Word: defiants
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...afternoon the lawyers trickled slowly away from the Supreme Court grounds, bloodied, exhausted and still coughing from the effects of the tear gas. A few managed to raise a defiant slogan, but most chatted quietly among themselves. "It's just a shade short of Burma," said one bedraggled lawyer, echoing an earlier statement by Ahsan. "Yeah," said his companion. "But here they are attacking lawyers in suits instead of monks in saffron...
Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch) was a have-it-all kid who, upon graduating from college, resolved to flee his family for the Alaskan wilderness. Is Christopher a truth seeker, a defiant brat or some unknowable other? Director Sean Penn, adapting the Jon Krakauer bio-book, makes no judgments. He slowly spins this into a parable of one man's need for revelation, isolation and chilly transcendence...
...after landing in the U.K. Sunday afternoon. "As parents, we cannot give up on our daughter until we know what has happened," he said, flanked by his wife and with son Sean fast asleep in his arms. To the suspicion of the couple's involvement, Madeleine's father was defiant. "Despite there being so much we wish to say, we are unable to do so, except to say this," he said, pausing as his voice buckled under the emotion: "we played no part in the disappearance of our lovely daughter, Madeleine...
...Roula Baziotopoulou, standing on the tip of a craggy cliff, watching flames close in on the home she was born in, near the heart of the Peloponnese peninsula. "We're doomed." Not far from her, on the other end of the hilltop town of Karnasi, a daring housewife stands defiant. She and her son have refused to evacuate the town, reaching for a skimpy yellow garden hose to shield their nine white goats, 14 roosters and garden of olive, lemon and fig trees from the blaze tearing through the town. "I have no other option," says Vassiliki Panagopoulou. "I just...
Barbara Park's series about impish first-grader Junie B. Jones has caught some criticism from parents for the heroine's lazy syntax and defiant antics (she once played a head-butting game), but controversy over high-energy female protagonists is nothing new in the world of children's literature. Here are a few young ladies who have been winning over children while bucking the grownups in the past 50 years...