Word: defiant
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...lawyers have vetoed any show of contrition. Instead, he has pursued a strategy that is one of the most confounding--and contagious--developments in public life: aggressive shamelessness. It begins with silence in the face of outrage, then blooms into anger (usually at the media), followed by the defiant continuation of the very practice that sparked outrage in the first place. (Kelly may not be abusing minors, but at least in his music he has never been more overtly sexual.) That three-step rumba allows a person to assert his victimhood and exceptionalism simultaneously, eliciting sympathy from the faithful...
...especially the mesmeric visual imagery are Ciulei's own. From the first moment, this Dream shows itself to be more about grim realities and revelatory nightmares. The captive Amazon Queen Hippolyta (Lorraine Toussaint), garbed as a soldier and coiffed with a Grace Jones-style Mohawk, stands mute yet defiant as the guards of Duke Theseus (Gary Reineke) surround her. They tear off her uniform and toss it onto a fire, revealing her torso clad in a confining, seductive undergarment: she is being turned from a woman into a girl. Throughout the play, Hippolyta's fury abates but never completely dies...
...facing the union, Icahn is determined and defiant. He has hired nearly 2,000 nonunion flight attendants to replace the strikers. Says he: "The company cannot exist without these cuts. We've got guts. We're not going to chicken out." If the unions reject his demands, Icahn has threatened to sell all or part of TWA. Says he: "I am not going to stand by and watch this company bleed to death. If we can't make money, I will cash in my chips." But Icahn has worked his way into a trap: he could walk away right...
...former Secretary-General was regarded as a blatant opportunist rather than a dedicated diplomat. That is hardly the image Waldheim tried to project at the beginning of the campaign, when he was portrayed as "A Man the World Trusts." In recent weeks, however, his campaign has adopted a more defiant slogan: "We Austrians Will Vote for Whom We Want." --By John Moody. Reported by Gertraud Lessing and William McWhirter/Vienna
...prisoner known around the U.S. naval station at Guantánamo Bay as Detainee 063 was a hard man to break. Defiant from the start, he told his captors that he had been in Afghanistan to pursue his love of falconry. But the young Saudi prisoner who wouldn't talk was not just any detainee. He was Mohammed al-Qahtani, a follower of Osama bin Laden's and the man believed by many to be the so-called 20th hijacker. He had tried to enter the U.S. in August 2001, allegedly to take part in the Sept. 11 attacks. But while...