Sentence examples for Defiant role from inspiring English sources

Florence Mars, a diminutive woman barely five feet tall, seemed an unlikely candidate for the defiant role she assumed.

The attention has also highlighted the increasingly defiant role that Chinese Christian lawyers, pastors and church members are playing in the struggle for human rights, including sometimes smuggling dissidents out of China when the heat on them becomes too intense.

Her refusal to back down, to be anything other than who she was, helped turn her into a defiant role model for many still trying to understand who they were and what it means to be different.

Igraa was defiant about her role, and when she was asked to blame the director and producer, she refused, saying they had done the scene with her full consent.

Schulze is characteristically defiant about Best Buy's role.

Save Our Children's strategy, therefore, worked to prove that homosexuals were amoral, promiscuous, and defiant of traditional gender roles, and that they were a specific danger to children.

Women who are defiant to societal gender roles may be regarded as challenging their partner's masculinity as provider or breadwinner, thereby becoming vulnerable to their partner's control tactics to curtail such defiance, which may result in abuse [ 29].

One episode shows the cultural moment when a Puerto Rican performer, Rita Moreno, won an Oscar for her role as the defiant Anita in "West Side Story".

Mr. Trump, who claims to relish the disapproval of his party's elite, embraced his role as a defiant outsider on Thursday.

At first glance Mr. de Souza would seem an unlikely candidate for the role of the defiant defender of the public interest.

Mr. Stewart, who has won critical praise for his role as a defiant bigamist in "Mount Morgan," made the speech at the matinee and evening performances of "Mount Morgan" on April 29.