| 单词 | defiance |
| 例句 | It instilled a spirit of defiance and radicalism among the people, broke the fear of prison, and boosted the popularity and influence of the NIC and TIC. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She looked down at me and reached up and grasped the orange box of Arm & Hammer baking soda in defiance, being sure neither the clerk nor the cashier saw her. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I glare at him, glad for once to show my defiance. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Besides, Cade Hernandez was our de facto commander in the Stop Trying to Make Us Stop revolution, our act of defiance against the quit missions. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z But watching, I cannot help observing that beneath his defiance is fear. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z To him it seems appropriate, to me eccentric: it’s a defiance of convention, but of a convention he’s never heard of. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z His voice was thick with tears, but not yet stripped of defiance. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I felt exhausted and was thinking not of defiance but of a hot meal and a night’s sleep. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The skull seemed to grimace in defiance, daring a stranger to despoil the royal treasures. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z It was post-Vietnam, a hippie era, a culture of encouragement and defiance around drugs. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z All three of them wore matching pink dresses and smart black shoes that they had left on—an act of defiance they’d get a scolding for if Aunt Rose wasn’t out. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z “I’m thirty-four years old,” Eleanor said, and wondered what obscure defiance made her add two years. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Mass defiance, especially in the rural areas, was never achieved. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z To be honest, Jinjoo’s interest in the church only grew in defiance of their mother. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z He couldn’t stand such blithe defiance of petty laws. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Now might come a Saxon wearing the beard and a sort of Phrygian cap, as a sign of defiance—now a knight from the Marches of the Northern border. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Remembering now, I realized I had never forgotten his final outburst of defiance. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z On the morning of March 7, thirty thousand German troops had rolled into the demilitarized Rhineland, in open defiance of both the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact to which Germany was a signatory. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Catherine said, a hint of defiance edging her voice. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z All three of the sons of the fifth Aegon had wed for love, in defiance of their father’s wishes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He then immediately looked up at Boo Boo, his eyes filled not with defiance but tears. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z He knew what he must do—regain his previous status, wipe away the memory of Rollo’s defiance and prove that he, Archie Costello, was still in command. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Years ago, we used to say, “Yes, I’m black, goddammit, and I’m beautiful!”—in defiance, into the void. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Die in defiance, then, said the god of the pit. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “I’m sorry,” Henry says, sounding wretched, but there’s a bitter defiance rising in him too. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The fact of the painting itself, it seemed to him, was an answer—a defiance of the world’s darkest forces. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z “Jaja of Opobo was no saint, anyway. He sold his people into slavery, and besides, the British won in the end. So much for the defiance.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Another woman might have thrown her defiance in his teeth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Martin was next to him, seemingly uninjured, his head held high, defiance and ire on his face. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z No one has ever doubted that Peeta’s defiance was motivated by love. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z My mother said that Grandmother Pickfords one act of defiance in her whole life as a Pickford was in naming her. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z The photo of the two—the lifeless boy in the hands of a youth whose face blazed with anger, hate and defiance—made headlines around the world. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z After her defiance of the overseer, they called her Harriet, because the pet names, the diminutives, were no longer fitting for a girl who had displayed such courage. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z They sat in the back, rigid and uncomfortable, like sisters of sin, like a living defiance of the drab sanctity of the saints. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z We are above the law, but that does not mean we live in defiance of it. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z It was long enough for her to see a flicker of defiance in his eyes. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z A mood of outrage and defiance swept the South, not unlike the reaction to emancipation and Reconstruction following the Civil War. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She imagined the Smokies, helplessly awaiting their fate, making one last gesture of defiance. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z He had, I supposed, used them to assure himself of the freedom of the house; even more, for the defiance of knowing he had the liberty of motion, unknown to his masters. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z By demonstrating in defiance of their white employers, the teachers had acted with courage. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z They were the race whose barbarous, cunning, valiant defiance had been enslaved, long centuries before, by the foreign people whom Arthur represented. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z This was a young cook well known for his defiance and contempt for the authorities. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Though it was created in defiance of nature's musical laws, the new, interlocking, standardised system came with huge benefits, not least making all twelve key-families compatible. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Every day, he seemed to issue a new directive—a new Thou Shall Not—and White put on his big cowboy hat with an air of defiance. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “A treatment—a cure,” Mark said, hearing the defiance in his voice. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z For generations thereafter, the Arabs recounted the legend of a boy who had turned himself into the wind, almost destroying a military camp, in defiance of the most powerful chief in the desert. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The old West Indian tried to express defiance of them, and in a sudden rush a group of students sprang up and were after him. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z His expression was a strange mix of frustration and defiance. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z When the butler brought back Wolfshiem's answer I began to have a feeling of defiance, of scornful solidarity between Gatsby and me against them all. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z "I can smell defiance, I can smell pride, I can smell disobedience. I catch a whiff of any such stinks, you'll answer for it. When I sniff you, all I want to smell is fear." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z This year for the first time he sold his grain as soon as it was harvested, and when he felt the silver upon his palm he gripped it hard in defiance. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z We go out into the hallway and walk—an old-fashioned promenade, arm in arm, in defiance of the no-physical-contact rule. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z He knows the camera is on him: is the grin a show of defiance, or is it submission? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Milkman softened his tone a bit, but succeeded in keeping the edge of defiance in his voice. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z So many, so clearly acting in defiance of the Capitol. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z It made his green apprentice armband stand out and gave him a silent air of defiance. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z I wasn’t even sure what they meant, though I had an idea: defiance, rejection of the gods that, for my part, I’d known all along to be lifeless sticks. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z There was more despair than defiance in his voice. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She was too cool to show submission and too scared to show defiance. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z To match his frailty and strength, he has a spirit easy to despair and quick to defiance: a fierce impatient courage. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “Let ’em talk,” he mumbled with a hint of defiance. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “What’s going on down there, Katniss? Have they all joined hands? Taken a vow of nonviolence? Tossed the weapons in the sea in defiance of the Capitol?” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Was this the true passion of a lover in defiance of men or the complaint of a scholar plagued by false passion? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z He bit the stick, not out of necessity, but in defiance. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Delicious as the day turned out to be for Milkman, it was even more so because it included secrecy and defiance, both of which dissipated within an hour of his father’s return. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “Reverend,” she said, looking at him with the daring defiance of a threatened child, “I does my best. I really does. Ain’t everybody got to have the same spirit.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z “But it was a silent crowd. There was something oppressive in those thousands of watchers without a sound, either of welcome or hatred. I think we would have welcomed a yell of defiance.” Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z It was the game I played with Mandy, obedience and defiance. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z She inhales the turpentine, the smell of defiance that is Pilar. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It ended not as a song but as an anthem in defiance of death and in praise of the men who wore the wings of gold. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He somehow managed to raise a fist in defiance as they carried him upstairs to do a forcible strip search. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “It was an act of defiance against your leaders,” I say. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Three men stepped forward and I reached up without thinking, actually a desperate oratorical gesture of disagreement and defiance, as I shouted, "No!" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The demonstrators' defiance made a strong statement: We reject this war. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “The day of the ceremony, I put it on my dresser before I left. So he would see it. A small act of defiance.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z The current eddied around its gaping mouth and the cauldron seemed to be muttering defiance. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z He lived his life in defiance of that very prospect, assiduously looking after our car, paying the bills on time, never discussing his advancing multiple sclerosis nor missing a day of work. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z This defiance was not a fit of pique, but a matter of principle. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z If I refuse to do what she says this time, who knows where my defiance will end? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z His very best friend was a Negro abstractionist, he said, who made magnificent smears of protest and defiance across the canvas, sometimes slashing the canvas to shreds with a knife. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z For a second, he thought he saw a flash of defiance in Zero's eyes, but then it passed. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z "An attack in time of peace, without defiance sent! But we'll grease his oats for him. We'll be there before he is." The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z The authorities believed that isolation was the cure for our defiance and rebelliousness. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The gesture of defiance and survival that the broadcast sought to express reverberated around the world. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Some churches in Soweto and Pretoria sang freedom songs as part of their liturgy, in open defiance of the authorities. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Her head was thrown back as though in defiance. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z His song in the Tower had been defiance rather than hope; for then he was thinking of himself. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Then she felt a sudden burst of defiance. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Her brown wedgies squeaked with discount price defiance, as she walked redly and pinkly along the broken brick sidewalk. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Any references to drugs, sex, or defiance of authority were out. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Now that the encounter with Dr. Cable was over, her anger and defiance were fading, and there was nothing left to sustain her. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I saw this vastness in the students chopping it up in front of the Frederick Douglass Memorial Hall, where Muhammad Ali had addressed their fathers and mothers in defiance of the Vietnam War. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z He smiles, almost in defiance of whatever force of the universe threw such obstacles in their path. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z In the immense tug-of-war, such an act of defiance turned him into a hero. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The wave of my defiance began to ebb. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Fortunately for Jefferson, the leadership of the Kentucky legislature decided to delete the sections of his draft endorsing nullification, presumably because such open defiance of federal law seemed excessive and unnecessarily risky. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I am going to shame you with my defiance. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Her last day, Cammy softened enough to tell him how Mr. Fitt had fired her in open defiance of the dean. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z The Chevalier’s eyes flashed hatred at Will, and defiance and warning at Lyra, and a cold and wary respect at Iorek. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He is intimidating, and I am so tired of being punished for my legion small acts of defiance. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Guilt surges through my body as my aunt speaks, but so does defiance. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Her jaw was jutted out in defiance, but her eyes glistened as he cut through her ropes with his hanjari. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I wonder where such defiance comes from, and my armlet feels hot suddenly. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z But I saw only defiance on Lily's face. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Then he thought he should do something heroic and resistant, so he raised his fist in defiance and said, “Death to tyrants.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Bringing her to the city was as much defiance as he dared. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z A late example of this rebellion is apparent in Newton’s title Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy—a title which is a deliberate act of defiance. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The college was too small to accept this act of defiance against the abyss of contemporary academia.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Its tone of both remorse and defiance was to be an inspiration to the Humanist theologian and scholar Erasmus and the soon-to-be founder of Protestantism, Martin Luther. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z I heard her take a long, angry drag on the cigarette—and that drag was full of defiance and bravado. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z They took turns flinging their heads back in defiance of gravity, letting the ends of their hair trail along the water’s surface, reveling in the feeling of weightlessness. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Death would be okay if it came fast, existence ending in one last violent moment of defiance. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z She must have seen the fear in them, and the defiance. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z She snarled once at Mrs. Levy', flashing her teeth as if they were a symbol of something, a gesture of defiance. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I pace around the show, up and down the former aisles, around the checkout counters where Jody’s sculptures pose like models on a runway, past the wall where Carolyn’s quilts yell defiance. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z A giant column of muscle and flesh suddenly leaped upward— ton after ton of flesh suddenly pouring itself skyward in defiance of gravity. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The beauty of this idea is that my decision to keep Peeta alive at the expense of my own life is itself an act of defiance. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z We can march to the edge of the void and scream in defiance. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z All her fine resolves about trying to understand and to be patient, and already she could feel the defiance rising again. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Already on every village green throughout New England, men and boys were drilling in defiance of the King’s orders. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Our ball could not reach the minute figures who annoyed us; nor could their rifles reach us; and so both their aggression and our defiance were but shows of force. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The Master’s manservant, Cousins, was still in place, however, and Lyra had been ready to meet his hostility with defiance, for they had been enemies as long as she could remember. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z In the foreground, I can make out a teenage boy in a chocolate-brown coat sticking his tongue out at the soldier, in an unseen act of defiance. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z But in subtle defiance of him, she doesn’t actually say good-bye. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z The photographer had caught her midlaugh, and the defiance of her bared teeth and wide lips gave her face a hint of mischief and forthrightness. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z How do You compare to this stricken mass gathered to affirm to You their faith, their anger, their defiance? Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed worthwhile, if absurdly so, to have endured all they’d endured for this one crowning moment, for this act of defiance that would end the suffering of all indignities. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z My whole relationship with Art3mis was in defiance of all common sense. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The thirty-six-year-old driver, Herman Lee Council, argued with Spicely, who reacted with defiance by moving even closer to the front of the bus. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He looks up, seeing the defiance in my face. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Polly looked up at him, her blue eyes bright with a bit of defiance. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z And then the three of us are laughing again, exhilarated, bolstered together in our defiance. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Bigger advanced a step and the rat emitted a long thin song of defiance, its black beady eyes glittering, its tiny forefeet pawing the air restlessly. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z You won’t have anything else here.” and having delivered her defiance all on one breath, Meg cast away her pinafore and precipitately left the field to bemoan herself in her own room. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z His blood ran cold, and he watched Koffi's expression change from one of defiance to utter horror. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “After the last two glorious weeks of open and successful defiance,” he later said, “I wasn’t in a mood to jump when the authorities told me to.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I dismounted from my brother’s back and stood with my fists on my hips, pretending defiance though my legs felt weak. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z His sons, for the most part, were much like him except when liquor quickened their courage and defiance. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes,” said Harry, with a touch more defiance. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z With defiance, with abandon, with hysteria, any way you can. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Preparing for his final act of defiance, Cole drew his chin back, then he spit hard, flinging the saliva with a desperate throw of his head. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Lupin was making Harry feel idiotic, and yet there was still a grain of defiance inside him. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z And then, even in defiance of the cold weather and a dusting of snow, several of the recently returned residents developed symptoms of the disease. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z As I bit my lips in order not to howl with pain, he must have mistaken my silence for defiance and so he continued to hit me harder and harder. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “Maya got this defiance from you. You’ve set a terrible example.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Instead he whimpers and hesitates, not necessarily out of defiance, but something else.... Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z He didn’t lower his sunglasses, but his mouth, his flared nostrils, and the tilt of his head communicated defiance and even hate. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Harry met her eyes with a mixture of defiance and shame. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z On a golden breastplate, the lion of Lannister roared its defiance. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Her brows black and drawn in an angle of defiance. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z That had taken all the defiance they had in them. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Then she turns to my dad, and says with thrilling defiance, “And antibiotics.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Word had been spreading throughout the school—the kid had refused to sell the chocolates in direct defiance of The Vigils. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “But Mr. Mason seems a man easily led. Your influence, sir, is evidently potent with him: he will never set you at defiance or wilfully injure you.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The children watched in growing despair as the brave child grew weaker and weaker, her voice softer and softer, until at last her cries of defiance were scarcely more than mumbles. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Archie thought of the kid’s refusal to sell, his ridiculous defiance. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Ron and Hermione looked at him with similar mixtures of resignation and defiance. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Of course, it was not only childish defiance and her recent very unexpected and hard won self-confidence which led her to this demand. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z But within a year and a half, unyielding defiance of federal authority had become the norm. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He was aware of Percy standing over him, swinging his sword and yelling in defiance as the ghosts closed in. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z I was in defiance of nature just by touching it. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z One day, when young Siddhartha was distressing his father with his defiance and temper and had broken both rice bowls, Vasudeva took his friend aside in the evening and talked to him. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Victors have a special status, and if they appeared to be supporting my defiance of the Capitol, it would’ve been dangerous politically. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The West Computers watched their colleague remove the sign and banish it to the recesses of her purse, her small act of defiance inspiring both anxiety and a sense of empowerment. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Acted in veritable defiance of law and common sense. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The colonel lifted the box of matches, took one out and held it poised against the striking surface, watching with glowering eyes for the chaplain’s next sign of defiance. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The acrobat tent looms higher than the tents surrounding it and the sign that reads defiance of gravity swings over the entrance only a few paces away. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z It had challenge in it, and defiance, and excitement. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The second stage was envisioned as mass defiance, accompanied by strikes and industrial actions across the country. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They signed a pledge in defiance and none of them backed down. