Sentence examples for Defies expectation from inspiring English sources

Stoke-on-Trent is a city that defies expectation and rewards the time you spend looking.

But The Missing defies expectation, through its provocative and searching treatment of the subject matter.

The fringe programme may categorise events under cabaret, dance, theatre or music, but the work itself often defies expectation.

Despite the meticulous planning, careful strategies, polling, advertising and get-out-the-vote efforts, the election could produce the sort of messy outcome that defies expectation and prognostication.

He defies expectation, denies explanation, and excels at the most difficult aspect of storytelling: building a complex humanity for even his most deplorable characters.

An elegant and witty celebration of orchestral virtuosity, its series of surges towards climactic peaks defies expectation by ending quietly with a wry smile.

Their friendship defies expectations.

It's a movie that defies expectations.

Time and again she creates a materiality that defies expectations.

The end result was an electric car that defies expectations.

The focal point is a glass tank in which a large boulder defies expectations by floating.