Sentence examples for defied reason from inspiring English sources
That innings defied reason, sense, history, technique and precedent.
It defied reason that small reptiles would take on whirring leviathans whose gentlest tap may crush them and whose breath can blow them to kingdom come.
Surrealism grew principally out of the earlier Dada movement, which before World War I produced works of anti-art that deliberately defied reason; but Surrealism's emphasis was not on negation but on positive expression.
Beyond such life-risking tales, there were heroic animal stories that defied reason and others in the public eye who quietly inspired others.
Whether it was a trick of the shadows that made you second guess yourself, a temperature change that somehow had you convinced that you were in the presence of a ghost -- or a light formation in the sky that spooked you just enough to think you'd seen something unearthly; whatever it was, it defied reason on a deeply personal level and thereby left you awed by its mysterious occurrence.
But superstition defies reason.
Such cruelty defies reason.
Intended to defy reason, it does.
Even that job description defies reason.
