How To Use Rebellious In A Sentence

Later she took the impenitent young 'duffer' a tea cunningly designed to appeal to his rebellious heart, and spread it neatly on the big dimity-covered box in his bedroom; but Dick was implacable. The Gold-Stealers A Story of Waddy
He had fallen for her rebellious daring personality the moment they met.
At the same time, the province of Songkhla, which had been rebellious since 1678, was placed under French control.
It made her bitter and resentful towards him, and all the more rebellious.
The war booty was shared between a rebellious prince of Toungio and the king of Arakan.

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The film's dialogue is minimal and often earthy but it accurately captures the rebellious mood of the youth.
Who could say that youth was rebellious. Bomber
And you had the duct tape right there in your hand and coulda wrapped that rebellious cotter pin until it suffocated. Monday, Jan. 26 – The Bleat.
Everything about the picture was perfect; even down to his few rebellious strands of hair by his neck.
Second, mass incarceration serves to keep under near total control rebellious and potentially insurrectionary populations.
Other cartoons express a fear of collusion between British authorities, the rebellious Irish, and the Catholic Church.
The edgy, rebellious streak in his character could only be intensified by his somewhat beleaguered isolation in this respect.
Mike finally seems to be growing out of his rebelliousness.
On June 25, it got fussy, rebellious, selfish, ego - driven fat cat Garfield.
There was a breeze, and her rebellious hair began cascading down from the knot she'd put it in that morning.
Having consolidated the line between the Catholic south and the rebellious north, he set about quartering the United Provinces by capturing strategic towns in a long succession of sieges.
We sat side by side on a sofa with rebellious springs and a layer of cat hair.
I was young and rebellious and it seemed like a fine idea at the time. Times, Sunday Times
The noble cavalier characterized," "& a rebellious caviller cauterized," 1644 _or_ 5. Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters
The underlying assumption that an actively rebellious people has been waiting for leadership, or working to organize itself, has also been wrong.
a rebellious crew
He launched the second invasion to retake by force the rebellious republic.
The Beatles were four distinct personalities joined as a singular force in the rebellious 1960s, influencing everything from hair styles to music.
He has always had a rebellious streak .
Potentially rebellious backbenchers stuck in their constituencies were not offered this facility. Times, Sunday Times
She had played along as a child to keep both Meredith and her father happy, but as she grew up she had discovered her rebellious streak and the courage to make her own decisions.
It came as a bit of a surprise to find that Fox is neither a rebellious teenager nor on some kind of exotic substance.
After a childhood spent "surveiling" the protected "legitimate" family, a term proud Gwen hates, rebellious teenaged Dana inserts herself into her half-sister's life, with tragic results. StarTribune.com rss feed
He is rebellious, aggressive and at times self-destructive.
When the rebellious streak appeared in her life it was tolerated, but it was not tolerated in her literary personality.
They also needed to retain its slightly rebellious streak. The Sun
Now,’ she smiled, brushing back a few rebellious locks of Kitty's hair from her face, ‘eat your breakfast.’
People round these parts have long had a rebellious streak. Times, Sunday Times
The rebellious youth has become a grand old establishment figure. Times, Sunday Times
The castles of the rebellious barons were razed and the nobles never challenged the duke's power again.
However, even at kindergarten his rebellious streak was showing and at the age of five or six he was playing truant.
If like the rest of us you feel this year's Big Brother is a bit * yawn * compared to other years then join with us to keep the rebellious Dubliner in the house.
Their music melds together a scuzzy, squally blend of rebellious gospel/folk that at times possesses the radiant buoyancy of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes, and in quieter moments the seeping warmth of M Ward or intelligent, lovely meanderings of Elvis Perkins. Heather Browne: Drew Grow Brings Rock and Roll Salvation
He launched the second invasion to retake by force the rebellious republic.
They also needed to retain its slightly rebellious streak. The Sun
He's a subversive infidel rebellious alike against his God and his king.
So upon deciding the fresh air might do me some good, I wrestled my rebellious hair into a ponytail, dressed, and headed out the door.
But if we found wickedness in it -- vice, as we rightly call it -- if it became restive, that is, rebellious and self-willed, then we should punish it indeed. The Good News of God
He was a rebellious writer whose books were censored for years, and that in itself was meaningful for me.
Where else would a self-harmer go to buy their off-the-peg rebelliousness? Hot Topic: You're So Vein
By our very nature, we are selfish, jealous, envious, stricken with strife, and sometimes downright rebellious.
