Sentence examples for resist description from inspiring English sources
The phrase "resist description" is a perfectly valid and usable phrase in written English
It is used to mean that something is too complex or complex enough that it cannot be explained in words. For example, "The sheer beauty of the landscape was so extraordinary that it resisted description."
If her paintings often resist description, so too do they resist being looked at in the way most paintings do.
"It resists description," Rifky said.
Who can resist the description of the bodybuilding Raju, who "usually walked with his head tilted sideways and hanging down as if he was helpfully exposing his neck to a tired executioner"?
But Marx would resist the description of this norm as a principle of justice or moral rights.
Who can resist a description like this? "The winners will receive a whole box (chewed up & spit out in a Ziploc baggy) of Tamales and one PICTURE of my FACE.
In Bach for the Cello, the music resists description and perhaps the reason is already given away in its opening line: "By mathematics we shall come to heaven".
Post-Hurricane Sandy, the New Jersey shore resists description.
Though Mr. Samuelsson resists the description "soul food," the menu will include items like collard greens and cornbread.
Simon Dale resisted the description of the round house he and his family built as a 'hobbit home' for as long as he could, but it was futile.
While he and Fearn have long resisted the description of them as a "political band", he could accept that others viewed their lyrics as political commentaries.
Recently at PowerHouse Arena in Dumbo, a loft-like store for arty bibliophiles, David Friedlander, a handsome guy whose career has a 21st-century way of resisting easy description, married Jacqueline Schmidt, an ethereal redhead — a dancer once, a graphic artist now — who seems to run on earnest optimism.
