1. Despite the criticisms, she remained defiant.

2. Billy continued to stand there, mute and defiant.

3. The players are in defiant mood as they prepare for tomorrow'sgame.

4. He was a bold and defiant little boy.

5. The terrorists sent a defiant message to the government.

6. He had a slightly defiant air.

7. She looked at him with a defiant air.

8. The defiant child was punished.

9. Mason cuts a battered but defiant figure.

10. The Prime Minister was in defiant mood in the House of Commons yesterday.

11. The sacked workers were in defiant mood as they entered the tribunal.

12. With a last defiant gesture, they sang a revolutionary song as they were led away to prison.

13. They hurled defiant taunts at the riot police, who responded in kind.

14. Some defiant children are very shy.

15. He is one of the defiant ones.

16. Her defiant black clothes belie her bashful smile.

17. Defiant party members openly challenged the leadership.

18. Their own students were defiant and seemed highly unappreciative.

19. Her reply was clear and defiant.

20. Demonstrators became increasingly defiant of police controls.

21. Many defiant children are also unusually clever; figuring out ways to defeat your most sophisticated arguments.

22. "Nothing is going to change," said a defiant Miller after his trial.

22. try its best to collect and create good sentences.

23. Frankish soldiers commit a terrible mass execution of defiant Saxons at Verden.

24. The building oozed a melancholy yet defiant air, cornered by an unforgiving landscape with which it refused to make any compromises.

25. Sylvia tossed back her dark hair in a gesture that was openly defiant.

26. They had lost by a wide margin, but their supporters gave them a defiant, loyal ovation.

27. Mark smashed a fist on the desk in a defiant gesture.

28. The protesters blocking the entrance to the offices remained defiant this morning.

29. She is so cool and indifferent, so enclosed and private - when she's not openly defiant, that is.

30. They are fascinating and frightening; they arouse anger and they are defiant.

1. Despite the criticisms, she remained defiant.

2. Billy continued to stand there, mute and defiant.

3. The players are in defiant mood as they prepare for tomorrow'sgame.

4. With a last defiant gesture, they sang a revolutionary song as they were led away to prison.

31. Sometimes parents feel some embarrassment and guilt toward defiant or stubborn aspects of themselves.

32. Four heeded his royal solicitation and plunged their blades into the defiant archbishop of Canterbury.

33. She was spunky, dazzlingly defiant, and, I was sure, beautiful.

34. In defiant frustration, Nicole dabbles in the underground Seattle rock scene, where the older guys are equally alluring and dangerous.

35. I was too defiant to return to such an art school, so cramped, so bunged up with petty authority.

36. We crept closer, and watched her push her defiant hair away from her forehead with the back of her hand.

37. However; the defiant child also tends to have a little better postural control than the overly sensitive child.

38. No, he said - and he was defiant - there was no need.

39. The concluding song, Murder in the Market, brings a hilarious stanza sung falsetto when the murderess gives her defiant answer.

40. Alongside stubbornness and negativism, the defiant child has enormous energy and persistence.

41. Wilkes, as a symbol of defiant resistance to government, was taken up by all these groups.

42. With one last defiant surge of power the jeep finally gave up the ghost.

43. They tend to be defiant toward society, and successfully resist therapy.

44. With almost supernatural inner strength, Washington's Carter retreats into a defiant yet defensive shell of stoicism.

45. Harriet Walter plays her excellently as a woman who combines a strong sexuality with a defiant nobility of character.

46. But such findings as these were greeted with dismay and defiant incredulity by professional moralists and church leaders.

47. The big bird squatted quietly against Rima's chest, but her eyes held a sulky, defiant glare.

48. Then the barricaded rebels of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement greet the dawn with militant anthems and defiant chants.

49. The Derbyshire Times noted that defiant parents were voting with their feet by keeping children away from school.

50. A spurious semicolon has lost its defiant power to separate life from death.

51. But it was a defiant rather than a triumphant gesture.

52. West Indies' second innings saviour: Jimmy Adams, on his Test debut,[http:///defiant.html] making a defiant and unbeaten 79.

