Sentence examples for escapes definition from inspiring English sources

Although the play is clearly intended as a defence of moderation and reason in a world riven with faction and hate, Vince is a symbol who escapes definition.

The fact that "civil power" escapes definition is, from one angle, something of a let-down - and Hill's line admitting as much, "though it were disappointed with itself", is a designedly flat pentameter.

In view of the absence of textual evidence and because knowledge of the Luwian vocabulary is rather restricted, it is perhaps not surprising that this possible substratum element escapes definition.

Grounding a discussion of racism in a discussion of the law, however, can mean trying to parse and quantify something that escapes definition and sometimes, even, observation.

Featuring major names like Da Poor Boys, The Wembley Legends, and Partynation, this is an explosion of music so gimmicky it practically escapes definition.

Leonardo's Basement is a place that to a certain extent escapes definition but Executive Director and Founder, Steve Jevning, says that it's "a place for children, teens, and adults who need to build things".

WITH its combination of slow growth, rising unemployment and falling wages, today's economy has escaped definition.

Something strange happens when I turn from the doors, whose surfaces keep escaping definition, back to the sheds.

The difference between Cameron and his titanic predecessors is that he has almost completely managed to escape definition.

There is always the other part the part of the natural force that can be explored but never completely known, the aspect of nature that will always remain wild and escape definition.

To the degree that she will consent to define herself — and escaping definition is one of her central preoccupations — it is not only as a writer who doesn't traffic in big ideas but as one with a profound antipathy toward intellectualizing.