Sentence examples for resist explanation from inspiring English sources

But when things resist explanation, meaning is invested in the image itself.

Every age has a term to explain things that resist explanation.

Zippy titles like "Celestial Hammer" and "Little Niagra" add a poetic dimension, but they firmly resist explanation.

It is the image not the event that must compel, and to compel it must resist explanation.

Some items, even in the surest artist's hands, even tempered by the softening distance of time, will always resist explanation, reproduction, or balm.

The system performance metric "availability" is a central concept with respect to the concerns of a plant's operators and owners, yet it can be abstract enough to resist explanation at system levels.

If new data on the historical development of science resist explanation by this theory — and are thereby at least tentatively falsified — philosophers and historians, like scientists, will have to go back to the drawing board.

This enigmatic pattern has resisted explanation so far.