Sentence examples for defiant assertions from inspiring English sources

Rather, he seems to have specialised in the opposite: defiant assertions of blamelessness that have sometimes made both him and the BBC less popular.

What pours out is a stream of anger at the US justice system, defiant assertions of innocence, desperation not to be forgotten back home in Britain.

Dances, choreographed by Faye Driscoll, become cathartic exercises in frustration, as well as defiant assertions of strength by a woman who has watched both of her parents lose their mobility.

Despite defiant assertions of independence like the classic "Cherry Bomb," the band remains cruelly underrated, a perception Evelyn McDonnell seeks to rectify in her scrupulously researched "Queens of Noise".

Baroness Thatcher is here suffering from dementia, but this involves only picturesque symptoms: gentle, heartbreaking hallucinations about her late husband, vivid flashbacks to her early underdog struggle, defiant assertions of continuing feistiness with doctors and younger politicians.

But it was hard not to see it symbolically, as a defiant assertion of life in the face of death.

Accusations of selfishness - from me, and now most of the carriage - were met with a defiant assertion of selfishness as self-expression.

In this book about death, every line is a defiant assertion of the power of beauty to revivify, whether beauty shows itself in nature or (later) in art.

One of her early hits, in 1979, was "The Tart's Song," a defiant assertion of a young woman's prerogatives.

Here, writing becomes a righting of the wrongs of history from voices hitherto silenced – unforgettable voices filled with a defiant assertion of life and humanity that pulses through the pages.

Only the slow introduction to the finale lost momentum, but this was quickly regained in the fast and furious Allegro, where the defiant assertion of self and ethos could not fail to leave its impression.