Sentence examples for a pose of defiance from inspiring English sources

But no other southern governor had managed to strike even that dramatic a pose of defiance and it has never been required of southern popular heroes that they be successful.

It's a pose of defiance, really; it signals that you are so confident that you don't need to protect your self.

A poster of him in a tough, Bollywood-style pose of defiance hangs in the village square, next to a small temple to the monkey god Hanuman.

Is this a pose of some kind?

The overheated rhetoric and pose of beleaguered defiance that one regularly encounters in the academy may suggest that those railing against, say, European dominance or "white, male, WASP hegemony"..

Come the final whistle of this intense yet engrossing last hurdle en route to the final in Madrid, Mourinho scampered across the sacred turf of Camp Nou, then struck a pose, a gesture of rampant defiance, aimed at the pocket of Inter fans up in the gods.

But she also had a model of defiance and autonomy.

"Strike a pose" poses.

As a result, taking a different perspective on entrepreneurship is an act of defiance.

Getting on an airplane has become an act of defiance.

It's a sort of defiance.