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Her quiet defiance inspired the 381-day Montgomery bus boycott, mobilizing Montgomery’s black community and resulting in a Supreme Court decision that Alabama laws requiring segregation on city buses were unconstitutional. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Rather than defeated and injured, he looked thrilled, and once again shouted out his defiance. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I believe you they dread him. Not but what he’s artful, even in his defiance of them. No silver, sir. Britannia metal, every spoon.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z When the teacher turned away, Hanako closed her book in defiance, slipped off the straw sandals that Baachan had made her, and looked under her desk and wiggled her toes. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Something about the tone of his voice pushed me to stand up in defiance even though my ankle was throbbing. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z He saw him and that red cap, and Martin’s right hand was raised high, his middle finger a sign of defiance in a sea of anticipation. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z She doesn’t budge, though, and crosses her arms in defiance, refusing to leave. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z I remember slicing into my palm to add my blood to the coals, my first act of defiance against my father. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Flashing in defiance one moment, in uncomprehending terror the next, they rolled far back in their sockets, giving a clear and chilling view into the state of his tortured mind. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Tecumseh visited other nations, calling for unity in defiance of the squatter presence on their lands. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z He yelled in defiance and punched the sphere’s override switch. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z She swung with all her might, reaching for the other side in defiance of gravity. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z “Muriel, I have commanded you to depart. Your defiance is an act of war.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Americans deify democracy in a way that allows for a dim awareness that they have, from time to time, stood in defiance of their God. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Hamlet stood near the entrance to the hall, his arms crossed in defiance. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z She was sweet and sure, while Marshall boomed, as though in defiance. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z A free concert at the Lincoln Memorial would attract thousands of people, far more than any auditorium could hold, and would send a powerful message of defiance against the injustice of bigotry and racial discrimination. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z On the breast of his tunic, the lion of his House was embroidered in gold thread, roaring its defiance. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z As if in defiance, the moan of the wind shifted into a shriek. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He still kept his outland accent in defiance of the mere English, but he had ceased to think in Gaelic. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z And he finished, in a voice not of defiance, but suffused with realization: “I am no one. I am not a man. I am nothing.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The song is called “Pink,” and as Ms. Ebersole delivers that seemingly cheery word, it is weighted with triumph, regret, defiance and anger, all struggling for ascendancy. Review: In ‘War Paint,’ Sing a Song of Face Creams 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z They weren’t simple blasts of defiance, like the enjoyable set by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts that opened the concert; they strove to innovate, to surprise. Review: The Who Celebrate 50 Years Together by Going on Tour 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z But in many ways, shoegaze is that period’s understated protest: one with more roots in defeat than defiance. Shoegaze, the Sound of Protest Shrouded in Guitar Fuzz, Returns Again 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z And “Pina” is, above all, an act of preservation, a memorial that is also a defiance of mortality — completely alive in every dimension. | 'Pina': ?Pina,? a Documentary by Wim Wenders - Review 2011-12-22T23:24:54Z She turns everything over restlessly: In her prose, poignant reminiscences sharpen into bitter ironies, or laments reveal flashes of comedy, determination, defiance. Turning the ‘Curse of Ham’ Into a Blessing 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z Ms. Brownstein is clear about her feminism and about her belief that creativity is about defiance. Review: Carrie Brownstein’s ‘Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl’ 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z In defiance of maidenly decorum and racial taboos, she asks Jack in for tea. Marilynne Robinson’s New Book Explores Love in Segregated America 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z Board President Virginia Anderson showed up in a slinky, fishtailed gown — in defiance of turning 65. Rizzs goes to bat for the kids; Cornish puts on dramatic benefit 2012-11-20T04:52:03Z It’s easy for a performer to express the defiance in such a song, but difficult to locate the ambiguity and pathos, which Ms. Herman’s singing failed to do on Sunday evening. Music Review: Tunes to Help Gray Skies Clear Up 2011-05-16T20:58:29Z “I spent the lockdown in a position of ferocious defiance,” said Mr. Owens, whose earlier pandemic shows, held on empty beaches in Venice, were effective shouts of beauty into the void. Welcome to Now, Courtesy of Rick Owens 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z In defiance, Mr. Salser-Smith has started using it for a different purpose. Sometimes I Hate My Husband’s Peloton 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z Some individuals, he places in gestures of defiance. We watch artist Harry Gamboa Jr. stage a fotonovela at the site of L.A.'s demolished 6th Street Bridge 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z There’s a merry, working-class shrug of defiance about those last remarks. Tana French’s ‘The Secret Place’: The Dublin Murder Squad takes on the Mean Girls She pauses at a certain point to pitch her body forward on one leg, brush a piece of imaginary dust off her shoulder and lift her chin in defiance. Dance Review: Moving On Simply by Moving Out 2011-06-16T22:15:24Z In defiance of the law, free Creole women of color repurposed the head scarf of oppression. How the Women of the Jemima Code Freed Me 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Another 10 slaves threw themselves overboard in a display of defiance at the inhumanity. The way we left Cuba 2012-12-31T18:00:00Z This is important to remember, because your kids are almost guaranteed to react with petulance, defiance and/or guilt provocation. I Want to Cut My Kids Off Financially. Does That Make Me Mean? 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z Mr. Makhmalbaf’s radical tolerance is itself an act of political defiance. Movie Review: ‘The Gardener,’ Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s Inquiry Into Religion 2013-08-08T22:53:11Z Protestors renamed the bay Aloha Bay and staged a one-day act of defiance, with a handful paddling out into the surf, monitored by police watching from the bluffs. California's surf wars: wave 'warlords' go to extreme lengths to defend their turf 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z But defiance was also an aspect of Strauss and Henze's careers. Preview: Seattle Philharmonic stocks Meany concert with 'royalty' 2011-01-20T22:25:04Z Because Middleton was not born royalty, she will not officially become Princess Catherine - although the public may choose to call her that, or even "Princess Kate," in defiance of protocol. William and wife now duke, duchess of Cambridge 2011-04-29T11:34:09Z Ms. Garbus presents a convincing face of joyful defiance, and amid all the music’s compositional intricacies, she still sounded wild and impulsive. Music Review: Tune-Yards at the Allen Room 2012-02-11T01:06:46Z One of the many ways he demonstrated his hostility to Mussolini was his defiance of the law that the Fascist Party’s anthem, “Giovinezza,” be played at the start of every public performance. A Life of Toscanini, Maestro With Passion and Principles 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z “It’s another song about grief and the defiance that is the joy of rock and roll,” Bono explained before thanking the crowd and leading them through yet another sing-along. U2 paused arena tour to thrill 500 fans at the Roxy 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z His early work, writes Drake, represented a “combustion of raw energy, defiance, irony and joy.” Essential Arts & Culture: 'Zoot Suit' anew, art and the travel ban, Jimmie Durham's timely sculptures 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z The painting’s insistent materiality incites covetousness, in defiance of its vast and unpossessable subject. Overlooked Works That Deserve Another Glance 2010-12-30T23:21:19Z The four survivors scrap and smirk and laugh in defiance of any agenda that might want to make them model stage Arabs by defining them as saintly victims. Review: In ‘While I Was Waiting,’ a Man and a Country in Limbo 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z An edge of defiance creeping into her voice, she recalled having dealt with overbearing Masters of the Universe. Ashley Longshore Is Fashion’s Latest Art Darling 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Poignantly, her only chance at self-expression and defiance is performing at a karaoke night, dedicating the song significantly to "her boys". Cannes 2013: For Those In Peril - first look review 2013-05-18T11:30:00Z "I'm hearing a beautiful defiance" right now in the faith-based community as they defend their country and their freedoms, the pastor said. Ukrainian-American pastor in VA shares haunting image of people huddled in Ukraine basement 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z Together, the amplifier, the figure and the neon gel into a triple artwork in their own right, a biting meditation on history, memory and defiance. Teaching a New Inclusiveness at The School 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z “These kids’ style is spiked with defiance,” he said. Style That Demands to Be Seen 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z That’s the Replacements, the Minneapolis band that arrived in the 1980s with songs full of cranked-up guitars and churning emotions: yearning, defiance, frustration, uncertainty, nerve. Review: Beach Slang Arrives From Philly, Prepared to Punch 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z They were arched in defiance as he sank into a beige suede sofa to talk about the state of film criticism today. Rex Reed Bangs a Gong on the Mediocrity of Modern Life 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z One of the 20th century’s most powerful creations was the rock star: the preening, erotic god of guitar-fired defiance. The Gay Architects of Classic Rock 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z The actress' angular face, sculpted cheekbones and chin primed for defiance can also dissolve in remarkably vulnerable ways. Harsh land and raw, maddening emotion test 'The Homesman' 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Sampa the Great, a 29-year-old Zambian rapper with international reach, said she connected “to the defiance and the edginess” of Witch’s music. The Zamrock Band Witch Lost All but One Member. Its Singer Carries On. 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z Haque was nothing short of sensational as Soraya, a dance club owner whose own act is one of intense erotic sensuality and blazingly proud defiance. Sophiya Haque 2013-01-18T13:33:01Z The scream, full of defiance and frustration, is forged by a life that doesn't fit either. 'Wild' takes Reese Witherspoon into raw, bracing new territory 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z The irony is that the name is the product of his own parents’ defiance of that tradition. Babies? Surnames: To Hyphenate or Not? 2011-11-23T22:02:03Z There’s something about the song’s audacity: the kids sing with defiance about total obedience to an authority. Listening Booth: A Divine Gospel-Disco Track 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z In the well-sung rendition by the airport chorus, you get whiffs of defiance and altruism, values embodied by the number itself. Perspective | The Hong Kong protesters have found an anthem in this song from ‘Les Miz’ 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z As she tried to politely duck out, the photographer suggested she throw a gown over her shoulders in defiance instead, and the shot became the cover of her first, self-titled album. Brandi Carlile Has Always Seen Herself Clearly. Now It’s Our Turn. 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z Kane clearly saw her struggle to hang onto the "beautiful pain that says I exist" against the numbing interventions of psychiatric medicines as an act of artistic defiance. From Rhino Fest, reviews of "4:48 Psychosis" and "Poverty" 2011-01-27T18:39:00Z But Queeman was also surrounded by Black small businesses, Black professionals who owned stately brownstones, and Black gay men who wore bright yellows and pinks in bold defiance of the hyper-masculinity that suffused his neighborhood. How Kareem “Mr. Bake” Queeman serves up space for queer chefs of color 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z But the other aspects, not exclusive to music — the complexity and defiance and sadness — are universal, and permanent. Playlist: Albums From George Cables and Zara McFarlane 2014-01-24T19:33:17Z With Henry, as with some of his hypothetical real-life analogs, it’s hard to separate the art from the artist because the defiance of such a separation is the whole point of his art. ‘Annette’ Review: Love Hurts 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z The way she holds a gaze suggests not just defiance but potentially supernatural powers of perception. ‘Sunset’ Review: Discovering a Dark Past and a Cataclysmic Future 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Pity the dumb sap who inspired the spitfire defiance that would make her cry “Won’t you open a window sometime?/What’s so wrong with the light?” on the song “Windows.” Pop & Rock Listings for May 9-15 2014-05-08T22:39:49Z They married in passionate defiance of their feuding families. These Are The 25 Most Influential Marriages of All Time 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z Pretty good: a song seemingly born of teenage boredom and malingering, yet clearly full of artistic self-consciousness, using French fries as totems, expressing self-criticism and defiance. Cherry Glazerr at Mercury Lounge 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z Countless videos of people singing or playing the anthem’s tune with live instruments have been shared on social media as citizens of the world display defiance toward Russian aggression. Ukrainian national anthem unites the world amid Russia-Ukraine war 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z His Troy is a dazzling blend of ego, defiance, regret, jerkiness, and cool. Oscar Spotlight: The Actors 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z Frequently the women stick out their tongues, in acts of seduction or, more likely, defiance. The Psychosexual World of Carol Rama Still Shocks 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z Jokes in “Festival” are not about defiance, and they’re not about an innocent joy in the magic of play. Review: Milan Kundera’s ‘The Festival of Insignificance’ Is Full of Pranks, Lies and Vanity 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z Following is an edited transcript of our conversation: Q Please clarify a news report from the Rome Opera that you conducted the "Nabucco" in defiance of doctors' orders. Muti eager to prove he's healthy 2011-03-30T01:54:00Z It also occupies much of the film’s running time, in a defiance of the usual routines of plot that matches Frank’s own indifference to creative and commercial norms. ‘Frank,’ About an Offbeat Band and Its Eccentric Leader 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z And in defiance of the box the world placed him in, Campbell returned home to fight for poor kids in Miami, becoming a respected mentor, politician and community organizer. “That’s the message, that black is bad and white is right”: Luther Campbell on racism, the police, bringing politics back to hip hop and how Al Gore and Bill Clinton ruined the music industry 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z Inviting the media to witness their recumbent defiance, they abolish the difference between the public and the private. John Lennon and Yoko Ono: the image that defines the second Elizabethan era 2012-05-31T13:06:07Z For Weinberg the practice of history is a kind of defiance against forgetting. A Historian Who Fled the Nazis and Still Wants Us to Read Hitler 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zamzamah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher – the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum. Booker club: The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje 2011-03-04T11:00:46Z That has allowed her to develop a persona of defiance, independence, of seasoned experience. Kelly Clarkson, the Role Model Next Door 2011-10-29T13:24:15Z A certain defiance also courses through “Mercy,” a slow, meditative album. John Cale’s Musical Journey Knows No Limits 2023-01-14T05:00:00Z Take, for instance, my most recent act of commuter defiance, when I shoved my right arm into the fast-closing doors of a subway car. I can’t stop bruising 2012-07-27T00:00:00Z That their art was created collaboratively and commercially successful, however, does not diminish its importance as radical work of sexual defiance. Beethoven Was the Johnny Rotten of His Day 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Yet the team of actresses here, channeling what Shange called a choreopoem, takes onstage symbiosis to a radiant new level of both reliance and defiance. ‘For Colored Girls’ Review: Ntozake Shange’s Women Endure 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z In the age of social media, where protest actions can be shared by millions, lobbing an egg, tomato or milkshake can be a feat of defiance against politicians, bigots and other objectionable characters. A brief history of throwing food and drink on people as protest 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z Taunted by her classmates, “ostracized and mocked at,” she would sneak off to the woods to write, acts of defiance that left her with “pangs of feeling ‘different,’ evasiveness and secret anxieties.” Elizabeth Spencer, ‘Light In the Piazza’ author, dies at 98 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z With the Bunnymen there's more of a defiance, with the solo thing I go deeper, let my guard down more. Ian McCulloch: 'Car parks are a bigger threat than war' 2013-04-11T16:23:18Z The show’s ultimate expression of self-assertion was an exhilarating version of Sondheim’s “Everybody Says Don’t” that Ms. Salonga delivered as a burst of pure defiance. Music Review: Starting With Perkiness, Then Leaping Beyond It 2011-06-15T22:01:23Z It’s not a statement of anger or defiance so much as an acknowledgment that you can’t erase the hurt of your father’s hating you, not if you plug the hole with a thousand crossbow bolts. RECAP: Game of Thrones Watch: The Irony Throne 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z They met in secret at Boston's Green Dragon Tavern to plot daring acts of defiance. History's 'Sons of Liberty' foment the American Revolution 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z It comes to something when the most controversial defiance of convention by a politician in recent years was Gordon Brown's refusal to wear a dinner jacket and bow tie. In praise of cynicism 2013-07-10T17:27:31Z Writing a book is an act of sheer defiance. Growing Up in the Library 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Between 1880 and 1950, lynchings were committed in open defiance of the law, terrorizing a Black population that proceeded to escape to the ghettos of the North in massive numbers. Review | With his camera, Gordon Parks humanized the Black people others saw as simply criminals 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z And this feeling of being in control leads to more defiance and insecurity. First I was being too mean about my son’s outbursts. Now I’m being too nice. Help? 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z A brief glimpse of the speech might have said volumes about the culture of denial and defiance that afflicted the Church before, and for long after, our investigation. I’m in ‘Spotlight’, but it’s not really about me. It’s about the power of journalism. 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z For the Iranian college students in "Desert Dancer," dance is an act of defiance against an oppressive regime. Review: A static 'Desert Dancer' lands flat footed 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z She then flashed a stern face that pushed defiance into a deliriously funny kind of self-parody. Leslie Jones Is Ready to Rock the Boat, Hard 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z And when she refused to marry Paris, the defiance in how she skittered away on point also seemed a self-discovery. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater in ‘Romeo and Juliet’ 2013-06-11T20:59:24Z I also think that her honesty, humour and self-deprecating defiance are criminally underestimated. Girl Least Likely To by Liz Jones – review 2013-07-06T13:00:00Z Many of them have succeeded in defiance of the government. We can’t forget John F. Kennedy’s assassination 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z “The wedding in Mad is both a joyous manifestation of love and a historically important act of remembrance and defiance,’’ he said. A Celebration Uniting Past, Present and Future (Mom Predicted It) 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z Even in her 90s, in defiance of time and expectations, she still enjoyed a cocktail before dinner, a weekly poker night and wide-eyed interest in the world around her. Betty White, an ageless TV star, was America’s sweetheart 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z There was defiance as well as agitation in the string phrases that answer the opening motto, nobility as well as nostalgia in the Andantino, and moments of heady elation in the finale. Prom 53: GMJO/Davis ? review 2011-08-25T09:59:05Z The fear, violence, loss, and defiance he experiences in his neighborhood are far more real than any subjects that are taught in his school. 7 must-read novels to transport you in February 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z And the idea that we should be able to broadcast music in defiance of the law now seems baked into the British psyche. The iPhone That Rocks: pirate radio in your pocket 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z “We take what is ours,” one worker says, his attitude hovering somewhere between shame and defiance. Movie Review: ‘Price of Gold’ Follows Mongolian Prospectors 2013-09-15T22:11:28Z The ex-Fugees star said he was at a secret location in Haiti in defiance of threats to leave the country but revealed few details about who may be responsible for the intimidation. Wyclef Jean 'in hiding' after death threats over Haiti presidency bid 2010-08-18T07:12:00Z “I’m not racist, but I like the flag,” he says, calling it defiance of those who put rednecks down. Dangerous, growing, yet unnoticed: the rise of America's white gangs 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Fashion still has the capacity to agitate, but as an independent act of aesthetic defiance. To fight the status quo, the activists of 1968 harnessed the power of fashion 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z That perfectionism delayed the film’s distribution until the height of the English Blitz, by which time audiences in the U.S. and England were ready for Chaplin’s humor of defiance. For a primer on how to make fun of Nazis, look to Charlie Chaplin 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z Fela merged Nigerian traditions with James Brown funk and late-1960’s jazz; devised a deep and burly horn-section sound; stirred in some politics; and came up with songs that simmer and seethe with patient defiance. Pop Picks for New Year’s Eve in New York 2013-12-26T23:11:43Z Mainland China in 2006 banned Lou from filming for five years after he screened a film without approval, but in the interim he filmed a feature using small, digital cameras in defiance of the ban. China's 'Mystery' honored at Asian Film Awards 2013-03-19T03:23:08Z “We tend to publicize these outrageous acts of defiance, versus emphasizing the majority that I run into and work with, who are very mission focused and value based,” she said. What Happens When Millennials Run the Workplace? 