Word: defiant
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...stepped up to a pulpit, this time to eulogize his nephew behind the closed doors of the Church of St. Thomas More in New York City, we could not hear the quiver in his voice. And we didn't have to. It was there in the practiced cadences, the defiant wit, the stubborn Catholicism that insists on seeing all the way to the gates of heaven. "He and his bride have gone to be with his mother and father, where there will never be an end to love," Kennedy said. And he promised that this family, at least, this...
Adiza Sanchez-Rahim, 12, knew nothing about violin when Roberta visited her first-grade class six years ago. Adiza is at an awkward age, but when she picks up the violin, she assumes a defiant grace. After all, she has taken lessons at Juilliard, performed in Switzerland and played for Oprah Winfrey. Says Adiza: "I'd be totally different without violin...
...Kosovo Liberation Army, smart in pressed camouflage, swaggered into cities and towns, posting guards along roads, securing villages house by house. And straggling before them along the roads leading north went the convoys of frightened Kosovar Serbs. They were heading into a bitter, unpromising exile along with the defiant Yugoslav troops in green or blue or black uniforms who had treated Kosovo to their savagery. Despite NATO promises of impartial safety, few Serbs wanted to test KFOR's protection against the reprisals they expected from vengeful Albanians...
...only going to kill a man") that somebody invented or reported; the anonymous burial and the hacked-off hands, as if his killers feared him more after he was dead than when he had been alive: all of it is scalded into the mind and memory of those defiant times. He would resurrect, young people shouted in the late '60s; I can remember fervently proclaiming it in the streets of Santiago, Chile, while similar vows exploded across Latin America. !No lo vamos a olvidar! We won't let him be forgotten...
...league's largest payroll. This was partly to appease Van Gundy, who was feuding with Grunfeld. Then Checketts met with ex-Bull coach Phil Jackson about taking Van Gundy's job next year. At last week's clinching game against Atlanta, fans chanted Van Gundy's name in a defiant gesture of support. He needs it. The guy looks like the most bitter and broken-down thirtysomething not to have worked for the Clinton Administration...