Sentence examples for defiant a from inspiring English sources

At the time I felt as though the phrase was defiant, a challenging riposte.

Bruce's speech was defiant, a claim that Chris Rock or Tony Soprano could no longer make.

"For me, this was the turning point in the war," he wrote in a 1996 memoir, "The Defiant: A True Story of Jewish Vengeance and Survival".

If someone in a communal apartment shut off the radio, he was considered suspect, defiant, a potential "enemy of the people".

You down for only the summer, to leave the stifling city where later you will be waked, displayed, defiant, a dark glass.

It is still as defiant a comedy as ever, as fictional as a gazetteer, willing to make a hash of the genres its author inherited.

The government is growing increasingly defiant, an indication of difficult negotiations to come for the opposition.

There are immediate romantic fantasies: a defiant speech, a brave silence.

However, in a defiant statement a few hours later the former paratrooper was back on characteristically provocative and pugilistic form.

Most Florida State second-chance surges were met with a defiant response, usually a 3-pointer.

Yesterday he placed a defiant advertisement in a newspaper, defending his comments.