She fell back upon the bed defying me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment he thought the maester was going to defy him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Every time I saw him, I tried to imagine him writing those editorials in the Standard-, I tried to imagine him defying the soldiers. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He disavowed nothing: he seemed as if he would defy all things. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The sage — low-growing and shrubby — could hold its place on the mountain slopes and on the plains, and within its small gray leaves it could hold moisture enough to defy the thieving winds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He gets invited on news shows and profiled in magazines, and he has been the subject of a documentary by the filmmaker Errol Morris, all because of a brain that appears to defy description. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The numbers were staggering and clearly defied a natural death rate. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The difference in weight would be written off as trash, which defied precise weighing, or laid to a fault in the scales. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

No one had ever been able to replicate Carrel’s work, and the cells seemed to defy a basic rule of biology: that normal cells can only divide a finite number of times before dying. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It was Antigone who symbolized our struggle; she was, in her own way, a freedom fighter, for she defied the law on the grounds that it was unjust. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a looseness and a fluidity that defied physics—imagine a jellyfish if it could walk on land. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

There was also a mysterious growth developing on my body that defied explanation. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone was stunned that I dared openly defy a powerful noble’s firstborn son. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“And for what? To live a dream of freedom and prosperity? Pah. They would be ashamed of us. What is it to defy the Devlin mine to those who have risked everything?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Watch your language! Do not defy your father!” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas could picture it all: the creature’s metal spikes digging into the wooden sides of the Homestead, the massive creature rolling its body, climbing up toward their room, defying gravity with its strength. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Taking up his Levy Pants ballpoint pen, he began writing on the first sheet of new Blue Horse paper: Dear Reader, Books are immortal sons defying their sires. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I would not have you give words or time to Lord Hamlet henceforward,” he said in a hard, cold voice that forbade me to defy him again. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Was the story important enough to justify defying the government? Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to defy Mother and Grandma, but Link was inside Central. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You have seen things that defy belief, have you not?” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Is he trying to make me suffer for defying him? The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Their straight trunks and dark green canopy seemed to defy distance, being so clearly visible at what must have been many miles away. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

With regret in his voice, he told me that his doctor advised him against defying and going to prison. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turns out that Buckingham Palace is big—so big that it almost defies description. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

When apartheid came, colored people defied easy categorization, so the system used them—quite brilliantly—to sow confusion, hatred, and mistrust. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The pig was punishing me for trying to defy him. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Finally Aunt Maggie defied her fear and made frequent trips back to Elaine, but she went in secret and at night and would tell no one save my mother when she was going. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

By imprisoning its citizens inside the country, North Korea defies an international agreement that it has pledged to uphold. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Once built, the Montauk was so novel, so tall, it defied description by conventional means. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“We should thank you for defying the instructions of your faction leaders? Thank you for trying to prevent one of your faction leaders from killing Jeanine Matthews? You behaved like a traitor.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Countenance cast down — yet defying Answer — he whispered: “I have never even dwellt inside myself.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Suppose you did have the courage to defy somebody?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I have seen men stand up to attacks and torture without breaking, showing a strength and resiliency that defies the imagination. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In our culture, girls do not defy the males in their families. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Lesser decided to defy the opinion of his scientific advisers. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once again, Thomas looked in awe at the massive moving wall—it defied any sense of physics. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

No, he doesn't have the guts to defy the Commandant. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She still had her other clothes on, jeans and a blue sweatshirt — her hair was short, she’d defied fashion as usual — so I recognized her at once. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others felt that she had been dropped not so much for drinking as for defying Brundage. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Among the rowdiest people of all were gangs of boys, teenaged and younger, who at last had their chance to defy authority. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I shut my eyes and make myself a promise: I will defy the Doctorita, every day, every chance I get, in my own secret vmsima way. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A reminder of the way Styx Malone defied death. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Nor was I wrong to defy my father when he wished me to betray my queen. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Dare not defy the Institute. Obviously it’s a kind of defense mechanism.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Now I was truly dead to Granny and Aunt Addie, but my mother smiled when I told her that I had defied them. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Does God strike me for defying his deputy? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

And why was no one prepared to defy him? Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“I say defy him!” came a hoarse shout. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I knew if I defied her now, we would be enemies, but I didn’t care. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Lesser lords might join their cause for fear of harm or hope of gain, but only the Prince of Dome had the power to defy House Lannister and its allies. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I watched it plunge on, eating up the road, defying those curves. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I doubt all the Erudite want to study all the time, or that every Candor enjoys a lively debate, but they can’t defy the norms of their factions any more than I can. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

My father found his own way to defy the Nazis and to help us survive at the same time, even though it meant doing something illegal. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

As they crossed the line, Bobby Moch, defying the laws of physics and common sense, suddenly stood bolt upright in the stern of his twenty-four-inch-wide shell, triumphantly thrusting one fist into the air. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They defied my presumptions—they were afraid neither for me nor of me. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“I defy those crows to come out here this year!” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I'm glad though, because it supports the whole crazy-in-love thing that's my defense for defying the Capitol, plus it means we won't have as much time to linger over the deaths. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

They all knew the reason: Mr. Willis had defied the League of St. Alexander, and now he was being punished. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Reason does not matter, Aspirant Veturius. Only loyalty. If you defy the order, you fail the Trial. The punishment for failure is death.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Two hours,” he said with a grim certainty, as if defying the workers to contradict him. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The game remained close, both combatants missing shots they should have made and sinking baskets that defied all principles of the game. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rather than fall into the brutal hands of Russian marauders, some people defied the Reich and left without orders, like us. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The mechanism of Harrison's chronometer could withstand the turbulent motion of a ship at sea, defy changes of temperature, and resist the corrosion of salt water and air. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

In spite of the fact that our volunteers were carefully screened before they were selected to defy, the police managed to penetrate not only our local branches but some of the batches of defiers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had defied the Government once, with Luke. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

I closed my eyes remembering the big man, hearing again his advice to Nigel on how to defy the whites. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Bless her heart, Shannon was such a good girl, she had never even had a drop of alcohol, and here she was, defying the police for me. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

And she certainly wasn’t going to be defied—not after all she’d done to get the family here. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

And now, said other fearful ones, now that he had defied them, those buyers will not want to deal with him at all. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard to imagine Willow Chance in such a setting, but maybe she would defy the odds. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Some of Langley’s white employees openly defied southern conventions. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Still, she found it hard to straight-out defy Dad. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

What will he think of this very public salute to the girl who defied the Capitol? Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Okay, so Penelope and I became the hot topic because we were defying the great and powerful Earl. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

A man half in shadow, half in light, defying knowledge. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I requested Octav. to bespeak an Apparatus from a Glazier but he would not & defied me. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“We must obey. We have no strength to defy the State.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under President Botha, the march would have been banned, marchers would have defied that ban, and violence would have resulted. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only one who knows how to work around here is me, and I defy you to prove otherwise. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I read somewhere, once, that crying defies scientific explanation. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I did not dare defy King’s Landing so long as my last living son remained a captive. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The huge salmon swam up the falls, springing up and defying gravity as if it had been thrown upward into the air. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

A connection that defies the fact that we’ve only just met. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I tried to defy the overwhelming never once, when I realized there are songs in my own music library that I will probably never hear again. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He was, after all, the boy who had defied Dana Matherson and survived. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We did, however, often defy our parents by going swimming. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

When her third kit grew too weak to stand, our mother defied him. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Knowing my father, I knew that we were going to remain tribal for as long as he lived; and that for us to change, my mother would have to do something drastic—defy my father. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the people were behind him, and he had created a disciplined and well-organized group of volunteers who had defied in an orderly fashion even while Gwentshe was in prison. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not too many people defied Emile Janza, anyway, whether they were fat or skinny, mild or not. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But soon there were few left in Minas Tirith who had the heart to stand up and defy the hosts of Mordor. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Powers that defied explanation, mental talents so freakish, doctors and scientists reclassified our entire generation as Psi. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

All across the country, those who defied on June 26 did so with courage, enthusiasm, and a sense of history. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Probably studying in his room or hunched over his cipher books or logic puzzles with Steve defying gravity, like a diving board of hair sticking off his head. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It reached what they were certain must be the zenith of its curve, and then, defying all reason, it continued to rise into the air. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow I never realized that when Tobias charged out of the city with me, he wasn’t just a rebel defying his leader—he was a son abandoning his mother. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I want to defy all of them—the Empire, the Commandant, the Resistance. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Scruggs joined about 300 other guys to watch the folk singer Arlo Guthrie defy attempts by the government to draft him. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

There were so many basic things that defied her presumptions. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Despite society’s misconceptions about my abilities as an African-American Muslim woman who wears hijab, I defied the odds. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Afghanistan is home to the best horsemen—they can defy gravity on the back of a stallion. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

