Sentence examples for defiance you from inspiring English sources

It is a press-secretarial phrase in growing use that asserts with a note of defiance: "You know that's not what he meant, so don't make it a big deal".

Actually, it was Morrow's own eyes — which seemed to burn with a Rocket Richard-like desire and defiance you could see even on TV — that impressed us the most.

When it comes to the second season of Syfy's "Defiance," you ain't seen nothing yet.

And people take that never asking as an act of defiance, and you get sent to ISS or you get kicked out of class or you get expelled, when all you needed to do was just, 'Hey, what's wrong?'" .

She is a keen narrator of daily aggressions, confronting routine infractions on her well-being with a serene, persistent defiance: "When you driving in your tinted car / And you're criminal, just who you are / But you know you're gonna make it far," she sings on "F.U.B.U.," a song about protecting blackness from leering white audiences.

There's this defiance that 'You think I'm going to come and eat dinner with you and I'm your prisoner — absolutely not,'" Watson said.

Representative Steve Buyer, Republican of Indiana, bristled at the civil defiance, saying, "You invite this when such huge mistakes are made".

The bravado and defiance of You Only Live Twice.

You need to be respectful and mature without sarcasm, facial expression or any other body language that suggests opposition or defiance if you want to be taken seriously.

As aggravated as I may get when I tell you to "behave!" and you don't listen, one day that defiance will serve you well.

On a warm summer weekend last August, something happened in Cincinnati that you would have to call a remarkable accomplishment; in complete defiance of anything you would ever realistically expect, thirty-five thousand people went to see the Symphony.