Sentence examples similar to defies encapsulation from inspiring English sources

Duncan's throbbing, fornication-crazy plot defies easy encapsulation, but is best described as a gleeful three-way between Raymond Chandler's entire oeuvre, Anne Rice's vampire novels and Umberto Eco's "Foucault's Pendulum".

Because of its wide range and its remoteness in time, Aristotle's philosophy defies easy encapsulation.

For this is a land that defies neat encapsulation or lazy caricature.

Be warned that said concept defies easy encapsulation: The songs are mostly contemporary ballads written by tunesmiths like Jimmy Webb, drenched in the kind of swirling, overbearing orchestral arrangements that might have been on a John Davidson album in 1968.

The logic defies me.

"But Michael defies logic.

Truly, it defies belief.

This defies all logic.

Piers Corbyn defies categorisation.

It defies scientific explanation.

"He defies age.