Sentence examples for rebellious at from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile Mr Kim's son, Kim Jung Nam, grew frightened of his father and rebellious at the continual confinement.

I wondered if George had some felonious dark secret, but though he was rebellious at heart, he seemed to have kept on the right side of the law.

And I guess a little bit of it too was that what seems conformist at 26 -- getting married -- seems rebellious at 66".

Although all fashion looks mobile and rebellious at times, its roots are surprisingly constant: to think or act for reasons of fashion in any given field is to support that field's established centers of power.

(There have been objections from the left, too, to words like "rebellious"; at the same time, Sanger fought with her own organization over her belief that it should hire more black public-health professionals, rather than relying on white experts).

The actress Natalie Portman, with whom Ms. Neshat recently collaborated on a short film for a project commissioned by the luxury goods company LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, said she detected "a fascinating femininity" to Ms. Neshat's work, which she had seen before, calling it "strong and rebellious at the same time".

In his autobiography, "The Facts," Roth called Chicago "the best place in America... to find intellectual liveliness, and to stand, if not necessarily in rebellious opposition, at least at a heartening distance from the prospering society's engrossment with consuming goods and watching TV".

In Frederick's name he proposed to end the rivalry between the papal council at Florence and the rebellious council at Basel by summoning a third council but could persuade neither Eugenius nor the bishops at Basel.

Province suffered a 75% hit to its stock price last year after a series of embarrassments, including a decision by 12 rebellious doctors at Lake Havasu, Ariz .to go "on vacation" all at the same time, as a protest against Province's hardball financial tactics.

And it was the rebellious laughter at the expense of officialdom that got artists into serious trouble with government censors.

Oh, to be back in the idyllic summer of 1969, when the biggest sin committed by the rebellious mobs at Woodstock was getting stoned.