Sentence examples for defiance I from inspiring English sources

Figure 10 Solution defiance, i.e., overly similar (through homophily) groups with conflicting opinions.

Her defiance ("I was Chairman Mao's dog; whomever he told me to bite, I bit") won her few supporters.

But once I felt that defiance I knew there was nothing I could not overcome".

My dad left and, in the act of defiance, I remained.

For herself, she says, with a measure of defiance, "I am really interested in disappointment.

Beside the maple tree, taped to the wall of the launderette, was a different message of defiance: "I shoot with my favourite weapon: l'amour".

I kept up a face of angry defiance and I kept fighting back.

I recall being at dinner parties – some of you were probably there – or out to meals with friends, where someone would talk about 'living with Aids' and Spencer would immediately reply, 'I'm not living with Aids, I'm dying of Aids!' He'd say this in a tone of defiance, but I knew he was scared to death".

Even now, when I'm reading a new play, the qualities of integrity, compassion, vigour,  depth, humour and defiance that I discovered in her writing are still the qualities that inspire me.

The boy screamed blue defiance till I finally gave up, exhausted.

As an independent young woman coming of age in the Eisenhower era, I'd been offered few female role models beyond the bleakly emancipated Simone de Beauvoir, and these New Jersey strippers incarnated many principles of defiance that I was searching for in my own life.