Natural, wild landscapes are common themes in prison art; a defiant statement, maybe, about the freedom of the imagination to roam when an individual cannot.

Designed in an extravagant faux-medieval style, the church was a defiant statement of autocratic conservatism.

But in an extraordinary response, the judge issued a defiant statement saying that he would not be standing down as he had not been told the decision.

At the end of the play, the workers make defiant statements condemning militarism, imperialism and hail the formation of workers communes.

The paper continued to publish normally, making defiant statements throughout.