Sentence examples for to defiant from inspiring English sources
— her delivery moved from droll to defiant.
As he worries in English-subtitled Dutch, his mood ranges from irritable to defiant to abject.
It may now offer a haven in Sinai to defiant Muslim Brothers in the wake of Mr Morsi's downfall.
The arc of Blair's career is the arc of women's basketball, from grudging tolerance to defiant outsider resolve to belated acceptance by the N.C.A.A.
Even as his voice and expression change from haughty to defiant to despairing, Mr. Firth's Bertie strives to maintain a lofty demeanor.
"Why ya think the world drinks?" she demands, and the song abruptly turns on a dime from melancholy to defiant solidarity.
"He has the guts to say what he wants to, to be defiant and be controversial.
"Basically, when we started, we wanted to be defiant to club owners, who had certain ways they wanted the music to be," Mr. Garcia said.
I noticed that he seemed to relish and even seek out confrontation, to actively look for ways to be defiant.
For another, sending Chen to America means good riddance to a defiant voice.
"You have to be fairly defiant to take on a dictator in court," Mr. Freeth said of his father-in-law in an interview in 2008.