These were the people to whom he had once boasted, acted tough; people whom he had once defied. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

But Burger had defied death under the Nazi regime twice. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Some of the insects that defy chemical control are thought to be aided by a structural advantage, but there seems to be little actual proof of this. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“No! For the deed of killing defies justice, both human and divine,” I argued with a fervor that matched his own. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

If she was chosen today, Citra would not defy the edict to glean Rowan—but she did have a plan that might save both of them. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I praised the response as “magnificent” to the press, lauding our people for “defying unprecedented intimidation by the state.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wiped his face with one dirty hand and looked angrily at Jonas, defying him to disagree. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

"No," my brother protested, "the Great Green Tiger is the most powerful beast of all! None can defy him!" Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, she was the Wraith—the only law that applied to her was gravity, and some days she defied that, too. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Caught in midair, like a ballet dancer, defying gravity. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The dances were a way of imitating warfare without actually defying the master. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Please do not imagine that it will truly be that easy, should you think to defy me. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Any other team on spaceship Earth would have worried about Julian's defying an official of the sovereign state of New York. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

For years a white businessman named Ralph Johns had tried to convince A&T students to defy the color line in Greensboro. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“For defying their master, attempting to attend an illegal festival—” “They’re just girls, Hel.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She came directly to us, in our sandy backyard, defying tides and the elements. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“You defied me in public, so I had no choice but to publicly put you in your place. In the future, you need to hold your opinions until we are alone.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

One did not defy magistrates in those days. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some people were frightened, especially when Hitler promised to defy the Treaty of Versailles. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Politics can be strengthened by music, but music has a potency that defies politics. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The convoluted syntax, multiple negatives, indefinite antecedents, and masterful circumlocutions of this statement defy comprehension. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Zeus ordained the explosion to destroy the children,” she said, “because you defied his will. I had nothing to do with it. And I did warn you to hide them sooner.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

And then he turns his hand upside down so that the bill sticks to his fingers even as they’re pointed downward, seeming to defy the pull of gravity for it to drop to the ground. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

We were brought before the lieutenant, who was the head of prison, and Van Rensburg announced, “These men did not work the whole day. I’m charging them for defying orders.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This bear had defied him, and he had hated it with every fiber of his existence. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The few passengers who defied the drivers usually cooled off at the police station, paid their fines, and tried to put their humiliating experiences behind them. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

It is what Vincent wants for himself eventually, when he is skilled enough—to defy convention and to be bold. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I know. I will. I’ll convince everyone in the districts that I wasn’t defying the Capitol, that I was crazy with love,” I say. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

My hand flapped and Mum’s mouth went round like an O. ‘He defied the law of gravity, Mum. He went up but he didn’t come down. Which means Newton got it wrong. Hrumm.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I will know if you defy me, girl,” he warned. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

But the Lords of Minas Tirith still fight on, defying our enemies, keeping the passage of the River from Argonath to the Sea. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

SCORPIUS: She said that Grandfather didn’t like her very much — opposed the match—thought she was too Muggle-loving—too weak—but that you defied him for her. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

He knew Mr. Lemoncello was about to congratulate him for defying the odds and winning the game. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Jack the Ripper’s five-murder spree in 1888 had defied explanation and captivated readers throughout America, who believed such a thing could not happen in their own hometowns. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“You betrayed me! After all I did for you—welcomed you to my Institute, soothed your fears with my Whisperer, offered you a role in my Improvement—after all this, you chose to defy me?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Even though Walter was one of the organizers and was scheduled to defy later, he readily agreed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’d been an occasion once on Jordan College roof when just to frighten him, she’d defied her vertigo and walked along the edge of the stone gutter. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The United States defied the blockade with a massive airlift of supply planes that flew over Soviet forces and directly into Tempelhof Airport in the Western sector of Berlin. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

They walked around stark naked in the eternal twilight of the basement, defying the humidity and drafts. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like one part of my brain insisted on defying another part of my brain. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

And that means that no matter what I believe about the factions, I’m relieved that someone, somewhere, is defying her. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Don’t blow yourself up,” Mom said, with a look that defied interpretation. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He fulfilled his obligations as a “singular character” so capably that he seemed to defy the republican tradition itself. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The weight of him, the prevention of his misery, was the answer that defied all logic. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I did not believe in magic, in spells, in things that defied logic. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

But the moment he makes the attempt his words falter, for he is confronted and defied by the inexplicable array of his own emotions. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Otto said, “He looks just like you. You not knowing each other defies all deductions.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Paula had the air of a real ideologue; she could, Ifemelu imagined, slip easily into anarchy, stand at the forefront of protests, defying the clubs of policemen and the taunts of unbelievers. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I relax, and I no longer feel like some kind of Divergent soldier, defying serums and government leaders alike. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I had openly defied one of the masters in front of his own class and avoided expulsion. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

"Who?" she said, too frightened to defy him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

"So be it. You defy the king's command, and so proclaim yourselves rebels, black cloaks or no." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“How dare you take a witch’s wand, how dare you defy your masters?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The spirit of the Defiance Campaign continued in the eastern Cape long after it vanished elsewhere, and ANC members there seized on the M-Plan as a way of continuing to defy the government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at me, defying me to disbelieve him. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Courageous, ma foi! The brave soul. The soul that dares and defies.” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You said you were going to defy Cardan by being your awesome self and if he tried to take you down, you’d take him down with you. How are you going to manage that?” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When inextricably mixed with domestic and other wastes discharged into the same water, these chemicals sometimes defy detection by the methods in ordinary use by purification plants. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

In order to sign the contract, she would have to defy her new husband and get rid of his baby. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

But even as she defied the neighbors, she knew that they would have to move as soon as the month was up. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The careless, Braveheart type, rebelling in a desperate attempt to defy their diagnosis before it all comes to an end. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Several friends south of the Potomac had warned them that the widespread hostility toward Hamilton’s financial plan defied compromise of any sort. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

But it wasn’t in Marian’s nature to defy rules. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

What a strange world it was when a girl who wanted to go to school had to defy militants with machine guns—as well as her own family. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Do not defy me—” “And it wouldn’t hurt to play with Cerberus once in a while. He likes red rubber balls.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Madam Maryam sent out a message to all the girls in the upper school: If they wanted to defy this new edict, she would open the school doors. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The spring carpet of Khosrou defied the weather of the world. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

It was their way of defying authority and demonstrating that with almost no police on duty, they knew they could get away with it. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The men had cut their pigtails to defy the Manchus and to help Sun Yat-sen, fellow Cantonese. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A starving Greek community defies Nazi soldiers by hanging out thousands of forbidden national flags. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He outlined a plan under which selected volunteers from all groups would deliberately invite imprisonment by defying certain laws. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said it like a challenge, as if defying Conor to answer. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe the elven-hoods defied his unseen eyes, and the mind of his small enemy, being strengthened, had turned aside his thought. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Loudly, I defy all notes in a chromatic scale. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

A month or so later my mother defied my father and secretly took us to the local Full Gospel Church, where we were baptized. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

At times, these depictions defy logic: showing people nearly naked in the dead of winter, as if they didn’t know better, were impervious to cold, or were more animallike than human. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance he heard a dip in the sound of the singing, some startled voices breaking the flow, but then the song rose again, defying the darkness. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know what or whom he was defying. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her shoes pounded noisily against the boards, defying the silence. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“You mean you wanted to defy them? You wanted to show them that you dared, that you didn’t care?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

All eyes are fixed on people like Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey, who have defied the odds and risen to power, fame, and fortune. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But if I held them out to defy the Capitol, I am someone of worth. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ned knew better than to defy him when the wrath was on him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“You were given the chance to prove your loyalty. But instead of killing the girl, you defended her. Instead of following my order, you defied it.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He did not want to defy a federal judge, something he had never done before. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And you call yourself an artist! What pretensions, Madame! The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies.” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

A party was shimmering below and Bailey had defied Mother’s eleven o’clock curfew. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he gets it at all, he will have defied the odds. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

She would defy them and get a job anyway because, like me, she suffered from immigrant child guilt complex. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Even if zero were a number in the Greek sense, the act of taking a ratio with zero in it would seem to defy nature. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Now, in many areas and among many species only the strong and fit remain to defy our efforts to control them. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

There was a limit to their melting, and they found it, and defied it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

When they defy President Reagan’s back-to-work order, he fires them all. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

A crucial question is whether technological innovation is so dependent on rare inventor-geniuses, and on many idiosyncratic cultural factors, as to defy an understanding of world patterns. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Calculus, at its core, defied the logic of mathematics. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“No, it was Hamlet, in the flesh and blood,” Horatio said, defying my disbelief. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Whom had she defied with that scream, he wondered, and what price might she have paid for it? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

