs. Gerome, defiant pride bars your heart from the white-handed peace that even now seeks entrance. Fawkes gave his name as John Johnson and was first interrogated by members of the King's Privy chamber, where he remained defiant. Everything large or small is carried atop out of habit as much as necessity, like a delightful but defiant challenge to the laws of gravity. In one brave and defiant performance, she redefined the patriarchal constructions of beauty, femininity, and womynhood for all who saw her. But the HUAC episode also brought out his most defiant self. The defiant claim will alarm the West which fears the Gulf state is trying to develop atom bombs and not power stations. The president's supporters... are trying to exert greater control over universities, touching a nerve among an increasingly defiant student movement. The bull was a symbol of the southern Italic tribes and was often depicted goring the Roman wolf as a defiant symbol of free Italy during the Social War. When he looks at her she wears a secretive smile, the knowledge of their act between them like a thauma'd thing, laced with the unguilt of defiant exploration. An exultant Bedsitter was followed by a defiant Tainted Love but it was his touching encore of the beautiful Say Hello Wave Goodbye which sealed a Lazarus-like comeback. The Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s made defiant slaves into heroes. Show More Sentences Misbah provided strong late resistance with his defiant 58 not out off 140 balls while Azhar was obstinance personified with a stubborn 28 not out from 135 deliveries. Together with Vaughan, Australia were also faced with a more defiant Bell, who had not passed 25 in his four first innings in the series, but made 59 before the day ended. However, Donnchad withdrew his forces to safety and remained defiant. Mental-health clinicians typically diagnose kids with these problems as having either conduct disorder or oppositional defiant disorder, a penchant to defy authority. It was this argument Henry took to Pope Clement VII in 1527 in the hope of having his marriage to Catherine annulled, forgoing at least one less openly defiant line of attack. Although its tall, slender, Tudor chimneys stood stiffy defiant against encroaching development, a missing brick from the crown of one of them threatened defeat. The banks, previously emerald, are now bruised with gold and ochre and the last heads of bullrush stand defiant, like soldiers, even as the teasels taunt and harry them. Ditto for Uma Thurman, whose loose blonde strands were defiant in their scraggliness. Your mother would have called this kind of hair a bird's nest. Examples from Classical Literature Babbitt thundered, Mrs. Babbitt wept, Ted was unconvincingly defiant, and Verona in confusion as to whose side she was taking. The air resounded with shrill defiant squeaks as the two bunchy velvet balls rolled over one another out of sight. Jeanne stood by with a defiant air, superintending the cording of the last one. He chuckled immoderately and pressed his cowlick down, which defiant tuft popped instantly back to its position of attention. He quitted the room, and Annabel ran after him, laughing and defiant still. There was a defiant note in her voice, and Massachusetts looked at her with surprise. He looked as defiant, indeed, as if he had heard bullets whizzing past him. Upon him the defiant ruffian turned the forces of his sulfurous hate, full-gush. The aery of the Yosemite eagle is the most sublimely defiant of things built by bird, or beast, or man. And very straight she sat, with defiant, frizzy head and narrow lips, when she heard the front door open and close. Glaucus, the Lycian captain, marked his defiant attitude, and strode forward undaunted to the encounter. It was the call of the People, the defiant song of the down-trodden, law-ridden, priest-ridden People. There seemed for an instant to be a defiant note in the procurator fiscal's voice that made Ned glance at him sharply. The shanghaied man stood facing Schantze, with all the deference of a sailor, yet subtly defiant. Her voice was defiant, as if deprecating in advance any cut-and-dried disapproval. He had seen that half defiant smile of comradeship, and his tone was not nice. He was Teck Pervis of old, the defiant, blood-thirsty rebel in the rifle pit glaring over the breastworks at the enemy. He was less defiant, or mistrustful, or whatever be the name for it. So defiant is the challenge of this rock that no cragsman can pass it by. She stood before him like a queen in her lissom, brave, defiant youth. Show More Sentences The day closed with the men of Thomas still grim and defiant. Lena nodded and went out, shutting the door with a defiant swing. The girl's defiant attitude only incited the workmen to jeer the more. Bhaer, with a defiant nod, as if the walls of mist closing round them were barriers which he was to surmount or valiantly knock down. A contumacious act or spirit is contemptuous as well as defiant. Her defiant speech was like the fortissimo from a full orchestra. With an almost defiant gesture she speared it and put it in her mouth. Catia put on the cover of the sugar bowl with a defiant clash. And the worthy fellow returned the watch to its fob with a defiant gesture. It is slightly harder to reorient a defiant mind than a willing one. He pulled away with swift defiant strokes, and Anne went up the steep, ferny little path under the maples. She tried to argue, to cajole, and to appear defiant, but all was useless. There was nothing disrespectful or defiant in the boy's tone or manner. Ranged side by side with the bold, defiant eyes of the girl before him, he saw Ruth's clear, luminous eyes, like a saint's, gazing at him out of unplumbed depths of purity. He was brought in, heavy-featured and defiant, his arms bound with cocoanut sennit, the dry blood still on his body from the struggle with his captors. The Warwickshire third pair Soumeya Anane and Jess Jackson produced a defiant performance against their opposite numbers to pull off a fine victory in their opening match. The women stared about them with defiant eyes, or laughed and joked, while the men kept their heads bowed, and their hats pulled over their faces. He was, Primakov reported Tuesday evening to German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in Bonn, but with the defiant condition that the allies would first have to stop bombing. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of defiant? Words that rhyme with defiant What is the adverb for defiant? What is the adjective for defiant? What is the noun for defiant? Translations for defiant Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Defiance defiance defervescence defer to defers deferring defiantly defib defibrillate defibrillated defibrillating defibrillation 7-letter Words Starting With d de def defi defia defian