Sentence examples for defy language from inspiring English sources

Up on top, the views defy language.

In a perverse echo of Wittgenstein's notion that some actions defy language, Chris says of the killing, "There was no noise, no words, no movement.

Alice Oswald pulls off a feat in her seventh collection: she finds words for encounters with nature that ordinarily defy language.

They defy language and time: a woman kissing an ass, mad with passion; two young lovers sitting under a greenwood tree; an old man and a fool, out there in a storm, mad with loss.

Holy moments defy language.

It circulated misleading talking points among Congress to influence debate over the measure, and it attempted to enforce the amendment in a way that "defies language and logic," "tortures the plain meaning of the statute" and is "at odds with fundamental notions of the rule of law," in the ruling of a federal judge.

Last fall, a federal judge issued a scathing rebuke of the DOJ, saying that its reading of the bill "defies language and logic," "tortures the plain meaning of the statute" and is "at odds with fundamental notions of the rule of law". Today, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit agreed.

The sight gag defies language, recurring, and giving To Rome the Allenesque touch of funny excess.

She adds: "The real force of fashion like this is not only to draw the disenfranchised together in unity, but also to defy the language with which they are named and oppressed".

More commonly, though, the prize recognizes developments that, although unquestionably essential, at first glance defy the English language—"for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions," in 2001; "for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis," in 2010.

More commonly, though, the prize recognizes developments that, although unquestionably essential, at first glance defy the English language — "for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions," in 2001; "for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis," in 2010.