defier

Now, a pair of books, one recently published, one forthcoming, tell how the superstar became not only an apologist for the American military but also a serial defier of journalism’s mores.

In 1992, on the eve of the Barcelona Olympics, the world’s greatest basketball player met track and field’s greatest gravity defier.

Nguyen’s premiere is “Revenge Song: A Vampire Cowboys Creation,” centering on Julie d’Aubigny — deft fighter, expert fencer, renowned opera singer and noted defier of gender roles before her death in 1707.

It could be that his image as a dealmaking, jobs-creating, civil rights-protecting defier of Trump will be enough to get him a serious look in other states.

Mostly, though, he was a defier of the conventional ways of categorizing people in terms of race, color, creed and political beliefs.