Sentence examples for it defied reason from inspiring English sources

It defied reason that small reptiles would take on whirring leviathans whose gentlest tap may crush them and whose breath can blow them to kingdom come.

Whether it was a trick of the shadows that made you second guess yourself, a temperature change that somehow had you convinced that you were in the presence of a ghost -- or a light formation in the sky that spooked you just enough to think you'd seen something unearthly; whatever it was, it defied reason on a deeply personal level and thereby left you awed by its mysterious occurrence.

And its stock has been a winner for so long, it defies reason.

It defies reason and is shaped wholly by emotion, mainly rage.

Mountaineering is like a religious faith in one way, he said, because it defies reason.

Even though it may seem crazy and it defies reason, rational logic and statistics, we all believe she's alive.

"Cromitie is not a particularly intelligent man, but it defies reason to think that he was unaware" that he was getting involved in terrorism, she wrote.

While not everyone will be convinced, Ms. Salomone argues compellingly that "it defies reason for government" to bar single-sex schooling.

It defies reason, but there are still some who think the chuckleheads who orchestrated the Iraq misadventure have wisdom to impart.

But it defies reason to claim that "little people" are unaffected by the manipulations of the two-thirds of hedgehogs who choose not to register with the S.E.C.

"It defies reason, given the entirety of the allegations," Judge Pfaelzer wrote, "that these committee members could be blind to widespread deviations from the underwriting policies and standards being committed by employees at all levels.