As Elizebeth later explained, the Atlantic coast alone, “with its coves and inlets, its chopped waterline, with its many secluded spots where boats might secretly dock and unload, created a problem which defied description.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“It’s not as grand as it sounds. I promise you. Anyhow, my father wouldn’t consider Paris. I didn’t have the heart to defy him. My mother had just died.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She famously refused to participate in the 1913 march unless she could walk under the Illinois banner—and she did so, defying the organizers’ plans. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Doctors, factory workers, lawyers, teachers, students, ministers, defied and went to jail. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You will open the cell, or you will come with me to Lord Hosier's solar and tell him why you saw fit to defy me." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We have defied the day as it was set out for us. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“It made me mad that the bear wasn’t afraid of me. I wanted to destroy anything that defied me. Does that make sense?” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He held the furious boy away, but he was frightened of what the consequences might be of defying a direct order from the son of a senator, let alone manhandling him. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

He looks at the world with a strange, sullen, fixed-from- under stare, as though defying all efforts of compassion. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Howard challenged the anonymous writer to produce proof of his charges and angrily defied anyone in the room to give him a plausible argument for how the allegations could have been possible. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had shared her husband’s idea of people defying their own destiny. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Another claimed that Spicely had “been profane” to the white driver, and added that by defying the law the soldier had brought dishonor to his uniform, which “should be a symbol of law and order.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

And lo! even as he laughed at despair he looked out again on the black ships, and he lifted up his sword to defy them. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The greatest American scientist, the most deft diplomat, the most accomplished prose stylist, the sharpest wit, Franklin defied all the categories by inhabiting them all with such distinction and nonchalant grace. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Because the weapon salve involved action over a distance, it defied a fundamental principle of Aristotelian physics, that action requires contact. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

They could never feel the glow of courage; they could never defy danger. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The piece that completes the puzzle is string theory, according to which “the tally of possible universes stands at the almost incomprehensible 10500, a number so large it defies analogy.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

If he was ordained, he would defy the edict, invoking the tenth commandment, which clearly said he was beholden to no laws beyond the ten—including any edicts levied by the Scythedom. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

It seemed obvious that they were going around the law, or at least defying some rule or regulation. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The ships had begun to sail again, defying the submarines. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hawkers, girls much younger than I, defied the school gate men, edging closer and closer to the cars to offer peeled oranges and bananas and groundnuts, their moth-eaten blouses slipping off their shoulders. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She thought herself strong enough not only to deceive the gods as her father had tried to do, but to defy them openly. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The longer Boots seemed to defy his hunters, the deeper became Caesar’s anger, and having no other target, it fixed itself on Julius. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

And how could anyone experiment on the unconscious, which, by definition, seemed to defy laboratory techniques of testing? The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Some time or other he will be—but it shall not be by me. Till I can forget his father, I can never defy or expose him.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

All of this defied Durham’s reputation as a model for the New South, a public relations line Fuller heard often when he first arrived. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Listen. You cannot hurt me. You cannot run or hide. In this I will not be defied.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

This is the same Princess that defied the bombs in London, the one that is brave and heroic. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Holly will hate me forever, I can tell, both because I defied her authority as team leader and because I’ve had a chance, more than once now, to see her all tearful and scared. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, they surged through the building’s front door and defied Clark’s order to leave. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The violent knife, the drowning waters, poison, and fever—I defied them all in my escape from Elsinore. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

People tried to defy orders and merge themselves into the functional lines, but without any of the finesse that I would have brought to the endeavor. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“You look conscious. Young ladies have great penetration in such matters as these; but I think I may defy even your sagacity, to discover the name of your admirer. This letter is from Mr. Collins.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Animal life wears a hard, dry skin or an outer skeleton to defy the desic-cation. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I can make it clear that I’m still defying the Capitol right up to the end, the Capitol will have killed me...but not my spirit. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Probably studying in his room or hunched over his cipher books or logic puzzles with Steve defying gravity, like a diving board of hair sticking off his head. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

When he found her, he defied the power of Death to keep her from him; and Death yielded. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He defies me on purpose and drives me to madness,” complained the king, while Gertrude sought to soothe his choler. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He told me that he had defied during the 1952 Defiance Campaign and had served on various local committees in Port Elizabeth. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was the good girl, the obedient girl, but she had felt as wicked as Arya that morning, sneaking away from Septa Mordane, defying her lord father. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But she always ended up in the big tent, her eyes trained on Jacques-Paul as he defied the odds, grabbing through thin air at nothing, finding temporary safety in the bar at the last minute. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Surely Bon could not have corrupted her to fatalism in twelve days, who not only had not tried to corrupt her to unchastity but not even to defy her father. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think that he wants to defy them, too, with this deliberation, each of his steps a careful word to break down the ready meter they have built, each halting a kind of instant deliverance. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But soccer was one of the few things that could tempt Jeremiah into defying his mother. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

These women are pillars of wonder, defying gravity while wearing the ho-hum aspect of perfect tedium. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Third, and finally, Adams derived deep personal satisfaction from singular acts of principle that defied the agendas of both political parties. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

As the crowd rose to its feet, Cloud abruptly turned and ordered the troopers to step aside, clearing the road and inviting King to defy the federal court order. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alex Morales, who had never missed a day of school, who had never talked back to a teacher, let alone a priest, had just defied the headmaster. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Movement is slow to preserve energy, and it is a rare animal which can or will defy the sun for long. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“To do so would defy my obligation to them as their guardian.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He’s my friend, and this is my way to defy the Capitol, to subvert its terrible Games. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Many world leaders grew worried as Hitler blatantly defied the treaty again and again. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to defy him, and besides, I knew he’d be watching. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Bebop defied these conventions on several layers: solos increasingly drifted away from the chord sequence and even the key-family of the original song, and they habitually veered off from the given song melody, too. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The enormous stone wall to the right of them seemed to defy every known law of physics as it slid along the ground, throwing sparks and dust as it moved, rock against rock. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

That’s why my Grandmother Clara wrote in her notebooks, in order to see things in their true dimension and to defy her own poor memory. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shall defy Gebu, I shall leave the Street of the Crooked Dog forever. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

It isn’t enough, what I’ve done in the past, defying the Capitol in the Games, providing a rallying point. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

With her new book’s title, Anne Waldman, whose writing, performing, teaching and activist career defies political and poetic convention, appears to promise feminist mischief and playfulness. A Poet Takes Aim at the Literary and Political Patriarchy 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

Forty years on, and defying the best efforts of many mediators, this east Mediterranean island remains partitioned among its Greek and Turkish Cypriot populations, with Nicosia remaining the last divided capital in Europe. Diary offers glimpse of 1974 Cyprus war through teenage eyes 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

“The Colbert Report” was a comedy show that defied all expectations from its very first episode. Stephen Colbert’s greatest hits: Our favorite moments from 9 years of “The Colbert Report” 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

The first understands it has to bear responsibility for crimes on a scale which almost defy imagining; the others seem to believe they haven't really done anything wrong at all – at least not recently. There's nothing funny about putting racism on stage 2011-02-21T17:42:14Z

The prose poems of “Illuminations” defy literal interpretation, and it’s best to sit back and let the hallucinogenic images swirl over and around you. Review: ‘Rimbaud in New York’ Splices the Genes of the Original Outlaw Artist 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

“Instead of which, there is this assortment of slides, some of them welcome, others not at all, defying chronology, refusing structure.” What Old Age Is Really Like 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

In the opinion of many critics, Ms. Wright’s body of work is so uncategorizable that it defies even the category “Uncategorizable.” C. D. Wright, Poet of Ozarks and Beyond, Dies at 67 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z

But he moved to America with the intention of defying expectations. Dan Stevens in Brooklyn 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

“It simply defies logic and decency to design and build a memorial to Dwight Eisenhower without obtaining the approval of the Eisenhower family,” Calvert said in an e-mail. Eisenhower Memorial plan gets nod from arts panel 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

The details of the narratives don’t add up; they defy logic. Art In Review: ‘PRIMARY SOURCES’: ‘Artists in Residence 2011-12’ 2012-07-19T21:32:31Z

The global “Drag Race” franchise has turned the act of defying gender norms through polished performance and the excavation of personal hardship into mainstream entertainment. ‘Mister Miss America’ Review: A Fight for the Crown 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z

The pageant itself is adapting, defying traditions it established early on to embrace the complexity of the very community it hopes to uplift. ‘I Am Here to Prove You Wrong’ 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z

Soon Jane, Reagan and other Hosts begin defying the Farm’s rigid system. A Novel About Surrogacy, Set at a ‘Farm’ Where the Crop Is Human Babies 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z

That plot can hardly be summarized, let alone spoiled; it’s a shaggy whale story designed to defy all logic but a dream’s. Review: A ‘Nantucket Sleigh Ride’ with Frozen Disney and Hot Lobster 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z

