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Lessons of
defiance
have always been taught by fashion's great revolutionaries: its designers.
It goes hand in hand with doubt, in a never-ending conversation with it, and sometimes in conscious
defiance
of it.
And this conscious
defiance
is why I, as an agnostic, can still have faith.
And there's a patina of simple
defiance
among them.
Well, it seems to me that this Hungarian presence in my life is difficult to account for, but ultimately I ascribe it to an admiration for people with a complex moral awareness, with a heritage of guilt and defeat matched by
defiance
and bravado.
As a woman, she was barred from pursuing higher education, so in an act of defiance, Marie enrolled in the Floating University, a secret institution that provided clandestine education to Polish youth.
This is an example of just one act of
defiance
in just one city.
Hope may be the single greatest act of
defiance
against a politics of pessimism and against a culture of despair.
It is the stories of resistance, the stories of defiance, the stories of resilience, that inspire people to get involved, not the stories of abuse and killings and hurt, because as humans, it's only natural for us to be scared.
And when the White House cracked down on so-called "undocumented migrants" in sanctuary cities, hundreds of cities and counties and states sat up in
defiance
and refused to enact that order.
But today, these 17th century Cossacks are remembered for their spirit of independence and
defiance.
In her last act of defiance, she signed them “I, the worst of all,” in her own blood.
She wrote this poem when she was 18 years old in 1888, and I look at it as kind of a very sweet feminist manifesto tinged with a little bit of
defiance
and a little bit of resignation and regret.
You can see that corporations were illegal at the founding of America, and even Thomas Jefferson complained that they were already bidding
defiance
to the laws of our country.
.and his dog in turn was growling in
defiance
at the gatekeeper who was trying to trick the old hunter to "step inside,". .
As always with Mizoguchi, there is an exquisitely expressed tone of defiance, and - bad print aside - I was very pleased.
Mr Omar Sharif,who built a career largely founded on looking directly at the camera with his big brown eyes and looking soulful,gives a stupefyingly monotonous performance as his son the Crown Prince.He is utterly unconvincing as a man who -in the movie at least-cut a swathe through the distaff side of the Austrian aristocracy.With his well-buttered locks firmly in place he preens and poses in ever more unlikely uniforms.As a rebel he talks the talk but conspicuously fails to walk the walk,leaving a bottom button undone on one of his tunics is about as far as his
defiance
goes.Unhappily married,he falls in love with a commoner."Forbidden
To be honest i had heard this was pretty bad before i decided to watch it, but i'm never one to let others influence my viewings, in fact i'm more likely to watch something out of defiance!.
I kept focusing on how these women (who are clinically way beyond eccentric) reveal their own humanity in the most surprising of ways, and I wonder whether their retreat from the world was prompted by something beyond the stuffiness of life in the unreal blue-blood universe, perhaps some abuse, or perhaps simply a streak of
defiance
and rebellion that spiralled out of their control and took on a life of its' own.
As Spitfire Stevens, Maureen O'Hara is at her athletic best, running her foes through in
defiance
of the social norms of the period.
There are other factors at work in the story-line; pirate Bonnie Brown and her father want to attack U.S. ships and do so in
defiance
of Lafitte's orders, leaving a boy alive without knowing they have missed an eyewitness.
Why don't I just chop the film up and scatter its pieces into the wind in
defiance
of the piece of crap I rented?
I am not sure what the movie
Defiance
is all about, not sure if it is a western, a post Civil War era story or a comedy....but one thing is for sure, the makers of
Defiance
didn't know either.....the movie is a compilation of scenes that are spun into a plot that continuously creates a sense of "where is this going?"
But in a truly heroic act of
defiance
El Salvadorans stood in long lines for hours to vote under the threat of death by the guerrillas -- not, as the movie would have you believe, the Savadoran army.
Jason Roboards,Sr., (Wholesaler in Wines) gave a great supporting role along with John Emery, (Jean Cornudet) who comes to the aid of Elizabeth along with a Priest who will not ring the church bells of his Parish in
defiance
of the Prussian Generals.
Anthony Franciosa is over-the-top as the Mafia lieutenant and Richard Ward is a gravel-voiced Harlem crime boss who stands up to the Mafia with a brash
defiance.
One can almost understand why China’s leaders should be baffled by this show of
defiance
in Hong Kong.
Such visible demonstrations of
defiance
in the face of violence strengthen ties between communities and can prevent the division that extremists try to generate.
But, in just the last few weeks, parts of the Sunni north have erupted in armed
defiance
of Hezbollah and the government that it dominates, and are openly supporting the Syrian rebels.
By contrast, North Korea shows that defiance, rather than accommodation, is a strategy that works.
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