Word: defiant
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...state plane and pay for it, you come across like Evita, as if motherhood entitles you to skirt the rules. This lapse might not have caused such a flap if it had not played into an image already gelling that Swift thought she deserved special treatment. She'd been defiant when accused of using State House employees to babysit, and didn't apologize until reprimanded by an ethics committee that investigated. She was forced to pay a fine...
...confronts the viewer with the looming image of what appears to be a grotesque mockery of the female form. With her painfully distended neck, puffy and veiled eyelids, stub-like nose and hairless head, it is difficult to determine whether her expression is one of miserable resignation or of defiant helplessness. Her androgynous body is bloated and motionless. Her paradoxically lush and painterly style enhances the painting’s macabre and moribund tone. The pallid fleshy hues that dominate Saville’s palette and the thick, deliberate way in which she applies these colors contribute to an overall...
...prose, like her oratory, is ruthless and uncompromising, driven by an incantatory rhythm. Her anger is untempered, measureless and directed equally at every target. But in a culture where feminists are frequently apologetic in their haste not to offend or be branded man-haters, Dworkin’s defiant stance, however divisive, is nothing if not courageous...
...standard documents as evidence. This has slowed down the proceedings. The prosecutors have been left to bear the brunt of Judge Richard May's insistence on "judicial economy"--with repeated instructions to cut their witness list--in a case expected to last up to two years. At least the defiant defendant can have no complaints about the quality of his defense...
...status, resolving the problem of the occupation remains at the center of their conflict with the Palestinians. Arafat and Sharon have both been playing a waiting game since the Israeli leader's election a year ago. Now Sharon is threatening to up the ante, and Arafat is sounding more defiant than ever. But the bloody stalemate may be proving more untenable for the Israeli leader than for his archenemy...