A work that defies easy labels, “The Madwoman of Chaillot” delivers insightful social criticism with sharp-eyed realism, then veers abruptly into a whimsical utopian fantasy. At A Noise Within, 'The Madwoman of Chaillot' is the resistance to a self-serving president 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

The agents of this scheme are hard to distinguish from its victims, and despite Dave’s earnest efforts his experience defies summary. Movie Review: ‘John Dies at the End,’ Directed by Don Coscarelli 2013-01-31T23:09:01Z

How this country went from being one of Latin America’s richest societies to one of its poorest is a disaster of bewildering proportions, one that defies easy explanation. An Unflinching View of Venezuela in Crisis 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z

Maybe the paradox of the past twenty years is that its revolution—the digital revolution—seems nearly invisible and itself defies representation. Movies Click: A Rarely Screened Rock-and-Roll Classic 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

I mean, it obviously defies boundaries because she’s Russian and I’m American, so how we started was Russian and English and this unbelievable barrier. ArtsBeat: A Dancer Sees His Art Differently From a Russian Stage 2012-04-25T16:15:05Z

The man began the season defying colleagues and the brass in his stubborn determination to bringing the Wayne killer to Justice. 'Gotham' Recap: Gordon Plays a Rigged Game 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

In a brief supporting its discovery demands, Pelham said that Mr. Gagosian knowingly defied the sculpture’s previous purchase. $100 Million Picasso Bust at Center of Legal Fight Between Gagosian and Qatar Royal Family 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z

But the segment keeps going, whatever it is, defying the viewer’s expectations of what it’s supposed to be in the process. “Lady Dynamite” upends prestige comedy: Maria Bamford’s brilliant new Netflix show is unlike anything you’ve seen 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

In February, they opened this unassuming place with a user-friendly four-course, $65 tasting menu that offers multiple choices and achieves lofty goals but defies thumbnail description. 10 Reasons Washington Is a Great Restaurant City 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

He lost some fans on the right, meanwhile, when he praised Sally Yates for defying Trump’s immigration order. Evan McMullin Is Trying to Save Democracy 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

In the Bible God controls humans by raining down death, destruction and terror on those who defy or anger him. God as the original terrorist: 6 ways the Bible condones horrific acts of brutality 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z

While he preferred not to speak about race, he was celebrated as a pioneer who defied stereotypes about classical music and helped open doors for aspiring artists of color. André Watts, Pioneering Piano Virtuoso, Dies at 77 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z

Mary Richards’ cheerful, no-nonsense demeanor defied the industry’s longstanding practice of relegating female characters to the roles of housewife or secretary. We’re gonna make it after all: Let’s throw our hats in the air for Mary Tyler Moore 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

From Kiev to Rome, people were spotted jumping into public fountains to beat the heat, even defying new fines in the Italian capital in a bid to cool off. Heatwaves and airport queues make for holiday season from hell 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z

Now they were also defying a new black vanguard, which regarded authentic black culture as separate from the rest of American culture — something that was created, and could be appreciated, in splendid isolation.” Albert Murray, Essayist Who Challenged the Conventional, Dies at 97 2013-08-19T16:57:56Z

She lived as a nudist for a month, took mind-opening acid trips and worked as a go-go dancer with a whip, simultaneously aping her abuser and defying him. The Power of Grace Jones 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

She’s not interested in making peace with her age or defying it. ‘I became an icon. Now I want to be an oracle’: Diane von Furstenberg is ready for her third act. 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z

What if a studio head got an emphatic snap-to on civil rights from none other than Eleanor Roosevelt and started greenlighting pictures that defied conventional wisdom, as well as Jim Crow? Review | In Ryan Murphy’s ‘Hollywood,’ the old studio system gets a rousingly revisionist wake-up call 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z

The title is a red herring: an anniversary commemorates something specific, but the dates here don’t line up, and the past defies orderly commemoration. A New Translation of an Anti-Heroic German Doorstopper of 1968 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z

As the Woman steels herself to defy the Man — who may not be all he appears to be — she gains new empathy for the experience of others. ‘Closet Land’ is courageous and uncomfortable, but also predictable 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z

Said Coelho: "Mata Hari was one of our first feminists, defying male expectations of that time and choosing instead an independent, unconventional life." Next Paulo Coelho novel imagines life of Mata Hari 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

He was a completely death-defying rogue who didn’t just defy death himself time and time again, but also visited it on other people. | Q&A: At the Barbican Centre, James Bond’s Stylish Progress – Q and A 2012-07-18T23:13:39Z

"It defies the odds," he added, as Harper sat listening to the results of tests conducted in June. Actress Valerie Harper's brain cancer nearing remission: doctor 2013-08-30T00:36:45Z

At a rally Thursday, Trump again denied the women’s claims, which he said were “preposterous, ludicrous and defy logic.” A Trump libel suit against the Times? Don’t count on it succeeding. 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

How fitting that with his final breath, Belzer defied death's ultimate authority. "He did not suffer fools": Honoring Richard Belzer, the stand-up conspiracy theorist 2023-02-25T05:00:00Z

Securities and Exchange Commission accused him of twice defying subpoenas calling him to testify in an investigation of the sale of his Rocawear clothing line. Rapper Jay-Z seeks to limit testimony in U.S. SEC probe 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z

It almost defies description but embodies a real simplicity; the fact that on a great song, less is more. David Rodigan's Dubwize guide to reggae and beyond 2011-07-22T23:05:00Z

She was mostly based at a small temple in Kyoto, where she wrote hundreds of books from biographical novels to romance, often depicting women defying traditional roles. Japan’s outspoken nun and author Jakucho Setouchi dies at 99 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

The book is “history that reads like biography that reads like a novel — a fluid narrative that defies expectations and plays against type,” our critic Jennifer Szalai writes. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

Generating empathy, defying small-mindedness, this is an inherently political show that arrives at a time of fervently uncivil discourse. Review: ‘Undesirable Elements,’ Documentary Theater for Uncivil Times 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z

The successful premiere of Beach’s first major work, an expansive Mass in E-flat, defied stereotypes. Amy Beach, a Pioneering American Composer, Turns 150 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

In France, Bonheur was known during her lifetime for her quirky habits, defying gender expectations in her personal as well as in her professional life. Rich, Famous and Then Forgotten: The Art of Rosa Bonheur 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z

After more than a year of almost daily letters between them, the couple wed in secret in September 1846, defying her father's prohibition against her ever marrying. Browning, Barrett letters: Devotion goes digital 2012-02-14T14:22:31Z

Can you think of any examples of someone defying your expectations like that? In the Mood: Project Runway's Fabric-Merchant Extraordinaire Gives Us Some Material 2012-07-19T15:30:08Z

"Grand Budapest Hotel," which won for movie comedy, almost defies categorization. Golden Globes 2015: Sweet wins for audacious filmaking 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

Online reports from early previews emphasized how the show defies contemporary Broadway’s embrace of easy escapism. Up, Up and Away: The Trippy Tales Behind ‘Flying Over Sunset’ 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z

They produced three albums together that defied expectations and lifted LaMontagne's gritty, soulful tenor above the crowd. LaMontagne stands his ground, earns Grammy nod 2011-02-11T11:43:08Z

Why don’t these timid townspeople, all of whom own rifles, just band together and defy the ruffians? Review: In ‘Forsaken,’ the Sutherlands Bond in the Old West 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

Guyana’s Nicholas Young defies expectations just as surely with the incised lines of what initially appears to be a pre-Columbian design. Review | In the galleries: 21 artists explore and expand notions of recovery 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

This excellent social history argues that despite their politics, young Egyptians did not reject the conservative mores of family and religion, and could not defy them for long. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

Very funny but never flippant, Saedi mixes ’90s pop culture references, adolescent angst and Iranian history into an intimate, informative narrative that thoroughly defies current divisive views on immigration. New Y.A. Books by Women of Color Rewrite Old Cultural Scripts 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z

Visitors said that by supporting the economies of these places they could defy the state’s Republican lawmakers. Despite Battle Over Politics, Florida Tourism Rolls On 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z

That bit of wisdom — among the mantras shared by a predatory broker named Rick Carver — is both upheld and defied by “99 Homes,” Ramin Bahrani’s stunningly effective melodrama of flipped houses and mortgaged souls. In ‘99 Homes,’ a Man Buffeted and Then Manipulated in Florida’s Foreclosure Disaster 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

In the early afternoon, he first told The Washington Post’s Josh Dawsey that he would defy Mueller’s subpoena, setting the tone for the day’s story line. Unhinged and maybe a little tipsy: How Sam Nunberg cable-news takeover happened. 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z

Instead she seems engaged in a kind of passive resistance, defying all expectations of women who enter the realm of rock genius. The Sublime Spectacle of Yoko Ono Disrupting the Beatles 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

