Cryptic thereby defies a troubling trend: Internet games, first ballyhooed as the next big thing, have struggled.
It's a little surprising who defies conformity and who broken-heartedly retreats from possible happiness.
On April 5th, Microsoft announced a bug that is so stupid it defies belief.
Depicting the Prophet Muhammad in any way already defies Islamic belief, let alone satirising him.
That hope rests on no theoretical basis or empirical results and defies common sense.
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Encouraged by the wind, it defies gravity and flows up the gentle incline toward the trees.
Boyle said the sculpture "defies all prejudice in people's minds about one of London's poorest boroughs".
"I think one of Wayne's problems is he defies convention so much, " Paine says.
New fusions of rock and pop forms create engaging music that defies easy categorization.
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But he defies critics of his pay and the performance of the company's shares.
And the reason is basically that the business structurally defies scale at this point.
In fact, it defies credibility that the growth of an epidemic is the fault of the afflicted.
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Pinning your future on a partner like that in front of deep pocketed investors surely defies logic.
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If its drama, or lack of drama, defies credibility, it must nonetheless be seen to be disbelieved.
And anyone with a disorder that still defies effective care knows the need to keep innovation going.
But my point is that we have a system that not only redefines complexity, but also defies understanding.
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She writes about what's on her mind, and her music often defies explanation.
And its stock has been a winner for so long, it defies reason.
Someone who defies conventional wisdom needs to explain his views well enough to bring public opinion to his side.
But everything about Berkshire Hathaway, including its vast stable of brands, defies convention in seemingly all ways but profit.
That defies logic and really calls into question the quality of the data.
How anyone could have mistaken this work for an Italian picture defies understanding.
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Virginia Dejani, the Academy's executive director, said he was made an honorary member because "what he has accomplished defies categorisation".
For someone who has won so much, and so regularly, to lose so often to one player almost defies logic.
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So it's a record that defies the labels and categories for which he had little use and even less patience.
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Under Welch's leadership, GE defies the conventional logic that the sum of the parts is worth more than the whole.
The result was that Transmeta became irrelevant. (See "Transmeta Defies Bad News" and "Dog Of The Day: Transmeta").
If Saddam defies the world and we fail to respond, we will face a far greater threat in the future.
Everything about this site defies the gravity of what we think we know about the importance of names and marketing.
"It defies logic and common sense to align a test to a curriculum that hasn't been fully unpacked yet, " Tanis said.
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