Sentence examples for forms of defiance from inspiring English sources

Glück's provocative difference was to link perfection with forms of defiance.

Self-acceptance has become a new form of defiance on television, especially among younger female comedians.

In New York the trees and flowers are a form of defiance.

But business as usual can sometimes be its own quiet form of defiance.

For David, being in a band was itself a form of defiance.

They're the free-spirited, expression of such natural nobility — and, as such, they're a form of defiance, of resistance.

But the killers proved the cartoonists' point with ghastly finality: theirs was a necessary, freedom-sustaining, and therefore life-giving, form of defiance.

Moore is so skillful that she turned masochism into a hip form of defiance: "Do it to me," Frannie says, in effect.

Dazed and wild, they had created a new sort of camp life as a form of defiance, a rejection of ever reclaiming all that had been broken in them.

For an American coming of age after the blacklist, going to jail for political associations is an inconceivable horror, and to emerge unbroken and able to derive benefit from the experience is an admirable form of defiance in itself.

We can't do anything so we thought why not paint graffiti?" Like Camel, Scar sees graffiti as a form of defiance.