Sentence examples for defiance for from inspiring English sources

It was defiance for defiance's sake.

Black doesn't travel.' I hope 2013 acts as a defiance for those false pretences".

It's certainly a song of hope and defiance for our troubled time.

Inside the police station, he smashed a portrait of the president, defiance for which he may now face criminal charges.

Saddam Hussein was able to drag out his defiance for years because the Security Council was badly divided.

Women also showed resilience, even crafty defiance, for those who were expected to be neither seen nor heard.

Wharry was a suffragette and is remembered more for her defiance of the law than for her art.

His 1944 essay "The Simple Art of Murder" was a call for defiance of the traditional British mystery story.

Defiance is for rockers, so Madonna arrived on stage looking like one, unsmiling in a punky top and a shredded plaid skirt.

Remember when a chest bump was not a gravity-flouting expression of mutual delight but an act of defiance reserved for fiery baseball managers trying to make their point to uncooperative umpires?

Writing and publishing and otherwise sharing such stories are acts of resilience and defiance -- for both the writer and the reader.