Sentences with phrase «which defy»

Even (especially) planet - sized ones which defy sampling every cubic nanometer of their volumes at picosecond time resolutions.

Guest essay by Eric Worrall What is the difference between a centrally planned Communist economy, and an economy where Central bankers punish businesses which defy their investment directives?

The greater lesson: Cloud microphysics and cloud updraft dynamics interact with surface processes in very complex and unexpected ways which defy simple hypotheses.

It was boring, but with one little flicker of creativity — she had titled her film, «Staying Alive,» because it was about northern river salmon which defy the standard «one and done» big bang spawning of salmon and instead «stay alive» to come back and spawn up to six times.

The choice is dictated to some extent by the fact that Newman worked at times with extreme formats — canvas widths fluctuating between 18 feet and 1 1/2 inches — which defy appropriate reproduction, particularly in this medium, as does the subtlety of the facture of his paintings.

Los Angeles - based artist Pae White merges art, design, craft and architecture through site specific installations and individual works which defy our expectations of a variety of techniques and media.

In the second room a large work in three parts confronts you with what are undoubtedly organic forms, but forms which defy quick identification.

Novel Readings presents a selection of works by Glenn Ligon, Jorge Macchi, and Ernesto Neto, which defy the way we usually think about cultures and contexts.

Working with anything from sea worn plastic toys, clay pipes, wire, painted drift wood to cloth, carpet and leather, Nelson's sculptures have an improvised and makeshift attitude, forming part of a curious world of «possible objects» which defy critical context by reaching out through their physicality.

For the last two years, Asper has been developing a a series of oil paintings of women in yoga poses, glazed to create luminous effects, which defy the expectations of portraiture.

Los Angeles - based artist Pae White merges art, design, craft and architecture through site - specific installations and individual works which defy our expectations of a variety of techniques and media.

French, New York - based artist Camille Henrot creates animated videos, films, sculptures, drawings, and photographs, all of which defy traditional art historical categories.

Across the entire game you spend a good portion of your time with your feet off the ground, grinding on rails, bouncing off objects (some of which defy logic), and whatever other aerodynamic abilities you can think of, run along wall, check, float through the air, to some other degree check.

Of course, there are also masses of whacky vehicles to choose from, many of which defy both traditional aerodynamic form and efficient mechanical function.

The monument, a landmark of 20th - century Spanish architecture, was designed by Pedro Muguruza and Diego Méndez on a scale to equal, according to Franco, «the grandeur of the monuments of old, which defy time and memory.»

Are we dealing with human emotions which defy control?

Racial isolation in school choice systems raises vitally important questions, which defy simple answers, about what we value as a society and how we should organize ourselves to realize those values.

And in a recent spin, has also begun organising singles events which defy the orthodox Speed Dating set - up — for example the Ping Pong singles event they ran on top of the O2 just a few days ago.

Leadership: The «cutting - edge» nutrition and sports physiology research is undergoing a seismic shift and VESPA is leading the way with race winning / record setting results which defy conventional sports nutrition / physiology on fat - based performance.

The problem of drug - resistant infections is terrifying but also abstract; by their nature, microbes are invisible to the naked eye, and the process by which they defy our drugs is even harder to visualise.

The rationale is that viewers spend longer looking at those which defy their expectations, presumably as they try to work out what's going on.

Forget the name though and you have one very tasty and satisfying piece of confection which I defy anyone not to enjoy.

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

There are doubtless many things in the Revelation which defy understanding, but the central truth remains crystal clear — Christ is the Victor Christ.

«A complete elucidation of one and the same object», he writes, «may require diverse points of view which defy a unique description.»

All this is said in images and metaphors which defy systematic analysis.

I'll add that Los there are rules that God stein place, which defy «tolerance» and «love thy neighbor».

People get into high positions without the right to be there, but you are totally capable of rising up to those things which defy logic.

The distortion, which defies even basic common sense, is so plain to see once one is no longer under the influence.

This reminds me of the thinking of Wittgenstein... we're all playing language games in our little boxes trying to give shape to that which defies shaping through our minuscule languages.

That form of listening is a liturgical activity — an active embodiment of and response to Scripture — which defies separation into the «theoretical» and the «practical.»

As such it is best described as an unknowable force that acts in a manner which defies logic.

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.

Moving from an old style evangelical faith to one which defies description was only possible when I realised that God is infinite and so it is impossible to know everything about Him.

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.»

You are using a both / and to prove and either / or statement which defies logic

Instead, you have chosen to use a both / and statement to refute an either / or which defies logic and reason.

Heliocentrism, on the other hand, created a world where matter clumped randomly around the universe, which defied all reason, observation and scientific knowledge.

In every age man faces a pervasive theme which defies his engagement and yet must be engaged.

I have previously argued that each actual happening has a subjective uniqueness which defies appropriation — even by God.

Daniel Bryan is the new WWE Champion after an absolute classic of a match, in which he defied nearly a decade of history by managing to beat John Cena without any kind of assistance.

Ampadu really was quality tonight, recovered after a stupid booking in first minute to give a performance which defied his years.

The Golden Eagles are now 20 - 7 all time in one goal games, which defies all kinds of logic and description.

According to Fawell, it was «a classic case of inflexible federal regulations, which defies common sense.

But George Osborne may see it as the ideal opportunity to advance his «dash for gas», which defies most expert opinion with its punt that the UK can repeat the US's experience and exploit shale gas reserves to secure lower energy prices.

The letter has attracted support from even more Tory backbenchers than last year's «rebellion of the 81» which defied the government by voting for an EU referendum.

North Korea officially acknowledged the failure of its latest rocket launch Friday (April 13) in a rare admission from the reclusive nation, which defied international warnings not to launch what the United States and other countries saw as a missile weapons test.

Personally, I would skip McSorley's and go around the corner to the venerable Noho Star, which defies categorization but is always good... and very hip.

It is neither rare nor surprising to see an older woman and younger guy date and enjoy a very intense romantic and sexual relationship, which defies the usual «older man, younger woman» situation we are accustomed to.

It is not rare nor surprising to see an older woman and younger guy date and enjoy a very intense romantic and sexual relationship, which defies the usual «older man, younger woman» situation we are accustomed to.