Being vexed at this interest in her personal life, Madonna fought back by creating the persona of a renegade, something so outrageous as to defy explanation, something found objectionable by most people.
FOR decades, drivers rattling past West 39th Street on the West Side Highway confronted something that seemed to defy the laws of traffic and physics: a Mack truck atop a two-story brick building on 12th Avenue.
It's something that you stand up to if you're able, and it's something you may conspire to defy if you choose--but you never really recover from it".
But I think that says something about your determination to defy the odds.
A busy marketing executive with a high-powered career, Sandra Sellani did something three years ago that seemed to defy logic: She quit her very lucrative full-time job for a lower-paying part-time consulting gig.
They used snus to impress, be tough and cool, to defy something that was "forbidden" and because they appeared more grown-up.
"It was something that I wanted to do; something that was different; to try to defy convention, I suppose.
Their message is that all art, basically, is an attempt to explain, fend off or accept death; to commemorate, or communicate with, the dead or deities; or to defy death by making something that lives on.
A behemoth structure towering above the winding stream and trail beneath it, the curved rock not only appears to defy gravity (how does something that massive stay suspended?!); it also provides much-needed shade from the glaring Utah sun.
He did this from his college dorm, along the way bested a couple of wanna-be Wall Street tycoons/jocks who tried to rip off his innovations, and then went on to defy skeptics to create something amazing.
