Sentences with phrase «defy explanation»

As for Gleick, people sometimes do very very odd things that defy explanation unless you know them well.

It is not a completely understood entity, parts of the world defy explanation or have never even been studied.

Acts that defy explanation.

His expertise and interest in magic have led him to make objects «float» and otherwise defy explanation.

Animal partnerships often defy explanation.

He'll become the world's first consulting illusionist, helping the government solve crimes that defy explanation and trap criminals and spies by using deception.

Last month, astronomers detected a bizarre light pattern emitting from a star in a faraway galaxy that seemed to defy explanation,...

From there, Wang moved on to CHOC, where many patients come in with a laundry list of symptoms that defy explanation.

93 Renegade Planet Pair Defy Explanation A pair of celestial objects circling one another have fed a growing debate over the dividing line between planets and stars...

Some of our strangest foibles still defy explanation, but it is becoming clear that behaviours and attributes that sometimes seem frivolous often go to the heart of what it means to be human

Still, allergy rates continue to rise — they've doubled since the 1970s — and defy explanation.

We defy explanation.

The additional 10 % «slop» allowance, though, seems to defy explanation.

There are things that have happened that defy explanation except that there is more to life then we think.

You can in depth all you want from the Hebrew and Greek, but there are passages which defy explanation on their faces.

It began with founder and chairman Chip Wilson's sense of a market that even after 12 years defies explanation in an elevator pitch: clothing that is functional but also fashionable, designed for athletic use but often worn for other purposes, appealing to a New Age, anti-consumer aesthetic while occupying pricey real estate in shopping meccas, and all the while pushing a potpourri of empowering self - help messages.

Faith by definition is believing in something that defies explanation,

Now why God would insist that we believe a particular quizzical story in the complete absence of proof, and make that the fundamental test of our existence, defies all explanation.

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

Human love defies explanation either as a rational decision based on the attributes of the beloved, or as an unmotivated act of choice.

Scholars such as John B. Cobb and David R. Griffin have developed the Christological implications of Whiteheadian process - relational thought in a number of widely read works in recent years.1 «Evangelical» Christians, holding the Christian scriptures to be the uniquely inspired and authoritative charter documents of their faith, and finding in these scriptures a Christ whose divine humanity defies explanation in terms of any general metaphysical scheme, have had for the most part little interest in or even contact with these process - relational Christologies.2 That revelation presents to us this Christ is sufficient warrant for believing him; his being is, at any rate, incommensurate with ours.

This mysterious subterranean tunnel system defies explanation.

Reports of plumes or patches of methane in the Martian atmosphere that vary over monthly timescales have defied explanation to date.

Glass is a weird kind of solid liquid — and how it comes to be like that defies all explanation

Above the surface of the sun, plasma roiling in the star's atmosphere does something that so far defies explanation, and seems to defy physics: It gets hotter as it moves farther out.

Both enigmas have defied explanation.

Of the more than 150,000 stars Kepler surveyed, just one — dubbed KIC 8462852, after its number in the Kepler Input Catalog — displayed a light curve that defied explanation.

But why arsenic worked defied explanation.

The results of the trial therefore suggest that these white blood cells might be involved in causing CFS — a disorder also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), and one that has so far defied explanation.

Their Soft Matte Lip Cream defies explanation.

For some reason that maybe defies explanation, only the last half - hour of this gagfest works and almost — almost — saves the movie.

The result is something that defies explanation, let alone description.

Pencil it in as a landslide for Carter's new show, about people «who are thrown together by mysterious forces and must help each other survive in a violent world that defies explanation.»

Comedy sometimes defies explanation, and for good reason.

When John Snare, a nineteenth - century provincial bookseller, traveled to a liquidation auction, he stumbled on a vivid portrait of King Charles I that defied any explanation.

To consider a breed which has always worked above ground, whose original purpose was the gripping of large wild game, then later wayward bulls, and then later still combat with a variety of animals, a «terrier» defies explanation.

It's a game that defies explanation but has deeply emotional implications.

However, every once in a while, a movie tie - in can be so bad that it defies explanation.

The vast majority of what he imagines simply defies explanation or genre, and themes change dramatically from image to image.

The point of his herculean endeavour is not just the sculpture that results but the reveal; the moment when the building crew returns on Monday morning to see their, supposedly familiar, environment transformed into something that defies explanation, and which in due course they will have to destroy in order to continue working.

Not exact matches

There are a couple of possible explanations for why Apple is defying expectations without any truly innovative, new products.

Yet the nature of the image on the shroud seems to defy such explanations.

Miller contends that none of these theories account for the elements of the image that continue to defy naturalistic explanations: that the image is singed only on the surface of the cloth, and that its three - dimensional nature and the prints of the flowers and coin that Whanger believes are present remain unexplained.

NO ANSWER, or worse, some ludicrous explanation that defies any and all logic.

The storm and the subsequent song have the effect of situating human wonderment and human imagining before a mystery that may be purposeful but in human horizon is so raw as to defy purposeful explanation.

In addition to these crazy and immoral laws, there are plenty of examples of God's irrationality by his direct killing of many people for reasons that defy any rational explanation such as killing children who make fun of bald people, and the killing of a man who tried to keep the ark of God from falling during transport.

The unique gestures and turns of phrase that an outsider is liable to dismiss as insignificant are often loaded with a meaning that defies paraphrase and explanation.

His audience is the unfiltered British public who, like me, stand amazed at the explanation - defying stunts he pulls off on TV and on stage.

It is apparent, however, that there are many phenomena in the realms of intelligence, affection, aesthetics, psychology and religion that defy and deny the materialistic explanation.

As with the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, there is an interconnectedness at the subatomic level that defies simple causal explanations from the macroscopic world.