Sentence examples for daring defiance from inspiring English sources

Pollock's bold swooping brushstrokes and daring defiance of convention are a Hollywood convention: a lazy shorthand for "different".

The common tactic in the three crises appears to be daring defiance by Iran and its allies, particularly in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza, to gain position at the same time they are facing mounting pressures.

Though it ultimately failed to stop the leaflet launch, the South's attempt to intervene marked a sharp departure from recent years, when North Korean threats were either shrugged off or answered with daring defiance.

Set on the edge of a forest, the story tells of a spirited boy who is confronted by danger and meets the challenge with courage and creativity; it highlights elements of growing up like daring, defiance, confidence and chaos in the face of ignorance and greed.

Though he was a little off on the dates, that odd couple aptly summed up the flavor of Wilder's own temperament and movies: an American belief in new beginnings combined with a European sense of history; raffish charm combined with melancholy disillusionment, daring defiance of the rules combined with a clear-eyed determination to tell it like it is.

An outstanding poet and musician, he is also remembered for his daring defiance of the Confucian orthodoxy, at a time when deviation from the norms of tradition could easily be deemed seditious.

They met in secret at Boston's Green Dragon Tavern to plot daring acts of defiance.

The Gezira Sporting Club is an oasis of green, privilege and calm — probably the only spot in Cairo where rules against honking your horn not only exist but are obeyed — across the bridge from the defiance and daring of Tahrir Square.

This epic is briefly alluded to in the important exhibition "Daring to Resist: Jewish Defiance in the Holocaust," opening today at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in association with the Ghetto Fighters' House in Israel.

In a deafening crescendo of defiance and daring, they cried out: "Free Birtukan!

Mr. Fugard said in an interview that the new democratic South Africa -- struggling with poverty and corruption, among other challenges -- needs the arts of stagecraft "as urgently as the old South Africa needed those first few daring, sometimes suicidal acts of defiance in the theater".