"It defies description," Mr. Ashbee said.
"It defies description; it could be a Hollywood movie," Portugal's José Fonte said afterward.
"You're quite right in guessing that it defies description," Burns wrote his friend Holger Hagen about the book.
A Guardian review of a recent paperback version, translated into English by Maureen Freely, said that it "defies description".
"This man had such a stranglehold on this town it defies description," said Gary F. Stowell, a lawyer hired by the borough to conduct the assessment.
"It defies description except to say that it's one more overbearing government intrusion on free enterprise in our country," Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, Republican of Texas, in urging repeal of the provision.
Equally paradoxical are the positive descriptions Nishida gives it, in spite of the implicit claim that it defies description.
4. "It Defies Description" Here's your highlight of the weekend.
In 1931, Bok hired Fredrick Law Olmstead, Jr and Fletcher Steele Landscape Designgn royalty of the day - to design what is now the strikingly scenic Harbor Park (Olmstead), and the Nationally Landmarked (in 2013) Camden Library Amphitheater (Fletcher), still in daily use today, with a harbor "living backdrop" so dazzling, it defies description.
It is so very great that it almost defies description, with its unique use of words, history, emotion and suspense.
Only now it was a sea of clothes, paper, athletic equipment and assorted items that defied description.
