Sentence examples for willfully defy from inspiring English sources
But with Dirty Thirty, Asa bravely reveals that even empowered and liberated women who willfully defy patriarchal conventions are not immune to the baggage of entrenched sexism.
When we see Gwen, we see ourselves: gorgeous anomalies, willfully defying science.
In addition to LaBeouf, he cites two other actors who willfully defied public expectations in quest of control: Marlon Brando and Joaquin Phoenix.
In 1854, Melville produced a difficult and messy comic novel based on Potter's failed, forgotten, and pathetic memoir, thereby willfully defying, in about six different ways, popular taste.
If the officers win the suit, which was filed in United States District Court in April 1999, it could cost Jersey City taxpayers up to $50 million, including $25 million in estimated overtime, plus another $25 million in penalties the officers would be entitled to under a provision of the 62-year-old labor law if they demonstrate that the city willfully defied its obligations.
Arpaio's crime was willfully defying a court's attempt to halt some of these violations — specifically, his contempt of a federal court order that he stop racially profiling and detaining Latinos on nothing more than his suspicion of their immigration status.
His willfully irregular songs tend to defy blues and country structures, something he probably learned from old rural songs but applies in his own ways.
In Suskind's telling, Geithner, as Treasury secretary, willfully ignored the idea, defying the president and possibly committing "fireable offenses" that were "perilously close to insubordination".
