I had seen the strain and destruction Delhi had undergone to host the 2010 Commonwealth Games and it defied comprehension how Hambantota, not yet even a city, could take on an event of such magnitude.
But the FBI had not made a mistake, and the truth was so outlandish, it defied comprehension.
Despite a portrayal of Pollock as an oddity whose work and mode of artmaking defied comprehension, the art was described in terms of his success in selling his works.
On Tuesday, it was an earthquake that crushed the capital city of Port-au-Prince and much of its surroundings and raised the level of suffering and death to heights that defied comprehension.
As adept and intuitive a playmaker as the NBA had ever seen, Paul made passes that defied comprehension while shifting around his teammates (and opponents) like a master chess player.
The wall came without warning, rising suddenly to more than fifteen feet, and, along with cars and refrigerators and cattle and jewelry, claimed a death toll that defied comprehension as it escalated through the week.
The idea of a husband and a 35th anniversary nearly defied comprehension when we first got together as students in Boston in 1981.
As rain fell on Nationals Park, Washington absorbed a loss that defied comprehension.
Schopenhauer, too, felt that Hegel had prematurely proclaimed the finality of his own system, and, like Schelling, he believed that life's most important truths defied comprehension by reason.
The rout of Juventus in the last 16 of the Europa League still defies comprehension.
The sheer scale of the disaster almost defies comprehension.
