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Example sentences for: defiant

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The tobacco stance became official with a speech against the tough and expensive Senate bill by the RJR CEO, Steven Goldstone, described by the papers as "aggressive" and "defiant."
"In a land where movement is virtue, where the echo of heels clicking rapidly on pavement is inordinately blest, it is a grand, defiant, and edifying gesture to lie down for six months."
The band creates waves of music that crash onto the shore and Dylan is almost giddy as he rides them in" (David Hinckley, New York Daily News ). This pivotal concert bridges the gap between Dylan's beloved acoustic phase and his controversial electric phase, and the interplay between a defiant Dylan and the disapproving crowd is said to fuel the performance.
When Tracy comes upon Paul at a table, gathering signatures for his nominating petition, she responds with cold fury, but she also scrawls her name on his sheet--a complex, defiant, irreducible gesture.
The NYT front reports that Benjamin Netanyahu has put up a defiant defense of the Israeli assassination attempt against a Hamas leader, saying, "I take the responsibility on myself."