Sentence examples for defying description from inspiring English sources

As is traditional at onsen, the elaborate dinner and breakfast were served in our room, and were dazzling in imagination and quantity: soups, hearty and delicate; mushrooms in a panoply of shapes; pickles in a colorful bouquet; mountain vegetables defying description; fish, raw, grilled, sautéed; bonsai-size crustaceans to be eaten whole -- sensational by any reasonable standard.

Some games defy description.

"It defies description," Mr. Ashbee said.

The plot almost defies description.

Truly, her range defies description.

The story wilfully defies description.

To her, Virginia Beach almost defies description.

National differences among rieslings almost defy description.

He moved, Johnson said, "in a way that defied description".

"It is an act that defies description," Mr. Hickenlooper said.

It was bizarre enough to almost defy description.