Word: defiant
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Faulkner also kept himself one of the least public of writers. He rarely gave interviews, and when he did he was frequently gruff and uncooperative. He secluded himself in a classical Southern house that was an almost defiant backward clutch toward a lost way of life. He often refused to answer the phone. When the movie made from Intruder in the Dust was given its world premiere in Oxford, he announced, to the producers' horror, that he would not attend. He finally did appear at the theater only because someone had reached an aunt of his in Memphis...
...final, and equally inevitable, point about him as an actor is that he is so overpoweringly good looking that he quite literally pales the white actors beside him, even including Paul Newman in Paris Blues and Tony Curtis in The Defiant Ones...
...John Cheever's fiction, his stories carry the ancient authority of a faith that good and evil are not merely words, that grace rewards with joy on earth those who obey the gods, and that a Miltonic "chaos and old night" full of vengeful demons awaits the defiant and unruly. He has a long view in which...
Russia is forever exhorting small, underdeveloped countries to rise up and seize foreign holdings on their territory -naturally referring only to properties of the "imperialist" West. Last week Moscow found itself on the receiving end of the confiscation kick, target of a brash grab by its defiant onetime Communist ally-tiny Albania...
Aide-de-Camp. Novelist Kim's father was a North Korean landowner who was jailed by the Communists in 1945 for his defiant political activity. Kim fled to South Korea, was a student at Seoul University when the North Koreans invaded. He served during the war as aide-de-camp to General Arthur G. Trudeau; at war's end Trudeau helped him get to the U.S. and to Middlebury College. There Kim decided he wanted to be a novelist...