In her career, as in her plots, she is working to defy expectations. Phoebe Waller-Bridge Will Make You Laugh So Hard It Hurts 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

Then Barnaby Brocket comes along, and with surprise, he defies the law of gravity and floats. The terrible thing that happened to Barnaby Brocket by John Boyne - review 2012-08-22T14:00:00Z

"These movies kind of defy physics and logic to some degree," he acknowledged. 'Furious 7's' 'insane' car drop from on high adds fuel to action fire 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

I defy you not to be won over by this music. A guide to Henri Dutilleux's music 2013-01-21T16:19:00Z

The events in the actual case, which took place near Nantes beginning in 2011, were a bizarre combination of depressingly random and improbably dramatic, and they might defy a straight documentary treatment. Review: ‘Laetitia,’ a French True-Crime Gem, Comes to HBO 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z

Coen moved to make the site more accessible to wider audiences, doing more substantive reporting and hiring fewer people like Egan and Tkacik, who delighted in debauchery and defying establishment feminism. Ten years of Jezebel: the website that changed women's media forever 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z

Furthermore, she claimed that if they defied these rules, they were spanked or punished in other humiliating ways. What the R. Kelly trial allegations about teen abortions can tell us about reproductive coercion 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z

Everything turns up negative; though it seems to defy logic, I have no known genetic predisposition for this disease. I wasn’t supposed to get breast cancer 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

It’s all well observed and exquisitely acted, yet this “Scenes” seems to have defied Tolstoy by finding an unhappy family that is unhappy in a very familiar way. Review: In ‘Scenes From a Marriage,’ a Couple Unhappy in the Same Way 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

The Aussie supermodel and philanthropist posted a photo of herself in a bikini on Twitter on Tuesday that pretty much defied every theory of aging. Elle MacPherson's bikini selfie makes 50 look darn good 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

She chafes at Hollywood’s conventions; she defies its norms. Frances McDormand, True to Herself in HBO’s ‘Olive Kitteridge’ 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

With its almost universally praised final episode, Breaking Bad defied the odds: many thought they’d be disappointed. That Was It?: 10 Controversial TV Series Finales 2013-10-01T09:45:33Z

But the best reasons to visit Chicago now largely defy climate. 36 Hours in Chicago 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

The music seems to defy formal constraints, shifting from crazed vehemence to bitterly ironic dances, blasting marches to spans of industrious counterpoint. Review: Jonas Kaufmann Takes a Big Step Toward ‘Tristan’ 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

In spite of his cancer, he appeared to defy all symptoms as soon as he picked up his baton, and was telling us of his projects in the year ahead. Letter: Sir Charles Mackerras obituary 2010-07-27T17:31:00Z

How does Atlanta defy stereotypes of the South? The Blue Flame of ‘Hotlanta’ 2020-12-12T05:00:00Z

Though a majority of the most prominent women skaters in the world are white and Asian-American, a quick internet search does turn up images and videos of black skaters consistently defying expectations. ‘When I Skate It Just Feels Free’ 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z

Thanks in part to the Nobel Prize, the world knows about the courage of Malala Yousafzai, who defied the Taliban and insisted that girls in her native Pakistan be given an education. Three books to inspire young readers to bravery 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z

Hundreds of Birmingham’s children defied orders against demonstrating, filling up the city’s jails. Following the Civil Rights Trail 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

In this story, I wanted the nun to defy just such a “rule.” This Week in Fiction: Alice McDermott 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z

I defy you to eat it without smiling. A Hotel Restaurant With Neighborhood-Hangout Appeal 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z

Bob Dylan later said that Rodgers’s yodel “defies the rational and conjecturing mind.” The Magnificent Cross-Cultural Recordings of Kenya’s Kipsigis Tribe 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

By the end of the film, Captain America, who defied the UN attempt to regulate superheroes, still doesn’t trust the government. Why Captain America: Civil War is better than Batman v Superman 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z

In any case, it was Dresden where he grew up and defied his wealthy father to find work in the movies. Robert Siodmak Retrospective at Film Forum 2012-07-06T16:10:56Z

Still, no matter how proud that photo might make him, Frank is such a savvy politician that it defies believability to think he would not have had it destroyed. ‘House of Cards’ Season 4, Episode 3: The Trump-Underwood Connection 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z

In an episode titled “I have never seen ‘Volcanoes’,” the pair, defying Emily’s father, sneak into a lecture hall to see a vulcanologist discuss earthly pressure and steaming lava. “Dickinson,” from Apple TV+, Is Deeply Weird and Dazzles Gradually 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

Listlessly scroll through your EPG on a quiet night when your resolve is weak, and I defy you not to at least see what any of these shows actually are. How Breaking Amish and Cake Boss turned TLC into the Buzzfeed of TV 2013-06-06T09:48:16Z

The co-creator of “The Queen’s Gambit,” who won an Emmy for directing in a limited series, defied the play-off music not once, not twice, but three times as he read from his acceptance essay. The best and worst noments of the 2021 Emmys 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z

Black Emperor, the Montreal band who defy convention to make the familiar strange. Godspeed You! Black Emperor: 'You make music for the king and his court, or for the serfs outside the walls' 2012-10-11T09:18:00Z

But the show’s theme of continuity across mediums is defied, brilliantly, by two late-1950s works in brass; their spiky points show Arp’s friendly blobs evolving into something more specific to the material at hand. Art in Review: Jean Arp: ‘A Collection of Wood Reliefs and Collages’ 2012-11-08T22:38:47Z

The participants, all based in Washington, both draw from and defy the principles of mid-20th-century abstraction. Review | In the galleries: ‘Sea of Change’ exhibition sets the voyage on a different course 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

His new book, "Attempting Normal," is dedicated to "anyone who is successfully defying their wiring." Comedian Marc Maron finally having his moment 2013-05-02T18:07:09Z

The Voltaire novella that inspired it, first published in 1759, defies categorization too. Kelsey Grammer and Christine Ebersole take the L.A. Opera stage for 'Candide' 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

But literary history is also full of moments of betrayal, when trusted confidants defied authors’ wishes. What Happens to Philip Roth’s Legacy Now? 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z

Their elbows, toes and fingers were curved backward in hyper-extended poses that defied nature and bone structure. Heavenly emissaries Royal Ballet of Cambodia descend on Long Beach 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z

Edward Albee defied the downward trajectory of an aging genius. Spirit of Edward Albee endures in a new staging of 'The Play About the Baby' 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

Photograph: HBO It’s not as though this is new – as recently as 2007, the New York Times did a trend piece on sitcoms “defying political correctness”. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and the pushback against 'PC culture' 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z

Unlike so many rock-band stories, the Pearl Jam history is one that, to this point, offers a fairly upbeat conclusion, defying rock biopic conventions. Cameron Crowe: film was 'group therapy' 2011-09-15T21:10:48Z

Sky has proved before it can introduce new technology successfully, defying sceptics in the process. Football's new focus: pubs roll out 3D screens 2010-04-02T19:11:00Z

There have been so many moments where you have defied expectations. Rock legend Suzi Quatro on the secret to her success: "I never, ever did gender" 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z

The story brought to light the failure of a treatment system that defies evidence-based practices and a medical community still greatly misinformed of substance recovery. Jessica Grubb, West Virginia woman who inspired Obama to act on heroin epidemic, dead at 30 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z

I think readers offered a sampling of what many Americans have long thought about Spanish wines and how these three bottles defied expectations. New Wines From Old Spanish Vines 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

Davis defied the term as well, comparing it to a racial slur, but he unmistakably developed within that tradition. Here’s how Miles Davis and Nina Simone were alike and different 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

Given that, what do we make of the way this episode ended, with Henry defying Moloch’s order to kill Katrina and instead plunging the sword into Moloch? 'Sleepy Hollow' Recap: A Not-So-Shocking Death 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z

David Stubbs William Tyndale was as influential as Shakespeare in shaping our language, says Melvyn Bragg in his profile of the man who defied the establishment by translating the Bible into English. TV highlights 06/06/2013 2013-06-06T06:00:02Z

While he's often wrongly described as a graffiti artist, he defies categorization. NY exhibit focuses on early career of Keith Haring 2012-03-25T00:46:05Z

If nothing else, it will draw viewers to the work of Xiao, who defied official doctrine to describe the world she experienced. 'The Golden Era' a 'Reds'-like tale of Chinese novelist Xiao Hong 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

Part avant-garde animator, part optical alchemist, part mystic, part psychologist of perception, Mr. Belson made more than 30 short films between the late 1940s and 2005, all of which defy ready classification. Jordan Belson, Experimental Filmmaker, Dies at 85 2011-09-11T09:36:30Z

This “logic of rebellion” led the founders not only to defy their colonial rulers, but to envision “America’s destiny in the context of world history,” Bailyn wrote. Eminent scholar of early U.S., Bernard Bailyn, dies at 97 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z

