Sentence examples for defying me from inspiring English sources

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The old man was facing me, as though defying me to deny the story.

Is pulling them close when they are fiercely defying me, distress be damned, a missed opportunity for discipline?

"How can I create a free spirit who, in defying me, does my will?" The deeply pessimistic vision of Wagner is not exactly fashionable nowadays.

"The secretary general has always been in that habit of defying me," Mr. Bashir said in a heated speech that was carried on state television and radio.

"They're defying me, defying my authority as mayor," he said.

'Do you know who that is?" he asked, defying me to answer correctly.

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The logic defies me.

I defy the elements, and they defy me, and when we're done, I crawl inside a sleeping bag to get the heat back in my body.

I had never heard of them before someone threw a bag on my desk and defied me to open one.

These sleek versions of rags defy me when I try to help out, crinkling and crumpling and smelling mildly like hospital rooms used to.

The Italian neo-realists -- Antonioni and, especially, Fellini -- loom high in his pantheon of what he calls "the film gods," and he playfully defies me to name four classic films released since 1980.

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