Am I a rebellious teenager whose going through a phase in life?
They are indications of a slightly rebellious streak.
Ashamed of her unbased fright and furious that he had witnessed it, Lessa sat rebelliously down on the fur-covered wall seat, heartily wishing him a variety of serious and painful injuries that she could dress with inconsiderate hands. DragonFlight
The rebellious angel then tries singing another tune, which is also in disharmony. Alternative to Dembski's Theodicy?
It is the "ever-closer union" that sceptics claim will yield a brittle political economy, Germanic and dirigiste at the centre, Latin and rebellious at the fringe. The hesitant saviour: how Germany bestrides Europe once again
Syrian government forces renewed their assault on the rebellious city of Homs in what activists described as the heaviest shelling in days. What's News—
Others more mildly murmur that it destroys male confidence and breeds rebellious violence in young men. Times, Sunday Times
But we don't as a whole quite know what to do with those inconvenient, rebellious in-betweeners known as teenagers.
My vote: Constantine Maroulis of American Idol infame for that very distinguished and clearly rebellious role. 'True Blood' gets record ratings
When the novel's fifth section gives you the interrogation of a rebellious clone, Sonmi~451, in some dystopian future, it is to draw the reader into an unlikely sympathy with the "fabricant", treated as non-human by the "purebloods" she serves. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
To the defiant Danyèl Waro of La Réunion, for his maloya songs; to the Kanak poetess Déwé Gorodey, who defied the colonial powers all the way to prison; to the rebellious Abdourahman Waberi. Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio - Nobel Lecture
The despot gassed the rebellious tribes
There were even rebelliously honest policemen, who might blow the whistle on the dishonest ones.
But while it is true that the United States is again enmeshed in controversial wars in Asia, the circumstances prompting the show's rebellious acts feel as if they bear only tangential resemblance to modern America. The wonderfully unruly 'Hair' is still a blowout 42 years after its Broadway debut
Most hardtail mountain bikes are aluminum; only a rebellious handful are steel.
But with the aid of a meddling foreign country, the rebellious and discontent barons of that upper part of the country succeeded in receding from Palasar to create their own kingdom.
This corresponds to a similarly animated and rebellious stratum of western society.
Her teachers regard her as a rebellious, trouble-making girl.
But backwoodsmen were better at dealing with rebellious Indian chiefs than perfumed dandies were.
Others, then, have spotted that restless, rebellious streak in him, which made a military career impossible.
One is brown, loose, civilised, and there is this whirlwind next to it - the other - as black as the girl's rebellious hair.
Once unleashed by its gloomy keeper Hades (Ralph Fiennes), the squirmy sea monster is ready to devour Princess Andromeda (Alexa Davalos) and destroy the rebellious city of Argos.
Each of the domes represents a battle in Ivan's triumphant war against the rebellious khan of Kazan.
The longstanding and canny leader of this rebellious crew is set to step down this summer.
He had the distinguished look of a buttoned-down, wealthy tycoon who fed his rebellious streak in the shadowy edges of his life. I.O.U.
Not surprisingly, the rebellious streak in his nature surfaced, and he started to behave with studied rudeness.
I can't envision this milquetoast rousing a crowd of people, much less as the firebrand leader of a band of rebellious anarchists.
Legions of rebellious young blacks, and non-blacks, happily shovel out colossal dollars to revel in this image.
However, Cash had a deeply serious core and in between the jags on booze and pills, which went on well into his middle life, he tried to do some good… in an instinctively rebellious way.
I was a wild and rebellious youth. The Sun
Its fugitive Dalai Lama and his "government-in-exile" have found refuge in India since 1959—and China blames him, and by extension his hosts, for the continued rebelliousness in his homeland.
For I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are.
Pushing a rebellious lock of hair away from her face, Violette moved slowly to where her mother was resting, bracing herself for all the reprimands she knew was going to come her way.
Strikingly apolitical and averse to the urgent rebelliousness of others, emos are happy to admit that they have no ideology beyond insisting on their right to do what they want.
The more they criticised me, the more resistant and rebellious I became.
His son was only nine years old, and so England, defeated on the Continent, was ruled by a regency - one controlled by those very same rebellious barons.
For much of the latter half of the 20th century, starting in the rebellious 1960s, the established order was suspect.
First, I never knew James Kirk was a rebellious, carjacking joyrider, someone who didn't know 'his place in the world'. November 2008
Her rebellious attitude is just a reaction against her strict upbringing.
