Sentence examples for defy understanding from inspiring English sources

How many pop concerts defy understanding anymore?

Others, for many reasons, defy understanding, cross the line and abuse.

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.

World cities such as London have tended to defy understanding hitherto because simple hierarchical subdivision has ignored the fact that their polycentricity subsumes a pattern of nested urban movements.

The region sometimes seems to defy understanding because of its sprawling size, wide diversity and Balkanization.

Ever since that narrow escape, death became her obsession, but one that continued to defy understanding or articulation.

It defied understanding.

It's a work that defies classification but also defies understanding.

This is a movie that defies understanding even as it compels reverent, astonished belief.

He was in the middle of something so huge it nearly defies understanding.

In our horror at the idea that somebody would kill themselves, we create a culture which defies understanding.