Sentence examples for a defiant assertion from inspiring English sources

But it was hard not to see it symbolically, as a defiant assertion of life in the face of death.

One of her early hits, in 1979, was "The Tart's Song," a defiant assertion of a young woman's prerogatives.

Accusations of selfishness - from me, and now most of the carriage - were met with a defiant assertion of selfishness as self-expression.

In this book about death, every line is a defiant assertion of the power of beauty to revivify, whether beauty shows itself in nature or (later) in art.

Here, writing becomes a righting of the wrongs of history from voices hitherto silenced – unforgettable voices filled with a defiant assertion of life and humanity that pulses through the pages.

Against a backdrop of court actions among Lilli Bertone, the widow of Nuccio Bertone, and their daughters, the new B.A.T. can be viewed as either a last gasp of the coachbuilders or a defiant assertion of their intent to survive.

Only the slow introduction to the finale lost momentum, but this was quickly regained in the fast and furious Allegro, where the defiant assertion of self and ethos could not fail to leave its impression.

But the Labour leader's defiant assertion that "hell, yes" he was tough enough for the job was a much more memorable "moment" and got much more airtime.

It was three years ago this month that Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Assn., enraged gun-control advocates with his defiant assertion that more firepower was the solution to America's wave of mass shootings.

Dances, choreographed by Faye Driscoll, become cathartic exercises in frustration, as well as defiant assertions of strength by a woman who has watched both of her parents lose their mobility.

What pours out is a stream of anger at the US justice system, defiant assertions of innocence, desperation not to be forgotten back home in Britain.