Defies Sentence Examples

Alex defies father now, but he will not win.

I am constantly amazed as my son accomplishes his goals and defies all expectations.

Add to this nightmare scenario a one-way system that defies logic and you will have a vision of Hell.

His voice, with its extremely distinctive dark, rich timbre at any rate rather defies categorisation.

Norway defies the ban while some indigenous peoples in Greenland, Siberia and the US state of Alaska are allowed traditional subsistence whaling.

However, addiction can also be used to describe a behavior that is habitual and defies moderation.

Fashion that is considered alternative needs to exemplify the non-pop elements, so there is a clever reason why alternative fashion defies the popular fashion and can often border on grunge.

The program defies conventions by featuring a young Latina from Queens in the lead role.

In fact, many cannot afford to care, since the alternative lifestyle defies that of corporate America.

For people brave enough to wear what they want to wear and be who they want to be, plus size gothic clothing lets you make a fashion statement that defies the norm.

The poem defies the notion that growing older means fading into obscurity.

The women's Endurance Lifeguard® Flyback is a one piece suit made with a performance fabric that defies snagging, sagging and repeated exposure to chlorine.

If you and your love interest don't match up perfectly on a love match chart, who says you can't be the rule-breaking couple that defies the odds and lives happily ever after?

Once an addiction has developed, the alcoholic is compelled to drink, and this compulsion often defies reason.

The rule of thumb used to classify paranormal activity encompasses anything that defies logical explanation.

Shaped like an X rather than a T, St. Andrew's cross defies tradition much in the same manner as his crucifixion, which took place on an X shaped crucifix.

Based on the ill-fated television series Firefly, Serenity is a movie that defies the logic of Hollywood.

The first thing noticeable about him is that he defies all customary and mechanical classification.

This not only defies the logic of what we are taught about spirits in Church, it defies common sense.

Its very continuance is the constant proof that it defies the death that falls on man-made societies.

Celestial Excursions defies this convention by presenting characters without context.

The joy and rejoicing of the colored people when the United States army marched into Richmond defies description.

The Upper House, in theory, defies every canon of democracy, since its membership is mainly appointed and partly hereditary.

Here, ace tenor saxophonist Mick Beck incorporates an amplified bassoon into an outing that defies even the most oddball stereotypes.

This is accomplished through a mass transit system that is simple to use, defies crowds and language barriers, and keeps things impressively organized at the various resort parks on any given day.

When the latter is lost during flight, the rapidity of their movement defies pursuit.

It is cut in the volcanic plateau, and its ragged broken walls, which are inclined at very steep angles, are of a richness of colouring that almost defies description, a colouring that is produced by the action of the thermal springs, at the base of the canyon, upon the mineral pigments in the lava.

His son records the way in which he spent the night before the battle of Muret with a crudity of language which defies translation, and tells us that his father was too exhausted in the morning to stand at Mass, and had to be lifted into the saddle by his squires.

Along this line of speculation we have a logic which claims that whatsoever is in one plane or at one stage in the development of thought a residuum that apparently defies analysis must at another stage and on a higher plane be shown so to be absorbed as to fall altogether within thought.

Thousands of square miles in Lower Bengal annually receive a top-dressing of virgin soil from the Himalayas, - a system of natural manuring which renders elaborate tillage a waste of labour, and defies the utmost power of over-cropping to exhaust its fertility.

The enigma therefore still defies solution.

Lines 184 - 206 (Hamlet and Horatio) Hamlet defies augury and accepts the challenge.

Artemis is the goddess of chastity, an aspect of her character which gradually assumed more and more importance - the protectress of young men and maidens, who defies and contemns the power of Aphrodite.