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z Cook was interested in pleasure, painting it to the point of defiance. Art We Saw This Winter 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z “I don’t really know what I’m going for,” he said with a touch of defiance. The Blobs Aren?t Talking 2010-03-03T23:54:00Z At the time, he was accused of a "campaign of criminal tax conduct combining brazen defiance with insidious concealment". Wesley Snipes ordered to prison 2010-12-02T13:46:00Z His Richard wears his pristine white gown and glittering crown with an arrogant defiance, but he is a king with serious character defects rather than a flouncy parody. Shakespeare and the politics of our age: Trump, 'Julius Caesar' and now 'Richard II' 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z It was the Jazz Age, a period whose energy and excitement was in determined defiance of Prohibition and the Great Depression. How ‘Some Like It Hot’ Tunes In to the Jazz Age 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z Rather, it’s to continue to make them, to make them with ever greater defiance and audacity; regardless of what anyone knows, nobody knows in advance. The 2017 Oscar Nominations Don’t Matter but the Movies Do, More Than Ever 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z In a world obsessed with social distancing, that’s the ultimate sign of defiance. In France, coronavirus confinement a la Nice 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z The Ukraine president’s words have projected a mixture of defiance and an escalating desperation, and he seems unafraid of alienating those whose help he might need. A modern Churchill? Zelenskyy praised as war communicator 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z Ottinger’s leap of absurdity is as much an expression of the tangle of confusion into which women are driven as it is an explosion of pent-up defiance at a repressively rational order. Style as Women’s Freedom: The Photographs of Ulrike Ottinger 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z Yet he also seemed to thrive on conflict, arising from his over-all sense of resistance to authority and defiance of norms, which he expressed subtly but decisively in dramatic action and in cinematic form. Postscript: Abbas Kiarostami, 1940—2016 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z Everything in Kirk Franklin’s show, from the gospel artist’s ultra-casual black jogger pants and collared tunic to his pop-lock and milly-rock dances, was meticulously coordinated in defiance of many churches’ stuffy and judgmental reputations. Kirk Franklin makes gospel music feel like a party 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z “For a girl or woman or teen to pick up a copy of ‘Nightmare on Elm Street,’ there’s a sense of defiance, of going outside the expected norms.” A Sisterhood of Scares 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z The aim of Miss Black America was to celebrate black women as beautiful, in defiance of American cultural norms that upheld whiteness as the standard of beauty. Miss America 1968: When civil rights and feminist activists converged on Atlantic City 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z In 1520 he published three treatises that outlined his basic doctrines in deliberate defiance of established teachings. Christianity’s original anti-science crusade: The religious order that tried to crush modernity 2014-04-13T18:00:00Z Its concrete forms, full of ramped spaces and oblique angles, come across as acts of defiance, against both the excesses of global consumer culture and the architects who are hired to dress it up. Architecture Review: A Paris Tribute to an Almost-Sideways View of the World 2010-03-09T23:26:00Z On top of all the Bowl’s defiance of Wagnerian ambience, Dudamel offered next to nothing in the way of creating the sense of Wagner’s revolutionary music drama. The Bowl is no Bayreuth. And with Wagner in Dudamel's defiant hands, that's not a bad thing 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z After being denied painting privileges, Doc cuts off his fingers in the prison woodworking shop, an expression of defiance and despair that Mr. Canby described as “serenely lunatic and unexpectedly moving.” Roberts Blossom, Quirky Character Actor, Dies at 87 2011-07-12T22:27:05Z Huff said that establishments operating in defiance of the state "do not get a free pass." Minnesota bar owner faces lawsuit by state for defying 'unconstitutional' COVID-19 restrictions 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z Destruction, for him, didn’t mean bellicose defiance of the status quo, it meant leading by example as he purged his poetry of everything familiar, agreeable, even comprehensible. Artists are just this screwed: When capitalism markets rebellion, how does the rebel stand outside? 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z For him, the anguished utterance sounded an act of defiance signifying everything. Plácido Domingo's sound and fury in L.A. Opera's 'Macbeth' 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z Seems quite possible, given Trump’s obsession with loyalty, defiance and showing up his opponents. How America became a grudgeocracy 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z So did Emilie's bold defiance of gender roles: She not only studied and wrote about science, but also dressed as a man to join with male scientists at roundtables barred to women. Preview: 'Emilie' at ArtsWest shows an 18th-century female scientist's remarkable life, loves 2011-01-20T22:26:03Z The more they feel your boundary without it being punitive, the more likely the defiance will abate while the relationship stays intact. First I was being too mean about my son’s outbursts. Now I’m being too nice. Help? 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z Most of these pieces have started, as mine does, with her defiance of the platitudes surrounding the disease. Jenny Diski’s Way of Seeing Beyond the Story 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z But what seemed to be another part of the Odd Future guerrilla attack was really an act of defiance. Music Review: Frank Ocean at the Bowery Ballroom - Review 2011-11-29T22:17:45Z Valerie led an incredible life — a sad life, for sure, but also quite remarkable — and her defiance and spirit are worth studying and understanding. ArtsBeat: A Sad and Remarkable Life: Breanne Fahs Talks About ‘Valerie Solanas’ 2014-04-23T21:34:55Z One side seems immune to the shame of playing the role of authoritarian enforcer; the other side angry enough to wear the indignity of surrender as a badge of defiance. Images coming from Ferguson, Mo., reveal unfiltered, uncomfortable truths Most belligerent of this year's aboriginal crop in its defiance to the outside world is the Taiwanese film Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale. Shock of the new: cinema's fascination with indigenous peoples 2012-06-27T08:57:10Z It’s an absurd, naïve and beautiful moment, a willful defiance of all the rules of proper filmmaking. Xavier Dolan’s ‘Mommy’ Depicts a Clashing Mother and Son 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z This is a voice that lived largely outside the establishment, now tamed and brought into it, now less a gesture of defiance than a relic. Review | KC Jukebox concert puts spotlight on African American voices 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Panahi turns the kind of reflexive cinema that, in the United States, would risk critical dismissal as narcissistic into a furious act of political defiance. Jafar Panahi’s Remarkable “Taxi” 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z There are clear political valences in Hendricks’s wonderful, playfully exaggerated portraits of black people in uncountable poses of confidence, cool, defiance, and, more often than advertised, repose. How Radical Can a Portrait Be? 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z That was abundantly on offer in this show, as well as defiance and a gloom-lifting spiritual boost. “What’s Going On”: Dance tribute to Marvin Gaye offers comfort and defiance 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z The series is touching in its very simplicity, embodying a survivalist spirit of childlike defiance that is so deliberately at utter odds with the images of Iraq we see daily on our TV news. Exhibitions picks of the week 2010-04-16T23:09:00Z More than once, Trenary presses her arms outward to push aside two of her partners, Daniel Ulbricht and Julian MacKay, a gesture of defiance that leaves her squarely at the center of our focus. Review: From Twyla Tharp, the Effort and Possibilities of Dancing 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z Today's parents are expected to enforce their authority without effective sanctions against its defiance. Nanny McPhee speaks softly but carries a big stick | David Cox 2010-03-29T09:44:00Z "Jasmine" the poem, like jasmine the white-flowered plant, claims the land with gentle defiance. Poem of the week: Jasmine by John Eppel 2010-07-12T13:28:00Z Rachel's life continued with this mix of acquiescence – of wanting to please her parents – and defiance. What is it like to live with parents very different from you? 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z But she’s barely in the movie, and when she is, she mainly dials up a shrill defiance. London Boulevard Calling: Don't Answer 2011-11-11T16:36:07Z Successes and scandals, defiance and resilience, and an inimitable brand of loyalty have marked the Clintons’ unparalleled political careers. These Are The 25 Most Influential Marriages of All Time 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z On “I’m a Sinner,” which blurs Saturday night grime and Sunday morning grace, her voice projects both vulnerability and defiance. Album review: Madonna, 'MDNA' 2012-03-24T23:24:00Z During the shutdown, some stylists continued to worked in defiance of state orders; some were jailed. The hair salon is now a place of anxiety. And clients can’t wait to return. 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z “Mr. Hawsawi wished to wear the orange prisoner jumpsuit as a silent reminder of Guantanamo’s legacy of torture and in peaceful defiance of a system that is built to kill,” said his lawyer, Navy Cmdr. Army tank made of cupcakes 2012-06-15T14:54:00Z In the movie, the jury acquits him in defiance of the judge. The Edge of Love: fuzzy at the edges 2011-08-04T17:42:00Z Maybe Jimmy is headed for an outlaw’s career as revenge against Chuck, or as an act of defiance. 'Better Call Saul' Season 1 Finale Recap: It's Never Stopping Me Again 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z The Illusionist, which tonight opens the Edinburgh film festival, amounts to a quiet act of defiance with its hand-drawn tale of an ageing, outmoded music-hall entertainer. Edinburgh film festival review: The Illusionist 2010-06-17T08:41:00Z You want light, family-friendly defiance, where you label your absentee self a Confirmed Spectator or Sideline Specialist or Conscientious Rejector — or you join in by asking, “Okay, which team wants to lose?” Carolyn Hax: Don’t let insecurity force you to play along Weirdly, it adds something here, counterpointing all the anger and defiance in the lyrics with an affecting frailty. Public Image Ltd: This Is Pil – review 2012-05-24T14:29:01Z There was rage and defiance, a desire to stick it back to the terrorists, which made it very likely that large towers would be put back on the site. Memories at Ground Zero 2011-07-30T23:03:01Z And what she says has a sorrow and a fury, but also a clarity and defiance. ‘Britney vs Spears’ Review: When the Intervention Is the Problem 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z This week's poem, The God of Love, is written as an eye-witness account, almost in defiance of the quoted epigraph. Poem of the week: The God of Love by George MacBeth 2010-06-07T14:18:00Z She turns flights of coloratura passagework into bursts of jealousy and defiance as Elizabeth contends with the threat that Mary, a blood relative, poses to her reign in England. Music Review: ‘Maria Stuarda’ at the Metropolitan, With Joyce DiDonato 2013-01-02T00:03:57Z A woman detaches herself from society and wanders through the fields and small towns of France in defiance. I've never seen ... American Honey | Suzanne Moore 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z He battles any doubts with self-assertion and defiance, as his raps often toggle into doubletime to insist on his virtuosity. ArtsBeat: Bonnaroo: Kendrick Lamar and Rappers With Vocal Bite 2012-06-08T17:28:53Z “Ridicule, I suppose, is an attitude of defiance.” For a primer on how to make fun of Nazis, look to Charlie Chaplin 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z The point is that Get Out takes that pessimism and converts it into defiance – and laughs. Why Get Out should win the 2018 best picture Oscar 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z To break this feeling of impotence, it's typical for adolescents to enact small defiances – smoking pot or hanging out with the wrong crowd. One big yawn: boredom is not just a state of mind 2011-07-16T23:05:46Z Among white Tulsans, Ellsworth encountered a mix of shame and defiance. A Skillful Narrative of Excavating the Truth About the Tulsa Race Massacre 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z In his more subdued moments, he knows his behavior is unacceptable, but his fear and reflexive defiance overcome reason. Review: ‘Standing Tall,’ a Boy’s Encounter With the Law 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z The “Hear What You Want” campaign depicted Kaepernick, Sherman, and others blocking out the haters and enabling, in Hagood’s view, a more meaningful kind of defiance. The Noises That We Try Not to Hear 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z The classic American heroine, Howland once wrote, breaks the rules and infuriates society out of a mixture of innocence and defiance; she’s often only vaguely aware of the conventions she so scandalously flouts. ‘W-3,’ a Memoir That Recalls Suffering Without Sentimentality or Sensationalism 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z The truth is that there is nothing more to be said, apart from insisting – in defiance of any expectation that he will listen – that his wilful testing of race-related taboos really ought to stop. Morrissey, this joke isn't funny anymore 2010-09-03T22:25:00Z She was a symbol of hope as much as defiance, an artist and thinker who always stood on the horizon, urging others to catch up. Sinead O’Connor Was Ireland’s Alternative Moral Compass 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z The spoiler warning sent by the Disney empire instructed journalists to “continue to be our partners on this journey,” and of course defiance is unthinkable, even if “partner” is taken as a synonym for “shill.” Review: ‘Rogue One’ Leaves ‘Star Wars’ Fans Wanting More and Less 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z The Marlowe theatre, opening in October, is second only to the cathedral in height and rises almost in defiance of public sector cuts. Marlowe theatre rises above Canterbury skyline ? and spending cuts 2011-07-13T17:52:58Z The quirks of Elba’s character suit his confident manliness well, and McLaughlin handles Cole’s defiance and sometimes practically equine skittishness with considerable depth. ‘Concrete Cowboy’ Review: Acquiring Horse Sense on the Philly Streets 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z "I'm hearing a beautiful defiance" right now in the faith-based community as they defend their country and their freedoms, the pastor also said. Everyday Ukrainians struggling to stay alive share gratitude for help, prayers 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z Gilding — as embroidery, mosaic pattern and surface sheen — is such a theme of winter dressing that, even if not quite up to Klimt’s gold leaf, it seems almost a defiance of a grim reality. Designers Dip Into Klimt's Well 2012-11-12T12:37:03Z For nearly three decades, David Fincher has been making gorgeous bummer movies that — in defiance of Hollywood’s first principle — insist that happy endings are a lie. David Fincher, the Unhappiest Auteur 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z What once was comforting and needed is now stifling and prescriptive, and this quick shift can lead to power struggles and defiance. Perspective | Our 5-year-old won’t listen, and we’re stuck 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z Actually, Charlie's witty observations of the people around him, his eccentricities and his wilful defiance make him very likable. The Gamal by Ciarán Collins – review 2013-04-27T10:00:01Z But, in a sense, the very act of imagining was political, a gesture of defiance. Moomins’ magic maker 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Joynt said he was inspired by the “urgency and defiance” of New Queer Cinema, even though transgender voices were mostly missing from its canonical films. The Day New Queer Cinema Said: Let’s Do This 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z It is mask, shield and vulnerable portal; it shows her defiance and conceals it at the same time. Review: ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Season 2 Moves Into a Dark Future 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z Loveless established this tone immediately and authoritatively with the slashing guitar intro of “More Like Them,” a spiky outburst that toggled between confession and take-me-or-leave-me defiance. Lydia Loveless, deconstructing country rock with a healthy dose of frustration She added a note of defiance, writing that “forcing artists, or any public figure, to voice their political opinions in public and to denounce their homeland is not right.” Metropolitan Opera Says It Will Cut Ties With Pro-Putin Artists 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z Rather than accept the justices’ unanimous edict on school integration, much of the South responded with defiance in the courts and violence in the streets, especially in the backwoods. How a Racist Sheriff Railroaded a Disabled Teenager and Got Off 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z Children between the ages of 8 and 12 years old were evaluated for non-cognitive personality traits like academic conscientiousness, entitlement and defiance. Why it's great to have a stubborn child 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z Convicted and sent to death row at San Quentin — where he remains — Cox is known for his defiance of authority, his refusal to confess or provide details about his crimes, in true Rolling 60s style. Kermit Alexander walks into 'The Valley of the Shadow of Death' to explore murders of his relatives 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z That defiance, that tenacity, animated Hill’s life, and it drives “Miss Hill” forward, too. Critic’s Notebook: Dance on Camera Festival Has a Wide Focus 2014-01-31T00:04:43Z They write intimate, funny, horrifying prose in defiance of literary convention, and of tyranny. Miriam Toews Gets Nervous When People Assume She’s Read the Classics 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Love’s defiance of his expectations beguiles him and the viewer, and just might keep her alive . . . but maybe not. New year, new "You": Netflix's stalker drama seeks romantic nirvana in a twisted Season 2 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z I was a tomboy who prided herself on keeping up with the boys, no matter how my edges or bangs lifted in defiance of my mother's hard work and secret hope for daughterly good behavior. I shaved my legs like I found love: Notes on body hair, Inauguration Day and a new day rising 2021-01-31T05:00:00Z As Bogart aged, he lost his defiance, leaving Warner Brothers for Columbia and trading his gat for a bow tie. Dvdsdave Kehr: Here?s Looking at Bogie, Kid 2010-10-08T20:53:00Z Something about bravado, defiance, the defiance that rings of individuality? Ali Smith: Style vs content? Novelists should approach their art with an eye to what the story asks 2012-08-18T15:00:00Z Catullus is playful, too, but more intense; the Elizabethan keeps lusty defiance in check. Poem of the week: My Sweetest Lesbia by Thomas Campion 2010-03-22T10:50:00Z There is also a draft card, which every 18- to 26-year-old male was required to carry at the time, and which many young men burned in public displays of defiance. Highlighting Vietnam War's relevance, exhibit opens in New York 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Mary Shelley's story also throbs with a fierce sense of injustice: a cultivated French family is ruined by its defiance of government, the innocent suffer through Victor's divine presumption. Frankenstein - review 2011-02-24T00:46:25Z In these spontaneous displays we recognize our own behaviors of defiance and triumph. Perspective | In pain and rage, a protester approached police. And then he danced. 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z Electronic music, especially, has led the charge for Ukrainian defiance at home and abroad. In Paris Then, in Kyiv Now, Visions of Freedom and Bravery 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z Screw it, she decides: As champagne fizzes of coloratura rise and rise, she declares that she is “forever free” and brings the curtain down in defiance. With Different Singers, One Opera Classic Can Seem Like Two 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z Her directorial debut was a clamorous calling card, a multiracial production of Othello at Johannesburg's Market Theatre in 1987, which she did in defiance of an Equity ban on working in the apartheid regime. The Saturday interview: Janet Suzman 2011-08-19T23:10:48Z “It was absolutely wonderful,” Mr. Johns told me, appearing to relish the memory of the girl’s defiance. Jasper Johns Still Doesn’t Want to Explain His Art 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z But from winter into spring, the snowdrop is almost alone in its plucky defiance of the cold. The iconic white snowdrop could be getting a new look (or many), thanks to breeders 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z But once Juraj meets the peers who are furtively connecting with the Vatican in defiance of their advisers, he snubs Michal to support the cause. ‘Servants’ Review: Fighting for Purity of Faith 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z The latter role is played by Bel Powley, chin upturned in perpetual defiance and bringing to the part much of the same shrillness that marred her Broadway performance last season in “Arcadia.” Theater Review: They're Ripping Themselves Apart Onstage, Inside and Out 2011-11-01T13:30:07Z Some songs proclaim self-determination and defiance; others, like “The Glow” — imagining the Beach Boys’ Caroline — hint at mystery and mortality. Playlist: Teen, Jorge Drexler and Secret Sisters Have New Albums 2014-04-25T19:44:43Z Florida Man — christened as a meme in the previous decade but perhaps as old as the state itself — is the guy who straddles an alligator cage, in defiance of conventional wisdom, and hollers, “Watch this!” Does Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis know what he’s doing? We’re about to find out. 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z “We’re all trying to make it through this without making any trouble,” Ofmatthew declares in one scene, after gossiping about the stupidity of June’s act of defiance. Weaponized white feminism in "The Handmaid's Tale" and "When They See Us" 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z Is it some sort of way they have of communicating frustration, perhaps, or defiance in the face of hopelessness?” “It’s OK to always be a loser”: Patrick Stickles reveals the secrets of Titus Andronicus 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z To van Iperen, their resistance was a kind of cultural defiance — the fearless celebration of life in the face of extinction — that we don’t tend to hear much about in Holocaust histories. How 2 Jewish Sisters Built a Cultural Oasis During World War II 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z Last year Mr. Lou returned to Cannes with “Spring Fever,” a movie made in defiance of that ban, with a subject guaranteed to vex the Chinese censors. In ?Spring Fever,? Lou Ye Confronts China?s Repression 2010-07-30T17:49:00Z There’s a power in the defiance of what you say I should be and what you say I should look like. Some Like It Not: Are Men in Dresses Still Funny? 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z Expelled from the Soviet Union in 1974 and condemned to 20 years in exile, during which he lived in the US, he became synonymous with moral courage and defiance. Alexander Solzhenitsyn's 'last stories' will appear in English at last 2011-07-23T23:07:17Z As he is put on the operating table, they lay his injured arms out, and although I can tell he is scared and in pain, he stares at the ceiling with a sense of defiance. Giles Duley: 'I lost three limbs in Afghanistan, but had to go back … ' 2013-02-10T00:13:44Z "I couldn't help thinking, we could have had it all," she sings, her voice soaring in defiance. Adele's sophomore disc mines shattered love 2011-02-23T22:20:08Z You want light, family-friendly defiance, where you label your absentee self a Confirmed Spectator or Sideline Specialist or Conscientious Rejector — or you join in by asking, “OK, which team wants to lose?” Family games not much fun for in-law 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z In her post-Disney career, Cyrus has flirted with various forms of adulthood in terms of performance — sexual defiance, hippie experimentalism and so on. Miley Cyrus and Brandi Carlile’s Raw Duet, and 9 More New Songs 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z At that, one of the best meals of my life became also a minuscule gesture of defiance and hope. Exploring Jordan’s cultural fusion 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z Moyet's voice is at its most complex and her lyrics are darkly poetic, in perfect defiance of commercial conventions. Review: Alison Moyet's 'The Minutes' impresses 2013-06-12T18:10:13Z The last shot, in which a character takes a long look straight into the camera, hits a typical note: resignation mixed with defiance. Japan Cuts Features Melancholy Films at Japan Society 2013-07-13T00:01:00Z Every little breakthrough of friendliness is quickly followed by another argument, a spat of defiance, an embarrassing display of rudeness. Review | Emma Donoghue’s ‘Akin’ sends an odd couple to France 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z Stanton stood up and rearranged his gear, poking his chest out in an odd gesture of defiance. U.S. soldier finds his identity as a gay man while serving in silence 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z As if in defiance of her subject's literary gifts, Hall consistently skirts his glorious cadences in favour of dry synopses, and hauls in legions of leaden-tongued scholars to bolster her analysis. Macaulay and Son: Archtects of Imperial Britain by Catherine Hall - review 2012-12-21T22:55:02Z Banned Books Week, an annual event that teachers and librarians across the U.S. mark with a combination of distress and defiance, is here again. Book bans reflect outdated beliefs about how children read 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z Whether in ignorance or defiance of the sorts of things creative writing students are told to avoid, Gibson – whose first novel this is – makes some amateurish moves. A Bright Moon for Fools by Jasper Gibson – review 2013-07-05T09:01:01Z "Mitt Romney's defiance of decades of precedent set by presidential candidates on both sides of the aisle, including his own father, begs the question – what does he have to hide?" Obama's federal tax burden drops 2012-04-13T16:14:00Z He doesn’t pretend that Shostakovich’s greatness may not be so much in defiance but in the vagaries of survival, psychic as well as physical. Salonen's 'Pollux' supplies some grunge for L.A. Phil tour 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z Lawns: emerald green — no, alien green — and kept that way by maniacal vigilance and an elaborate system of pipes and potions, organic and otherwise, in defiance of ecology. There’s a water crisis. Why do we still have lawns? 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z Orwell and Hughes were responding in an unconscious way to the approach of eternity, and with a certain defiance. Philip Roth and famous literary exits 2012-11-12T13:37:25Z Contrasting the cold sterility of her locations with a fiery emotional urgency, she pushes her increasingly distraught heroine from vulnerability to defiance, from a whimper to a roar. Review: Seeking Justice After a Rape in ‘Beauty and the Dogs’ 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z We root for her as an act of defiance against the system that created her. Queen of the South: addictive story of a drug baroness à la Narcos 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z That’s easy enough to understand, but how do we apply the idea of a consequence if you are seeing defiance in your home? First I was being too mean about my son’s outbursts. Now I’m being too nice. Help? 