Forget what I said earlier about horror films, as The Exorcist defies categorisation. Hard men of God: a guide to cinema’s most badass priests 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

Another is a glossy cherry red, its finish-fetish perfection defied by a casual white scribble. Stakes are low and benign in Christian Rosa's paintings 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

They’ve defied the radically changed media environment for a long time.” Express, commuter newspaper published by The Washington Post, shuts down after 16 years 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z

The mysterious workings of the human body will always defy categorization on some level. Ending a pregnancy in the last days of Roe 2022-07-02T04:00:00Z

“When you look back over the last 30 years, she’s consistently defied expectations and pushed boundaries, which isn’t easy to do in a discipline as practiced as painting.” With bold brush strokes and luminous neon, L.A. painter Mary Weatherford comes into her own 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

The stowaways, then, would represent the poems or paintings we often fail to complete, or the ambitions which, once fulfilled, defy all our expectations. Poem of the week: Stowaways by Lawrence Sail 2011-01-31T10:20:36Z

With side-on 2D courses that defy both conventional architecture and the laws of physics, Super Stickman Golf is a beautifully made game of risk and reward. iPod, iPhone & iPad games round-up 2011-07-29T23:10:46Z

If he — unlike some other producers in those years — defied categorization, that was deliberate. Chucky Thompson, Hitmaking Producer, Is Dead at 53 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z

His arrangements of wood, steel and – most famously – bricks are intended to defy meaning. Carl Andre: 'I'm a hopeless drawer – and a terrible painter' 2013-01-23T19:00:01Z

Perhaps the comparisons with her sister can end now, not least because her effervescent songs defy the apologetic qualifiers "indie", "art" and "cult". Solange – review 2013-01-20T00:06:13Z

How these two ended up married to each other defies explanation. | 'Paper Man': Jeff Daniels, Lisa Kudrow and Confusion 2010-04-22T23:41:00Z

He embraced sentiment and simple storytelling, a touch of Hallmark that defies the rigor and complexity that are the signs of Important Work. Duane Michals Prepares for His Retrospective 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

And he wanted to watch? It defied the laws of romance. My boyfriend, the sex addict 2013-06-10T00:00:00Z

That, Smith said, defies the cardinal rule that health warnings must be specific to change people’s behavior. The alcohol industry doesn’t want you to drink responsibly 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z

The Hamilton actor who addressed Vice President-elect Mike Pence from the stage of the hit Broadway musical over the weekend defied President-elect Donald Trump’s call to apologize in a new interview. 'Hamilton' Star to Donald Trump: 'There's Nothing to Apologize For' 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z

But since the wine defies our preconceptions, pair it with dishes that don’t seem wine-friendly. This $14 Italian red is a gem that invites a pairing with a pot roast or pasta 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z

A stronger explanation of why this show is defying our collective doomsday fatigue points is its insistence on pushing back against despondence. In "The Last of Us," Nick Offerman and Murray Bartlett battle loneliness at the end of the world 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z

That says everything about Gray's world in which passion and confrontation are things that defy the implacable English sense of decorum. Quartermaine's Terms – review 2013-01-30T01:07:38Z

Wicked might finally be on its way to defying gravity on the big screen. 'Wicked' Movie Might Have a Director 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

He said he was also upset when Mr. Martins defied his instructions to wait until the dancers had exited before going backstage after the first performance of “The Sleeping Beauty” last week. Peter Martins Left City Ballet a Year Ago. But He’s Not Entirely Gone. 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z

Hard to categorize and famously unpredictable, his works are enormously popular, defying the conventional wisdom that only genre novels sell well. Review: ‘Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage,’ by Haruki Murakami

And yet its various components defy logical arrangement both as viewed and in retrospect. ‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night’ Review: A Mesmerizing Chain of Associations 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

She’s a charming, self-effacing subject who defied gender expectation and latter tragedy to emerge triumphant and ever optimistic. No sequels allowed: the 12 best alternative movies to watch this summer 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z

"Gravity" defied the most optimistic pre-weekend forecasts from box office analysts, who saw the film starting off with up to $42 million at U.S. and Canadian theaters. Space thriller 'Gravity' lifts off with $55.6 million debut 2013-10-07T13:34:55Z

They defy culinary gravity in their impossibly airy crispness — or maybe it’s a shockingly crispy airiness. Choice Tables: How to Eat Well in Athens 2011-01-14T19:55:00Z

When she blatantly defies an ancient tradition, she jeopardizes the future of her family and the kingdom. Today's movie princesses want more than a prince 2012-06-22T18:21:09Z

The movement defies definition and thus invites it. | 'The First Rasta': ?The First Rasta,? Directed by H?l?ne Lee ? Review 2011-11-29T23:50:52Z

He’s not the only authority defying the 2015 Supreme Court ruling that made marriage equality the law of the land. How families with two dads raise their kids 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z

His Indy is so impossibly outmatched that when Roach backhands his right cheek, a dazed Ford pirouettes toward the blow and out of frame, defying the laws of physics. Four Secrets About ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z

We were two people who were able to defy our families and lean on serendipitous moments, lucky numbers and astrology to prove we belonged together. I Tried to Filter Him Out 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z

Zahra Noorbakhsh was 14 when her Iranian immigrant mother discovered that Zahra was defying the family ban on mingling with boys: one was among her four friends heading to the movies together. In ?Love, InshAllah,? American Muslim Women Reveal Lives 2012-01-23T22:28:48Z

So it stands to reason that, for the journalists who cover the company, the subsequent experience has defied expectations. For Better and for Worse, Elon Musk Is His Own Spokesman 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z

Art history’s “isms” tend to pigeonhole artists—most of whom defy classification. ‘Devotion to Drawing: The Karen B. Cohen Collection of Eugène Delacroix’ Review: A Master off the Canvas 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z

But Buettner's experience defies that assumption, as he explained in a wide-ranging interview where we discussed the politics of America's health habits along with what he believes are the secrets to living longer, healthier lives. Secrets of longevity can be taught, and "conservative cities have been better" at adopting them 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z

Incapable of meeting beauty standards, I defied them. The Go-Go’s Gave Us the Beat and So Much More 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z

Si's crotchety manner seems to invite Ruby and any other canine to defy his every command. It's 'Duck Dynasty' season as A&E hit flies high 2013-03-05T15:04:08Z

The irrational cruelty of the boys’ experiences seemingly defies narrative and, as with other stories of survival, it requires the highest realms of artistry to give them form. “Rockaway,” Reviewed: A Queens Boy’s Stark and Moving Tale of Surviving Domestic Violence 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z

But all defy aesthetic expectations rooted in the arbitrary categories of race and gender. Review | They’re women, they’re black and they don’t make art about that 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z

In his case, it has also been to say yes to roles where his mere casting defied antiquated expectations of who can play what. Adrian Lester Finally Arrives on Broadway, via Wall Street 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z

In trying to defy the stereotypes of black folks, black label, black only, Quincy really wanted to sign something that would make a big flash on the rock side. Breaking Down ‘Those Color Lines’ in a Music Industry That Drew Them 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z

In her fight for freedom, Cora learns to defy it. To Understand America, You Have to Ride the Railroad 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

London arts organisations are already very effective at fundraising but they can't defy the laws of economic gravity. Arts cuts must be made, but made with care 2010-07-21T15:33:00Z

Kahn wanted light to spill down into each gallery through an uninterrupted central slot that ran the entire length of each vaulted ceiling, an approach that seemed to defy the laws of structure. Architecture Review: Renzo Piano to Unveil Addition to Kahn?s Kimbell Museum 2010-05-26T22:53:00Z

He was always an original, not least because he defied “Englishness”—not making a fuss, not standing out—by making theatre out of his body and that incredible face. Postscript: David Bowie, 1947-2016 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z

As Kubrick's career progressed he was increasingly drawn to stories that defied or challenged rational analysis, like "2001: A Space Odyssey" or "The Shining." "Inception": A clunky, overblown disappointment 2010-07-15T01:01:00Z

To read the book was to defy the Nazis. The Book Thief: The Girl Who Fought the Nazis With Words 2013-11-07T20:59:34Z

Helen, whose dark secrets are revealed slowly throughout the book, defies her prominent father by leaving a job she hates at the Chinese Telephone Exchange to dance in a nightclub. ‘China Dolls’: Lisa See’s novel about friendship in a nightclub in the late 1930s

The band’s previous album, “Melophobia” in 2013, defied its title with nervy, abundant hooks and pushy guitars; it reached the Top 20. Review: Cage the Elephant’s ‘Tell Me I’m Pretty’ Edges Toward Darkness 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z

“Must art be appealing?” is the theme this year, focusing on works that defy normal standards of beauty. What's on This Week Around the World 1456-02-22T05:00:00Z

