Sentence examples for defiant expressions from inspiring English sources

Some wear jeans and sweatshirts -- and defiant expressions.

The female figures often have long noses and defiant expressions, resembling Huntington's wife, Arabella.

But was Marie Antoinette really a spirited rebel challenging "the oppressive cultural strictures and harsh political animosities that beset her... by turning her clothes and other accoutrements into defiant expressions of autonomy and prestige"?

The act of posing and the transactional relationship of subject and photographer seem to bring out defiant expressions, as well as proprietary gestures; parents wrap their arms around their children, couples cling to each other, and one young woman wearing only sneakers hooks her elbow around a tree trunk.

Laurence Pieau is wearing bright-red stiletto lace-up boots and a defiant expression.

The bemused yet defiant expression of Iceland's prime minister, Geir Haarde, personified the response of a nation.

With a defiant expression on his face, Mr. Michaloliakos raised his cuffed hands as he was escorted by police officers.

He has the look of Bruce Lee down pat, with the same defiant expression and spare but muscled frame.

"What once was a courageous act of defiant expression," he said, "is now perfectly lawful, and therefore is not worth the effort".

Asked what made her flee her husband after so many months, Arwa gazed up, an intense, defiant expression in her eyes.

The cover features a 25-year-old Cherry wearing a defiant expression, dollar-sign earrings, stacks of gold bracelets, and on her hands the tape more usually used by boxers.