Sentences with phrase «act of defiance by»

In the aftermath of Katniss» most recent act of defiance by taking down the games» force field, President Snow has retaliated by raining bullets and bombs from the sky upon her District 12, leaving craters and decomposing skeletons where people once stood.

Director Roland Emmerich summed up this mentality in response to criticism over his period drama, Stonewall, in which he created a fictional white, male, cisgender, «straight - acting» character to lead a true story about an act of defiance by some of the most marginalized people in the LGBT community.

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It remains for me to demonstrate the urgency of the problem; that is to say, to fulfill my purpose by showing that we have truly reached the parting of the ways, the point where the waters divide; and also to show that in this momentous hour we can not continue physically to exist (to act) without deciding here and now which of the two attitudes we shall adopt: that of defiance or that of faith in the unification of mankind.

I watched the moms one by one get comfortable in their act of «defiance.»

With her «electrifying» act of defiance at the end of Catching Fire's Quarter Quell, Katniss has stirred the beginnings of a revolution across Panem, and Coin is keen to channel that influence by filming a series of propaganda clips centred on Katniss delivering inspirational rhetoric.

Though finely acted by all three leads (McAdam's British accent isn't perfect, but she's still plenty effective), Disobedience is, in defiance of its title, too staid and measured to deliver the intended emotional wallop.

Blonde, blue - eyed Craig is certainly unconventional casting for Tuvia, but the acting chops of the three leads go some way to making Defiance's death - march tone palatable, as does the fine lensing by Eduardo Serra on location in Lithuania.

Cage and Fonda have their appeal, despite the fact that the contrivances in the script by Jane Anderson (How to Make an American Quilt, The Prize Winner of Defiance Ohio) stretch their ability to act natural at times.

All is not well in the rest of Panem — as the post-apocalyptic remnants of the United States are called — however, as Katniss's act of defiance at the end of the last games — her refusal to kill Peeta by threatening to have them both eat poisonous berries, thereby leaving the games without a victor — has lit a spark in the tinderbox of rebellion, and mutinies are breaking out in various districts.

While John is waking up to the fact that he still loves Eva, Eva is confounded by her own grief, and the three children deal with events in their own way, with much of the focus being on 15 - year - old Daisy as she deals with her loss via various secret acts of defiance, culminating in an affair with an older man.

The Kandy House is the former home of a Sri Lankan aristocrat who committed an act of «decadent defiance» by building himself a palatial villa using roof tiles, which at the time were decreed only for royal residences.

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For instance, Shahzia Sikander, born in Pakistan in 1969 and educated at the National College of Arts in Lahore and at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, decided to learn the traditional techniques of Persian and Indian miniature painting as an act of defiance, because miniature painting was scorned by her teachers and peers at home.

A self - proclaimed dropout of the art world, Lozano rejected the commerciality of the art scene by committing an act of defiance, in four parts: General Strike Piece, a performance that began in February 1969 as a protest to the banality of the existing artistic atmosphere; Decide to Boycott Women, a twenty - seven year hiatus from contact with her female supporters, including artists, gallerists, and critics, begun in August 1971; Dialogue Piece, an invitation to dialogue that blurred the roles between artist as sender and viewer as receiver.

The compelling moments in the exhibition occur when realizing that most of these women worked — and continue to work — with materials and processes in defiance of a world formed by the Smith - Hughes Act.

It also found him guilty of conduct unbecoming by counselling or assisting M.H. to act in defiance of a court order.

Take this an act of defiance on part by both levels of government.

Luckily, my husband was raised by parents that believed that stating your opinion or speaking up for yourself was not an act of defiance but just part of growing up.