Sentence examples for act of rebellious from inspiring English sources

Through an act of rebellious mercy, this character winds up with the girl of his dreams — a pampered kleptomaniac — and when the war comes, he's promoted to a job serving coffee.

To vent, Nizama is planning a bit of rebellious fun.

"The spirit of the first issue, just the act of it, was rebellious.

It was the first in a series of rebellious acts that became known as the Rhodes Must Fall campaign, which would later inspire the student-led protest movement Fees Must Fall on campuses all across South Africa.

But I don't think it's a rebellious act of disco.

Against the profligacy of so much of today's art world, Mr. Wurtz's work reads as a quiet refusal, a rebellious act of abstinence that results in its own kind of fullness.

Against the profligacy of so much of today's art world, they constitute a quiet refusal, a rebellious act of abstinence that results in its own kind of fullness.

In this view, Syriza's win in the Greek elections is less the product of decades of domestic political failure than a rebellious act of defiance against a sinister oppressor.

In the Domesday Book the area is described as being "wasted", having been cleared by King William around 1070 as an "act of rage against his rebellious barons".

A sense of mischief runs through its pages, whether in the form of erotic stills from long-lost gay movies, the platforming of marginalized filmmakers, or the rebellious act of challenging cinema's heteronormative status quo.

Like all of director Hideo Kojima's work, it's a game about video games the ambitious, rebellious act of taking "level design" outside of the familiar military buildings and molecular structures of the previous two games and depositing you, the eager player, into the wilderness.