Sentences with phrase «defiant act»

The Orphan Master's Son is a richly textured political thriller about the hidden world of North Korea with all of its misery, violence and defiant acts of love under impossible circumstances.

His first defiant act was to not play basketball and take advantage of his height, but to apprentice himself in his mother's beauty shop.

Patience for the 3:00 a.m. feedings; patience for teething; patience for toilet training; patience for the dreaded «terrible twos»; patience for your child's first outright defiant act.

The appeal, which was filed on Thursday, is a typically defiant act from the network and from Moskowitz, its combative leader.

But, with so many options to choose from, women rocking grey hair is an especially defiant act.»

After the screenings, a panel conversation moderated by TMR Executive & Artistic Director Cesar Garcia will bring together curators Erin Cristovale and Alma Ruiz and Ana Mendieta's niece Raquel Cecilia to explore the artist's defiant acts of self - archiving, her portrayal of the landscape and the female body in new media, and the processes through which she produced her lesser seen experimental films that have recently been digitized for preservation.

You are declaring in a defiant act of faith that there is no futility, not to God's economy where nothing — not even our failures and our discouragement and our disillusionment — is wasted..

In the process, I visited 44 movements, each with more than 1,000 Muslim - background believers in Jesus Christ who had been baptised as a defiant act of their new - found faith.

Older kids and teens may be vulnerable to risky behaviors such as alcohol and drug use, skipping school, and defiant acts.

If a teenager's strategy for winning love, security, and impact by being compliantly good fails, she may resort to «signal behaviors» such a compulsiveness, rule - breaking, defiant acts, or disregarding a parent's instructions.

Sternberg's walking away from the industry before it walked away from him, along with the birth of Entireworld, was a defiant act — and one that was made more in earnest than it was for shock value or because of internal and professional dispute.

Yet her wilfully public suicide in some way feels like a defiant act, one of staggering, despairing rage.

This was a defiant act against tyrannical British rule and one that would reverberate internationally.

Snow is looking to distract and pacify an increasingly agitated public, who have rallied around Katniss after her defiant acts in the Games.

It was the kind of defiant act that most school principals probably have contemplated wistfully at one time or another.

Prospero's defiant act can be seen as a deliberate shove in the direction of the enlightenment.

Breaking free is a defiant act of rebellion.

Yes, all good entrepreneurship begins as some sort of defiant act.

In an effort at control, or perhaps a defiant act of iconoclasm, these works reject our gaze.

The same intensity was applied to his work; he once described his painting as a «defiant act.»

But it was not all confidence in her defiant acts.

Make no mistake — this is a defiant act.