Sentences with phrase «defies what»

Lenovo has crafted a unique experience here that defies what we've come to expect from a $ 500 phone near the end of 2016, and departed into a completely new category of devices that deserve their own pricing structure and perception.

To an outside observer or casual gamer, Dark Souls often defies what is «fun» about the hobby; these are not lightweight escapist fantasies or benign and mindless entertainments filled with beloved cartoon characters, but relentless tests of focus and skill.

A new five book series that defies what you think you know about the world of magic.

If your book busts myths or shares information that defies what people currently believe or expect, showcase the surprises in your book.

With its ovoid form and gently dimpled contours, the Power Dock defies what we expect an industrial object to look like, combining simple functionality with an intriguing, gotta - touch - it sculptural aspect.

But it defies what most people are attempting to accomplish in a strength training program.

Although I may be wrong, I see life as an instant, and what we do and how we treat others in this instant, defies what happens after.

Some of my African - American slave ancestors tried to leave me and my people a message about compassion that defies what many of us want to hear.

He pairs it with a blue button - down and some houndstooth slacks that defy what it means to be preppy and cool.

«If you want to lead the Labour party I don't think what you do is defy what the collective position was and split the party.

«The animals really defy what we learned in graduate school,» agrees Alejandro S ‡ nchez Alvarado of the University of Utah.

Eva Trends is an online retailer that features trendy pieces that are infused with bold colors, touchable textures and styles that defy what society classifies as the norm.

In 1776, two and a half million people along the eastern coast of what is now the United States, defied what was then the Keep your life in balance with daily tips and advice on the best that life has to offer.

Whether it's their visual effects, their style of direction, their output, it takes a certain courage to go completely in the opposite direction and defy what's expected from them.

When a child goes against what's expected of her, she may simply be focused on something she finds more interesting, but she may also have a specific reason for defying what she's been asked to do.

-- The Bookseller editor Philip Jones then returned Friday with classic irony in Surprise, surprise: Defying what we sometimes read in the wider... Read More

Defying what has seemingly long been a staple of the genre, Shin Megami Tensei IV dares to send you alone on your adventure — the series» unique trait seeing you form your own party.

For a start, the visuals are awesome, and defy what we thought possible on mobile.

In this exhibition at New York Gallery Osmos Address, titled «Precious Not Precious,» the artist presents collaged textile cushions, Islamic prayer rugs and heirloom textiles alongside her personal garments, creating a space of her own orientation and defying what she calls a «manufactured identity.»

Cota is described on the Ossia site as defying what most people believe is power, thanks to its unique wireless power charging capabilities that can take not just wires out of the picture, but even batteries, too.

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They have a burning passion for what they do, a love for it that defies logic.

When «Super Mario Bros. 3» arrived in 1990, it defied near - universal expectations about what was possible on the original Nintendo.

What Reilly discovered in these in - depth interviews were career paths that defy prediction.

Their mindset on financial matters defies logic so I'm just going to call it what it is: magical thinking.

In December 2013, the U.S. Army launched the «Defy Expectations» recruitment campaign, in which, according to the campaign's press release, «the U.S. Army takes the audience's expectations about what the Army experience is like and turns it on its head in a surprising but realistic way.»

Without the things that defy logic you would never come to know so deeply what you stand for, what you value or how powerful you truly are.

Oh, and a sixth straight week of gains for the S&P 500... No matter what happens lately, stocks just keep rising, with record closes piling up in U.S. benchmarks at a rate that is starting to defy precedent.

That shooter allowed Satan to tell him what to do; kill... defy God.

When the U.S. Muslim community sounds out LOUD and CLEAR, without equivocation, and immediately against all forms of terrorism, including all aggressive religious intolerance for human rights, women's right, children, equal protection under the law, the respect for other religions to coexist, the right to free speech, and the ability to separate church from state, IF THEY FINALLY DO THAT AND LOUDLY, then we will begin to feel comfortable that they are truly embracing American ideals and here to join us, not to oppose, defy, or undermine what we hold dear.

The whole deal with miracles is that by nature they can not be proven because miracles defy the laws of nature or at least what we understand to be the laws of nature.

The fact that this person preaches concepts of violence and defies logic in his preaching is sufficient (both of which are not in Islam and contrary to what Islam preaches).

We're talking about the Great Flood, the plagues on Egypt, because that is what we deserve for defying God's will.

