How full of passion he must have been to maintain the defiance with which he confronted insult and provocation.
The answer is to live without escape and with integrity, in "revolt" and defiance, maintaining the tension intrinsic to human life.
Israel is the only country in the modern era that has maintained, in defiance of the international community, a military occupation for nearly five decades.
At the end of August 1965, they did not consider a Rhodesian UDI an immediate threat, and therefore focussed on the colony's maintained defiance of the mother country regarding Reedman and Lisbon.
That left Ian Bell as the not-out batsman, having made eight off 89 balls, and he will need to maintain his defiance on the final day to give England any hope of avoiding defeat.
For a while, I was certain that Beyoncé was going to maintain her defiance on the social media front.
He maintained his defiance as the Senate voted, declaring Wednesday a "day of mourning for democracy" before thousands of cheering, flag-waving supporters outside his Roman palazzo.
For almost a quarter of a century, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the man who is now Pope, was in supreme command of this parallel system of justice – a system deliberately hidden from the public, police and parliaments and run, so Robertson maintains, in defiance of international law.
Last month the three judges firmly denied the governor's request, threatening to hold him in contempt if he maintained his defiance.
Bishop James Jones, who chaired the panel, said Mrs Williams "maintained a dignified defiance" throughout the campaign.