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z But the overall effect is not dismal: instead, it brings out the visceral energy of the book and a feeling of defiance in the face of death. Crow – review 2012-06-23T23:05:49Z The looping handles of "Tough Patty" look like boneless arms, so vulnerable, but suggesting a hands-on-hips confrontational defiance. Kathy Butterly's rapturous little reckonings in clay at Shoshana Wayne 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z “I Got Lost in His Arms” revolved around the phrase, “Look what I found,” delivered in a tone of emphatic defiance. Music Review: Michael Feinstein and Barbara Cook at Feinstein?s - Review 2011-12-01T23:43:15Z In defiance of its years, and its long-standing image as the chariot of absolute last resort, the bus line is growing more youthful, more spirited and more relevant. Greyhound: 100 years old and acting younger than ever The story of how Black people in a slaveholding society affected federal policy by their movements, by their defiance and by their very existence has been told before. Enslaved, Terrorized, Disenfranchised: Black Americans Still Found Ways to Change America 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z Liquor — banned under Paisley Park’s standard rental agreement — was served thanks to a special waiver, and even cellphones were permitted, in defiance of Prince’s prohibition. What would Prince want? Two years later, his estate is a mess and his legacy unclear. 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z To those who say it’s lowbrow stuff, I answer in defiance: Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Think my poems are lowbrow? All of these are based on science jokes. 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z How’s this for a strange blend of irony, defiance, and cognitive dissonance? Angry Video Game Nerds, calm down about “Ghostbusters”: It’s still a comedy about ghosts and those who bust them 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z His pursuit of an American dream is driven by defiance rather than desperation. My streaming gem: why you should watch Nobody's Watching 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z On this track from Florence + the Machine’s 2018 album “High as Hope,” Florence Welch sings wistfully of “those heavy days in June, when love became an act of defiance.” Moons, Junes and 7 Summer Tunes 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z But watch for the different ways in which Mr. Ryan’s bluff, earnest Harry wears his suit, the way he puts on and takes off his jacket with varying degrees of ease and anger and defiance. Theater Review | 'The Temperamentals': The Churning Insides of a Quiet Revolution 2010-03-01T06:03:00Z Pain, defiance, joy: Maybe there’s something to this mixing of genres. Review: A Guitarist Rejects Her. But She Knows How to Be Cruel. 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z He may be unflinching when his superiors yell at him for his latest indiscretion, but his defiance is inspiring. Colin Farrell's best, most quietly smoldering roles, from "Banshees of Inisherin" to "Phone Booth" 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z Yes; but “it is apparently in the nature of the creature to resist the world’s triumph,” the triumph of “turbulence and agitation” — and Bellow’s corpus is graphic proof of that defiance. ‘There Is Simply Too Much to Think About,’ Saul Bellow’s Nonfiction 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z "I'll always stand by my Gypsy roots, and I'll always help out one of my own," she states, her defiance now steely rather than bratty. Cher Lloyd: 'I don't want to be a joke' 2011-07-27T21:00:02Z Every laugh line will be evaluated for signs of Hollywood’s collective guilt; every dud and every groan will be perused for possible racist defiance. Chris Rock is ready: The Oscar host’s historic opportunity is the moment his entire career has led toward 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z It may have been the final act of defiance of a figure whose life and work remain unsettled, ambiguous, compelling and worthy of even more attention. He Was Born Into Slavery, but Achieved Musical Stardom 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z We childless women are fairly devoid of infertile role models: Most who speak publicly about the fraught topic do so from a place of either wild grief or anti-procreative defiance. Lena Dunham Pays Homage to Her Late Literary Hero Diana Athill 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z Perhaps in defiance of the looming peril, in 1939 De Wolfe went ahead with the most astounding of her Circus Balls. The Fabulous Parties of Elsie de Wolfe 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z And most of its work appears to be in calculated defiance not of capitalism, exactly, but of good taste. Living With Freaky Furniture 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z Part of the pain of the play is watching that exuberant defiance ground down by shaming rules that dictate permissible female behavior and blame those who, by their own choice or someone else’s, don’t comply. Review: Channeling Anger in ‘A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing’ 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z It’s a pileup of sorrow, survivor guilt, anger and defiance that sometimes grows unruly. Review: ‘Eagles of Death Metal’ Revisits the Paris Terror Attack 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Her eyes held a curious look of defiance. When I first realized my daughter has an eating disorder 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z Some people meet the passing years with an elegant defiance. T Magazine: The Aesthetes 2014-04-11T18:32:15Z But it happens to be the perfect instrument for the manic desperation and sardonic defiance of his band, Cage the Elephant. Critics? Choice: New CDs: New CDs 2011-01-10T22:51:16Z What I’ve found is that by shifting the screaming kid paradigm from one of defiance to one of distress has made it easier to modify my reaction. Motherlode Blog: Seeing Tantrums as Distress, Not Defiance 2011-10-30T21:51:06Z It turned out that in the early 20th century, Africans were forbidden to wear hats in front of white people, and that this photograph was actually an act of defiance. A London Monument to Equality, Inspired by an Act of Defiance 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z "Electricidad" transplants the searing myth of Electra to a tough Chicano barrio, where a young woman is mourning the gang-related murder of her father — in defiance of her mother, a rising gang leader herself. eSe Teatro stages Spanglish 'Electricidad' 2011-05-19T20:00:13Z But there is an unmistakable defiance in the closing shot, in which Ms. Yamada walks directly toward the camera, holding the audience in a gaze that seems to implicate them. Isuzu Yamada, Actress Who Worked With Kurosawa, Dies at 95 2012-07-15T22:57:26Z His jokes mosey to the punch line, earning laughs along the way by veering between a sleepy drawl and preposterous defiance. Critic?s Notebook: Hannibal Buress Approaches Comedy From the Side 2011-11-03T12:00:04Z The thrust of the article was Gorsuch’s apparent indifference to the request, implying his decision to show up maskless amounted to open defiance of the chief justice, and forced his at-risk colleague to work remotely. A single word sparks a crossfire between the Supreme Court, NPR and its star reporter Nina Totenberg 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z When I’m asked for my favourite inspirational scene, I nominate Tom Courtenay’s final, miserable act of defiance in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. From Groundhog Day to … Raging Bull? – films to inspire and uplift 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z Coming from Villazón, there was a note of defiance in saying that on the Met’s mighty stage. A Tenor’s Met Career Seemed Over. Not So Fast. 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z Spanish prosecutors accused Botin of trying to sell the painting, depicting a woman with sharp features and long black hair, in defiance of a ban on exporting an artwork of cultural significance for Spain. Banker fined $58 million for smuggling Picasso painting out of Spain 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z There are many places in this world where people are oppressed and where there are acts of defiance. ‘My family resisted the Nazis’: why director had to film Alone in Berlin 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z Meaning, is he mostly noticed for his defiance? No one wins a power struggle with an obstinate 3-year-old 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z The event is scheduled for Saturday, July 25, during which the businesses will reportedly open their doors in defiance of the order. Bars and venues in Texas team up to protest 'double standard' in state's shutdown order 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z If there is resignation in those words, there is defiance too. ‘High Flying Bird’ Review: A Thrilling Dunk on Capitalism 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Intentional or not, it read as an act of defiance by the models, of controlling their exposure — deciding when they would be visible and when they would be mysterious walking clouds. Who Doesn’t Need a Portable Fog Machine? 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z Others maintain its rise was an act of resistance: a red-hued drink in defiance of Nazi confiscation of highly prized red Burgundy during the war. Summer Drinking at Its Simplest 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z But the finale was audaciously melodic and openhearted, in defiance of contemporary music’s persistent, thorny seriousness. A Battle of Boos and Cheers at the Symphony 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z Most experts believe North Korea is preparing for a third nuclear test, in defiance of a raft of U.N. sanctions and pressure from Beijing to desist. U.S. eyes testy China talks, Chen backer expects Chinese decision 2012-04-30T12:08:03Z Batiste has called their marriage “an act of defiance” and said the cancer is not interrupting the plans they have for their lives. Jon Batiste to headline Biden’s first state dinner, serenade Macron 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z Lincoln shared Simone’s righteous indignation; her prolonged scream in the middle of the song “Triptych: Prayer/Protest/Peace,” registered years of black women’s anger and defiance. Books of The Times: ‘How It Feels to Be Free’ Salutes Black Female Entertainers 2014-01-15T21:27:33Z I. Am!’—I mean, it’s that defiance that she had,” Sessions told me. The Mysterious Letter Writer Who Beguiled Flannery O’Connor and Iris Murdoch 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z If the Fifth offers an idealist corollary to the defiance of Shostakovich’s “Leningrad” Symphony, its finest interpreters make that idealism sound plausible. Vaughan Williams: Complicated, but Not Quite Conservative 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z Two lovers step off a tenement fire escape and pirouette up and down the walls of the building in a sweet and thrilling defiance of gravity. ‘In the Heights’ Review: In Dreams Begin Responsibilities 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z It's one of many small but glorious acts of defiance that proliferate throughout this piece. Review: 'Water By the Spoonful' is vivid, human 2013-01-09T03:31:05Z Taylor Swift rang in her most recent album era with “Shake It Off,” a cheerfully flip pop confection that reads as an act of defiance to everyone from the haters to country-radio programmers. Taylor Swift's 'Out of the Woods' Breaks New Ground 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z What might seem discretion in another show here becomes an act of defiance. Review | In the galleries: A D.C.-Madrid ‘conversation’ between artists, two shows infused with color and light, and Persian perspectives 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z Her defiance of them is normal adolescent rebellion played out against a backdrop of turmoil. | 'Miral': Hopes and Struggles in a Difficult Land 2011-03-24T21:53:01Z In the recent documentary “Summer of Soul,” Al Sharpton speaks about how the tone of Simone’s voice was “between hope and mourning,” capturing Black “pain and our defiance.” Fall for Dance Review: Splats, Blue Moods and Go-Go Grooves 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Catharsis and symbolic defiance have given way to hard evidence and insistence on substantive change. ‘Straight Outta Compton,’ N.W.A. and the new vernacular of protest 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z The role, she said, helped her channel her defiance. The Star of ‘A Fantastic Woman’ Picks a Few Come-Hither Dresses 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z An offended actor/playwright, Colin Mitchell, published on the local theater website Bitter Lemons a plea for defiance: “Let’s flood the LA Media outlets with writing about this show.” Pinter Estate Shuts Door on ‘The Room’ 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z For Ms. Dimoldenberg, drawing attention to that artifice is an act of vulnerability, if not defiance. Finding Love, One Nugget at a Time 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z His timidity has turned into guardedness; now there is a hint of defiance in his gaze. ‘The Night Of’ Season 1, Episode 4: Friends or Foes 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z The show had another key strength going for it: A streak of creative defiance. ‘How I Met Your Mother’ is set for ‘ambitious’ series finale 2014-03-27T17:57:53Z But the performance has a jerky quality, perhaps understandably, as Blackie moves from subjugation to defiance to sensual abandon in the arms of Chris. | 'The Milk Train Doesn?t Stop Here Anymore': Reaper Arrives? Grab a Kimono 2011-01-31T03:01:00Z Journalists were often sent to jail and, in defiance of 30 years of such treatment under Mubarak, thousands of Egyptians hit Tahrir Square during the Arab Spring. The documentary “Tickling Giants” is a chronicle of weaponized satire and the Arab Spring 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z But perhaps the most potent insight in this second season is the lead’s amenable but pathological defiance of personal responsibility, his well-meaning and winsome brew of good intentions and self-obsession. Ramy: the smartest, darkest TV comedy that you're not watching 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z Everyone thought that this would be the big one — the album that would finally funnel all of Rihanna’s charisma, defiance, abandon and mystique into one perfect beam of laser light. Is a Rihanna album without hits still a Rihanna album? 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z It portrays Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, a controversial Tibetan monk who preached to thousands of students when he lived in the West but whose lifestyle was in defiance of many of Buddhism's ethical principles. Thai Buddhist film festival seeks to spark faith 2012-06-22T11:01:04Z On some tunes the band is joined by an M.C. or a poet, spinning verses of defiance and affirmation. With Sons of Kemet, Shabaka Hutchings Brings London Jazz Into the Spotlight 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z Whether that fragile cloth holds together today, in the face of blatant defiance of election results and the rule of law, depends on our respect for every strand in the weave. A Landmark Reckoning With America’s Racial Past and Present 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z Brown even died in a gesture of high-spirited defiance: After receiving an emergency appendectomy in France, she was asked by a nurse how she was doing. A Sleepy Biography for the Author of ‘Goodnight Moon’ 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z Sarajevo is known for its film festival, conceived towards the end of Bosnia's 1992-95 war as an act of defiance by film enthusiasts against the Bosnian Serb siege of the city. Balkans, Central Europe can shine in filmdom, Sundance director says 2013-09-24T14:21:55Z Houston’s defiance is the movie’s attempt to answer the great mystery of her career: why she deliberately damaged her voice through smoking and hard drugs. ‘I Wanna Dance With Somebody’ Review: Her Lonely Heart Calls 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z Songs like “Upstarts” and “The Right Thing Right” are upbeat celebrations of defiance. Johnny Marr interview: A guitar hero who serves the song 2013-04-18T21:32:00Z But often Anne’s mood is one of feral defiance. Michael Haneke's Poignant Amour: The Flowers and the Stars 2012-05-21T18:43:58Z Her book, though, is somewhat surprisingly light on that defiance. Review: Carrie Brownstein’s ‘Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl’ 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z A self-portrait sketched in 1929 shows a proud man looking with mute defiance and a soupçon of bitterness. Contemporary Art Works of Often Subtle Beauty 2010-10-08T15:11:00Z Bev yells at the justifiably angry store owner and shoplifts in defiance. From "Hillbilly Elegy" to "The Gentlemen," here are the worst films of 2020 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z Her arrest, imprisonment and the permanent loss of her New York City cabaret card result from her defiance of this attempted censorship. ‘The United States vs. Billie Holiday’ Review: Singing for Her Life 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z Madiba is a clan nickname for Mr. Mandela, and the dance shows a community in flux, swiveling between rejoicing and defiance. Dance Review: Garth Fagan Dance at Joyce Theater - Review 2011-10-05T21:24:43Z Mr. Maddalena was riveting in the long scene in which Nixon meets the frail yet feisty Mao, here the tenor Bruce Brubaker in a performance that captures the chairman’s authoritarian defiance and rapacious self-indulgence. Music Review: President and Opera, on Unexpected Stages 2011-02-03T17:34:09Z Which is the whole subject, in a way, of “A Dangerous Method”: the way desire imposes its logic in defiance of our attempts to tame or divert it. Movies: ?A Dangerous Method? and ?J. Edgar?: Studies in Repression 2011-11-27T04:53:01Z The band revved up rockabilly and Bo Diddley beats, and Mr. Auerbach’s voice was perched, not at all precariously, between desperation and defiance. Review: Dan Auerbach Leads the Arcs at Terminal 5 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z Her gray eyes, with a flash of yellow and brown in their center, fill with defiance when she talks about the Irish news media and her marriage. Music: Sinead O?Connor?s ?How About I Be Me (and You Be You)?? 2012-02-10T12:58:00Z The defiance is palpable as Jafar concludes, "So, I'm sorry Mr. DeSantay. The gay shall stay, and you sashay away." "The gay shall stay": "SNL" mocks Ron DeSantis' failed attempt to take Disney's Florida kingdom 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z I committed my small act of defiance in secret. My husband voted for Trump, I was a secret Democrat: Our purple marriage couldn't last 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z In the nightmarish context of a Nazi concentration camp, a character's courageous assertion of his identity became an act of tragic defiance and searing moral beauty. In L.A. theater, Martin Luther King and privileged white men helped drive points home 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z But Bridges has no doubt that for Buchanan, building the “Marsh Ruins” at this site was “an act of defiance.” A Vanishing Masterpiece in the Georgia Marshes 2023-07-29T04:00:00Z Wojnarowicz never recovered from the loss of Hujar; it would fill his art with defiance and moral outrage for the rest of his life. David Wojnarowicz’s Still-Burning Rage 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z He lights a cigarette and smokes it in seeming defiance of what he calls the Unwanted Visitor, death. Paulo Coelho on Jesus, Twitter and the difference between defeat and failure 2013-03-17T19:30:00Z The skull and crossbones were embraced as emblems of defiance, rather than dread, by a series of musical genres, including punk, heavy metal, death metal and rap. Design: Skull and Crossbones as Branding Tool 2011-05-01T16:56:02Z As law enforcement opened its investigation into the murder, Mr. Williams’s profile as a whimsical, genre-shifting musician — with attention-grabbing fashion sense that includes, in defiance of macho gangster stereotypes, wearing dresses — only grew. Violent Gang, or Rap Label? Prosecutors Say Young Thug’s YSL Is Both. 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z He’s one of two dozen heavily armed men that have settled onto the public land and are prepared to spend weeks or months there, in defiance of the US government. They call it Bundy cuisine: what to cook when you're leading a siege 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z I thought it was just such a brutal act of defiance, and we filmed it and I didn’t know if it was going to work. Dead Tree Alert: TV’s Bumper Crop of Blood; Plus: Kurt Sutter on the Uses of Mayhem 2013-02-28T13:14:43Z But the mighty wall of sound led by Black voices — a great sound of exaltation and frustration and defiance all at once — invited me in, and my own voice, unsteady and hesitant, joined. In ‘What to Send Up,’ I See You, Black American Theater 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z Halsey, who is preternaturally self-possessed and becomes gleeful in moments of defiance, slips into music-business-speak with the same ease with which she curses or describes her favorite websites. Halsey, With ‘Badlands,’ Is Moving Fast to Share a Secret Language 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z In Wunder’s hands, Schubert’s farewell sonata was less a valediction than a statement of youthful defiance. Pianist Ingolf Wunder gets carried away with his fearless approach 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z Laughter is not a strong suit of Mr. Nguyen’s jumbled and ambitious “Red Flamboyant,” the play that article inspired, but defiance is. Review: ‘Red Flamboyant’ Is Earthbound and Flush With Romanticism 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z The soprano Anna Dugan sang the wicked Madame de Merteuil with haughty relish, and was powerful in her final scene of defiance. Review: ‘The Dangerous Liaisons,’ Lush Music of Malice 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z Being with Pascal is an act of defiance for Moll – but could he be the Beast who terrorising everyone? Prowling panthers, paranormal spies and vengeful ice-skaters: must-see movies of 2018 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z He adds, “When earth is rich it bids defiance to droughts, yields in abundance and of the best quality.” In the Garden: Jefferson?s Vegetable Garden Still Grows at Monticello 2010-07-01T13:37:00Z The show sold out, perceived by many ticket buyers not just as a musical event but as an act of defiance against the overzealousness of anti-Communists. Ronnie Gilbert, Folk Singer for the Weavers, Dies at 88 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z The ballad-like “Prometheus” bristling with simmering resentment and defiance, was followed by the ethereal benediction of “Ghost Greetings” and “To the Moon,” sung with guileless simplicity. Review | A wide-ranging program of song at the Library of Congress 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z When she erupts in defiance, Ms. van den Heever sent phrases slicing through Berg’s orchestra, and you understood the character’s frustrated power. Review: The Searing Beauty of Kentridge’s ‘Wozzeck’ at the Met 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z I began smoking when I was 14, for defiance and rebellion. T Magazine: Deeda Blair’s Elegance of Conviction 2013-05-31T17:00:11Z But the night's real star was undoubtedly Fidel, whose defiance of the United Sates continues to inspire leftist activists around the world. Latin American singers honor Fidel Castro at 85 2011-08-12T20:54:09Z Her boldness and defiance is taking on new shades — just like those she influenced, Ulven is growing up in public, too. Chloe Moriondo and girl in red, Maestros of Growing Pains 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z Jimmy is a man of the people whose defiance of the powers that be eventually lands him in deep trouble. Review: ‘Jimmy’s Hall’ Pits the Church Against a Populist Gathering Place 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z And how do you counter protesters who, almost with defiance, say they have not seen the work? The Met, the opera on Leon Klinghoffer’s murder and the politics of protest It was made secretly and was screened at illegal opposition meetings, in defiance of the authoritarian rule. 50 documentaries you need to see 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z The result of all this is a defiance of the author myth – the idea of the all-seeing, all-knowing individual talent. Fernando Pessoa and the multiple faces we show on the net 2010-12-04T10:00:00Z My work is my reply, my travel is my defiance. Paul Theroux’s Mexican Journey 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z “To allow him to have a moment of defiance doesn’t interest me. He doesn’t deserve that moment.” ‘Patriots Day’ Disconnect Between Bostonians and the Rest of Us 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z "Now, will these acts of defiance be a key factor in ending this conflict?" "The View" calls out Tucker Carlson and media pawns "telling lies about the Russian people" 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z This position enables Amos to loosely hold a shotgun, while maintaining a look on her face that lands somewhere between defiance, amusement and tranquility. “Boys for Pele” turns 20: Revisiting the year when Tori Amos truly came into her own 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z The fact that they’ve managed to keep those rings in place seems miraculous, a defiance of gravity. The Chicken’s in the Oven, My Husband’s Out the Door 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z And it’s about how a defiance of that divine egotism is, perhaps, the most deeply human and moral aim of existence. The Mythic Maximalism of Darren Aronofsky’s “Mother!” 