Sentence examples for defy the constraints of from inspiring English sources

Trimpin's computer-driven musical contraptions defy the constraints of traditional instruments.

Microscopes made by Bancks of London were used by Darwin, Brown, Bentham, and Hooker and with careful adjustment can reveal remarkably fine detail that seems to defy the constraints of the theoretician.

As a divine messenger, Wilkinson defied the constraints of gender and emerged as an international celebrity in the age of revolutions.

Subsequently, throughout most of his adult life, Romand defied the constraints of truth, acting as both author and main character in the personal fiction that he substituted for reality.

The combination of a good performance and a strong ego would have completed the picture, with the trader now convinced that he could beat the market and defy the constraints his own firm placed on his activities.

Comedians may portray someone they want to be, or perhaps their act is a way to defy the constraints imposed on their everyday events and interactions with others.

Today the pace of invention and the raw power of technology are shocking: A Nobel Prize was awarded last fall for the creation of a microscope with a resolution so extreme that it seems to defy the physical constraints of light itself.

This detailed account deploys the tools of Cognitive Grammar to demonstrate how a construction can indeed fit into the general patterns that characterize English grammar, despite defying the apparent constraints of constituent structure.

Others defy the space constraint with a shrug of humor.

In each of the segments that make up our film, we feature significant individuals who are defying stereotypes and redefining the constraints of what popular society has deemed a Jew should be.

Defying the destruction of war and the constraints of their puritanical American families, they pursued a vision of creation together.