But then, it's a long way from a cartoon cannonball stamp to a child hurtling off the deep end in defiance of pool rules as well.
The tense scene offered a bitter conclusion to a case that demonstrated how the long-ago actions of a generation steeped in radicalism and dissent can still excite deep passions, and defiance.
There is a deep desire for defiance, but there is a brittle vulnerability, too. JeSuisXanax, one friend a witness, I am told cryptically posted.
But for many white Southerners, the connotations of "rebel" evolved into something deeper, a calculated defiance characterized by one of the Oxford English Dictionary's definitions: "Reacting against conventions, nonconformist".
Strip the words away, and his and the Iraqi people's cry of deep pain, anger and defiance would amount to no more than a shoe-throwing insult.
Defiance runs deep among a large segment of the population in my homeland.
They are fighting for their human rights with creativity and agency and in defiance of deep societal and legal marginalization, forming a chorus of agitation for the right to work, the right to live free from violence, the right to access health care.
Her huge repertory didn't feature strident protest songs but in love songs and lullabies, party songs and calls for unity there was an indomitable will to survive: a joyful tenacity that could translate as both deep cultural memory and immediate defiance.
Judi Dench plays the truth-telling Paulina not as the usual angry scold but as a woman whose capacity for defiance masks a deep compassion for wayward humanity: the moment I shall long remember from this production is when Dench, having regretted her verbal rashness, gazes at Branagh's shrunken, guilt-ridden Leontes with a silent sorrow.
When I was last in Turkey the mood towards Europe, somewhat in defiance of the deeper facts, was strikingly upbeat.
