Sentence examples similar to defies adaptation from inspiring English sources

It is where they have been restaging "Antigona," their adaptation of Sophocles's story of the rebellious Antigone, who defies the King of Thebes.

Re "Depression Defies the Rush to Find an Evolutionary Upside" (Essay, Jan . 17: Asking if diseases are or are not adaptations is the most elementary mistake in evolutionary medicine.

This defies all logic.

It defies logic.

McClellin defies easy labels.

It defies easy description.

Turkey defies clichés.

But this defies credibility.

He defies categorization.

At the Victoria Palace on May 11, Stephen Daldry opens a stage adaptation, complete with a score by Elton John, of the film that brought him fame: "Billy Elliot," the tale of a working-class boy who defies his background to become a dancer.

The logic defies me.