Sentence examples for It defies description from inspiring English sources

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"It defies description," Mr. Ashbee said.

"It defies description; it could be a Hollywood movie," Portugal's José Fonte said afterward.

"It defies description except to say that it's one more overbearing government intrusion on free enterprise in our country," Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, Republican of Texas, in urging repeal of the provision.

"You're quite right in guessing that it defies description," Burns wrote his friend Holger Hagen about the book.

A Guardian review of a recent paperback version, translated into English by Maureen Freely, said that it "defies description".

"This man had such a stranglehold on this town it defies description," said Gary F. Stowell, a lawyer hired by the borough to conduct the assessment.

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It is so very great that it almost defies description, with its unique use of words, history, emotion and suspense.

As the pump-jacks bobbed and creaked, we were subjected to an unfettered, gladiator-style hazing session so brutal it almost defies description.

Increasingly, youths choose to go dancing, with the aid of glow sticks and a few thousand friends, until 5 A.M. Electronic dance music (E.D.M). is the ungainly name for a genre so wide it almost defies description.

The incident was so extreme, it almost defies description.

As consumers, we might explain the Echo to friends as a wireless speaker, a Siri-like remote or a home automation hub, but the fact that it almost defies description is a testament to the fact to just how different the Echo is.

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