But Tortorella was defiant in his assessment that this wasn't a down year for the club.
The downside of the ridiculous, defiant defense is much less severe than it used to be.
And despite a conciliatory tone at times, he was ultimately resolute and even defiant.
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"Girls get dramatic and overreact, while boys alternate between withdrawing and being defiant, " says Lowry.
Katie has Down syndrome and is happiness personified, but she can also be stubborn and defiant.
No actual thoughts, only feelings: mournfulness, woe, and, finally, a spark of defiant anger.
Signals from the military leadership of the Bosnian Serbs, however, have been more defiant, he said.
But as she comes to accept the loss of the baby she carried, she is defiant.
Police Land-Rovers in fields crammed not long before with defiant Orangemen underlined the new mood.
Undeterred by threats, bans and prison, Magubane's defiant spirit shaped his work in the field.
Fitzsimons said he would remain defiant if the court decided on the death penalty.
So will serious reflection, with its attendant uncertainty and anxiety, replace all that defiant hedonism?
And that defiant, can-do spirit is what runs through the veins of American history.
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He is a small, defiant man with a large prayer mark on his forehead.
But only days later, its chief executive, Wayne Lapierre, appeared before cameras as defiant as ever.
Others have already won the support of defiant local politicians, such as Agrigento's mayor.
The BPA Defiant has now been moved to its new home at the RAF Museum in Cosford.
The designer says she likes her clothes to make the wearer feel at once defiant and protected.
Though this was no representative chamber, Lord Scanlon sat as a still-defiant envoy from a vanished world.
England seemed certain to lose by an innings, but Broad hit the ball so sweetly in a defiant last-wicket stand.
Some 50, 000 man-hours later an exact replica of a Defiant was unveiled at the BPA base in 2002.
In a defiant response, the church said it would not be silenced, and urged Anonymous to "bring it".
It was a time of singing-sock-puppets, 21-year-old chief executives, gravity-defiant stock prices, revolutionary technologies and half-baked business plans.
Still, Wenger was defiant on Saturday when it looked like the 2013 swoon might be right on schedule.
But Sarin was defiant in the face of angry shareholders, many of whom were calling for his resignation.
Zander de Bruyn gave them hope with his first Somerset century and Ian Blackwell contributed a defiant 64.
Pierre was more defiant and fought on at trial as he promised from the first day of being arrested.
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Even now he is defiant: if the clock were turned back, he says his response would be the same.
He was defiant too, about the different visions on offer in the election.
Hama is now a place of extremes: joyous and sad, defiant but fearful.
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