Sentence examples for defied understanding from inspiring English sources
And when the crisis was unmistakably over, many voices were heard recommending that the nation try to forget about it immediately, as though people were ready to accept the notion that the events of recent years defied understanding in retrospect — just as they had defied anticipation and had defied understanding as they unfolded — and so were truly without any discoverable meaning whatever.
Over the last 48 hours, Mr. Beck has tried to cope with the ultimate horror of any parent, learning that his child had committed abominable acts that defied understanding.
Thoughts and behaviors that previously seemed random and defied understanding could now be predicted and even changed.
How many pop concerts defy understanding anymore?
It's a work that defies classification but also defies understanding.
Others, for many reasons, defy understanding, cross the line and abuse.
This is a movie that defies understanding even as it compels reverent, astonished belief.
He was in the middle of something so huge it nearly defies understanding.
Today it has become so controversial that it defies understanding and trumps reasoned public debate.
Chaos theory tells us that a big complicated system like that defies understanding.
