Sentence examples for defiant gesture from inspiring English sources

The specimen will also notice her defiant gesture.

The deal would be a defiant gesture that the age of the sprawling financial conglomerate is not over.

First, he said, there was fear on her face as she realised that her defiant gesture was going wrong.

It was a defiant gesture, like that of the nomad who had watched from outside his tent as the train went past.

Andrew Litten's amusing small oil, "Flasher," in which a figure of indefinite sex makes a defiant gesture of self-exposure, straddles a middle ground between description and abstraction.

Every strike used to be a defiant gesture, and defiance is a major part of Suárez's schtick and street-fighting appeal.

Warsaw vainly sought to encourage Paris through defiant gestures in Danzig and vague war-prevention overtures to adopt a strong line against Nazi Germany.

Lowell's vivid and powerful personality and her independence and zest made her conspicuous, as did her scorn of convention in such defiant gestures as smoking cigars.

Flags are often hoisted or swept away in defiant gestures as regimes change, but they can fuel passions during peacetime, too.

Then receiver Plaxico Burress refused to take the field, and the injured tight end Jeremy Shockey did not watch the practices, defiant gestures to highlight their displeasure with the team.

Iraq may still be a place defined by Islam, sectarianism, violence and political dysfunction, but here in this clubhouse, and at larger gatherings of rappers and dancers in Baghdad's parks, are vignettes of another sort, defiant gestures of rebellion in a social order with little space for individual expression, especially of the sort draped in Western mores.