Sentence examples for defiant streak from inspiring English sources

She has always had a defiant streak.

Ms. Kamali insists she is not hiding a defiant streak.

But he hasn't forgotten his insolent guitar riffs or the defiant streak he now channels into populist convictions.

Introspection and affection ally themselves with a defiant streak in Mike Errico's volatile songs, which can be folky or build to Jeff Buckley peaks.

Mrs. Merkel, displaying a defiant streak that in the French news media has earned her the sobriquet "Madame Non," refuses to crank up the printing presses in earnest.

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.

NAPOLEON PERDIS, a makeup artist who was born in Sydney, Australia, and is now based in Los Angeles, likes to name his product lines after iconic female figures with defiant streaks.

What's interesting is its defiant, libertarian streak.

But there is, the GQ journalist assures the reader, more to Knowles than raging narcissism – she is a powerful woman with a defiant feminist streak.

He has a defiant anti-trendy streak, curling his lip at fads and fashions and the Clinton-Gore style of finger-in-the-wind.

A sense of duty combined with a defiant do-it-yourself streak.