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z Financed by Meaher and captained by William Foster, the ship had traveled from Alabama to present-day Benin, where Foster purchased slaves in defiance of federal and international bans on the Atlantic slave trade. A Shipwreck Leads to a Reckoning 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z “I think somebody taking that sort of action today would probably be in more jeopardy than Bob was back then,” he said, when asked if such defiance was still possible. Documentary explores Scottish workers' boycott over Chile 1973 coup 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z If Plath’s hope did not endure, her defiance—a holy disgust—did. A Lost Story by Sylvia Plath Contains the Seeds of the Writer She Would Become 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z Their convertible soaring into the Grand Canyon, a wild feminist image of defiance until death, floored me and lingered in my mind for years. Becoming a Woman Without Her 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z So, in an act of radical defiance, I think it's only fair to brand this terrifically delicious bowl of aromatics, vegetables, fish and a truly scrumptious white wine and clam-laced broth a "fish stew." Why we should all be eating more fish this year — and a recipe for a delectable seafood stew 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z These grace notes lends themselves to helping us absorb the church's meaning as symbol of defiance and resilience. PBS' ambitious & fraught "Black Church" takes a tour of America's complex history, music and faith 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z I love the strength of this record, its sense of broad freedom and defiance. The best albums of 2013 (so far) - the critics' choice 2013-07-11T19:53:04Z Lahey had never been trained to work with kids whose traumatic home environment manifests as defiance or rage, but she learned through experience to lead with empathy. Perspective | 8 ways to change a child’s ‘bad’ behavior 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z Here is a woman who, even as her husband abuses her, can stroke his hair and tell the reader, with some defiance, “It is good to be loved, and to love in return.” Birthing Bunnies: An 18th-Century Woman’s Bizarre Medical Hoax 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z It is simultaneously depressing as hell and brimming with hope and defiance. 5 great movies about making movies 2012-11-21T22:31:05Z Her numbed answer, about her awareness of her body and the reactions it elicits, is imbued with a haunting air of depletion, and of defiance by surrender. Review: ‘Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.’ Captures the Fury of Modern Womanhood 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z His meteoric career and riotous artistry carry the seeds of their own destruction; his subject was humiliation, and it aged quickly in a new era of proud defiance and absurdist mockery. Movie of the Week: “The Patsy” 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z With the president’s refusal to acknowledge losing the election, expressions of support are now bound up with his denial, defiance and insistence that he has been wronged. What Does the MAGA Hat Mean Now? 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z In the play’s most unexpected and moving moment he speaks with reverence about the courage and defiance of the Black Americans he is supposed to be trying to subvert. ‘Russian Troll Farm’ Review: Clock In, Undermine Democracy, Clock Out 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z But there was also dissonance, if not outright defiance. Our college was closing, and we were angry. That didn’t mean we’d skip the reunion. 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z It also has a vengeful lake that seems to hold grudges for an awfully long time, in defiance of all known environmental trends. From The Room to Geostorm: how to make a movie so bad that people will love it 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z The daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, Antigone in Sophocles’s play is a woman whose defiance of the state, in service of her own belief in what is right, spells her ruin. Juliette Binoche, from English patients to Greek heroines 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Decades on, that woman’s glittering defiance still sheds sparks. Books Of Style: Rose Hartman’s Photographs 2012-09-28T21:22:24Z Nora’s momentous exit startled audiences and critics with its defiance of respectable societal and theatrical conventions. Ibsen's radical 1879 play about women's equality gets a 2017 sequel: Lucas Hnath's 'A Doll's House, Part 2' 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z He went on to praise the powerful crescendo that reflects "defiance against those who would do us harm". Batman composer records tribute 2012-07-30T09:53:55Z But his contrition is laced with a defiance, because he believes that non-Muslims are not held to account in the same way. Mehdi Hasan: 'Most people ask the question and move on. I don't' 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z The remarkable "This Is Not a Film," an almost unclassifiable act of subtle defiance against an oppressive authority, is, in fact, very much a film. 'This Is Not a Film': a look at life in Iran, while under house arrest 2012-04-12T20:08:06Z Its ominous, erotic subtext refers obliquely to the epidemic and the fear of infection, but in a spirit of sexual defiance. ‘Test,’ Set in the Year H.I.V. Screening Arrived 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Sarajevo's film festival, founded as an act of defiance while the city was besieged during the 1992-95 Bosnian war, marks its 20th anniversary on Friday with its biggest line-up of movies. Sarajevo's film festival marks 20th birthday with record line-up 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z Critics, after all, are those who presume to make aesthetic distinctions regardless of popularity, or even in defiance of it. The war on culture: How conservatives and progressives joined forces to crush art 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z In a loud act of defiance, Clem blows him off, and she tastes the blood on her lips, proving that the revenge she exacts is likely a direct result of the reveries. That Twist and 4 Other Things We Learned About Westworld 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z Gleeson's face — filmed in single shot — slips across disbelief, pity, fear, scorn and defiance. 'Calvary' could mark a signature role in Brendan Gleeson's career 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z Written by Punzo, made rhetorical by Arena, who speaks his lines with a mixture of mockery and defiance, across a range of facial expression that excites as much as it discomforts. Aniello Arena: the Italian gangster who turned movie star 2013-02-17T00:02:02Z I would live it rapturously, calmly and without defiance. Jamaican, gay and Ayn Rand made it OK: My amazing “Atlas Shrugged” love story 2014-04-25T23:00:00Z The choice between compliance and resistance, assimilation and separatism, loyalty and defiance–all of those familiar tropes play out onstage, with an almost all Asian-American main cast telling the story from a Japanese-American perspective. This is why Donald Trump is winning: Paranoia brings out the worst in us — and minorities always suffer 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z There is more than an echo of Sitwell’s defiance of gender and genre norms in many of today’s eccentric women – particularly when it comes to Tilda Swinton, who happens to be Sitwell’s cousin. Eccentric women: why they are more important than ever in our oppressive era 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z "This Is Not a Film" - Veteran Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi's homemade documentary is simultaneously depressing as hell and brimming with hope and defiance. AP critics pick the year's best movies 2012-12-14T21:29:02Z In the song, Warren’s voice crumbled into a near-sob before bursting through a key change with defiance. From Annie to Tina Turner, and Trained to Go the Distance 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z But the defiance she radiates, a decade before the women’s movement brought such images into the mainstream, is exceptional. Art In Review: Idelle Weber: The Pop Years 2013-04-18T20:32:05Z She said it, of course, in That Voice, coated with ash but flickering with lively defiance underneath. She’s Marianne Faithfull, Damn It. And She’s (Thankfully) Still Here. 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z So for a lot of people, it’s a form of defiance.” 'You get used to the gunfire' – filming the Libyan women's football team 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z And making a film, even inside his cage, is an act of open defiance. “Closed Curtain”: Iran’s banned filmmaker won’t give up 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Stritch’s raspy voice and boozy defiance — “another vodka stinger!” — was the perfect match for Sondheim’s urbane cynicism, and she became one of his greatest muses and interpreters. Elaine Stritch: How to Be a Broadway Diva 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z Reaction to economic injustice or defiance of political correctness? Poking at Politics, Without a Stick, on Big and Small Screens 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z With a face masked by makeup, cheap earrings and brazen defiance, newcomer Lawrie is an absolute marvel, a throat-closing combination of indifference and courage. Provocative 'The Casual Vacancy' no ordinary jaunt to countryside 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z After hearing what Emina had to say, I got out my phone in defiance of the diktat and Googled "Talleyrand" and "brandy". A quiet word about silence at breakfast 2013-01-08T16:30:02Z "She really showed the defiance of the art we all do and how important it is to keep on moving forward." Tonys audience largest since 2001, viewers up by 2.2 million 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z Offred’s situation seems impossibly unbearable, yet Moss’s command of still defiance gives “The Handmaid’s Tale” its fire. “The Handmaid’s Tale”: A dystopian tale of female subjugation that hits close to home 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z In children, that includes irritability, defiance and behavioral issues. Four ways to combat the winter blahs 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z In fact, his repeated arrests are an act of protest and defiance that indicate how unreasonable a law such as Paragraph 175 is. The poignant resistance of "Great Freedom" found in a German prison where gay men are criminalized 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z Harry, who turns 38 next month, always had his mother’s touch and — now unburdened by the weight of royal duties — her defiance and sensitivity. Analysis | Princess Diana died 25 years ago but endures as a role model for women 2022-08-20T04:00:00Z That plunges them into a world of revolutionary causes that, as portrayed here, is defined not by grand speeches and heroic defiance, but by infighting, competing goals and romantic entanglements. Review: In Showtime’s ‘Guerrilla,’ Radicalism Without the Mythology 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Suddenly in Nora's dance the stage is arrested by glare and harshness and defiance. A Doll's House; Hedda Gabler; St John's Night – review 2012-07-14T23:04:21Z But that’s a pretty big commitment, as acts of revenge or defiance go. 'Better Call Saul' Season 1 Finale Recap: It's Never Stopping Me Again 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The avant-garde is a notion shaped by discomfort, as well as defiance. Big Ears Festival Stars the Avant-Garde 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z Ms. Seldes translated that sensibility into a string of fire-lighted performances, presenting the art of acting as one of gleeful, existential defiance. How Marian Seldes Took the Stage 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z He told The Guardian in 2003 that he considered his appearance an act of defiance against the status quo. Pete Burns, Frontman for the Band Dead or Alive, Dies at 57 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z But in the bravura soliloquy that concludes “Head of Passes,” Ms. Rashad crescendos to a state of fiery defiance for which rage is too mild a word. Review: In ‘Head of Passes,’ Phylicia Rashad Is a Matriarch With Worries 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z It was evidently a deeply felt act of quiet defiance. Steinberg’s ‘Passion Week’ by Clarion Choir 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z In a last act of defiance, Ofglen No. 1 slips into a car at the open market in full view of Commander’s wives, guards and even handmaids like Offred. ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Episode 5: A Seduction 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z This, more than anything else, signals their defiance towards a civilization that seeks to annihilate them. Arundhati Roy | Gandhi, but with guns | Part Four 2010-03-27T09:00:00Z Yet Darnielle's black comedy and clever irony elicited feelings of sympathy, defiance and even victory. Mountain Goats bigger, but unchanged 2011-04-06T14:29:00Z Katniss Everdeen, whose defiance of the dictatorial President Snow has ignited the masses across all the impoverished districts, has become the symbol of the rebellion. Review: 'The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1' 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z The Fast and Furious films proper, for all their outrageous stunts in brash defiance of gravity, have hewn to some spiced-up version of reality. Fastest & Furiousest: how Hobbs & Shaw expands the $5bn franchise 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z People who work at news agencies under Pack’s supervision say his resistance is an open act of defiance against the incoming administration. Trump appointee who oversees Voice of America refuses to cooperate with Biden transition team 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z And she is pretty elastic in the part – mixing dutiful curtsies of regret with glimmers of saucy defiance. ArtsBeat: Lindsay Lohan, Talk-Show Host 2013-08-06T14:58:23Z Eassy joins in and vocalizes, her powerful voice hinting at defiance and struggle as the dancers form a tableaux, singing in a call-and-response pattern; they crack their knuckles and cross their arms. Review: Dancing the Night Away With Brazil’s Cia Suave 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z Her rounded shoulders, with her arms folded in front of her, bespeak a combination of abjection and defiance: an unsparing portrait of the artist as a young woman. The Animal and the Edible in Sarah Lucas’s Self-Portraits 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z Outstanding moments included a sly, mischievous “Getting Some Fun Out of Life,” which Ms. Carroll played and sang, infusing the word “fun” with a hint of defiance. Music Review: A Classicist Who Enjoys Wild Flights of Imagination 2011-06-23T21:58:13Z Georgia’s journey springs from her defiance; the best part of her life may just be yet to come. Terry McMillan is as charming as the characters in her new book, 'I Almost Forgot About You' 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z Something is going on, and defiance needs addressing ASAP, while you still hold whatever reins you still hold. Carolyn Hax: Mom shouldn’t have any reservations about leaving son out of trip 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z Self-doubt turns to defiance and then to righteous anger in “Irrelevant,” a thumping, guitar-strumming, generalized pop-rock protest that makes up in spirit and momentum what it lacks in focus. Lizzo Conquers Self-Doubt With an ’80s Jam, and 7 More New Songs 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z Thrill rides are far from my transportation of choice, as they represent escapism by way of death defiance, and I very much enjoy living. "Dead End: Paranormal Park" explores theme parks as queer getaways 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z Whatever spirit of defiance helped to shape them, they were also attentive to the value of the past, to the gold that can be extracted from even the seemingly inhospitable topography of family life. Lee Krasner and Joan Mitchell: Abstract Expressionist Lives 2011-07-08T15:56:48Z The artists’ biographies that hang alongside their works read like a cross between job applications and statements of defiance. Chicago News Cooperative: Laid-Off Art Teachers Turn to Their Craft to Express Themselves 2011-07-10T06:00:56Z It “signals everything from independent thought to outright defiance and revolution.” The Color of Protest 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z It’s a big, loving portrait of a mottled bull calf, glowering at the viewer with an unsettlingly human mixture of defiance and hamburger-meat fatalism. The Koons Collection 2010-02-26T22:48:00Z In defiance of Hollywood intransigence, the past several years have witnessed the flourishing of writers, directors and actors of color. Has there been an ‘Obama effect’ in Hollywood? 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Female creators rise in all their splendor and defiance in Donna Seaman’s wonderful new book that chronicles the lives of seven American artists. 7 female artists you don’t know — but should 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Does that steady, unsmiling gaze signify stoicism or defiance? ‘State Funeral’ Review: Saying Goodbye to Stalin 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z Afrobeat, funk, protest, defiance and dancing are a lot closer to the top of the list. Music Review: Kronos at 40 Begins at Lincoln Center 2013-07-25T21:37:16Z My clock becomes a sought-after symbol of defiance that brings me a high-six-figures return. Bob Richter and John Bruno of ‘Market Warriors’ on PBS 2012-07-15T21:48:10Z Security Council this week in defiance of Israeli objections and a U.S. veto threat. Obama seeks to save Mideast policy 2011-09-21T14:44:00Z Rock ’n’ roll is a life force, and it’s joy as an act of defiance. U2, Preaching Defiance, Heads Back to Paris 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z The Sarajevo festival was founded by a group of enthusiasts in 1995 as an act of defiance against the 43-month siege of Sarajevo by Bosnian Serb forces. Top world film makers to honor 25th Sarajevo film festival 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z In the death zone, crucified innocence and clenched-fist defiance grapple with mass killing and dismemberment. Picasso's politics 2010-05-07T23:09:00Z By contrast, the whole idea of Graham, the towering modern-dance pioneer, still rings with defiance and daring. Review | Martha Graham dancers are marvelous, but the message is mixed in Kennedy Center program 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z More than a sense of fun, Ms. Taylor has acquired a sense of mischief and a willful defiance of others’ expectations. Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Companion, Diana Taylor, Gives a Rare Interview 2013-12-27T23:22:28Z Considering that there was significant overlap between Springsteen’s fans and adherents to the pro-rock, anti-disco mentality, the small expression of artistic solidarity with the “Queen of Disco” was meaningful in its defiance. Dear straight Springsteen fans: If you’re shocked that Bruce canceled his North Carolina show, you haven’t been paying attention 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z With an air of defiance, these images separate color from ideology. Art Review: A Boris Mikhailov Survey Looks at Ukraine’s Soviet Era 2014-01-23T22:50:48Z A snapshot of a bearded Kushner brandishing a sign reading “Killed by Bigotry” at an ACT UP rally captures the mood of defiance, rage and fear in which he conceived the play. Review | A full-bodied portrait of ‘Angels in America,’ a play redefined what theater could be 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z You sense Lucia’s tenaciousness coursing through Ms. Yende’s performance of the mad scene on her latest Sony recording, “Dreams”; even in the character’s delirium there is a chilling directness, even defiance, to her singing. ‘I Could Barely Sing a High C’: Pretty Yende Finally Conquers Lucia 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z That defiance of realism, of course, is part of puppets’ potency. Give Them a Hand: Puppet Artists Are Having a Moment 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z Two experts on extremist behavior analyze the many reasons QAnon’s followers persist in believing the movement’s outlandish notions in defiance of all knowledge and reason. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z It was these moments of honest discovery and emotional vulnerability, coupled with the comedy's consistent defiance of hopelessness, laziness, and bad leadership, that helped me navigate through the year. How Stephen Colbert's defiant honesty helped me navigate the madness of 2020 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z Not to be confused with the Madonna hit “Papa Don’t Preach,” the Loesser song was an amusing reminder that girls’ defiance of daddy’s rules began long before the 1980s. Michael Feinstein Salutes Sinatra at Birdland 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z In a story propelled by surprise after surprise in deliberate defiance of the expectations of ordinary reality, where logical discontinuity is a vehicle of joy, these leaps furnish rather than obstruct the whimsical world-building. A Playful, Posthumous Picture Book From Maurice Sendak 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z For more than six months, mostly young pro-democracy Hongkongers have marched in their millions and waged small street battles with police in a stunning, scary and seemingly unending show of defiance. I need a hero: finding courage, defiance and joy in the dark days of 2019 | Josephine Tovey 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z Crowther also wondered if there was something in you that was – perhaps – rebelling against your parents, in defiance? Every time I visit my family, they body-shame me 2018-02-17T05:00:00Z “If you’re looking for a savior, well, that’s not me,” she sings, her lush stacked vocals this time highlighting the line’s unapologetic defiance. Lorde Opts Out on the Provocatively Subdued ‘Solar Power’ 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z It's tight, punchy and melodic - a thunderstorm of teenage defiance; a haughty moue at the French media. Moulding music 2010-02-23T08:38:00Z “Why not write something completely different and celebrate the fact that I’m still standing?” she said, mustering a defiance that was willfully upbeat. Tina Howe Copes With Caregiving and Other Late-in-Life Storms 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z Sita’s decision to remain in the forest . . . reflects her defiance of toxic masculinity. How I choose to celebrate Diwali as a feminist 2023-11-11T05:00:00Z Burke urged stalwart politicians to form a corps, or a party, in defiance of such power. Freedom fighter 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z You mean those tantrums weren’t premeditated acts of defiance, planned in utero, rehearsed in private, and unleashed, at moments of maximum vulnerability, to crush an exhausted parent’s soul? Motherlode Blog: Seeing Tantrums as Distress, Not Defiance 2011-10-30T21:51:06Z It’s fun, funny, showy, often brutal and infused with a strange mix of melancholy, nihilism and sheer defiance – fitting for the era and city in which it’s set. 'Blade Runner 2049 is a roaring achievement': readers on the best films of 2017 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z “The gallery had become a symbol of national defiance” to Hitler, Mr. Stourton writes. ‘Kenneth Clark’ Paints a Portrait of a Cultural Titan 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z That act of quiet defiance causes Ito to cancel testimony for the day and send the jury back to their hotel to cool off. The People v OJ Simpson episode eight – bring on the Dancing Itos 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z Charles Blow, an opinion columnist at The Times, wrote that what was once Trump merch had become a visual stand-in for “Trumpism” — “a new iconography of white supremacy, white nationalist defiance and white cultural defense.” What Does the MAGA Hat Mean Now? 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z "Each evening, after they left the site, the cement blocks they had put up were being removed, before they had hardened, and thrown down in defiance." Country Girl by Edna O'Brien – review 2012-10-12T21:55:03Z For his defiance, he was threatened with court martial, although the threat was never carried out. 'With Their Bare Hands' tracks America's ascension to military power during WWI 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z Asked what he had learned from the criticism, Mr. Wainwright responded with a note of defiance. Rufus Wainwright’s First Opera Was ‘a Nightmare.’ He’s Trying Again. 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Chronically late for class, he has taken to wearing pajamas to school, a statement of both defiance and apathy. Creating an Adolescence for the Ages 2011-06-25T23:33:02Z And fashion is based on middle-class, middlebrow values, despite the mock defiance of an occasional licensed fool, like Vonnegut. Interview: Gore Vidal 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Until recently calling oneself an atheist was an act of defiance. 7 different types of non-believers 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z “With such precautions the courtiers might bid defiance to contagion,” writes Poe. Of course the rich are getting tested first. The wealthy always do better during a pandemic. 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z These were angry young reformers who explored new ways of living in defiance of the horrendous design standards of the age as revealed in the 1851 Great Exhibition. Aesthetic values 2011-03-26T00:05:03Z But where Styles is given the freedom to write about a girl who will only ever be considered lucky to have gotten his attention, Kraus’s book remains an act of defiance. Perspective | Harry Styles and ‘I Love Dick’ reveal the gender differences in how we treat muses 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z Demick guides us through the phases of oppression and defiance, decade by appalling decade, which have led the Chinese government to exert such heavy-handed control. The Chinese Town That Became the Self-Immolation Capital of the World 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z When Molly pulls out her cell phone in class, in defiance of a ban on the devices, another student says, “Exception for ass-kissers.” “Booksmart,” Reviewed: Olivia Wilde’s Toothless Teen Comedy 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z But if “The Long Goodbye” seems grim, it’s also stirring in its clarion defiance, sounded straight at the camera. In a blistering Oscar short film, Riz Ahmed finds catharsis 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z Mr. Max considers his choice a bit of digital defiance. Noted: Facebook Customizes Gender With 50 Different Choices 2014-04-04T22:40:18Z And to me this is the bigger artistic crime, as opposed to the flaws and defiance’s of his films’ heroes. My Woody Allen Problem 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z Artists like to invoke the notion of joy now, a radical defiance in the face of so much conspiring against it. A Nick Cave Survey With Plenty of Bells but No Whistles 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z There was excitement in his voice, but also defiance. Texas, 3 Ways 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z For two days students wore leggings in a show of group defiance, there was a #leggingsdayND hashtag on Twitter, and assorted men and women posted pictures of themselves in solidarity with leggings wearers. It’s Possible Leggings Are the Future. Deal With It. 