Word: defiant
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...result is a vertiginous, romantic clash--a war of wills between a wise god and a defiant young goddess. Just like the fruitful friction between a martial master and his demanding director...
...then David Dohilite, 15, had been sucked into the system. An incorrigible kid, David had rebelled against his working-class parents in Magnolia Springs, Ala., near Mobile, in a yet unreformed county. Under state law, parents could turn over custody of defiant children to the department of human resources, but the agency lacked "therapeutic foster homes" for kids more troubled than abused. If kids threatened suicide or suffered the slightest mental disorder, they would be bounced to the Department of Mental Health. If they had broken the law, they would go to the agency that handles juvenile delinquents. The screening...
...sure, we'd all be upset about it for a few weeks, and Florida's defiant orange juice embargo would result in a short-lived scurvy epidemic, but by 2004 we'd have pretty much forgotten about the whole thing. In politics, after all, four years is a lifetime...
...There must be fierce injured pride at work in his calculations--that, and a sensible fear that bringing Clinton in would stir up the old muck. Gore was more profoundly offended by the Lewinsky business than anyone would have thought that day in December 1998 when, at the defiant Rose Garden rally, he succumbed to his exaggeration addiction once again and declared Clinton to be one of the greatest American Presidents...
...night, the strongman who had ruled so long through his control of television stood stiffly before a camera he no longer owned, his jaw trembling slightly as he said he would step aside. He conceded electoral defeat and congratulated the man he "just learned" had outpolled him. But ever defiant, he warned he had no intention of bowing out altogether. After a "rest" spent visiting with his grandson Marko, he would be back to rebuild his Socialist Party of Serbia and resume an important role in the country's political life...