Sentence examples for spirited defiance from inspiring English sources

Julia Miles, wife of ambassador Oliver Miles, became a favourite voice of spirited defiance on radio and TV.

Gamarra's teams played in the 1998, 2002 and 2006 World Cups, and their strengths were mainly in spirited defiance against the odds.

They are calculations meant to assess the worth of a black man in a white man's world, and the sums arrived at have the impact of a sustained wail of frustration, sorrow and spirited defiance.

Sin-Dee is a motormouthed trans sex worker out to find the (cisgender) woman her pimp cheated on her with, and all we can do is tag along for a frenetic tour of working girls, their johns, their tough lives and, ultimately, their spirited defiance.

The divide isn't surprising: Stephens has casually described himself, Nübling and Sean Holmes, the Lyric's artistic director, as "three middle-aged men who all wish we were in the Clash", and there is definitely a punky belligerence about Three Kingdoms, a spirited defiance of anything that smacks of the theatrical mainstream, such as logical storytelling, naturalism or restraint.

Told seven years ago that he had six months to live, he responded with high-spirited defiance, and pushed the body he owned to tremendous exertions - and to far greater longevity than anticipated.

Their writings in their own vernacular, Flemish or French, rather than men's Latin were free-spirited and breathed defiance.

France's defiance drew a spirited response from the European commissioner for monetary affairs, Pedro Solbes.

Despite their earlier retreat, protesters were good-spirited exuding a sense of camaraderie and defiance.

Reports and pictures of the protests and other acts of defiance against Chinese authorities have been spirited out of the areas to advocacy groups abroad.

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