Slang is difficult because everything about it defies simple classification. Slang: The universal language 2012-10-15T11:45:00Z

That sentiment drives them to defy the members of another group, who belong to Kofu's substantial Brazilian community. Saudade – by Katsuya Tomita 2012-11-20T16:57:36Z

Yes, Beethoven could be unpleasant, sometimes cruel, and his politics defied easy categorization. From Bonn to Vienna, in Search of Beethoven, the Man 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

Schools found guilty of defying the law could lose federal funding. Columbia Student Carries Mattress at Graduation in Protest of Campus Rape Case 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z

He also carried forward some of his more experimental prints, which tend to defy description other than that they resemble electrified Rorschach tests. On the Runway Blog: Prabal Gurung: Calm Before the Storm 2012-09-08T19:01:50Z

And what if he defies the stereotype of serial killers as sullen loners by being a family man? Review | ‘American Predator’ reveals the chilling playbook of a serial killer 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z

Its best picture honor made history, and defied critics who believed it was too challenging to prevail. The Carpetbagger: Keeping Faith in Oscar Filmmakers’ Work and Sacrifice 2014-03-04T23:03:43Z

Our culture's inability to contend with mortality places artists like Paul Reubens in a domain that was uniquely his, where he maintained the illusion that benevolent childishness defies aging. Through Pee-wee Herman, Paul Reubens reminded Gen X to stay true to our immature inner children 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z

Sommeliers look a bit shocked if I order a pretty pink rosé, and although I’ve tried to defy it, my mother’s commandment about the gaucherie of wearing white after Labor Day haunts me. Why Do We End Summer So Early? 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z

The moment when Kattrin defies her mother and begins beating a drum to warn a nearby town of an imminent attack brings this entirely engrossing production to a hair-raising, then heartbreaking climax. Review: A ‘Mother Courage’ Deployed to Africa 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

To capture the ballet’s story of protest and community, Mr. Leon provided literal references: Shirts were printed with words like “defy,” “change” and “fight.” Opening Ceremony Swaps the Runway for the Ballet Stage 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z

One of hip-hop’s great rhythmic innovators, E-40 has spent more than 20 years defying conventional cadences, rapping in croaks and hiccups and slurs and nibbles. Critics' Choice: New CDs by Sharon Jones, E-40 and Bill Callahan 2010-04-04T21:55:00Z

The story of his family, Matthew knows, defies neat conclusions. Reckoning with an Upbringing in a ‘Noah’s Ark’ of a Family, With ‘Two of Every Race’ 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z

But “Struck,” a work with that pedigree at Here Arts Center, defies those expectations. Theater Review: ‘Struck,’ by Tannis Kowalchuk, at Here Arts Center 2013-12-09T23:20:31Z

He added that Mabkhout defies the "unfair criticism that the Arabic language is a bookish and fossilised mode of expression at odds with the modern world". Arab Fiction Prize announced 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z

It defies formulas; it varies from performer to performer. ‘Mozart in the Jungle’ and entertainment’s classical-music problem 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z

But, like her husband, Melania Trump has shown that she is willing to defy what is expected of her. Reluctant First Lady? Melania Trump Wouldn’t Be the First to Claim That Title 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

"Paris" offers its own kind of unexpectedness, both confirming and defying Broadway's current transmedia fixation. Tony nominations 2015: Unexpectedly edgy with Hand to God and more 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

He defied the warnings of his mom and skeptical friends who balked at the notion of a culinary career as financially viable, and enrolled in New York's Monroe College. How Kareem “Mr. Bake” Queeman serves up space for queer chefs of color 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z

The diversity and richness of contemporary Chinese defy description. Jade Ladder: Contemporary Chinese Poetry edited by WN Herbert and Yang Lian with Brian Holton and Qin Xiaoyu 2012-07-06T21:55:07Z

“The Comeback” defied the laws of television to be remade by a prestige network for a niche audience, mostly to show that this was possible. “The Comeback”: HBO airs the sharpest critique ever made of HBO 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

The two share much in common; in particular, a wave of appraisals for how they’ve challenged and defied stereotypes about masculinity in pop culture. As ‘Jane the Virgin’ and ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ End, Two Groundbreaking TV Characters Say Goodbye 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z

“Every son, at one point or other, defies his father, fights him, departs from him, only to return to him.” Review: Son Confronts Father to End a Leonard Bernstein Festival 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

Chekhov’s lifelike dialogue, use of symbols and de-emphasis of dramatic plotting defied theatrical convention in 1896, when the play premiered in St. Petersburg with a disastrous opening night. Veteran actors launch Chekhov’s ‘The Seagull’ 2013-01-17T22:12:23Z

One of the notions that fed into “the hijacker’s special” was that it would somehow defy airport security because, by surface area, it’s mostly plastic. America’s favorite handgun 2012-09-23T15:00:00Z

Authorities threatened legal action against those who defied the ban to party, so many groups turned to online events, streaming music and dances for their fans. In Rio, even a ban can’t keep revelers from Carnival streets 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z

Stella McCartney and Bella Freud, among London’s coolest women designers, drawn to an irreverent power player who defied all expectations, used Ms. Pallenberg as a reference point and counted her as a friend. Anita Pallenberg Changed How We All Dress, Not Just Keith Richards 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

And ever since its 2008 debut album, the group has noisily defied the cultural decline of rock in the 21st century. Cage the Elephant Returns, Suspended Between Rowdiness and Regret 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

A mixed-race person who was attracted to women and struggled with what we would now call gender dysphoria, Murray’s very existence defied the categories racism and sexism rely on. Pauli Murray should have been a civil rights icon. Now Murray’s moment has finally come. 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

“Frankissstein,” like its protagonist Ry, is a hybrid: a novel that defies conventional expectations and exists, brilliantly and defiantly, on its own terms. A Novel That Riffs on Sex Dolls, Mary Shelley and Brexit 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z

Another consisted of vertical and horizontal strokes that seemed to be defying one another. The Enduring Whimsy and Wonderment of Eric Carle 2021-07-25T04:00:00Z

They are testament to how memory and culture persist and survive against even the longest odds and in their survival defy what conflict does. The Begram ivories: Rescuing Afghanistan's lost history 2011-02-27T00:05:25Z

Anyone who defies the regime is an enemy of the state. The next frontier in Cuba: American press is seeping into the country, shaking up nation’s decades-long battle with free expression 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z

She plays Ellen Martin, a Michigan grandmother whose attempts to do apparently straightforward things like settle an insurance claim and buy a new condo are ensnared in complicated schemes that defy rational comprehension. ‘The Laundromat’ Review: Meryl Streep in a Cycle of Spin 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z

I defy any of these companies outside of their corporate retreat photos to show me people of color in positions of power. ArtsBeat: ?Mad Men? Creator Talks as Season Comes to an End 2010-10-18T03:02:00Z

In late March, when lawyers representing the president’s party petitioned Brazil’s supreme electoral court to stop artists from making “political demonstrations” in their sets, Anitta encouraged other performers to defy them. Can a Brazilian Pop Star Crack the U.S. Market? Anitta Says Yes. 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z

“Kaija’s music is very interesting,” he says, “because the structural elements are so frequently buried inside this beautiful gauzy surface that is indeterminate, that keeps morphing in ways that defy immediate description.” Peter Sellars jump-starts the conversation at the Ojai Music Festival 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

But then again, Mr. Brûlé has made a career of defying conventional wisdom. Tyler Br?l?: Mr. Zeitgeist 2012-01-04T23:56:43Z

David Lewis, just a day earlier, had pleaded for people to stay — to defy the mayor's orders. Road trip to Powder Keg City: The collapse of Seattle's autonomous zone 2020-08-01T04:00:00Z

It’s an idea that appears to defy the division of labor suggested in the credits of movies, especially those of Hollywood films, where few directors were also listed as writers. The Truffaut Essays That Clear Up Misguided Notions of Auteurism 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z

He had daily experience making narrative leaps that defied rational thought. A dark fable of love, adventure and redemption 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

Freeman deserves credit for vocalizing the guttural anguish the shock of holding one’s lover as she died would produce; he did so in a way that defies vocabulary. The lady vanishes: “Sherlock” and the case of the disposable women 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z

A city in New Jersey is defying Gov. Phil Murphy’s orders by planning to permit restaurant guests to sit inside while dining as early as next week. New Jersey city to allow indoor dining, against governor's orders 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z

I defy anyone to watch the two movies and spot the link without knowing that the same actor appears in both. Who are the most chameleonic actors? 2010-12-08T12:12:00Z

And not only do Phife and Tip defy middle-aged complacency, but their longtime conspirators Consequence and Jarobi deliver the best performances of their careers. Against all odds, A Tribe Called Quest delivers one final masterpiece 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

