Sentence examples for it defied understanding from inspiring English sources
Today it has become so controversial that it defies understanding and trumps reasoned public debate.
The question put to Greek voters is so technical that it defies understanding, and it relates to an offer (made by creditors on 25 June) that has since disappeared.
"It defies understanding," said the senator eponymous to 2002′s sweeping corporate reform legislation.
And when the crisis was unmistakably over, many voices were heard recommending that the nation try to forget about it immediately, as though people were ready to accept the notion that the events of recent years defied understanding in retrospect — just as they had defied anticipation and had defied understanding as they unfolded — and so were truly without any discoverable meaning whatever.
Over the last 48 hours, Mr. Beck has tried to cope with the ultimate horror of any parent, learning that his child had committed abominable acts that defied understanding.
He was in the middle of something so huge it nearly defies understanding.
And it absolutely defies understanding — except by the convoluted and loose arguments rehearsed above — that the concept of academic freedom could be used to defend a policy, the policy of boycott, that so cavalierly throws academic freedom under the bus.
This is a movie that defies understanding even as it compels reverent, astonished belief.
It's a work that defies classification but also defies understanding.
ON THE face of it, the stunning success of the ISIS offensive in the past ten days defies understanding.