We witness what it's like to be astounded by a death - defying Jesus, moved from failure and scarcity to life and triumph.

His insistence that that which defied abstraction was simply internal within the living experience precluded a satisfactory conception of the thought process and led him to employ what was available as the antithesis to abstractive cognition, namely, intuition, or, as it is sometimes put, imagism.

What about these areas that want sharia law and defy the laws of the countries they live in?

He and two pastors were arrested this week for defying a new city ordinance that «effectively outlaws» giving food to homeless people in public places, because what even is this world anymore.

Today, Christians of integrity are thrown back upon the never reducible testimony of Scripture, Tradition and the divine Spirit — a testimony that defies possession, but also manifests an exceptional trust in the insight, imagination, reasonableness and spiritual courage of ordinary human beings when they are modest enough to ask for what they do not and can not possess.

When you subscribe to Humanism, Naturalism, Materialism, Realism, Activism, what have you, which all are doctrines, you are already an «active» believer of some sort, which defies the very concept of Atheism, which is «passive.»

The reader needs to ponder what passion, resilience and steadfastness are required to keep a particular interpretive agenda always in view through such a long text, some of which is less than scintillating and some of which surely defies interpretation.

Can we not admit that, in the twenty - first century, what happens in the Eucharist is a mystery that defies human ability to parse?

Pandora's curiosity in opening the box full of the world's sorrows is basically the same story as Eve, the Odyssey the story of what happens when the gods are angered, the Greek Hades a place where ironic punishments are given to those who have defied gods.

We looking outside world for answer, who can close the eyes and detach themselves from the world and simply merge in the goodness and love in heart and feel the best what we have, never worry or argue the different name of God or argue who is superior or inferior, the people who argues never even know himself or herself and started defying anything which cant be define, We can answer the very question of God and super power, it is not complicated, close the eyes, breath deeply and start detaching yourself from outside world and stop controlling your body, your thoughts, your so called worldly knowledge, ego and just feel the power and light within, you sure will get answer, it wont be Christ, Krishna, Allah, Those names wont matter, You will merge into supreme strength, and peace, we will have answer then, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND ANSWER LOOKING INSIDE OUT, WHEN ANSWER IS WITHIN,

This, of course, assumes that what we see, or what is observable visually, should wholly determine what real space is — whereas even a casual glance at the development of modem physics shows that much of reality stubbornly defies visualization.

What those ancient Greeks (who also had some understanding of philosophy) regarded as a task for a whole lifetime, seeing that dexterity in doubting is not acquired in a few days or weeks, what the veteran combatant attained when he had preserved the equilibrium of doubt through all the pitfalls he encountered, who intrepidly denied the certainty of sense - perception and the certainty of the processes of thought, incorruptibly defied the apprehensions of self - love and the insinuations of sympathy — that is where everybody begins in our tWhat those ancient Greeks (who also had some understanding of philosophy) regarded as a task for a whole lifetime, seeing that dexterity in doubting is not acquired in a few days or weeks, what the veteran combatant attained when he had preserved the equilibrium of doubt through all the pitfalls he encountered, who intrepidly denied the certainty of sense - perception and the certainty of the processes of thought, incorruptibly defied the apprehensions of self - love and the insinuations of sympathy — that is where everybody begins in our twhat the veteran combatant attained when he had preserved the equilibrium of doubt through all the pitfalls he encountered, who intrepidly denied the certainty of sense - perception and the certainty of the processes of thought, incorruptibly defied the apprehensions of self - love and the insinuations of sympathy — that is where everybody begins in our time.

What's more, he says, occasionally the person will do something that defies explanation.

I just realized that an eternal being creating the universe in 7 days and 8000 years of total existence defies the logic of what has been proven by some of the brightest minds ever to live on this planet.

Some defy my taxonomic skills, either because they're on the borderline (PLAN AHEAD — IT WAS NOT RAINING WHEN NOAH BUILT THE ARK has a biblical reference but no necessary spiritual meaning) or because they're incomprehensible: What does CHECK UP BEFORE YOU CHECK OUT mean?

A person who defies all of the liberal stereotypes of what a conservative and a Mormon are like.

So if the information in DNA defies naturalistic explanation, then what about the evolution of that information?

Furthermore, it is not obvious to me that nonbelievers are repulsed by what is foreign, odd or «mystical» — not when Hollywood movies gross billions precisely by delivering symbols that defy easy assimilation and require work to understand.