Sentence examples for mildly defiant from inspiring English sources

Marge Fairbanks starts her Sunday morning being mildly defiant.

The New Yorker, January 13 , 1962P. 24 Marge Fairbanks starts her Sunday morning being mildly defiant.

By John O'Hara The New Yorker, January 13 , 1962 P. 24Marge Fairbanks starts her Sunday morning being mildly defiant.

Instead, for the fans at least, this was a restrained but still mildly defiant farewell to the Premier League, marred by some sourness near the end after a reckless challenge by Marouane Fellaini on Paul McShane that earned him a straight red card.

In the show's catalog Mr. Currin speaks, in a tone of mildly defiant political incorrectness, of certain of these pictures as being examples of "sincere" art, meaning, I take it, art in love with art, and specifically painting in love with European "masterpiece" painting of the past, for which Mr. Currin confesses a profound nostalgia.

(Defiant glance).

Mildly worried.

Mildly unenthusiastically.

Mildly disgruntled.

Mildly embarrassing.

He was defiant".