Sentence examples similar to defies estimation from inspiring English sources

And yet, even at the very end of De Civitate Dei, Augustine makes clear that he still regards this as a landscape which holds out the prospect of an incomparable vision and rest from all anxiety, a renewed condition that defies all mortal estimation [De Civitate Dei XXII.30; see also XX.21].

The resultant psychological effect of seeing the young woman's face so large in relationship to the towering buildings in the background defies the logic of real scale to confer an illusionistic estimation of monumentality to the subject, which then further reinforces her worthiness in our estimation.

Barker, by Kill's estimation, had defied Lochrie, who was concerned that Barker had not been icing his ankle enough.

This defies all logic.

It defies logic.

McClellin defies easy labels.

The logic defies me.

"But Michael defies logic.

Truly, it defies belief.

It defies easy description.

Turkey defies clichés.