Sentence examples for with defying from inspiring English sources

THERE are only so many times you can get away with defying the boss.

Camus saw the dandy as romanticism's "most original creation", exemplifying its concern with "defying moral and divine law".

Unlike some of his contemporaries, however, Mr. Sillitoe wrote about people who were more concerned with defying the elite class than joining it.

Nonetheless, when it contrasts choosing a breakfast cereal in an American supermarket with defying death in dusty Baghdad, it's the former that's found wanting.

The publisher has supplied a one-page afterword, but Mikhailov writes nothing; we make up stories as we turn the unnumbered pages, not about joy among these revelers but their satisfaction with defying a hard history and a monstrous state.

Or possibly it was the magnitude of his arrears: more than $600,000 by 1995, when he was charged with defying the payment order issued by a Manhattan judge who presided over his 1990 divorce.

Though never mastered, they can be contended with, defied, and, at least in spirit, transcended.

It dares comparisons with wallpaper, defying them with its ever-changing effects as the light shifts and the radiance alters.

Then he adds, with faith defying current facts: "This is the best festival".

Ambulances race to the front with recruits, defying orders from calmer leaders to reinforce the front line only where they are confident of holding it.

An early inspiration was the 19th-century Romantic writer Adam Mickiewicz, who challenged the oppression of the Polish people and made common cause with Russians defying the tsar.