Sentence examples for defiant kind from inspiring English sources

Amy, not yet 10, has her chin cocked towards the camera, displaying even then a defiant kind of confidence.

While the Democratic Leadership Council attacked Dean for his angry brand of populism, Rosenberg looked for a way to tap into the genuine passion among Democrats for a more creative, more defiant kind of politics.

Anjali was intensely self-reliant and defiant — the kind of person that you really wanted as an ally but wouldn't want to find yourself on the wrong side of an argument with.

The slow-build voiceover, all toughness and defiant pride, was the kind of thing speechwriters and ad men drool over.

The prevalence of hidden explosives, the daily fact of them, has engendered in the war-weary residents of Sangin a kind of defiant apathy.

Grigoriev's despair gives him a kind of defiant gaiety, abetted by what Froment sends his way — bonbons from the West, including poetry and French champagne.

The kind of defiant and violent antagonism to the West that we now associate with Islamists was for centuries linked instead to places like Japan, Korea and China.

It's from a kind of defiant determination "to grab life by the ankles and scoff in its face" that she decides to make her fortune as an Antwerp "window girl," enticing men into her booth for paid sex.

Whether he was deciding that the first Macintosh computer would feature beautiful typography or telling Pixar's animators to "make it great," he played a decisive role in restoring a kind of defiant aestheticism to American life.

They were helped over the line by the deposed title-holders as Chelsea showed the kind of defiant streak they seldom mustered this season to pierce a briefly buoyant Tottenham.

So it made a kind of defiant sense that I resolved, in Santa Fe, to operate on the bold, sinus-clearing principle that no meal should be eaten in which chili peppers didn't play a major and colorful role.