Word: defiantly
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...striking Sapeta Taito, who always manages to appear as if she has just stepped out of a Gauguin canvas. Though untrained, first-time actress Taito gracefully carries the film, projecting such emotional intensity and fearless innocence in her role and capturing Viki’s restless confusion and defiant courage. With fire in her big, brown eyes, Viki has the air of a girl who could look unflinchingly at anything in the world, and yet still retain the soft naiveté that comes with adolescence...
...benefits that they might anticipate from solving [the nuclear] issue." But U.S. officials concede that it's going to take time to get the five other participants?Japan and Russia being the other two powers?to come up with a unified approach that will cajole Kim out of his defiant crouch. For now, both publicly and privately, the Bush Administration is playing good cop, insisting it simply wants to return to the six-party format, that diplomatic and economic goodies await North Korea at the end of those talks, and that any military option is out of the question. Boucher...
...Ammari's was marked as a liberal by his lack of a beard, his background as a banker and his modernizing proposals. But some less cautious liberal contenders struck a defiant pose: One candidate boldly proposed legalizing movie theaters and giving women the right to drive cars, earning him a torrent of warnings about Judgment Day from Islamist hardliners. Conservative candidates stressed their credentials as technocrats, but energized supporters with appeals on Islamist websites and open backing from Islamist diehards like Sheikh Salman al Awdah, a onetime Bin Laden ally who argues ?there is no place for secularism...
...ready, able to "go anywhere in the country and take on any threat." In Washington, an e-mail making the rounds reminded those U.S. officials heartened by voter turnout in Iraq that in 1967, U.S. officials were heartened by voter turnout in South Vietnam too. Even in Baghdad, the defiant spirit of election day was no match for common sense: the morning after the vote, the kids were off the streets. --With reporting by Matthew Cooper and Elaine Shannon/ Washington
...dark suits and ties, addressing scores of Western executives in flawless English about the country's new business opportunities. A few feet away is a huge portrait of the most famous face in Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, in his trademark African robe and sunglasses, fist in the air, a defiant look on his face, as if to say to the roomful of businessmen: I still run things around here. But the businessmen don't seem to notice. Instead they are transfixed by a tall young man with wire-rimmed spectacles and a fashionably shaved head. When he talks about...