Sentence examples for rather defied from inspiring English sources

Sequestering the support of tourists rather defied the definition of the word tourist, another one said.

But then, Boys in a Band rather defy the usual preconceptions about hip new bands.

Clearly they are related, no one can deny that (although attaching it to the IPO rather defies credibility).

Jake expands on Jean-Paul Sartre's famous existentialist line "existence precedes essence", saying "existence not only precedes essence: in the case of human beings it rather defies essence".

"Switched" is heavy on story and light on style, and Hocking takes advantage of the most common conventions of the genre rather than defying them.

The vogue for all things vintage, and the steady popularity of timepieces that respect rather than defy convention, would seem to indicate that his new Legacy Machine No. 1 has tapped into the zeitgeist.

Rather than defy the prosecutors, as Miller did for so long, Pincus and his lawyers made a deal that would allow him both to honor his agreement with his source and to give Fitzgerald the information he requested.

It would be hard to imagine a mental illness that better evinces the slippery interplay among fashion, delusion, diagnosis and treatment than anorexia, which announces itself with the appearance of following rather than defying social directives and which women embrace, as they did neurasthenia, as a mode of femininity, in this case to be slim rather than morbidly sensitive and enervated.

Walsh is known for her provocative, sensual, contemporary-mélange style — rather than defy gravity, her dancers often give into it, performing lowered on the floor.

Matrix rather arrogantly defies you to feel the bass as so many of his contemporaries did, instead insisting that you feel his bass and his bass alone.

Kenneth Starr, on the brink of quitting the Whitewater investigation, was rebuked by Safire in such humiliating terms that, rather than defy the columnist, he launched the country on the long march toward impeachment.