The spectacle suggested a defiance of logic.
Hitler was "ordinary", Churchill "extraordinary".Leadership, he tells us, is made of calculated risk-taking, defiance of logic, confidence-trickery, delegation to "sneaks and stinkers", and opportunism.
The worst insult of all, though — in defiance of Linnaean logic — may be that you always end up lumped in with the fungi people.
In defiance of economic logic and social fact, it is their overwhelming faith in the future that hits me between the eyes.
Little of this was reflected at the time in the mainstream media, which mostly portrayed the strike as an anti-democratic insurrection led by a ranting megalomaniac in defiance of economic logic.
The Silicon Valley company, which trumpeted its corporate motto, "Don't be evil", before its stockmarket listing in 2004, considers itself a force for good in the world, even in defiance of commercial logic.
In defiance of all logic, the search party consists of two lone women, one of them a local cop, the other the lover and protegee of Deaver's quadriplegic criminalist, Lincoln Rhyme, who happens to be in the neighborhood for experimental spinal surgery.
In defiance of reason, logic, and every medical book ever written ― she lived.
Stronger still was the primate bonding that took place among the members of a unit and passed, in defiance of all social logic, back and forth, up and down the ranks.
Dallaglio and his scrum-half Rob Howley both felt the occasion matched anything they have experienced, with Munster's remarkable fans roaring their side into a 32-22 leafterter an hour in defiance of apparent rugby logic.
With Antonio Valencia cementing his status as the best winger in England and Ryan Giggs still in defiance of time and logic, it is a luxury United can afford – unlike Liverpool.
