Sentence examples for defiant voice from inspiring English sources

For another, sending Chen to America means good riddance to a defiant voice.

"They don't go to bed hungry," she said of her children, in an almost defiant voice.

As Steltzner's team settles into its seats, a sly, defiant voice comes over the loudspeaker: "Why begin, then cry for something that might have been?" The singer is Frank Sinatra.

For true Ives fans, the indisputable gem of the collection is a 68-year-old, fragile-sounding Ives playing and singing his patriotic song "They Are There!" in a hoarse but defiant voice in three takes from 1943.

But Mr. Cleland's resignation would mean the loss of the most publicly defiant voice on the panel, which is known formally as the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States.

It will give the actors a chance to celebrate Rado's eighty-fifth birthday, and to contemplate the days and years it took for Rado and his collaborators to find their true, defiant voice in the uncertain time of yesterday's youth.

"And as she forges ahead with the number, in a defiant, metallic voice, you can hear the promise of the lyrics tarnishing in Sally's mouth.

Questions about lyrical inspiration are deflected with a stock answer along the lines of "the music always comes first", but Leithauser's world-weary, defiant narrative voice is unmistakable.

Describing the song as a "winning high-stepping" one, Adam Mazmanian of The Washington Times wrote that "Single Ladies" is designed to get the women out on the dance floor as Beyoncé sings it with "a genuinely defiant, independent voice".

Her attitude was brash, her voice defiant.

At times, Mr. Bruno grew indignant, even defiant, and his voice rose with anger.