Sentence examples for defying the rules from inspiring English sources

In general, video games are about defying the rules of everyday life.

Defying the rules, Mr. Elias crept into the barracks where his brother lay dying and crawled into his bed.

In L'Avventura, famously, something mysterious happens and then, defying the rules of movie narrative, it refuses to un-happen.

Back then, my idea of defying the rules was Googling the date June 4th, the date of the Tiannanmen Square massacre.

Defying the rules of sisterhood, they elevate high-school stereotypes -- the slut, the bimbo, the messed-up chick -- into the realm of art.

Antonio also wore wider pants and, defying the rules, often went to school in black tennis shoes instead of dress shoes.

But the real problem was that Republicans were redrawing lines that had just been adopted in 2001, defying the rule that redistricting occurs only once a decade, after the census.

It defies the rules of commerce.

We'll just have to defy the rules.

His use of smelling salts also defied the rules.

In holding a political gathering, they defied the rules of General Musharraf's coup.