There was a small picture of Gatsby, also in yachting costume, on the bureau—Gatsby with his head thrown back defiantly—taken apparently when he was about eighteen.
One of the last acts had been to write a will defiantly bucking the laws at the time that said all of her money and property belonged to the man she was married to.
Meg lifted her eyebrows, but Jo scowled at her defiantly and said at once, " Of course you may. We should have asked you before, only we thought you wouldn't care for such a girl's game as this."
She tells him to leave the top button undone if he's not wearing a tie; he protests that he's not some urchin who's renting out deck chairs, before defiantly buttoning it up.
Sometimes he pursued the call into the forest, looking for it as though it were a tangible thing, barking softly or defiantly, as the mood might dictate.
Harry released him; Dobby straightened his tea cozy and said defiantly to Kreacher, " But Kreacher should know that Draco Malfoy is not a good master to a house-elf! "
On the same day that the letter was sent to Baroness Ashton, Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was making defiantly upbeat announcements about the country's nuclear progress.
He was militant and a firebrand, defiantly burning his passbook, a dreaded document the Apartheid authorities used to control the movement of South Africa's black population.