The modern moralists extol. . . the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life.
Being defiant can be a good thing sometimes," Aunty Ifeoma said. "Defiance is like marijuana - it is not a bad thing when it is used right.
A sound of cornered-animal fear and hate and surrender and defiance. . . like the last sound the treed and shot and falling animal makes as the dogs get him, when he finally doesn't care about anything but himself and his dying.
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
In defiance of Miss Maccalariat I'd like to commit hanky-panky with you, Miss Adora Belle Dearheart. . . well, certainly hanky, and possibly panky when we get to know one another better.
The woe of mortality makes humans God-like. It is because we know that we must die that we are so busy making life. It is because we are aware of mortality that we preserve the past and create the future. Mortality is ours without asking--but immortality is something we must build ourselves. Immortality is not a mere absence of death; it is defiance and denial of death. It is 'meaningful' only because there is death, that implacable reality which is to be defied.
PE is the sound of naked defiance.
Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went.
I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils
Mutual defiance made them alike.
Defiance, not obedience, is the American's answer to overbearing authority.
Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted.
Creativity is an act of defiance.
The stunt team were great on Defiance. They were there, every day.
Food made by hand is an act of defiance and runs contrary to everything in our modernity. Find it; eat it; it will go. It has been around for millennia. Now it is evanescent, like a season.
Our nation is founded on the principal that observance of the law is the eternal safeguard of liberty and defiance of the law is the surest road to tyranny.
For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture.
There is no possibility of a public demonstration [in Iran] of such defiance, but these defiant acts are certainly going on.
The leader personifies the certitude of the creed and the defiance and grandeur of power. He articulates and justifies the resentment damned up in the souls of the frustrated. He kindles the vision of a breath-taking future so as to justify the sacrifice of a transitory present. He stages a world of make-believe so indispensable for the realization of self-sacrifice and united action.
In the end, it is our defiance that redeems us.