Sentence examples for gravity defiance from inspiring English sources

Imagine San Francisco and Seattle without their icons and you have some idea of what it's like when cities stop dreaming of gravity defiance on a grand scale.

But as cool as these floral underdogs were, it was hard for me to take my eyes off the bigger prize — a monolith standing in pure gravity-defiance, coated in streaks of desert varnish.

Dream logic, it's called, and the idea is that no matter how outlandish by waking standards events may seem in retrospect, within the dream the mind accepts the unrealistic cavalcade of non-sequiturs, transposed identities, gravity-defiance, and temporal anomalies with equanimity.

He has been led before, by the nerve and grace of his style as much as anything, to gravity and its defiance; in Dancer, his fictional imagining of how it might have felt to be Rudolf Nureyev, McCann put his prose through all kinds of disciplined flight.

In Defiance of Gravity," recent sculpture.

In her ample presentation there is defiance of gravity.

This appears to be in defiance of gravity: Shouldn't the drops fall toward the bottom?

Defiance of gravity continually undermines the common view, that "Nature... is both blind and automatic".

Crossing only his right thigh, it hangs in defiance of gravity between his legs.

As it spins she calmly walks inside, every so often taking a leap in defiance of gravity.

The window-cleaning business, which calls for regular defiance of gravity and constant schedule juggling, is good training, he says.