Sentence examples for defensive remarks from inspiring English sources

Messinger delivered several minutes of desultory, defensive remarks.

He offered the defensive remarks unsolicited, his face still red and his words still crisp.

Further, though Franzen himself has spoken out about gender inequities in publishing, it's his defensive remarks that attract greater attention, along with those that appear to reflect crankiness about social media and life in general.

The people Didion interviewed or tried to interview tended to greet her questions with defensive remarks about the pace of change in the South, or with nostalgic and what can only be called racist talk about old ways of life.

During his more defensive remarks about Russia's role in the conflict in the Ukraine, Putin avoided blaming the US by name, but decried a "single center of domination," and blamed NATO for helping foment a civil war..— Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM September 28, 2015.

The candidate is Representative Todd Akin, a Republican who is on the defensive for remarks he made in his campaign against Senator Claire McCaskill, a Democrat.

Trump was defensive in his remarks about the race to reporters on Wednesday, a few hours after he deleted a series of pro-Strange tweets.

The voting in Indiana and North Carolina came at the conclusion of an acrimonious two-week campaign that found Mr. Obama on the defensive over incendiary remarks by Mr. Wright.

Romney has been on the defensive over the remarks, which he made during a private event in May that was secretly taped and made public this week.

It would be understandable if residents became defensive at the remark by Mr. Obama, a man whose expected presence can grind entire neighborhoods to a halt.

But the Giants' defensive players have remarked that they have played better than most teams in their two games against the Rams, despite the lopsided scores.