It is frequently used to signify defiance (especially to authority), contempt, or derision. Exploring the forms of despair, Kierkegaard examines the type of despair known as defiance. Mr. Massey grunted his assent of this abrupt defiance. Send them back your fierce defiance! It is also used as a salute to express unity, strength, defiance, or resistance. The parallel is further strengthened by the freedom both characters display in their defiance. Every revolution begins with a single act of defiance. In the political moment it was a show of "defiance and strength". Barbara Stanwyck plays the returning itinerant with her customary defiance and sullenness. Some Frikis also participate in squatting as an act of political defiance. For this act of defiance, Aldrich was promptly disinherited. After a final act of verbal defiance, Gemma dies. It has value as an act of defiance. Afterward, Haymitch warns Katniss that she has made enemies through these acts of defiance. He appeared in the 2008 war film "Defiance".