The first film portrayed quite a tug of war between rebellious adolescence and stuffy religion. Christianity Today
And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they are a rebellious house.
Coining itself as a "Japanesque Rock and Visual Styling Magazine," it's a wonderful trip to a rare underground youth culture with dark themes, rebelliously wild fashion, and a vibrant energy that can only be recreated by attending the concerts these bands perform in. Recently updated products at JBOX.com
Such a diet arouses our rebellious streak. Times, Sunday Times
Her rebellious attitude is just a reaction against her strict upbringing.
You haven't a rebellious fibre in your body. Times, Sunday Times
The core dynamic in each of these cases was hypothesized to be rebelliousness and a protest against overbearing parents.
As a result, dissident artists and cultural leaders, rebellious students, Jewish refuseniks, Pentecostal ministers and other gulag victims became brave icons of hope within and without the Soviet Union.
The rebellious youth has become a grand old establishment figure. Times, Sunday Times
Luckily for the government, three waves of rebellious dissidence had not coincided.
So, this big stage that we were put on under this bright spotlight was the only place I had to play out the rebelliousness that I think everybody goes through at some point to one degree or another.
And yet their new songs still burn with the rebellious glamour of nihilism, despair and alienation. Times, Sunday Times
Either way, Pakistan has a desperate need to end its unwinnable conflict with India, and devote itself to pacifying its own rebellious territories.
Twins they were, and in so many ways similar, but he had always been the more openly rebellious of the two. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
Would you have been the really obedient one, or the rebellious one, the one who smiles in massa's face but spits in his food, the one in the plantation house secretly hearing all the plans and telling your family in the fields what was going on?
There's a difference between rebelliousness and independence.
In the less rebellious 1980s and 1990s, these themes of repression and rebellion gave way to an emphasis on the complacency, conservatism, and loyalism that reigned in supposedly unprivileged as well as propertied society.
Leaders fear that setting strict limits will either cause rebellious behavior or make them unpopular.
In a world seen by many as being dictated by US foreign policy, there is plenty to be angry about; to protest against; and to be rebellious over.
Is there some rebellious part of us that finds reality distasteful and restrictive? The Secrets of Musical Confidence
The way he tells it, it had something to do with alcohol, some intemperate friends, one rebellious night and dissatisfaction with life in the army.
Ask just about anyone and you'll soon find out that he is not your typical teenager with an unmistakable rebellious streak.
The rebellious officers, having seized the radio station, broadcast the news of the overthrow of the monarchy.
The castles of the rebellious barons were razed and the nobles never challenged the duke's power again.
It is an unfussy, under-stated portrayal of a spirited and rebellious individual who is not prepared to play out the cards life has dealt her.
His own ancestor had put down one of the rebellious leaders.
Jacobabad a grand Durbar, which was attended by the Khan of Khelat and his once rebellious Sirdars. The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.)
A rebellious woman who intrigues Bette from the start, she’s one to watch. THE L WORD: Season 4 Preview | the TV addict
Many of the indigenous peoples were endemically rebellious and hard to contain, and the colonizers were endemically brutal in their determination to maintain control over them.
He wasn't seen as a rebellious American any more, simply part of the establishment that was being swept away by glasnost and perestroika.
The exhibition ends with overscaled, elegantly modeled drawings of buxom women that propose yet another direction, a wholehearted neo-classicism that fuses Picasso's academic heritage with his rebellious modernism. Portrait of a Restless Artist as a Young Man
People round these parts have long had a rebellious streak. Times, Sunday Times
It is ‘a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God’ if we remain in a rebellious and unforgiven state.
Nonetheless, we know all to well that the reality of sin and human rebelliousness disrupts this original design of male-female partnership intended by God from creation.
Anju, the rebellious bookworm, grows up angry at the world.
These social invitations are generally issued at moments when his rebellious desires become most manifest, and he invariably declines them.
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Each of the domes represents a battle in Ivan's triumphant war against the rebellious khan of Kazan.
Russia has been trying to pull the small, rebellious mountain republic back into its fold since the crumbling of the Soviet Union.
He used the city as his headquarters for the next week while he and his men scoured the nearby mountains for rebellious Cilician highlanders. Alexander the Great
The castles of the rebellious barons were razed and the nobles never challenged the duke's power again.
The difference was Ali had tame jet-black hair in contrast to Rayne's rebellious brown mane.
It's also the pressure of culture and religion which can cause depression or the rebellious streak.
