Sentence examples for defiant character from inspiring English sources

It almost had a defiant character".

Adam Gopnik, our reviewer, called it a "page turner" and praised its "persuasively surly and defiant character, and a realistic vein of violence".

The book's virtues are that it has a story, and a hero with a persuasively surly and defiant character, and a realistic vein of violence.

I even integrated those words into my 1960's set film The Falling, with Maisie Williams's defiant character saying in response to her best friend thinking she may be pregnant: "It's life and life only".

Perhaps that is because the 106-year-old is a defiant character, refusing to take much credit for his work or pander to the Chinese Communist Party.

Argentines have a weakness for defiant characters.

In his lyrics there is nothing more honorable or more glamorous than foolish consistency, and his songs are full of defiant characters struggling to hold on to their illusions.

With the film's two highly independent, physically atheletic and defiant female characters, both of whom have escaped their own entrapments, Hart was immediately prompted to envision her own restless, racially-hybrid female avatar trying out various strategies to escape virtuality.

"While the title almost implies a reproach, Frivolous Women and Other Sinners is a celebration of the eccentric, defiant, glamorous cast of characters who inhabit Borinsky's poetry women doing their level best to give sin a good name.

I think when a female character acts more defiant, it's seen as a little more crazy.

Mr. Nieratko's pride in his roots shows at NJ Skateshop, where the defiant, underdog elements of Jersey character mingle with the nonconformist style of skateboard culture.