Sentence examples for defiant manner from inspiring English sources

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He wore a leather-wrapped pony tail, his legs jutted out in a casually defiant manner on his bike's forward-mounted foot pegs.

He continued in a defiant manner on the fifth morning - timing the ball to perfection - as he eased a four through the leg side to bring up his eighth Test century.

Trump in his ever defiant manner has made it clear that he has no intentions of doing so.

Another reference comes after Brian is freed, he drinks from a drinking fountain in a defiant manner, a reference to the 1974 television movie, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.

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The prospect of the expansion of slavery into the West frightened Schurz; he was especially disturbed by the "overbearing," "defiant" and "dictatorial" manner of Southern slaveowners, who reminded him of the aristocrats of Europe.

At Governors Ball, the pair proved their mettle with unexpectedly thick dubstep hooks, especially on the defiant and delightful "Manners".

After a two-month hiatus from public view, Representative Charles B. Rangel was back in the spotlight on Tuesday, hosting a small-business forum in Harlem and behaving in his usual manner: loud, witty, defiant and mischievous.

Set in 15th century Spain, the Verdi opera is a high flown, sprawling melodrama flamboyantly defiant of linear narrative, packed with all manner of fantastic and bizarre incidents: child abductions, witch burnings, vengeful gypsies locked in dungeons.

Begley's adroit novel of manners boldly renders Schmidt, his unlikable, rich, bigoted, defiant, aging protagonist (who has been seen before in "About Schmidt"), with the same humanizing fullness other authors save up for nice people.

Begley's adroit novel of manners boldly renders Schmidt, his unlikable, rich, bigoted, defiant, aging protagonist (whom we have seen before in "About Schmidt"), with the same humanizing fullness other authors save up for nice people.

The mature literary tradition of England found a greater obstacle in Whitman's manner than in his rather tedious celebration of his own greatness or the defiant proclamation of America's incomparable majesty.

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