Sentence examples for defiant phrase from inspiring English sources

The title echoes Martin Luther's defiant phrase, but it's reformation of a personal kind that's occupying Usher's thoughts on his fifth LP.

The Red Cross turned down the job, so protection is being provided by several hundred anarchists from Italy who call themselves Ya Basta! (meaning "Enough is enough!"), after the defiant phrase used in the Zapatistas' declaration of war.

After a lively B section with dotted rhythms ends on the defiant phrase "He hid not his face from shame and spitting", the audience hears once more in the two familiar drooping chords, like a head dropping in resignation, before the strings bow the sad, lonely introduction of the alto aria "He was despised".

Through the album there's tension and uncertainty in Mr. Butler's vocals, which he blurts out in short-breathed, defiant phrases; even the snappiest disco suit won't make him suave.(Ms. Chassagne's high voice arrives now and then to offer consolation and a cooler head).

Pakistani rapper Nadir Chen Siddiqui, who spits socially conscious Urdu rhymes under the moniker of Chen-K ventured into streetwear last year with his own clothing line Mizaaj, which makes T-shirts adorned with defiant phrases such as 'one man army' and 'badtameez'badtameez

At the time I felt as though the phrase was defiant, a challenging riposte.

And he can get figurative phrases right: "The defiant pork, insolent in its milky bath, willing this recipe to fail" conveys exactly how we have all felt about recalcitrant ingredients.

He would harden his tone slightly at the start of his next chorus, issue an annunciatory phrase, repeat it, insert a defiant tremolo...

He would harden his tone slightly at the start of his next chorus, issue an annunciatory phrase, repeat it, insert a defiant tremolo.... His tone would grow hard, he would growl and crowd his notes, he would shake his phrases as if he had them clamped in his teeth..

You could sense amazement throughout the house at his thrilling top notes during Cavaradossi's defiant cries of "Vittoria!" Yet his plaintive pianissimo phrases were equally impressive.

As footage of the incident emerged, this phrase quickly became a hashtag symbol of defiant unity.