Sentence examples for that it defies from inspiring English sources

According to his mother, blond hair is so strong in the Johnson family that "it defies attack from the genes of anybody else".

It will argue that it defies logic for it to lose its role as a children's heart surgery unit.

But the story of the 1913 Open is so engaging that it defies even Frost's more egregious efforts to get in its way.

"It's just so blatantly inconsistent that it defies common sense".

Today it has become so controversial that it defies understanding and trumps reasoned public debate.

Neruda's body of poetry is so rich and varied that it defies classification or easy summary.

This process of droplet aggregation sometimes happens so quickly that it defies explanation.

"We don't call this a talk show," Dr. Ordon said, noting that it defies easy description.

The appeal of the book rests partly on the fact that it defies definition and meaning.

"You're quite right in guessing that it defies description," Burns wrote his friend Holger Hagen about the book.

The story, which dates to the sixteenth century, is about a love so overpowering that it defies death.