Flies in the face of

Usage examples of defies.

But their claim that their solution is no more than hereditary predisposition defies both science and common sense.

Even as I tell Her stories, She defies my dissections and definitions.

Her squatting, many-armed form, with Her bared teeth and necklace of skulls, with the corpse of Her consort Shiva beneath Her, defies once and for all our stereotype of the Goddess as a combination of a nymph, Cleopatra, and Florence Nightingale.

Sun Woman, like Amaterasu Omikami of Japan (see story), Allat of ancient Arabia, and Sun Goddesses of Argentinians, Inuit (Eskimo) peoples, and ancient Anatolians, defies the stereotype that Sun deities are always male.

Sometimes that plate takes our situation-specific inscription rather well: our sketch defies little of the promise of that archetypal plate.

I have a problem here'-he gestured towards his hop-board table-'which defies my poor brain.

With the sequence no longer valid, it would then be even more difficult than it, is at present for scholars to explain the immense architectural competence and precision of the Great Pyramid (since it defies reason to suppose that such advanced and sophisticated work could have been undertaken by builders with no prior knowledge of monumental architecture).

Since it defies everything I ever was taught about the way races develop, it will be fascinating to hear of this one moral exception.

But comfort yourself, dear friend, my wig is so beautifully made that it defies detection.

He defies the stick, and he would defy the gallows if it were far enough off.

What should be done to a priest whose every action defies the vows he made to God?