Word: defiant
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...inventory of American slang now, however, can be somewhat disappointing. Slang today seems to lack the playful energy and defiant self-confidence that can send language darting out to make raffish back-alley metaphorical connections and shrewdly teasing inductive games of synonym...
...FRIEND probably came closest to getting handle on this flamboyant fellow when he recalled the character of Fenwick In Barry Levinson's recent film Diner. Fenwick in the handsome and defiant preppy with a mysterious flair, the one who pushes himself to dangerous extreme for a laugh. He tips the car and dances himself with ketchup and trick his friendships, clever as ever in the flamingo-laden living room of a friend, Fenwick quietly answers every College Bowl questions emanating from a grainy TV screen-all-for a lick...
...Defiant Begin...
...wake of the Beirut massacre. Teeth gritted, State Department and White House officials acknowledge that they must go on negotiating with the Israeli government of Prime Minister Menachem Begin, if only because any overt U.S. pressure would prompt disaffected Israelis to rally around him, making him even more defiant. But U.S. officials, despite their best diplomatic efforts, cannot hide a deep sense of betrayal. Put crudely, they now believe the Begin government has lied to them-repeatedly, deliberately, and in ways that tricked a gullible Washington into undermining America's own credibility...
...during Khomeini's exile in Paris. He took on the Foreign Ministry post in November 1979, and stepped down from office following the country's postrevolutionary elections for the Majlis (parliament). In January 1980, he made an unsuccessful bid to be elected President of Iran. Ghotbzadeh remained defiant until the very end. In a message smuggled out of prison before his death, he declared: "I want the record to be clear that I saw the light and tried as best I could to undo the damage I had done in terms of supporting the satanic regime...