Примеры defy

• It is when a phenomenon defies understanding that it 'announces' itself, and stands out from the background, requiring interpretation.

• Contemporary social scientists struggle with the problem of being precise about that which defies precision : the cloudiness of our own lives.

• And, finally, there are those - the truly problematic cases - which defy exclusive classification.

• In contrast, signatures that result from recombination between ribosomal variants leave traces that defy any phylogenetic hypothesis.

• Counteracting the conduct-book-like prescriptions of their words, the performative force of the female voice undoes the drama and defies its constraining messages.

• Plus most women on death row, like their male counterparts, have complex, dysfunctional lives, and so defy easy categorisation.

• His book effortlessly and purposefully defies the false dichotomy between a cultural studies approach and a historical one.

• Such fanciful narratives are "mythical" rather than realistic, and the identities they invent defy historical or scientific discursivity.