53. It is easier to be soothing with a highly sensitive child who is clingy and frightened than with a defiant child.

54. He usually leaves most of his talking for the court, where he likes to hound opponents with defiant banter.

55. There is yet another worrisome parental pattern that I sometimes see among parents of defiant children.

56. Unlike the highly sensitive child, the defiant child has some physical characteristics that make a more aggressive approach possible.

57. The defiant child uses bossiness and defiance in an attempt to feel secure.

58. The strained but defiant Premier pleaded with Tory Euro-rebels not to vote against the Government.

59. His lips trembled, and he felt strangely compelled to shout a defiant slogan.

60. The pose chosen - with head tilted back and neck exposed - is vulnerable and defiant simultaneously.

61. This made him more defiant and unmanageable than ever.

62. One is the defiant reaffirmation of dogma.

63. Her eyes flashed around her in a defiant way.

64. Despite the risk of suspension, he remained defiant.

65. She is defiant, angry, agitated.

66. She came into the house awkwardly defiant.

67. Never was there such a defiant, daring manipulator.

68. She was so nonchalant, so defiant.

69. Still defiant , Hearn sat down without permission.

70. He was a sturdy youth, courageous and defiant.

71. But he is too defiant too cavalier!

72. At this defiant heresy, Mammy's brow lowered with indignation.

73. Her burst of colourful clothing – a purple kaftan, skinny jeans and high heels – was almost defiant in a city where women still scurry around in burkas.

74. Under the charge of defiant trespassing brought by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Jiang faces a 30-day imprisonment and a fine of $500.

75. Curtis earned an Academy Award nomination for his performance in 1958's "The Defiant Ones, " playing an escaped racist convict chained to a black prisoner, portrayed by Sidney Poitier.

76. Saleh has ordered Sadeq's arrest but the tribal chief remains defiant.

77. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton recently warned Tehran the international community will "not back down" in the face of its defiant refusal to accept the IAEA draft nuclear deal.

78. His hard-hitting speech on the need for reform was a fairly typical example of his defiant attitude.

79. Her mother was an erect , square - shouldered , defiant woman.

80. Latter-day dog is lazier, cannot keep watch at night, full during the day is holding a head high to run quickly madly spank, above oneself , defiant.

81. The parents showed remarkaBle forBearance toward their defiant and unruly son.

82. Although busy with her own friends and work, Lillian took the time to listen to the trials of a not-so-eager kindergartener, a defiant tomboy[http://], an awkward adolescent and a rebellious college student.

83. Her expression disturbed him - sad, timorous, with a touch of defiant mischief.

84. He was "a sullen, self-willed, haughty, vindictive man; wanting the religious element in his character, and defiant even in his attitude towards God.

85. Ian Holloway was in defiant mood after watching his second-string Blackpool side tumble out of the Cup at Southampton.

86. She could recognize her wild, desperate, defiant mood, the flightiness of her temper, and even some of the very cloud-shapes of gloom and despondency that had brooded in her heart.

87. Defiant in their haughty and arrogant inaccessibility, they seem to shout: I dare you!

88. Poor Catherine was not defiant ; she had no genius for bravado.

89. A day, somebody visits him, see he sits below fabaceous canopy, raise goblet to drink oneself from drink, defiant, that person leaves very rustily.

90. I wanna discuss with you in friendly way on the cates , but I won't accept your puppyish and defiant fanfare. OK, that's all, wish you can understand what I said.

91. She could recognise her wild, desperate, defiant mood, the flightiness of her temper, and even some of the very cloud-shapes of gloom and despondency that had brooded in her heart.

92. But suffice it to say, Jobs's instinct for defiant iconoclasm and his insistence on unconventional approaches did not, in the end, serve him as well as it served Apple's customers and shareholders.

93. Roosevelt was defiant in the face of the bad news.

94. Luce rues that a middle-class home is crowded—only 700 square feet—and "cluttered with chintzy memorabilia" and heartbreakingly defiant messages on refrigerator magnets.

95. Abetting a fugitive slave in antebellum America was widely considered a sin against God, but Huck destroys the letter with the defiant avowal: “All right, then, I’ll go to hell.”

96. Corporal punishment is frequently ineffective, for it results in children's more aggressive and defiant behaviours.

97. Luminosity glows through pale velum walls. Watered neutrals and translucent colors converge in this opaque - defiant palette.