His family life was even more disconnected, another family man with a rebellious teen-age daughter and alcoholic wife.
The romantics are moralistic, rebellious against the perceived dominant power, and combative against any who appear to stray from the true path.
Angry young men were politicized, while rebellious young women were sexualized.
For all its emphasis on a mileu characterized by rebelliousness (however directed in recognizable channels) and noncomformity, The Pornographic Flabbergasted Emus is rather well-controlled and ultimately fairly conventional in its movement toward a kind of rounded-off closure. Narrative Strategies
I irritably brushed rebellious strands of golden brown hair off my face.
Later, when my daughter got mixed up in a bad crowd, I sought stories written by other parents to help me cope with raising a strong-minded and rebellious adolescent. Diana M. Raab: The Power of Personal Stories
Although the effect was supposed to be reserved and dignified, his wig was slipping, revealing a few rebellious black hairs beneath it.
And yet their new songs still burn with the rebellious glamour of nihilism, despair and alienation. Times, Sunday Times
Never, it is alleged, has Japan been soiled by the disobedient and rebellious acts common in other countries; while at the same time the Japanese nation, sharing to some extent in the supernatural virtues of its rulers, has been distinguished by a high-minded chivalry called Bushido, unknown in inferior lands. The Invention of a New Religion
Job was not, in her view, rebellious; "his plaint was a relief to his own spirit, and an appeal for sympathy. Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary
I think the younger, rebellious artists recognised that and admired him for fighting. Times, Sunday Times
There was something faintly rebellious about being Irish in the past.
First Impression: Harley is described as a gruff, nasty, and rebellious biker. 5-Star Baby Name Advisor
Letwin had his rebellious moments, campaigning against fagging, the custom of older pupils using younger ones as servants, yet his underlying politics remained conventional.
The party, languishing in the polls, is increasingly fractious and rebellious. Times, Sunday Times
Although busy with her own friends and work, Lillian took the time to listen to the trials of a not-so-eager kindergartener, a defiant tomboy, an awkward adolescent and a rebellious college student.
Dazzling, rebellious and iconoclastic, she was the elfin beauty in the 1980s bratpack before her conviction for shoplifting and spectacular fall from grace. Jewlicious
Musicians and others concerned about rebellious music should work to create independent bands, record labels, venues, and stores.
These works take cues from rebellious, pretty-boy Americana, namely Brando and Elvis; doe eyes and pompadours appear to float in the etchings, disembodied, like clouds from a smokestack.
How do you carve out your identity when your parents were so rebellious and so against the social conventions?
Rivka's desire is rebellious and demonstrates a strong will hidden beyond a demure and feminine modesty.
The one indispensable preliminary was the change in man from rebelliousness to childlike trust and willingness to obey.
The day we lose our rebellious streak against ridiculous restrictions is the day we allow ourselves to become slaves to political correctness and the elites of Dublin and Europe.
He's always had a rebellious streak .
Mérat mentions it as a substitute for assafoetida, that it is employed as an antihysteric, and is recommended in rebellious bilious fever. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
a scarf was tied round her head but the rebellious curl had escaped and hung damply over her left eye
France's notoriously rebellious youth are accustomed to protesting against the nation's leaders and laws. Times, Sunday Times
He ran a hand over his blonde hair, grimacing slightly at the rebellious strands that refused his taming attempts.
Nobili used his political persona to obtain from Tirumalai Nayak permission to convert in exchange for Nobili bringing the Portuguese from Goa to help him to subdue a rebellious feudatory.
This is a modern and rebellious hair cut with attitude.
I smoothed a rebellious hair into place and turned to walk out of my room, desperately hoping that the dinner I was about to go to was a pleasant one.
Signs of a rebellious streak are unlikely to do her image any harm. Times, Sunday Times
In those days, at least, fourteen was the age where girls were their most hormonal, rebellious, sulky, moody and bitchy
Potentially rebellious backbenchers stuck in their constituencies were not offered this facility. Times, Sunday Times
Elizabeth had fallen in love with me because my cynical classroom performance appealed to her collegiate rebelliousness. DOUBTING THOMAS
He began to assert his authority from about 1045, calling upon his feudal lord King Henri I of France to assist him in subduing rebellious barons, finally defeating their assembled forces near Caen in 1047.
The in-laws phoned my husband for months at times when they knew I probably would not be home, and harassed him endlessly with their feudal views of how he should shut up his rebellious wife.
