The longer you look at this stark image, the more it defies the possibility of being read at face value.
The amount of time we spend writing these songs in itself defies the possibility of earning vast amounts of money".
On this went for an hour and a half, much like the debate itself, defying any possibility of the reflection or deliberation that Frost was intent on supplying.
They become so high as to defy the possibility of sufficient profits ever being generated to pay dividends in any way commensurate with the share price.
He's using it only in the ghostly second act (now relocated from a moonlit graveyard to an abandoned factory) but is fascinated by the gravity-defying possibilities it affords him.
The regions largest economy and the worlds second-largest, Japan defied gloomy sentiment surrounding the possibility of a U.S. recession to report 0.9% growth in its gross domestic product for the last quarter of the year, a pace more than twice that forecast by analysts.
But this bone fragment appears to have defied the team's expectations, suggesting a possibility the bones may have belonged to St. Nicholas himself. .
Washington's ambitions may be high-minded but also will fail, as it too defies common sense, historical possibility, and moral reason and limit.
And since another Disney theme-park-attraction-turned-movie, "Pirates of the Caribbean," defied expectation and turned out to be so surprisingly good, this film promised possibilities.
As Peter Beinart recently wrote in the Atlantic, Pelosi, then the House minority leader, defied the conventional pundit wisdom by refusing to produce a counter-proposal to address the possibility of Social Security running out of money.