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z Photograph: Ken McKay/Rex Features/Talkback Thames Though remains the richest and most powerful figure in British television, he again suffered the irritation of public defiance last night. The X Factor's other verdict: Simon Cowell's control has its limits 2010-12-13T00:13:00Z Above all, the new album posits “joy as an act of defiance,” Bono said. U2 Offer ‘Songs of Experience’ to a World That’s on Fire 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z These last four figures are intended to shock and outrage by their defiance of conventional propriety and current standards of decency and political correctness. The Dictator ? review 2012-05-19T23:08:03Z Whether that fragile cloth holds together today, in the face of blatant defiance of election results and the rule of law, depends on our respect for every strand in the weave.” 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z Inspired by a photograph from 1914, Chilembwe is shown wearing a hat in defiance of a colonial prohibition against Black Africans wearing them in the presence of white people. This Fall, London is Awash in Sculpture 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z This isn’t everyone’s view, obviously, and it’s a nearly impossible one to hold if the music is offensive, bad, constant, distracting or in open defiance of a polite request to turn it down. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: She doesn’t want to be the ‘mean old lady’ next door 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z But she gets Zibby’s mixture of bravado, vulnerability and defiance absolutely right. Movie Review: ‘Liberal Arts,’ From Josh Radnor 2012-09-13T22:06:30Z As if in deliberate defiance of such physical challenges, she shaped sensuously curving and swelling sculptures that seemed to float, bubble-light, in space. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z Their defiance is an opportunity for those who are often persecuted to finally feel welcome. Is Rap Finally Ready To Embrace Its Women? 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z Afterwards, Viry sat by the sea and talked of the days back in the 70s when he had to sing secretly, in defiance of the French authorities. Christine Salem: bringing the devil's music to Womad 2013-07-18T16:51:00Z My barrier island works are markers, clocks, fragile emblems, souvenirs of places that exist in conflict with their past and in defiance of their future. 12 Artists On: Climate Change 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z He lived in defiance of physics and race and gender, and we just kind of lived with that. Michael Jackson Cast a Spell. ‘Leaving Neverland’ Breaks It. 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z One of the most valuable lessons here is the works’ inherent formal and material sense of defiance, and of beauty itself as an act of resistance. At the Met, a Riveting Testament to Those Once Neglected 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Van Iperen feels there’s much more to explore in the realm of Jewish defiance, especially in the Netherlands. How 2 Jewish Sisters Built a Cultural Oasis During World War II 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z One New Jersey gym owner reopened this week, in defiance of the state’s shutdown. Hong Kong's reopened gyms may show future of socially distanced workouts 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z There are spaces for more moderately priced “contemporary” clothes, denim, handbags and beauty products, but because of the mostly open layout, everything runs together, even in defiance of logic. Where Masters and Mistresses of the Universe Can Have It All 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z The first, overriding one, is the cruel insanity of the regime of interrogation that he suffered, a never-ending nightmare of sleep deprivation and beatings and solitary confinement, which he endured with defiance and stubborn courage. The General: The Ordinary Man Who Challenged Guantánamo by Ahmed Errachidi – review 2013-04-08T07:00:06Z A colony of Belter refugees digs in their heels on the planet in defiance of governing forces. "The Expanse" relaunches on Amazon as stunning and complex as before 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z “The Baron in the Trees,” by Italo Calvino: a delightful and tremendously enjoyable little novel on boyhood defiance. Ayaan Hirsi Ali: By the Book 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z This parade of indignities leads to scenes of quiet defiance; a few rousing, tear-streaked speeches; and a bit of mildly interesting philosophical reflection. Review: ‘Hacksaw Ridge’ Has Guts and Glory. But Where’s the Gun? 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z She found the essence of carefree defiance in “Getting Some Fun Out of Life,” a young couple’s declaration of independence from the workday rules of the world. Music Review: Rebecca Kilgore Honors Billie Holiday and Lester Young 2010-08-03T20:46:00Z And for them, the devil is simply a symbol of "defiance, independence, wisdom and self-empowerment." After-school 'Satan Club' takes new aim at archenemy: Christian clubs for kids 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z So there will be defiance at the Oscars this year, and qualified celebration that women are finding more recognition. Oscars 2018 predictions from our film critic Peter Bradshaw 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z It will be in defiance of the proscriptive narrative that we constantly see on TV and in print media. Russell Brand on His New Show, Television Sidekicks and All That Salty Language 2012-06-28T12:00:11Z Determined to remain in defiance of things past, Renée is not amused. Colette has more punch than Proust 2011-03-25T14:00:03Z Sung in a mild voice, they’re tightly packed with defiance, nihilism and esoteric jokes — all of which create a bizarre, exquisite friction against the calm of the music. For Cass McCombs, the truth is blowing in the apocalyptic breeze 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z After a while, I started receiving a few e-mail messages from friends and concerned acquaintances explaining, with a dash of defiance and a hint of disapproval, why they didn’t “do that sort of thing.” Cultural Studies: Social Networking Takes a Strange Turn 2012-07-13T20:29:00Z When an entire political system persists in producing such gross injustice, it is making inevitable wholesale defiance. Corporate greed is poisoning America — literally 2013-05-20T17:04:00Z In a speech to an audience of her ambitious peers, Grace carefully explains the "upside" to their "healthy selfishness," saying their "secret weapon" is "composed of defiance and denial and greed." Review: 'Really Really' is clever look at GenMe 2013-02-20T22:58:08Z Nor does she recognize that her defiance flips his switch. "The Last of Us" makes an unholy meal of starving childhood innocence, served bloody 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z As usual with this style, the pictures express bohemian defiance and bittersweet affection for the young and reckless and the old and wounded. Art Review: ?Perspectives? at International Center of Photography 2010-07-22T22:01:00Z So, really, what we’ve been saluting all these decades was historic defiance. Cicely Tyson Kept It Together So We Didn’t Fall Apart 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z Beneath its defiance, it was tender and emotional — setting the stage for what was to come. Review: Looking for a Hero? Hold on to These Dancers 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z “I guess the music I’ve found myself to be a part of has always had a certain kind of sensibility of defiance and insistence on dignity and being treated as human beings,” Iyer said. Ojai Music Festival expands its eclectic vision under the eye of Vijay Iyer 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z But the killers proved the cartoonists’ point with ghastly finality: theirs was a necessary, freedom-sustaining, and therefore life-giving, form of defiance. The Life-Giving Defiance of the Charlie Hebdo Cartoonists 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z “When you’re fighting for your life and your basic human needs,” she says, creating art “is not just an escape, it’s an active choice of defiance.” ‘Art From the Holocaust’: The Beauty and Brutality in Forbidden Works 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z London's The Independent calls "Emperor" "a brittle, sophisticated cabaret, a nostalgic romance, a Chaplinesque satire, a declaration of defiance." Music of Remembrance to stage Viktor Ullmann's 'Emperor of Atlantis' 2012-11-15T22:28:03Z One way this took form was defiance against the Nazification of Dutch culture. How 2 Jewish Sisters Built a Cultural Oasis During World War II 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z Their lives of daring and defiance are captivating true stories. The Da Vinci ode: I was right about Leonardo's genius 2011-04-01T14:19:07Z It was not an act of fear or a cry for help, but an act of defiance: I am not intimidated by you and I am not alone. A normalization of violence: how cyberbullying began and how to fight it 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Just going to work or living your life in lower Manhattan became a political statement of defiance. The endless aftermath: Since 9/11, we’ve had 15 years of bloodshed, terror and a constant fear of what’s next 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z If there are traces of defiance — or defensiveness — in Rosalía’s delivery, it is because she has not always been praised for helping herself to an all-purpose sonic and linguistic tool kit. Rosalía Reserves the Right to Transform 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Novels are, or should be, written in defiance of the now, in an imaginative sedition against an overweening present. Review | ‘Exit West,’ by Mohsin Hamid, is a tale of love in the time of migration 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z The effect remains mesmerizing — a defiant expression of comfort and a comfortable expression of defiance all at once. Review | Is Blueface ahead of his time? Or does he just rap like it? 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z But the threat of failure brought something new to this woman’s acting: rage, defiance, misery, callousness, humor, remorse. Best Performances of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z Thunder still rumbles, swords still clack noisily, and men still shout in defiance at the unbearable cruelties of the gods. Theater Review: ‘King Lear,’ With Michael Pennington, Opens in Brooklyn 2014-03-28T02:00:01Z In a fixed attitude of defiance against his own tyrannical father, Eugene decrees a life of enlightened autonomy for his son, unaware of the tyrannical nature of his fiats. James Lasdun reviews The Scientists: A Family Romance by Marco Roth 2013-02-16T09:01:01Z For his age, he exhibited rare self-reliance; Was he driven as well by a sense of defiance? Style Invitational Week 1436: Haven’t seen it — new plots for movie titles 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z Her childhood was peppered with all sorts of speech therapy, ear, nose and throat hospital appointments and a recurrent defiance in the face of lettuce. Family life 2013-01-12T08:15:01Z As such, the festival is an inherent act of defiance against any attempt to cement hierarchies. At GlobalFest, a World of Music, Costumes and Messages 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z They occupied their slice of Manhattan in a shared spirit of defiance. Meet the punk activist who’s changing the psychiatric system from the inside 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z The subtitle of the show, “A Modern Master,” is a kind of cry of defiance. Restoring the portrait of an artist: How a new exhibition is giving William Merritt Chase his due 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Again, a small victory in the face of defeat: getting a banned exile's voice was some compensation for Rushdie's absence, a lesser but not insignificant show of anti-censorship defiance. Clash of the Booker titans 2013-05-23T13:57:00Z Her old defiance persists, but to far less discernible purpose. Playlist: Younger Folk, Older Folk, Noises Tempered and Psychedelic 2010-10-15T16:58:00Z As Mr. Obama was ushered to his aisle seat in Row K, the audience applauded thunderously and snapped cellphone photos, in open defiance of a recorded warning from George III, played by Jonathan Groff. Starring on Broadway, Obama and Alexander Hamilton 2015-07-18T04:00:00Z He tweeted in March 2020 that “the coronavirus panic is dumb” and two months later proceeded to reopen the Tesla factory in Fremont, Calif., in defiance of local mandates. How Elon Musk became a new kind of celebrity 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z So I walked right past the man in the Central Park Conservancy T-shirt, my laminated card bouncing in defiance. Central Park: A green island in Manhattan In Mr. Marsalis’s arrangement of “Teru,” for five harmonized saxophones, Mr. Shorter played in defiance of momentum and the unbroken narrative. Review: Wayne Shorter Goes Solo With the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z As Bailey recognises: "It looked like this amazing, joyous gesture of defiance." Director Lucy Bailey: Thinking small 2011-02-15T14:43:22Z That defiance was particularly powerful coming from an orchestra from Odesa, whose port holds the key to the Black Sea and the global grain trade. An American Leads the Odesa Philharmonic to Berlin 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Her world is rich indeed, one of yearning, secrets, defiance and lyrical flights of fancy. Kimberly Elkins’s ‘What Is Visible,’ a novel about Laura Bridgman But Cowen’s study identified 13 emotional responses or feelings “felt through the language of music”: amusement, joy, desire, beautiful, relaxation, sadness, dreaminess, triumph, anxiety, scariness, annoyance, defiance and feeling pumped up. Does that song make you sad? You’re not alone. 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z The first ended when the club in Diwaniya was disbanded in 2012 after complaints from the local community that the sport was in defiance of local traditions and culture. Grappling with taboos, Iraqi women join wrestling squad 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Her trite defiance is exemplified when she remonstrates against a would-be teacher who would pollute young Ned’s mind with “fancy books.” ‘True History of the Kelly Gang’ Review: a 19th-Century Outlaw Tale 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z An icon of disputed Kashmir’s resistance against Indian rule and a top separatist leader who became the emblem of the region’s defiance against New Delhi. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z You can read defiance into their refusal to be more transparently political, or you can reflect on what a burden it is to have anything you do read through a racial and political lens. Art We Saw This Fall 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z Somehow a very English, as well as a very masculine poem, "Elegy" thrives on its youthful defiance, candour and lack of sentimentality. Poem of the week: Elegy by Sidney Keyes 2013-07-15T11:42:00Z He’s creepily fixated on how to best inflict pain on kids, in obvious defiance of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Why Christian Right leader James Dobson blocked me on Twitter 2016-07-03T04:00:00Z This act of defiance was enabled — rewarded, really — by a new culture of collecting. Rococo Bad Boy Rebels in ‘Fragonard: Drawing Triumphant’ 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z The strength of Mr Leigh’s book is that it makes sense of such an anachronistic act: duels have a “beguiling mixture of politeness and violence, deference and defiance”, he writes. Men at arms 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z That is the real defiance of black skin on screen. It’s lit! How film finally learned how to light black skin 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z Her “vulnerability in this tense context,” as the Guardian reported, helped the picture go viral and the woman become a symbol of defiance against greed and the rising authoritarianism of the Turkish government. Review | In Elliot Ackerman’s ‘Red Dress in Black and White,’ a viral photo at a Turkish protest sets a plot in motion 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z Bravely dressed in red, Benko's delicate Birdie, exuding weakened defiance, is the only spot of color on the stage. Review: Timeless greed stars in 'The Little Foxes' 2010-09-22T19:44:00Z Her work is equal parts assertion and denial, an irrefutable proclamation of presence born of resistance and defiance. Mariah Robertson's vigorous tussle with photography 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z Netflix dropped “Russian Doll” early in the year and soon after, the enthusiastic chatter about its narrative mystery, its defiance of description and heady hopeful themes spiraled outward into the world. As the world burns, existential TV reflects viewers' needs to make sense of life 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z Among the works his company was performing on that 2011 visit was “Ma Maison,” his jittery tribute to New Orleans jazz funerals, Cajun ghosts and the city’s defiance in the face of finality. Trey McIntyre Project’s last dance: Success kills a thriving company Perhaps this wasn’t a cynical act of defiance but rather swarms of fans undoing decades of compartmentalizing. “Surviving R. Kelly” Reframes R. Kelly and the Songs We Once Loved 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z History tells us that the earliest Juneteenth celebrations were joyful, but they took place under threat of violence – which also made celebrating the holiday an act of defiance. How (not) to do Juneteenth 2022-06-18T04:00:00Z Part of his defiance in the face of cancer is to throw everything he has onto the page. Three Sharply Observed Books Showcase the Enduring Appeal of Memoirs About Dealing With Disease 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z This book is “a daughter’s gesture of loving defiance, an act of reclamation, an absorbing portrait of her mother in full,” our critic Jennifer Szalai writes. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z Finally, do not harshly discipline defiance or regression. Bonding with a misbehaving stepchild involves more than ‘unconditional love’ 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z Mr. Williams’s display follows a wave of demonstrations across the country on Sunday as N.F.L. players knelt or locked arms during the national anthem in defiance of Mr. Trump. Pharrell Williams ‘Takes a Knee’ as Artists Join Anthem Protest 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z Young might owe his swagger to that hair, given the defiance required to wear it that way — those ways. Trae Young: Your Hair Is an Unsolved Mystery. But a Magnificent One. 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z What is the ultimate defiance of that assumption? Birtherism and America’s history of white supremacy: What we can’t let ourselves forget about Donald Trump 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z The younger generation is put to the test as they race to finish the opilio season; defiance on the Wizard turns brother against brother; an accident brings one man’s career to an end. Tuesday TV Picks: ‘Capture’ on The CW 2013-07-29T19:13:31Z Indeed, the event is charged with connections to those days of blood and tribulation and music, and as such it is a night more of survival and defiance than mourning. Amira Medunjanin, the Balkan Billie Holiday 2013-01-20T06:30:00Z Even if she might savour Webster's aphoristic couplets a little more, Charlotte Emmerson's Duchess offers exactly the right mix of defiance and death-wish, passion and pathos. The Duchess of Malfi ? review 2010-10-20T20:31:00Z To speak out regardless — not just me, but anyone who has the privilege to do so safely or chooses to otherwise — is an act of defiance worth doing. We fill queer spaces with joy and belonging. That’s why they’re under attack 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z Faithfull has fashioned sticking around into a prolonged show of defiance — a radical act, for a woman. She’s Marianne Faithfull, Damn It. And She’s (Thankfully) Still Here. 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z One stars Maria swimming naked at a motel pool, an existential defiance that scandalizes the owner of the establishment. How Cinemax's "Jett" does nudity — and plenty of it — right 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z The journalists’ group in 2020 took the rare step of voting to remove the network and its reporter, Chanel Rion, from the room after she repeatedly attended briefings in defiance of the pandemic restrictions. The White House’s new press briefing seat chart says a lot about where each reporter stands 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z With an agile imagination and breathtaking defiance of convention, she transforms ordinary objects — Ms. Meier loves a good hardware store — into tools for artistic expression. When the Body Is a Canvas, Accented With Paint or Peanuts 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z Novelist Joyce Carol Oates tweeted that she would see the play "in thrilled defiance of ignorant would-be censors." To boycott, or not to boycott over Trumpian 'Julius Caesar' 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z Village Gifts where aspiring princesses can snap up $64.95 Belle costumes; and the Be Our Guest Restaurant where, in defiance of Florida weather, soft, romantic snow perpetually falls outside the windows. Inside Disney’s New Fantasyland 2012-12-21T16:55:27Z Mr. Dykstra seems to suggest that any art that isn’t commercialized is of value and that we should make it in defiance of consequence. Review: In ‘Education,’ a Fictional Protest That Pales Next to Real Ones 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z But her upward tilting chin belies all evidence of docility: Her chin signals ego, stubbornness and a touch of defiance. Review | A fascinating look at the girl who inspired Degas’ ‘Little Dancer’ sculpture 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z Painting, essentially, is the weed of art making, which continues to triumph in defiance of cataclysm. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z It’s neat and pointed pop phrasing, a taunt to powerful interests delivered with nonchalance and cleareyed defiance. Review: M.I.A.’s Album ‘AIM’ Juggles Social Consciousness and Self-Assurance 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z It’s where the Puerto Rican Sharks and the White, blue-collar Jets pour all their resentments, defiance and cultural pride into a dance battle that’s inflamed by Leonard Bernstein’s Latin jazz and a fiercely syncopated mambo. With ‘West Side Story,’ choreographer Justin Peck brought dance into the Spielberg universe 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z But, however overwrought Anna’s sensibility sometimes is, Mrs. Lessing points such powerful significances therefrom that, in comparison, many other highly touted novels dealing with man’s acceptance — or defiance — of his fate seem picayune indeed. Review: ‘The Golden Notebook,’ by Doris Lessing 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z In scenes of Churchill’s increasingly uneasy sittings with Sutherland, he’s a Lear-like figure, consumed by gloom, defiance and anger — none of which are improved by his addictions to French cognac and Cuban cigars. Tina Brown on the Final Two Episodes of ‘The Crown’: Love and Duty 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z However, something in me, that part of my brain that enjoys a bit of harmless defiance, decided to tell her that we were closing. What I learned from Kim Kardashian’s new smartphone game 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z With utmost economy, she traces out the stages of Dido's grief, ending on tones of radiant defiance. Alex Ross on Lorraine Hunt Lieberson 2013-05-28T06:00:00Z There was the story of the poem he read out at a camp gathering in honour of Hitler's birthday, "Thoughts Are Free", its sentiments – and Litten's defiance – apparently lost on the watching guards. Rewind TV: The Man Who Crossed Hitler; Hans Litten vs Adolf Hitler: To Stop a Tyrant; Random; American: The Bill Hicks Story; The Hour ? review 2011-08-27T23:05:58Z The overall vibe is ominous, yet the installation celebrates Clark’s satisfaction in working with her hands — “in defiance,” she writes, of mass-produced commodities. In the galleries: The eclectic art of the Dominican disapora 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z In full defiance of the separation of church and state, the valedictorian of South Carolina’s Liberty High School got up before his classmates Saturday with a school-approved speech in his hand. Can Christians get along with America? 2013-06-07T19:45:00Z In the hands of lesser performers — and in defiance of Chris Dapkins’s clear, bright cinematography — this debut feature would feel unbearably hermetic, its navel-gazing angst wearyingly indulgent. Review: ‘A Woman, a Part’ and a Quest to Reconnect 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z To see it again now is to see her defiance. The new season of The Good Fight declares war on Trump 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z Thus the title of Kim's book screams a bold defiance of global historical trends. Dictator-lit: Kim Jong-il's political philosophy 2010-12-07T10:57:00Z The “Tarantella” has so much hope and defiance, but when you follow it with the lonely afterlife of “Zolle,” it becomes devastating. Cosmic Stories: Du Yun Revisits Her Earliest Music Theater 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z The family’s heroic defiance did not come without consequences, though. A Greek family saved them from Nazis. Now, they found how to thank them. 