Sentence examples for works of defiance from inspiring English sources

These are works of defiance, sometimes escapism.

The words I utter when wretched are words of defiance".

Some interpreters have, however, detected in this work "a residue of defiance combined with the possibility of unmasking male techniques of domination," (Kolsky 2001, 984).

"DEFIANT REQUIEM: VERDI AT TEREZIN" Here the New York Chamber Symphony has hit on something more promising: a dramatization of the story of Rafael Schächter, a conductor who taught his fellow prisoners at Terezin the Verdi Requiem by rote and presented 16 performances of the work as an act of defiance and resistance to Nazi rule.

They became prominent as Albanian "enlighteners" in the 19th century, publishing Albanian-language literary and mystical works in defiance of the Ottoman rulers' "Turkish-only" policy, and cooperating with Albanian Catholics and Albanian Orthodox Christians in the national effort for cultural advancement and independence.

The Craig G. Harris essay "I'm Going Out Like a F-cking Meteor" is one of the defining works of HIV resilience and defiance.

At a dedication ceremony on Wednesday that was attended by dozens of Mrs. Parks's relatives, President Obama and Congressional leaders paid tribute to Mrs. Parks, whose act of defiance and work in the civil rights movement helped spur desegregation across the country and the passage of the Voting Rights Act.

The always welcome Bill Smitrovich (from The Practice) appears as a kids' hockey coach, while Woody Harrelson is terrific as a blind pianist (Harrelson had quickly become one of my favorite character actors, with fine work in The Prize Winner Of Defiance Ohio, The Walker, No Country For Old Men, the underrated Semi-Pro, and Transsiberian).

Three years later, at the age of 40 and still working in defiance of severe criticism in his own country, he was the undisputed model for a new generation of painters who had turned away from the traditional schools of painting, which they considered only barriers to artistic inspiration.

Yet in an act of defiance, visual artist John Harman works exclusively with vectors throughout his widely varying body of digital work.

But Kozarac has been rebuilt by the hard work and defiance of a diaspora, some of whom come back for the summer and others who have come back to live - albeit in the Serbian half of Bosnia, the so-called Republika Srpska.