Sentence examples for defies understanding from inspiring English sources
It's a work that defies classification but also defies understanding.
He was in the middle of something so huge it nearly defies understanding.
This is a movie that defies understanding even as it compels reverent, astonished belief.
Chaos theory tells us that a big complicated system like that defies understanding.
Today it has become so controversial that it defies understanding and trumps reasoned public debate.
ON THE face of it, the stunning success of the ISIS offensive in the past ten days defies understanding.
How many pop concerts defy understanding anymore?
Others, for many reasons, defy understanding, cross the line and abuse.
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.
Why Smith should have taken on the job when his reputation was at its highest after a short but successful period as coach of Scotland could easily be said to defy understanding.
