Sentences with phrase «defiant acts of»

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.

Breaking free is a defiant act of rebellion.

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

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Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about them: «See, the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones to judge everyone, and to convict all of them of all the ungodly acts they have committed in their ungodliness, and of all the defiant words ungodly sinners have spoken against him.»

This is a defiant and risky act, filled with glimpses into the mystery of God and filled with disappointments at how frail are human attempts to embody God's love.

We do not miss the loyalty of David's mercenary troops (15: 19 - 21); the narrator's conviction of the mature quality of David's faith (15:25 f.; 16:12); the essential gentleness of David in these most wretched hours (16:5 - 14); the brilliant, carnal symbol of Absalom's irrevocable usurpation (16:20 - 22) and its portentous recall of the David - Nathan encounter (II 12:11 - 12); the arch Old Testament realist, the remarkable pragmatist Ahitophel (17: 1 - 23); Joab, who always acts like Joab (18:10 - 15; 19:1 - 7; 20A - 13); David's pathetic concern, implicit throughout, for the defiant son (18:1 - 5); the moving grief of a father's utter brokenness in the loss of his son (18:33); the reassertion in this critical time of the old and always fundamental north - south cleavage (19:11,41 - 43); David's profound and probably chronic annoyance with the crude, brash, «muscular» ways of Joab and his brothers, the sons of Zeruiah (16:10; 19:22; see also 3:34 b; 3:38 f.); and finally, in a kind of pausal summary before the last scene of David's reign in I Kings 1 - 2, the statement of David's very modest bureaucracy (20:23 - 26; cf. the extensive elaboration of this structure under Solomon, I Kings 4:1 ff.).

These are roles that every parent needs to play, regardless of whether or not they have a so - called «typical» kid, or one who is defiant and acts out a lot.

In a wide - ranging news conference — his first since the election — a defiant President - elect Donald Trump discussed his relationship with Vladimir Putin, called BuzzFeed «a failing pile of garbage» and gave his plans for building a wall on the Mexican border and replacing the Affordable Care Act.

The records, we feel, are very pertinent and important to governmental purposes and this act in fact would violate FOIL and the public officer's law,» said Castorina at a press conference outside the Richmond County Courthouse, recalling Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito's defiant response to the threat of legal action last week.

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.

You know the story: A smart - aleck city teen named Ren (Wormald) moves to a tiny rural town where dancing has been banned, falls for the defiant daughter (Julianne Hough) of a local preacher / city council member (Dennis Quaid), and, with the support of hayseed sidekick Willard (Miles Teller), ultimately pushes the town's moral needle by using Bible verses to recast his bumping and grinding as a holy act.

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

However, it's hard not to wonder whether her clothes here also act as a defiant celebration of non-conformity on a sexual level too.

She is scattered, tense, wrecked and compellingly defiant in the face of those who would prefer she act a certain way.

And Keaton could hardly be better supported: Norton is uproarious as a preening, Method - acting nightmare; Watts and Riseborough note - perfect as actresses jangled by daft insecurities; Stone tremendous as the lone voice of reason, faltering and defiant.»

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

But being last is not just an act of defiant neglect.

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

On the risk involved in such daring acts of institutional critique, dear «Whipplesnaith» (real name, hilariously: Noël Howard Symington) was defiant: «If you slip, you will still have three seconds to live.»

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.

In Throw, 2016, by Wangechi Mutu, the eruptive gesture of demonstration merges with the (violent) placement of paint on a wall, referring to the languages of action painting and performance as well as to the act of throwing used in defiant protest.

The act of throwing, Mutu said, varies depending on the social context: in some cases, it is used in defiant protest, and in others the intent is malicious and violent, such as with stoning.

One such figure, in headdress and white tunic, might be a boss scolding three alternately incredulous, defiant, and apologetic - looking underlings for a botched job, or a survivor pointing out captured war criminals accused of heinous acts.

«If Congress won't act soon to protect future generations,» he said in one of the most defiant lines of his speech, «I will.»

A child or teen might be defiant, or aggressive, or failing in school, or in trouble with the law or abusing substances or lying excessively or acting promiscuously, or some combination of these and other negative behaviors.

The second four weeks teach parents how to correct defiant behavior, using such strategies as focusing on one problem at a time and acting within 10 seconds of the problem's occurring.

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A study by Edwards et al27 examined teenagers with ADHD and oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), which is defined by the presence of markedly defiant, disobedient, provocative behaviour and by the absence of more severe dissocial or aggressive acts that violate the law or the rights of others.

They may be stubborn, have outbursts of temper, or act belligerent or defiant.