Sentence examples for defiant stare from inspiring English sources

Instead it shows him fixing a defiant stare.

(John Huston came to her rescue with a defiant stare and a lacerating insult).

The new four-man military junta now appeared on television with General Pinochet, the recently appointed army commander, at its head.He looked the archetype of a Latin American dictator, with sunglasses, small moustache and defiant stare.

His development as a traitor to the Ministry flourishes in parallel with his affair with Clarisse (Sofia Boutella), a character reconfigured as a member of a resistance group—a glamorous scavenger with a bedraggled bob and a defiant stare, like a polyglot waif from a Jason Bourne thriller.

I think it's my way of saying 'the show must go on.' " At 54, Ms. Smith is still easily recognizable as the androgynous waif with the defiant stare photographed by Robert Mapplethorpe, her soul mate and former boyfriend, on the cover of her 1975 debut album, "Horses".

Others depict young women with tattoos and defiant stares.

Amid postgame perceptions of success and failure Saturday night, Vince McMahon, the XFL's founder, taunted his critics with a few more defiant stares.

The women of "Groupies" are composed and sensual but also keenly aware that they are being gazed upon; their vamping seems centered upon a kind of defiant, come-at-this stare.

Some look into the camera lens, some stare ahead, defiant.

Beto stares with defiant melancholy from behind a jet-black fringe that both covers his eyes and identifies him as a member of one of Mexico's fastest growing and most hated urban tribes: 'They beat me up because I'm emo.' The 15-year-old describes his harrowing few minutes curled up on the pavement waiting for four members of a different subculture to get bored with kicking him.

Defiant and androgynous, she stares down the camera on the album cover, a photograph taken by her young love Robert Mapplethorpe.