(1) Even his defiant courage is an in-character refusal to repent or seek redemption.(2) Most people are just trying to sit and occupy a piece of pavement while holding a defiant peace sign in the air.(3) Her eyes flashed and she tossed back her hair in an attractively defiant gesture.(4) Bosses hope many of the jobs will be lost through voluntary redundancies but the mood on the shop floor is defiant .(5) They can be cautious and indecisive, but also reactive, defiant and rebellious.(6) No lyricist has ever so articulately voiced the defiant , self-aware misery of adolescence.(7) This incident catapulted the opposition into more open and defiant resistance.(8) He was defiant , telling them they'd have to earn their money through performance.(9) There is a defiant resistance under way all over the world, and we would do well to join it.(10) The children's facial expressions range from defiant to aggressive, from stoical to shy.(11) Croydon continued to press but the Oxted defence remained in a defiant mood.(12) But, defiant as ever, he is willing to make that sacrifice and believes his time is now(13) Many of the pickets were young, and were experiencing their first strike. The mood was defiant .(14) It was a last defiant gesture of a man awarded medals for serving his country in Malaya.(15) In the same defiant way, she decided not to let it rest when she was prescribed a drug she was convinced was inappropriate.(16) His nose is still the defiant beak it was when I first met him, when we were both thirteen and bullied at a new and ghastly school.