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z What Twenty One Pilots do best, at the center of their suburban musical hodgepodge, is bring certain teen-bait ideas together: guilt with defiance, insecurity with confidence, paranoia with total command. The Slippery Appeal of the Biggest New Band in America 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z Still, the festival, which runs through Sunday and celebrates its centennial season, is approaching the pandemic crisis with a balance of respect and resolve, deference and defiance, caution and passion. Perspective | I miss live performances, but what I really miss is applause 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z Instead, they're putting these fake meats into fast food joints which exist outside — and often, in direct defiance of — the status-seeking modes of eating. With deep-fried fake chicken, can Beyond break the link between health food and vegetarianism? 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z By the end, the dancers’ physical energy had cooled, replaced with iron defiance, which was more internal. Urban Bush Women, with energy to burn 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z She wed once in defiance of her father's wishes, once to please him; both marriages failed. What was it like to be 'Stalin's Daughter'? 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Makeup, she tells us, has always offered a ritual of preservation; now her slash of carmine lipstick is an act of defiance. ‘She Will’ Review: Payback Is a Witch 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z Kelly Hunter is also superb as the falsely accused Hermione: full of fire and defiance at her trial, yet finally displaying a loving forgiveness of her crazed husband in true fairytale style. The Winter's Tale ? review 2010-12-19T22:15:00Z A scene where his father stops his son from giving out fireworks to schoolchildren prompts Nitram to blare a car horn ceaselessly in defiance. "Nitram" director was "terrified" of tackling mass shooting that changed Australian gun laws forever 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z Some of the most memorable chapters are interior monologues from women who, every day, must negotiate defiance and deferral to their men and their in-laws. The migrant’s story 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z It’s titled, in what could also be read as defiance, “American Beauty.” Review | In the galleries: Studies in ‘anti-landscapes’ and seeing the unseen 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z The film’s music soundtrack is deployed like a cudgel: A musical-comedy-like refrain adds a comic buoyancy; a hard-rock cue suggests Gonzalo’s defiance; a stirring Prokofiev crescendo lends grandeur to the climax. Review: ‘The Apostate’ Chronicles a Rebellious Catholic 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z The images evoke extremes of wealth and poverty, the heavy hand of the government and also the defiance and beauty of children, teenagers and university students. | 'No One Knows About Persian Cats': Indie Rock in Iran in Bahman Ghobadi?s New Work 2010-04-16T01:56:00Z But roughly midway through, the show is transformed from an animated list of grievances to a call to rebellion, filled with songs and dances of defiance. Hate, Hope and Healing at Under the Radar 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z Hawk, for all his swagger, is actually weaker, someone who accepts the strictures of 1950s American life and gets his highs by his surreptitious defiance of societal mores. Risk-Taking New Opera Tells a Tragic 1950s Gay Love Story 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z One is tempted to imagine a play — to be written in desperate defiance of Aristotle — from which doing would be eliminated altogether, in which nothing but being would be left. Richard Nelson’s New Play Closes a Chapter of Theater History 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z She thrashed her arms about in defiance against the coming end to her life. The coalition's attacks on the NHS will return us to the age of the workhouse 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z “If ever the world is to be again flooded, like the Netherlands, to kill off its rats,” Melville mused, “then the eternal whale will still survive, and … spout his frothed defiance to the skies.” Melville’s Whale Was a Warning We Failed to Heed 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z Virtually everything that comes out of Caroline’s mouth conveys a snide edge of defiance and intellectual arrogance. | 'Daydream Nation': Picking Up Extra Credit, and Teacher, After School 2011-05-06T05:30:05Z The story of Rahimi, the fictional investigative journalist at the heart of “Holy Spider,” is one of female defiance in the face of male violence. An Iranian Exile Channels Her Trauma Into Film 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z Her rescuer, the eccentric scholar Charles Maxim, names her Sophie, takes her home to London and brings her up – in defiance of the National Childcare Agency – to be as eccentric as he is. Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell – review 2013-05-18T09:31:01Z His voice is soft, listless, not a roar of defiance but a whisper of regret. No 875: Porcelain Raft 2010-09-27T14:48:00Z But he dispatched the demanding aria with defiance and fervor. Review: Mozart’s ‘Idomeneo’ Shows the Met Opera at Its Best 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z When, midway through, some townspeople begin practicing capoeira — a combat game that originated with enslaved Africans — they are both communing with that history of defiance and readying for a new battle. ‘Bacurau’ Review: Life and Death in a Small Brazilian Town 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Njinga's life was rich with reversals and defiance, qualities the producers mentioned in the series' post-script as inspiring Angola's modern push for independence. With "African Queens: Njinga" a previously overlooked history spectacularly springs into action 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z He wants to convince us to make a real, if only symbolic, gesture of defiance. How political theatre changed its tune 2012-06-06T14:53:19Z The defiance, strength and vitality on show are striking - perhaps because we are more used to the stereotypical image of the cancer 'victim'. Rankin comes face to face with death 2013-05-17T07:42:48Z Its Gypsy punk rock combines the aggression of heavy metal with the defiance of punk music and the yearning of Balkan folk music. Music: Kultur Shock Plays the Balkans 2011-04-07T15:30:15Z Still, “Heisenberg” showcases two bracingly distinctive characters, and it is rewarding to watch them, in defiance of all likelihood, find common ground. Review | ‘Heisenberg’ turns an odd-couple love into faith in humanity 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z His boxy figures of the 1960s, somberly painted in thick impasto, their features often scratched into the surface, faced the viewer squarely with an air of stoicism or grim defiance. Lester Johnson, Expressionist Painter, Dies at 91 2010-06-09T00:46:00Z Having allowed his passport to lapse in 1949 — by some accounts in deliberate defiance of Czechoslovakia’s Communist government — Mr. Husa accepted a post at Cornell and emigrated to the United States in 1954. Karel Husa, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Composer, Dies at 95 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z Sarandon’s very physiognomy suggests defiance; she looks indignant even at rest. Susan Sarandon: ‘I thought Hillary was very dangerous. If she'd won, we'd be at war’ 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z When I wrote instructions on the basement wall for the plumber, I experienced a very childlike element of sheer defiance. “It was like an overdose of porn”: Chris Offutt reflects on writing about his family’s big secret, after his father’s death 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z Hill and her band continued to play, in defiance or obliviousness. Has Afropunk Abandoned Its Origins? 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z As the prime minister’s wife, Clementine wanted to show solidarity with these “mothers of England” who formed the backbone of wartime defiance. Defined by their look: First ladies must set the right tone with their wardrobe — is this too colorful for the age of ISIS? 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z As an act of defiance, the townsfolk of Beit Sahour, a Christian suburb of Bethlehem, imported 18 cows from Israel to launch a dairy co-op. 'Wanted 18' hoofs it through Israeli hunt for cows on the lamb 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z I wanted to find an alternative narrative, and to discover how their spirit of defiance lingers on in their lives today. Elizabeth D Herman's best photograph 2012-07-04T17:01:56Z The TikTok stars Bryce Hall and Blake Gray are facing criminal charges for throwing mega-parties at their Hollywood Hills mansion in defiance of a ban against large gatherings in Los Angeles, prosecutors announced on Friday. 2 TikTok Stars Who Threw Big Parties Face Charges, Prosecutors Say 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z But listening to him again more recently, I detected a defiance that was, in its own way, radical, even countercultural. Is It Funny for the Jews? 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z “There is no such thing as ‘Hamlet,’” the opera’s librettist, Matthew Jocelyn, says with some defiance in an interview in the Glyndebourne program book, pointing to these overlapping, conflicting source texts. ‘Hamlet,’ a New Opera, Makes Shakespeare Strange 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z With Baghdad to the east and the Syrian border to the west, the city appeared untamable, its defiance resounding across a sweltering territory known as the Sunni Triangle. Blood, sand and tears: A foreign correspondent's view of the opera 'Fallujah' 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z The heads are disproportionately big, the hands claw-like, the limbs flaccid or cricked and skewed in defiance of anatomy to get across further expression or character. Alice Neel: Painted Truths 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z The set led off with a big-beat boom bounce of "Uprising," followed by the racing defiance of the title track of the group's current album "The Resistance," its fifth studio set. Muse a contender for world's biggest band 2010-09-27T00:59:00Z By Friday the twentieth, café terraces were full again, not so much in the spirit of joyful defiance of fear as in resignation to the reality of living with it. Paris, One Year Later 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z But, played by dozens of Ukrainian musicians on a mild evening in Damrosch Park, the score took on an air of calm but implacable defiance, what Rimbaud once called “burning patience.” Review: A Ukrainian Orchestra Speaks With Quiet Intensity 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z His defiance raised the possibility of a last-ditch fight over the capital, home to 2 million people. Gadhafi's 40-year rule crumbling 2011-08-22T01:31:00Z In 2009, Alone in Berlin was a little-known German novel describing an act of wartime defiance against the Nazi regime. ‘My family resisted the Nazis’: why director had to film Alone in Berlin 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z Her defiance is given force by the buccaneer’s pistol she holds behind her back. Real, or Too Real? A Dazzling Show Goes the Way of All Flesh 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z Existentialism in its Kunderian manifestation, like its cousins the absurd and the surreal, claims laughter to be an essential element of man’s defiance. ‘The Festival of Insignificance,’ by Milan Kundera 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z In this construction, staying alive is an act of defiance, not exuberance. Carly Rae Jepsen’s Brand-New Boy Problems, and 7 More New Songs 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z In 16 minutes, I’d gone from sorrow to happiness to defiance. The Woman at the Heart of Beethoven’s ‘Moonlight’ Sonata 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z Television this year offered ingenuity, humor, defiance and hope. Meg Stalter Rejoices With Dolly Parton and a Loyal Chihuahua 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z That is the Duke of Wellington, one of Britain’s greatest military heroes, and for some reason, the people of Glasgow — it’s basically seen as an act of defiance. Places 22 and 23 of 52: Cheeky Surprises in Bristol, and a ‘Wee Look Around’ Glasgow 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z At times, as on her opener, “Gimme,” she seemed intent on a fierce defiance. Music Review: Maxwell and Jill Scott Play Madison Square Garden 2010-06-27T22:53:00Z Her line is formally reminiscent of Egon Schiele, the early 20th century Austrian artist whose defiance of conventional norms of beauty unearthed a more powerfully charged inner life. 100 missing women: Drawings at African American museum tell a powerful story of loss 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Each one was a musical narrative, unfolding in multiple sections, moving between delicacy and fierce tenacity, mourning and defiance. Music Review: Emel Mathlouthi at the French Institute’s Tunisia Festival 2013-05-23T21:52:42Z Is it causing ripples of anger, frustration and defiance that are spilling into other parts of your relationship? Should these parents let their son quit baseball? 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z She smiled with gentle defiance, closing the door and walking past a Warhol "Superman" on her way to reflecting pools that glimmered off the courtyard of their Brentwood estate. How Edye Broad's 'natural eye' drew her billionaire husband into the art world 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z If you see defiance — “I won’t clean my room” — and you punish it with “I am taking away your Xbox,” your relationship will deteriorate. First I was being too mean about my son’s outbursts. Now I’m being too nice. Help? 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z "Rapidly advancing fascism cried out for defiance; if not here, where?" 'Spain in Our Hearts' tells the American story of the Spanish civil war 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z The new year begins and, in defiance of even its allies in Beijing, North Korea and its dictator Kim Jong-un test a nuclear weapon. Cover Story: Kim Jong-un’s Big Announcement 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z She witnesses the jail’s daily operations and institutional horrors, and her unique position enables her to engage in acts of defiance. Review | Sadeqa Johnson’s ‘Yellow Wife’ chronicles one tenacious enslaved woman’s survival in the antebellum South 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z Wanda’s utterly guileless indifference has the feeling of an adamant integrity; her total acceptance is rather a total defiance of the norms of society that exclude her from it. Barbara Loden: “A Woman Telling Her Own Story Through That of Another Woman” 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z The performance earned her a brief jail stint and instant fame as a symbol of youthful defiance, particularly since it took place in the months leading up to the student demonstrations at Tiananmen Square. Female Factor: Bringing a Woman's Touch to Chinese Art Scene 2011-01-20T12:30:05Z One encounters in the arresting artwork of “Run” beady eyes, angry grimaces, looks of anguish and defiance. John Lewis’s Sequel to His Award-Winning Graphic Memoir, ‘March’ 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z They were grounded in a bold, undogmatic feminism; they wielded the power of rock to lash out at abuses of power and to look inward at desire, confusion, desperation and defiance. Sleater-Kinney Reunites 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z North Korea, one of the world's last Cold War outposts, remains mostly isolated from the rest of the world, a country more famous for its nuclear defiance than its potential for romantic comedies. Romantic comedy gets twist from NKorean acrobats 2012-09-07T12:01:04Z There they commenced their own party, in defiance of local ordinances, and kept it going until almost dawn. | Art Basel Miami Beach, Night Three: Sleep at Art Basel Miami Beach? Are You Kidding? 2010-12-04T00:04:00Z I was happy to be in Paris, however, as a small act of defiance to those who sought to spread fear among the public. Combining pet-sitting in Versailles with sightseeing in Paris 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z The A.P. said he identified himself with the Occupy movement, and that he said he defaced the painting as act of social and political defiance. ArtsBeat: Accused Picasso Vandal Surrenders at U.S.-Mexico Border 2013-01-09T14:51:54Z “Now they seem to be more a sign of indulgent defiance,” she said. Why We Love the Bouffant 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z What was striking about that early work was its combustion of raw energy, defiance, irony and joy. 'Zoot Suit': How Latino theater born in the farm fields changed L.A. theater forever 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z But this is also a "Magic Flute" of defiance, of raised fists, of the celebration of freedom and equality that were Mozart's ideals and are the often overlooked essence of the opera. A 'Flute' from Africa renews Mozart's musical magic 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z So when it carpets every bookshop later this year, we might at least infuse lagom with a bit of defiance – a hard-nosed alternative to the easy extremism of the age. Moderates are the real tough guys 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z In Ghalia Kabbani's variation on the tale of the Lady of Damascus, the survival of a weaver's child abducted by djinns is poignantly juxtaposed with the defiance of today's Syrian children demanding regime change. Arab Nights – review 2012-11-23T18:57:46Z Some stores, like Target, refused to stock the physical album in defiance. 10 years of Beyoncé: A decade "causing all this conversation" 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z So, this week, in defiance of this column’s whole raison d’être, here are two recipes that needn’t involve any baking at all. No baking necessary for these fridge cake recipes | Ruby Tandoh 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z Independence, freedom, originality, authenticity, critical thinking, defiance of authority and so forth: These are the prevailing values of art today, and they are what most progressive art schools try to teach. ‘Unorthodox’ Faces Paradox at the Jewish Museum 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z “When I think of these films, I am reminded of that sense in which the project of cinema is that of a defiance of time,” Swinton writes in an email. In ‘The Souvenir Part II,” a human-scaled epic concludes 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z “It’s a bit of defiance – it’s like walking into a room full of vicars and shouting something rude.” From the joke shop to the high street: why poo is no longer taboo 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z The affecting young tenor Alexander Lewis brings cagey intensity to the role, singing by turns with flashes of defiance and pleading despair. Review: Matthew Aucoin’s ‘Crossing’ Is a Taut, Inspired Opera 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z However, that series’ defining characteristic is its defiance of strict definition: it is neither comedy nor drama, and can be wrenchingly funny and deeply disturbing within the span of a single episode. "South Side" and "Sherman's Showcase" give rarely-seen perspectives on black American life 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z Jackson follows her with equal force and in defiance of whatever had been ailing her. ‘Summer of Soul’ Review: In 1969 Harlem, a Music Festival Stuns 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z Father trains those daughters, in defiance of the villagers’ tut-tutting and assumptions about women’s roles, to mud wrestle, and instills in them a spirit of feminism. Review: A Father’s Dreams, Recast by His Daughters in ‘Dangal’ 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z I see now that it was a necessary act of defiance to carry on a difficult conversation with him that could not be spoken aloud. The voice of Maya Angelou gave rise to others In videos posted to YouTube, Landeros says he didn't intend to destroy the painting but that his actions were an act of social and political defiance. Man accused in Picasso vandalism to remain jailed 2013-01-16T18:52:13Z I walked away from meeting Zach just astonished by his defiance. This Guy Just Wants to Know If He Sounds Gay 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z It is a chronicle of loss, defiance and resilience. Amy Dunne on her lonely, harrowing abortion fight: 'I was told I would be done for murder' 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Please share your own favorite screen images of defiance in the Letters section. Fight the power: Great movies about resistance 2011-02-05T00:30:00Z “It wasn’t defiance, we just wanted to connect with people,” Jane said. Undeterred by social distancing, wine lovers around the world embrace virtual happy hours with friends and family 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z And then he declaims, with a mad and almost ecstatic kind of defiance: “Encore du champagne!” Mutant bears, flying heads and chainsaw duels: the best movie moments of 2018 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z Our views about Parks are frozen in time in one act of defiance. The amazing Rosa Parks story too few people still know 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z There is a defiance to the Fazilis’ methods of documenting their hell on earth. “Midnight Traveler” Expands the Narrative of the Refugee Documentary 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z Her defiance is symbolized by her championing of the singer Bridget Everett, who gleefully breaks the fourth wall. Patti LuPone Goes Iconoclastic at 54 Below 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z For reasons unknown, Dreger’s publisher has chosen to package “Galileo’s Middle Finger” in a fashion that will mislead many into assuming it’s a history of scientific defiance from the 16th century to the present day. “Galileo’s Middle Finger”: When scholars and activists clash over controversial research, we all lose 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z Second, the choreographer was terribly clever at hiding his defiance in his dances. ‘Like a Bomb Going Off,’ by Janice Ross 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z I had arrived there in a show of defiance against my beleaguered husband, who was insisting that I was too drunk and that I couldn’t go out again. Intoxicating highs and deep darkness: living and loving with bipolar disorder 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z Then Tiberius pushed through land reforms in defiance of the Senate’s veto. What the Fall of the Roman Republic Can Teach Us About America 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z But the woman is defiant and there’s room for a little bit of humor in her defiance. David Mackenzie Narrates a Scene From ‘Hell or High Water’ 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z Ministry's Breathe! is both a rallying cry and a shout of defiance against the despoilers and destroyers of the planet. Readers recommend: songs about breathing – results 2013-05-02T13:00:06Z It represents a hoary form of literary birtherism that has persisted for a century or so, in happy defiance of reason and evidence. Movie Review: ?Anonymous,? by Roland Emmerich - Review 2011-10-27T15:47:42Z In the surviving still photographs, Tubman comes across as an intimidatingly serious woman, staring into the camera with an expression set somewhere between defiance and disapproval. How Cynthia Erivo took the US by storm – with a little help from Aretha and Oprah 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z A classic ballet pose — the arabesque — is imbued with defiance or delight. Theater Review: Dancing to Twyla Tharp and Sinatra?s Music 2010-03-26T04:27:00Z This atmosphere of defiance prevails throughout the whole crew. Zebra Katz, Mykki Blanco and the rise of queer rap 2012-06-08T23:06:00Z At the beginning of the story, Jiayu has made a gesture of defiance: “She said to the ceiling, Grief, I don’t know who you are, so don’t pretend you know who I am.” Yiyun Li on Grief and Memory 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z Sting’s role, Jackie White, the leader of a quixotic plan to reopen the chained-up shipyards and build one last ship as a symbolic gesture of defiance, is not the leading one in the show. In ‘Last Ship,’ Sting Tries to Not Steal the Spotlight 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z But Vine is right to point out that making standup look easy – in defiance of the hothouse atmosphere in which it usually takes place – is no cakewalk. Brian Logan on novelty standups 2011-01-19T22:15:01Z Its legacy weaves through modern times in the defiance of dandies from Salvador Dalí to David Bowie. Beautiful rebels: the daring art of the aesthetic movement 2011-03-28T20:31:01Z “That is what I think,” Gerwig says, with determination and just a touch of defiance. Can real men love ‘Little Women’? Greta Gerwig thinks they should. 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z The decision was both impetuous and brutal, in part an exercise in fundamentalist iconoclasm, in part an act of defiance and rage against the world at large. Perspective | The president didn’t threaten just Iran’s culture sites. He threatened culture. 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z They just vary in their level of defiance. Perspective | My 2-year-old is stubborn and uncooperative. What can I do? 