Sentence examples for flat defiance from inspiring English sources

Mr Hemming's remark came in flat defiance of two senior judges who had considered and rejected applications to lift Mr Giggs's injunction, in the light of careful legal arguments and their own expertise.

All of this is conventional stuff, if anathema to administration apologists, who insist, in flat defiance of the facts, that they have a "plan" to cut the deficit in half.

"The level of defiance is running high.

The results often make fine street poetry: a girl's legs and worn saddle shoes (no socks) as she stands on a wet pavement seem to symbolize a hardscrabble life; the heavily tattooed arm of a youth extending across a backdrop of factory buildings makes a gesture of defiance against a flat existence in a down-at-the-heels town.

Stanwyck, her blond hair ironed flat, sets her lower lip in defiance, and says, "I can't do it.

Across the rolling bluffs and the flat plains of his territory, in towns like Defiance and Denison, Honey Creek and Harlan, it is his responsibility to know which caucusgoing Democrats are supporting which candidate.

His defiance is also categorical.

"I'm not very surprised this campaign appears to have fallen rather flat here and there's been some suitably creative defiance from a brilliantly vibrant and inclusive city".

It was defiance for defiance's sake.

Even sweeter defiance?

Stage 2: defiance.