Sentence examples for defiance it from inspiring English sources

It writes into the centre of human anguish, unrelieved, but in its dignity and its defiance, it becomes by strange alchemy its own salve.

The Occurian with the greatest influence on the story is Venat, one of the primary antagonists of Final Fantasy XII, who rebels against the other Occuria and tries to give the people of Ivalice the power to not be manipulated by the Occuria; for its defiance it is labeled a heretic.

American diplomacy had brought deeper isolation and sanctions to bear on North Korea, and if Iran continued its nuclear defiance it would face "growing consequences" (though these were not specified).

WHEN William Burns, a top American diplomat, sits down with five colleagues from Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia in Geneva and the EU's Javier Solana on July 19th to hear Iran's response to their latest offer of talks to end its nuclear defiance, it will be a double first.

And when that opening minute of music returns, in No Respects Rev, its cuteness could be an act of defiance, it's so at odds with Smith's sandpaper vocal, crackling impenetrably about a cove in Whitby and (probably) the evils of censorship.

It was defiance, it was Nazi tyranny, it was the pall of smoke surrounding the Dome.

It took US youth culture a little longer to scream its defiance, but it came in spectacular style towards the end of 1991 with the cathartic fury of Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit.

Setting it in a men's room, the grunge equivalent of a green room, not only gave the production an act of defiance (making it in a man's world), it gave it a crowded, claustrophobic feeling as well.

Located in the middle of the country, Camagüey feels different to its neighbors, though with its history of defiance -- it has nurtured revolutionary poets and thinkers -- this comes as no surprise.

There was defiance in it as well as joy; it emerged while Brazil was under an increasingly repressive military dictatorship.

It's a pose of defiance, really; it signals that you are so confident that you don't need to protect your self.