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z There are also a number of contraptions that gesture at the technocratic defiance and the retro cool of flipping open a spartan phone. A Hardy Group Holds Out on Smartphones 2012-03-23T20:45:14Z He’d say this in a tone of defiance, but I knew he was scared to death.” Life on the frontline of the Aids epidemic | David France 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z After decades of disuse, the term was repopularized in the seventies and eighties by people of color and queer communities—this time as a gesture of defiance. The Politics of Conspicuous Displays of Self-Care 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z Even if few did so, the effect signaled an inclusiveness and connectivity, in defiance of the fragmentation that had come before it. Music Review: ?That Morning Thing? at the Kitchen for Performa 11 - Review 2011-11-23T23:38:54Z I agreed, both of us uniting in our defiance. A FaceTime Relationship Turns Face to Face 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z Okorocha’s new single, “Wetin you want”, which translates as “What do you want”, tells her story of defiance in a city full of crooks and hustlers with the catchphrase “This is Lagos”. Nigeria's 'Rock Goddess' wants to change people's minds 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z The subject of the film is Lady Susan’s carefully but boldly wrought self-liberation—and the collective, societal liberation that sweeps outward from her quiet but decisive defiance. Whit Stillman’s “Love & Friendship”: Subverting the Social Order with Style 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z Titled, in translation, “Putin Lights Up the Fires,” it’s defiance set to bracing guitars and drum kicks. Pussy Riot Was Carefully Calibrated for Protest 2012-08-22T12:00:25Z "Seated figure" depicts a man in a hat, slumped with hands on knees in cosmic despair, but his left shoulder standing improbably tall in defiance and pride. The Hogarth of Soweto: Ephraim Ngatane 2010-03-19T14:11:00Z “For many Latin Americans, for people around the world, including people who were born many decades after the revolution happened, he is a really important symbol of defiance.” Art after Fidel: What Castro's passing means for a rising generation of Cuban artists 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z And the “Ode to Joy” inevitably makes an impact, particularly with Green declaiming the opening lines with such memorable defiance. Review: With Anthems and Flags, the Met Opera Plays for Ukraine 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z There is also a draft card, which every 18- to 26-year-old male was required to carry at the time, and which many young men burned in public displays of defiance. Highlighting Vietnam War's relevance, exhibit opens in New York 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Parks’ defiance of Montgomery’s segregation laws was not an isolated incident. The amazing Rosa Parks story too few people still know 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z “When we started talking about the song, it was about the joyous defiance,” David O said. Perspective | This remarkable ‘Hairspray’ video raises the roof. Even better, it raises money for entertainers in need. 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z “I wanted to focus on Charlotte’s defiance and strength against the societal pressure of getting married,” Williams said in a video call. ‘Sanditon,’ Unfinished No More 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z He regards his son with suspicion, defiance, anguish, ruefulness and fear. Avedon at 100: Photos of Seduction 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z Stripped-down by Beyoncé’s standards, this was a tour de force of female empowerment, romantic contentment, sublime defiance and bravura kinesis — and of course vocal heroism of the highest order. Pop and Jazz Concert Highs of 2011 2011-12-28T23:32:40Z Penrose doesn't do "popular", as he peppers his books with equation after equation in defiance of the publishing maxim that each one cuts sales in half. Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe by Roger Penrose ? review 2010-10-15T23:14:00Z “To Kill a Tiger” is a film bristling with such invigorating defiance. ‘To Kill a Tiger’ Review: The Survivor Who Refused to Be Shamed 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z It makes sense that progenitors of a genre historically associated with insubordination and defiance might chafe at these pairings. The Republican Party’s Unrequited Love of Rock Music 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z Scarily emaciated, the actor nonetheless exudes charisma and defiance as he fights his doctors and the authorities over the "buyers club" he establishes for fellow patients. Toronto 2013: Reporter's diary 2013-09-09T07:46:10Z In a remarkable show of personality, it does: she’s tender and tough in equal measure, balancing defiance and reflection on a relationship that’s souring. Betty Who Goes for the Big Time in New Single “Heartbreak Dream” 2014-02-11T17:31:50Z Dembow is also a gesture of defiance — a refusal to submit to colonial, “proper” ways of being, speaking and living. El Alfa, the King of Dembow, Dazzles at Madison Square Garden 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z “A defiance in the sense of vigorously defending their rural conditions and rights as they understood them.” The Artist Who Dared to Paint Ireland’s Great Famine 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Several young designers echoed that sentiment, saying they were less interested in fur as a luxury statement or an act of defiance than as a novel design. Furriers Lure Young Designers 2010-03-10T23:53:00Z Sitting for such a portrait becomes a collaborative form of activism, a gesture of defiance and self-acceptance. Review: Zanele Muholi, a Visual Activist, Presents ‘Isibonelo/Evidence’ 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Beyoncé's determined approach to self-discovery and rediscovery across "Lemonade" offers a cogent vision of defiance in times of uncertainty. Sheltering in place with classic albums: Beyoncé's "Lemonade" 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z But longtime fans noticed an additional defiance on display. Going Topless, Tig Notaro Takes Over Town Hall 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z In a rare act of defiance, I refused. Don’t slouch, young lady 2014-04-13T00:00:00Z It dusts the buttes and clots the junipers in temporary defiance of the desert, but tends to melt quickly once a storm passes and the cloudless skies resume their sunny reign over red rock country. Escape From the City: 9 Winter Outings That Fight Cabin Fever 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z Humphrey Bogart, trying out some overdone makeup for one of his last films, is fierce with skeptical defiance. Classic Hollywood Photos That Reveal Who Movie Stars Are 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z More than merely comic, Tarkovsky’s defiance articulates “Stalker”’s brilliance. Why Andrei Tarkovsky’s interminably dull 1979 sci-fi masterpiece “Stalker” is the movie we need right now 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z The concert was played in a spirit of defiance of the invasion and solidarity with the young musicians, and in deep solidarity and support of the Ukrainian people. A Conductor on Why He Stayed in Russia After the Invasion Began 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z He added that neglect and decay may mean that, despite our ingenuity and defiance of gravity, "the buildings at some point will come back to get us." 'Mad Max: Fury Road' an apocalyptic tale as old as man's existence 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z He was known for his fiery and eloquent rhetoric, for his militant atheism and defiance of political category. Sales jump for books written by Hitchens 2011-12-16T19:15:11Z Gatz, I think, succeeds for two reasons: first, its defiance of the habitual conventions of "good drama", and second, by admitting the very process of adaptation. Gatsby gives theatre a novel twist 2010-12-02T17:21:00Z Ms. White, in particular, has a storyteller’s way with a song — and when she sings “Oh Freedom,” she imbues it with strength, defiance and tears. ‘Texas in Paris’ Stars Lillias White at York Theater Company 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z It wasn’t simply athletic; it was in his character, his defiance. The Tragedy of Diego Maradona, One of Soccer’s Greatest Stars 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z Some writers embody Hitchens’s line about “living dyingly,” straining to remain themselves, expressing dark humor and secular defiance, downshifting from existential fears to the banal process of death. Meeting Death with Words 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z Dalton resisted the industry’s star-making machinery at nearly every turn, so in some sense the incomplete nature of her body of work represents a conscious act of defiance against the music industry’s commercial imperatives. Karen Dalton, a Musical Mystery That Doesn’t Need to Be Solved 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z In June 2014 she began reporting once more on the entertainment industry at NikkiFinke.com, apparently in defiance of her contract. The Last Days of Hollywood’s Most Reviled Reporter 2023-01-21T05:00:00Z “We started talking about how joy itself is a rebellion, how living unapologetically is an act of defiance.” With her debut novel 'The Wangs Vs. The World,' Jade Chang hit big 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z Dappled with humor and willful defiance, “The Pen” is a portrait in miniature of living with mental illness, and it’s absolutely gorgeous. Review: A Portrait of Living With Mental Illness in ‘The Pen’ 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z He crafted hits inspired by Zulu and township harmonies, as well as folk and other influences, in defiance of racial barriers imposed by South Africa’s apartheid system decades ago. South African musician Johnny Clegg dies at 66 after cancer 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z What, after all, does a mother do when her adolescent daughter announces — with an age-appropriate mix of uneasiness and defiance — “Ma, I’m having holy visions?” Review: Glenn Close Raises a Saint in ‘Mother of the Maid’ 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z The work itself was an act of defiance, argues French writer Camille Laurens in the fascinating new book “Little Dancer Aged Fourteen: The True Story Behind Degas’s Masterpiece.” Review | A fascinating look at the girl who inspired Degas’ ‘Little Dancer’ sculpture 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z Despite the odds and the incoming ordnance, the citizens of Vicksburg retained their pluck and defiance to the bitter end. ‘Vicksburg’ Review: The Falling Tide of Gray 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z “The World According to Fannie Davis” is a daughter’s gesture of loving defiance, an act of reclamation, an absorbing portrait of her mother in full. Remembering a Mother Whose Gambling Operation Was a Very Successful Secret 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z And Mr. Wittrock is painfully affecting as he registers the denial, defiance and raw fear of a feral creature caught in a trap. Theater Review: ‘Sweet Bird of Youth,’ Revived by Goodman Theater 2012-09-25T02:00:18Z They fled California after home-schooling their kids in defiance of state law and at times lived in a motel, a trailer park and a Volkswagen. Charles Webb, author of ‘The Graduate,’ dies in England 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z These weren’t just great albums; they were also personal statements of independence, resonant cries of defiance and vulnerability in what was still often a man’s world. Was 1971 the Year ‘Music Changed Everything’? 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z The chief demerit of the Marxist program was its point-by-point defiance of human nature. Martin Amis on Lenin’s Deadly Revolution 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z Yet, in almost willful defiance of the norms of his time, his poetry could seldom be called revealing. Geoffrey Hill, often hailed as Britain’s greatest poet, dies at 84 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z “There was a defiance, a very particular look that was almost like a guiding light.” A Portraitist Whose Subjects Are All in Her Head 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z But the skin of the title is not only the book's parchment: it's also that of the Protector's wife, whose sensuality and defiance are simultaneously awakened by the Boy. Written on Skin – review 2013-03-10T18:24:00Z Her wild-eyed defiance, her steely reserve, her quick thinking, even her regal white robes, I can’t make any of that fit me. Greetings from Tatooine, Arizona 2019-06-15T04:00:00Z And, sorry to say, its confidence – or at least defiance – is starting to return as a result. Destination Dubai: how an art fair is reviving the city's culture 2010-03-23T14:28:00Z His models, in defiance of traditional posing, lolled and slouched, their faces slack with boredom or fatigue. Philip Pearlstein, Whose Realist Nudes Revived Portraiture, Dies at 98 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z Because an attitude of defiance seems encoded in Ms. LuPone’s DNA, the character’s confession of erotic enslavement to a contemptuous stud is all the more disturbing. Patti LuPone in ‘Faraway Places Part Two’ at 54 Below 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z The beloved Greek composer whose rousing music and life of political defiance won acclaim abroad and inspired millions at home. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z There are some strains of comedy that are about outrageousness or defiance or an unbridled ego. Marc Maron won’t talk politics anymore: “Now I’d rather deal with the source of that anger” 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z In Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, beautiful venues have been built in defiance of the local environment, and the universal oppressions of time and money. Doctor Who 2010-06-05T05:45:00Z She rejects Alexandria’s comforts but does so as an icy, Machiavellian counterpoint to Sasha’s flailing disintegration, glad-handing the locals while she plots against them, or at least in defiance of their rules. 'The Walking Dead' Recap: Don't Mess with Carol 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z Pictures of defiance were also common, like citizens in Chernihiv photographed standing in the road to block Russian tanks. In wartime battle over imagery, so far it hasn’t been close 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z The speakers thumped, the air alert app was silent; the blue and yellow flag fluttered above; the young Ukrainians in black held fast to each other, dancing in slow defiance. The War in Ukraine Is the True Culture War 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z And while “The Black Power Mixtape” tells a story of defiance and pride, it is also a tale of defeat, frustration and terrible destruction. | 'The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975': ?The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975? - Review 2011-09-08T22:17:49Z But during the industry’s fitful comeback — with its pandemic-fueled moods of terror and celebration, defiance and wariness — we knew it in our bones. Why the Tonys Need an Award for Best Ensemble 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z "There's an arrogance and defiance to these people," she said. Patti LuPone on cellphone abusers: 'Arrogance and defiance' 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z But the concert also appeared to be an act of creative defiance, and maybe even a little antagonism, toward a musician who will not agree to be understood as record collectors want to understand him. Music Review: The Songs of William Onyeabor, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 2014-05-04T21:29:33Z Mr. Hart has had great success with material built with vulgarity and grounded in defiance. Critic’s Notebook: Terry Fator’s Comic Style Successfully Plays to the Middle 2013-07-28T20:50:43Z “A stirring show of Ukrainian defiance,” a review in The Daily Telegraph said of the orchestra’s performance at the Proms, the BBC’s classical music festival. An Orchestra Supports Ukraine, and Reunites a Couple Parted by War 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z In defiance of custom, ’Ntoni tries to eliminate the middlemen, mortgaging his family’s house to buy a bigger boat. How Luchino Visconti Made History Sing 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z We may pretend we live today in defiance of chronology, but there is a rhythm to life that no amount of reproductive technology, cosmetic surgery and sheer willpower can deny. The agony and ecstasy of becoming an older mother 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z He stamps his foot, which might be for rhythm but seems, here, a gesture of defiance. The bluegrass is now being served 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z Parks may be lionized for her defiance on the bus, but that episode doesn’t begin to do justice to her remarkable career as an organizer. Rosa Parks’ activism wasn’t limited to a Montgomery bus 2013-03-15T16:57:00Z But his decision was colored by his confrontation with Rondo; it was an act of bravery, if not defiance, an announcement that he refused to be intimidated or marginalized. This is the horrific and violent gay slur a star player aimed at a ref: Rajon Rondo’s virulent tirade 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z His single flash of anger is aimed at the bloggers who, in defiance of theatrical convention that comment is embargoed until press night, review a play during its previews. Michael Codron - six decades in the West End 2010-03-30T21:00:00Z The poem condemned the city’s Jews for their cowardice, in defiance of evidence that Bialik himself had collected. Before the Holocaust, Jewish Suffering Had One Name: Kishinev 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z It’s an act of defiance to raise awareness, a gesture of “solidarity.” Send in the abortion drones: We could use this Irish pro-choice tech protest here in the U.S., too 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z Throughout the civil war that waxed and waned in this tiny central African republic for more than 15 years, a spirit of defiance seemed to infuse daily life. Surfacing: Burundi?s Freewheeling Nights 2010-04-30T15:48:00Z She released a 14-minute short film suturing together tracks from across “Jazz Codes,” and it captures the album’s feeling of defiance and reinvention. Cardi B’s All-Star Team-Up, and 9 More New Songs 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z In gentle defiance of the title’s assumption, these models did talk. ‘Models Never Talk,’ From Olivier Saillard, at Milk Studios 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z As he travelled he became aware of how Icelandic society was held together almost in defiance of the elements. Morris in Iceland 2010-03-27T00:09:00Z Still, as the current catchall term for art defined by its defiance against definition, “experience” remains stubbornly useful. Perspective | ‘Soundwalk’ turns Central Park into an intoxicating musical adventure 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z Pug regards the 12 O’Clock Boys as heroes of a sort, whose defiance is both an escape from, and a righteous response to, the hardships of life in economically challenged neighborhoods. ‘12 O’Clock Boys’: a bumpy ride with inner-city dirt bikers 2014-02-06T22:48:20Z Some of that mixture of defiance and whimsy is present in “Closed Curtain,” but it is also edged with melancholy and fatigue. ‘Closed Curtain,’ by the Iranian Dissident Jafar Panahi 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z She added that some are risking their jobs by doing this in defiance of hospital managers. Americans want to see what’s happening in hospitals now. But it’s hard for journalists to get inside. 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z As many as 100 million viewers saw the Women’s Liberation Movement protest, in which they chanted: “We’re not beautiful, we’re not ugly, we’re angry” – a glorious act of defiance against the objectification of women. Ten feminist protests that would make great films - and what we can learn from them 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z But Warren’s phenomenal channeling of Turner’s grit and defiance are well preserved on the London cast album, especially in cuts like “River Deep — Mountain High.” What Is the Sound of a Theater Season Interrupted? 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z You have now started to read an essay about boredom, in open defiance of the pathetic fallacy, not to mention Jesus' famous comeback to Satan: "Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God." In praise of boredom, at the movies and in life 2011-06-08T01:01:00Z “It was only where there was this defiance, this refusal to truckle, this distrust of all authority, political or social, that institutions would express human aspirations, not crush them.” Eminent scholar of early U.S., Bernard Bailyn, dies at 97 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z Nearly all are charged with emotion, as the soldiers work to express and control a complex sequence of feelings that run from joy to defiance. Noticed: After ?Don?t Ask, Don?t Tell,? Coming Out on the Web 2011-10-14T22:35:24Z The Slavic selections, with their congenital melancholy mixed with defiance, proved a particularly good fit for Mr. Beczala’s style. Review: In Piotr Beczala’s Recital, Melancholy Mixes With Defiance 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z In his guise as a 19th-Century American industrialist, Dracula wants to develop cheap, alternative energy in defiance of his enemy, Big Oil. Look out: A fall harvest of new broadcast TV shows 2013-08-27T18:36:32Z She began dealing more explicitly in unease and defiance, and she considered what her mythology had wrought. The Chaotic, Beautiful Larks of Elizabeth Wurtzel 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z His brothers railed at him for his defiance. Fred Korematsu's freedom fight: Remembering a Japanese American hero who resisted internment 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z This subplot, too, was finely layered, with Sally’s initial denial giving way to defiance in a way that perhaps reflects her past experience in an abusive marriage, discussed in earlier episodes. On ‘Barry,’ Sarah Goldberg Has Learned to Love TV 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z In blunt defiance to her own insecurities, she tells him she likes him. Review | ‘Normal People’ is the soaring, achy, authentic cure for anyone who’s sick of rom-coms 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z The desire for sensuous hedonism is expressed with a touch of defiance, but the poet knows that this is not the whole answer. Poem of the week: Two in the Campagna by Robert Browning 2010-07-26T09:44:00Z Her photographs are always simple and powerful and I love the defiance in this one, where, unusually, the subject isn't looking at the camera. The 10 best photographic portraits 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z For Caliban, even the act of walking around the Island, his home, was now charged with submission or defiance. Shakespeare’s "The Tempest" explores colonialism, resistance and liberation 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z The rest are inside a wire cone hanging over the stone field, its contents seemingly in defiance of gravity. In the galleries: At Osuna, scarlet makes a splash amid Hamami’s black-and-white 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Lowry takes the red and turns it into defiance and blood. LS Lowry's rage against the machine 2013-06-13T06:00:04Z For one thing, he’s in love with rap music for its swagger and defiance: like Notorious B.I.G., he tells us in voiceover, he’s “just trying to get a little bit of respect in the game.” Review: Fresh Off the Boat Has the Makings of an American Original 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z Most members of the American mainstream might have been too blinkered to recognize that defiance. J.C. Leyendecker: The ‘Arrow Collar Man’ Who Hid a Radical Idea 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z Catterson sees both scenes as examples of rebelling against norms: the Lindy Hop, performed with a kind of ferocious defiance; and the pillow fight with its raucous abandon. Yvonne Rainer, a Giant of Choreography, Makes Her Last Dance 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Solomon never tries to draw explicit lessons from the families he talks to, and in defiance of his surname he continually stops short of judgment. Far from the Tree: A Dozen Kinds of Love by Andrew Solomon – review 2013-02-10T07:00:09Z Did he capture this girl’s humanity, her defiance of the ugly and exploitative milieu into which she was thrust? Review: ‘Degas’ Little Dancer,’ at National Gallery We were young and cheeky and enjoying a time of rebellion and defiance of what was still a formidable apartheid machinery. Clash of the Booker titans 2013-05-23T13:57:00Z But Rachman brings his own, warmer touch to the crime, transforming it into a surprising act of defiance that’s both deliciously ironic and deeply affectionate. Review | The art of rebellion: The son of a famous painter tries to reframe his life 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z Punky attitude and durable pop hooks made Blondie’s songs ring with general defiance. Music Review: ‘Bringing Human Rights Home’ at Barclays Center 2014-02-06T23:46:07Z “I am not doing the same show every week,” Mr. Weiner said, with customary defiance, in a recent interview. Matthew Weiner, the Creator of ‘Mad Men,’ Prepares for Another Fade to Black 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z She talks us through her disastrous relationships, with which she persevered in defiance of the bad signs – her boyfriend colouring her hand black with a pen while she slept, for example. Isy Suttie ? review 2011-08-23T18:15:00Z Pity the dumb sap who inspired the spitfire defiance that would make her cry, “Won’t you open a window sometime?/What’s so wrong with the light?” on the song “Windows.” Pop and Rock Listings for Dec. 5-Dec. 11 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z The conductor’s defenders profess to hear an anguished defiance in his Nazi-era performances. The Disquieting Power of Wilhelm Furtwängler, Hitler’s Court Conductor 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z Perhaps it’s meant to sound a note of defiance to the health police? Pizza Hut introduces 'Hut Swag' clothing line: fashion with extra cheese 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z In many of these cases, the act of recording images was a dangerous, or even life-threatening, act of defiance. The Long, Vital History of Bystander Recordings 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z But Canudos exists in defiance of the national government, and violent conflict ensues when armies are sent to bring the prophet to order. Mario Vargas Llosa: Five essential novels 2010-10-07T15:55:00Z Constraint and existential defiance are in continuous opposition. Kafka Fragments – review 2013-04-01T10:55:02Z She delivers the chorus with a joyful defiance. Critic's Notebook: Taylor Swift's catchy, tone-deaf 'Shake It Off' 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z In defiance I have seven or eight books going at once. Samantha Hunt: By the Book 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z The words rang with a kind of pleased defiance. Music Review: Guns N? Roses, on Stage in Unchanging Fashion 2012-02-11T16:01:45Z |
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