How do you carve out your identity when your parents were so rebellious and so against the social conventions?
The rebelliousness of teenagers in the 1950s and 60s happened against a formidable structure of convinced, if largely unexamined, certainties.
The first film portrayed quite a tug of war between rebellious adolescence and stuffy religion. Christianity Today
He offered himself as a sacrifice to free us from a dark, rebellious life into this good, pure life, making us a people he can be proud of, energetic in goodness.
His son Muhammad succeeded him in 1804, but the attempt to create a dynastic line was aborted almost immediately when he was attacked and defeated by the rebellious Janissaries and ashraf. 1788-1840
Moreover, the flapper, independent and rebellious, was both a standardized image and an individualized one, as young women adopted a stance that made them both subjects of the gaze and objects of it.
Is there some rebellious part of us that finds reality distasteful and restrictive? The Secrets of Musical Confidence
She plays Annabel, a rebellious grungy teen chick with an attitude.
Who could say that youth was rebellious. Bomber
An anal expulsive personality is broadly defined as exhibiting cruelty, emotional outbursts, disorganization, self-confidence, liberal-mindedness, sometimes artistic ability, generosity, rebelliousness and general carelessness. About my proposed Titus recording.
he rejected her words rebelliously
A rebellious suburbanite was speaking to the other rebellious suburbanites in a language they could understand and relate to. Times, Sunday Times
Young people with curiosity and a rebellious streak are only too ready to experiment.
Both the compliant and the rebellious might equally be subjected to the unspecifiable punishment which seems to follow any surge of initiative.
The first stage of rebelliousness is to have a “letter of rebellion” (iggeret mered) issued by the court. Legal-Religious Status of the Moredet (Rebellious Wife).
In my experience this taps into children's thirst for moral absolutes, for a cause to believe in and fight for - even into their rebellious streak.
And it certainly has a big budget, slickly produced theatrical feel to it, not the rough-around-the-edges rebellious almost anarchical spirit of some productions past. Charles Karel Bouley: Hair Is Still Groovy After All These Years
Betty's punctiliousness and house-cleanliness drive Peter mad; in turn, his strong rebellious streak and disobeying of her house orders get under her skin.
This may be as rebellious as this younger brother will get. Times, Sunday Times
It was autumn, 1541. Following the uncovering of a plot against his throne in Yorkshire, King Henry VIII has set out on a spectacular Progress to the North to overawe his rebellious subjects there.
When he refused to obey their summons, they deposed him, declaring him to be disobedient, obstinate, rebellious, a breaker of rules, a perturber of ecclesiastical unity, a perjurer, a schismatic, The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2
For example, we learn that Milton's three daughters did not, as legend has it, serve as adoring amanuenses to the blind poet when he was writing "Paradise Lost" but instead were illiterates whose rebellious behavior so infuriated their father that he left them nothing in his will. A Sleuth Goes to the Library
If that was attitude for most, Samantha quickly showed that there was more to come; she swiftly became rebellious and resisted any order that came her way.
Draw an easy contrast between a rebellious son and a docile one.
Most pernicious consequences [would follow (?) _ -- illegible in MS_.] and many other districts would be disloyal and rebellious; and it would be necessary, when they should have sufficient religious instruction, to go back and win them and [_illegible in MS_.] anew. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 08 of 55 1591-1593 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing
I am reinforced in this finding by the evidence of the plaintiff's rebellious attitude towards school attendance and by his resistance to parental authority.
But secondly, the movie is very dialectic and remains very subversive, inasmuch as it has sympathy for rebellious characters.
Show mercy to the obedient, and unflinching resolve and force to the rebellious.
How to care for children, especially those in their teens, who can be very rebellious, revolting and resistant?
I do not know why I should have brought away from these two places a peacefulness of mind such as seldom follows a visit to show-places, but the fact is so; perhaps it was because we drove to and from them, and were not so tired as footworn sight-seers are, or so rebellious. Familiar Spanish Travels
The party, languishing in the polls, is increasingly fractious and rebellious. Times, Sunday Times
He couldn't boast of a youthful zest nor could he of a rebellious streak of fashion consciousness.
Almost every hour of my deck-watches I listen to this infernal din, and am maddened into desire to join with Mr. Pike in a night attack and put these rebellious and inharmonious slaves to work. CHAPTER XLIII
Not surprisingly, the rebellious streak in his nature surfaced, and he started to behave with studied rudeness.
The ethnarch would understand the danger represented by the rebellious sect.

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