Deadly, smart, and “woke,” the Wheatley character defied the uncouth, knuckle-dragging demeanor so often seen in this type of role. Dylan McDermott reinvents modern gangster on ‘Law & Order’ 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z

“The Last Alaskans,” an affecting series that begins Monday on Animal Planet, defies quite a few of them. Review: ‘The Last Alaskans,’ a New Animal Planet Series 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z

It almost defies description: It is mineral and intense, drawing you in with the first sip. 5 wines just right for the weekend 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

The work, “To Rise and Begin Again,” is made up of undulating columns that symbolize the upward push of Cherokee sovereignty, defying efforts to crush it. U.S.T.A. and the Armory Show to Bring 5 Artists to the U.S. Open 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z

That's about to change in this series finale, as the team prepares to defy the government gag rule over Eden's increasingly unpopular handling of the Suez crisis. TV highlights 23/08/2011: Falling Skies 2011-08-22T21:59:01Z

Griffith's show, in a way, defied its times rather than captured them. Andy Griffith evoked, stylized small-town America 2012-07-04T10:01:04Z

Lehmann was researching Asperger’s for a feature script when he stumbled across an article on the group: “They defied my preconceptions.” The Asperger's comedy troupe: 'We want people to like us because we’re funny' 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

The sounds he squeezed, coaxed and bullied out of his instrument during that time often defied belief. Review: Peter Evans Teaches His Trumpet a New Vocabulary 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z

There are right honourable exceptions: Helena Lymbery's backbencher who defies the whip on principle; Christopher Godwin's old-timer who would risk death to support his party. This House – review 2013-03-01T18:34:44Z

A woman who wanted or needed to work, then, and in so doing defied his orders, could be said to have caused her baby’s death. 'I felt I was being punished for pushing back': pregnancy and #MeToo 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z

Sugihara was later asked to resign by Japan's Foreign Ministry for defying the rules of a government then allied with Germany and that a year later was at war with the United States. Man saved from Nazis by 'Japan's Schindler' returns on journey of homage 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

As Richard Burke’s score skillfully stitches together Schubert compositions and his own modern music, Ms. Tharp defies, teases and embraces 19th-century ballet conventions. Dance Review: Twyla Tharp?s ?The Princess and the Goblin? 2012-02-13T00:28:50Z

Until recently, what I learned from these warnings was only that I could safely defy them all. Confessions of a reluctant gentrifier 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

She defied them both when she married the uppity, somewhat campy Osborne, and she defied him when, exhausted by his insecure goading furies, she left him. Pamela Lane obituary 2010-11-21T18:54:00Z

The relationship between Mr. Craft and the Stravinskys defied convention and is unique in recent cultural history. Robert Craft, conductor and longtime Stravinsky confidant, dies at 92 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z

To defy Satan, we don’t need God, real or figurative. If Donald Trump’s America is Hell, who is Satan? 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z

Nucky, of course, runs a criminal enterprise built on booze, and “Prohibition” describes vividly just how often the new law was defied, and by how many. Television Review: ?Prohibition?, a Ken Burns Documentary on PBS ? Review 2011-09-30T19:00:58Z

You see, the “War on Drugs” is an ideology, so defying it is a political act. Convicted drug dealers are political prisoners: I should know — I was one 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z

I wouldn’t write off anyone else finding it erotic – and there have been some complaints about the volume of sex scenes – but I think I’d defy anyone not to be moved by it. Sex has as much meaning as words: how Normal People handles intimacy 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z

This stupefying film defies logic as it grafts grisly violence with a maternal bonding plot. J.Lo takes charge in Netflix's gruesome action-thriller "The Mother" 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z

The final act of "I May Destroy You" defies the common conventions catering to the audience's presumed need for concrete closure. "I May Destroy You" ends with a revolutionary "ego death" because the other options would be a lie 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

According to the classicist Niall Slater, the word defies "a theologically rigorous definition" in Plautus. From Biden’s giant Bible to Christian flags waved by rioters, "religion" means many different things 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z

And he added: “If there was ever a time to ban weapons, this is it. It defies logic.” Take a stand for free speech, in Cleveland and beyond 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z

Like Virginia Woolf defying that divide between prose and poetry. ‘Her Prose Is Sometimes Poetry’: Why Margaret Jull Costa Loves Virginia Woolf 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z

But the characters in these other stories morphed and transformed, defying categorization and confinement. Bring me to life: Evanescence helped me find my trans voice 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z

From the beginning, Jidenna is defying categorization at every turn; his musical range is impressive and thoughtful. Jidenna’s ‘The Chief’ Is a Genre-Hopping Debut Album 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z

And defying convention, three grand 18th-century rooms have not been roped off but may be contemplated from newly designed benches. A Panorama of Design 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

By one survey nearly 3 percent of youth in Minnesota fall under these categories, identifying with neither gender, or both, or trans, or just defying a traditional male/female binary option. Nine-year-old who defies labels helps teach educators about queer... 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z

For several weeks, everything my kids drank became frobscottle and they devoted themselves to defying gravity by means of turbocharged flatulence. Mal Peet's top 10 books to read aloud 2011-08-03T13:08:37Z

In the play Antigone, the main character defies her king and uncle Creon, by performing funeral rites for her slain brother, who is labeled a traitor. Syrian refugees tell their stories of loss through ancient Greek play 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

To the average person the issues Winter explores in his other documentaries have a specificity about them that may defy appeal to a wide audience. “The system is rigged”: How the crimes of “The Panama Papers” affect us all 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z

Amelia Earhart sings ardently of emotional rebirth as she defies convention in her bid to become the first woman to defy gravity, Lindy style. | 'Take Flight': Musical About Early Aviators at McCarter Theater 2010-05-23T22:45:00Z

The picturesque world they inhabit is a distorted mirror of our own, where people routinely defy gravity and have odd physical characteristics. ‘Ruben Brandt, Collector’ Review: Stealing Inspiration From Great Art 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

Shooting behind the scenes and in offhand, unscripted settings, Mr. Stern defied the conventions of traditional publicity photography. Phil Stern, photographer of stars during Hollywood’s golden age, dies at 95 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

She seems not so much to be defying the masculine prerogative in this genre as to be unaware of it in the first place. Rachel Kushner’s ambitious new novel scares male critics 2013-06-05T23:00:00Z

She recalls her father defying a teacher who was clearly reluctant for a wheelchair-using pupil to be on stage to collect her high school graduation award. Judith Heumann: 'Biden is committed to involving disabled people in his administration' 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z

King defied the ceremony’s orchestral exit music to make an appeal for gender equality in Hollywood. Golden Globes 2019: Bohemian Rhapsody and Green Book win big 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

Unusual for a mainstream Hollywood release, "The Adjustment Bureau" defies easy categorization. From the sci-fi mind of author Philip K. Dick to a movie screen 2011-03-05T00:27:18Z

No matter how expert you become with your clipper, stray clumps of hair are going to defy you, especially around the eyes and ears and on the legs. You Missed a Spot: How Not to Groom Your Dog During Lockdown 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z

"Gravity," the 3D space thriller about a pair of stranded astronauts starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, defied projections to sell $253 million at movie theaters in the United States and Canada. Analysis: Lower-cost surprises drive Hollywood toward record year 2013-12-19T22:17:18Z

And Kyle and Ike defy their mom to save the world from destruction. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Hairspray Live!’ and ‘Shut Eye’ 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

They testify to our duality; they happen when we assert and defy ourselves simultaneously. Be Careful! Your Mind Makes Accidents Inevitable 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

The shallow waters of the Florida Keys, for instance, defy and frustrate yacht owners, who, unsurprisingly, largely overlap with the segment of society that might want to own a private island. Private islands: reality TV and the internet help drive a booming market 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z

It’s still unclear what motivates an animal to save a drowning swimmer or protect a girl from kidnappers,or raise a lost child; it seems to defy evolutionary sense. Are wolves and lions man’s best friends? 2013-04-07T14:00:00Z

There's no telling the pressure they could exert on the government to defy the greater good. David Mitchell: Country dwellers moaning about high-speed trains is just selfish 2011-03-06T00:11:13Z

If powerful artists often defy conventional morality, it is probably just because conventional morality dilutes, in endless obligations and self-corrections, the intensity and conviction, the tunnel vision that is required to create great art. Perspective | A portrait of Vincent van Gogh as a tormented soul 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

Parallels between Bishop and Clairmont's situation and that of those who defied the U.S.'s overturned anti-miscegenation laws will arouse many readers' sympathies. 'A Discovery of Witches': at Oxford University, unrest among the supernatural set 2011-02-17T21:27:04Z

The Bowl’s organizers also defy the conventional laws of capitalism, even as the business got more complicated in the internet age. The Flea Circus 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z

That pre-emptive shrug of a title almost defies us to take his book seriously. A Novel of the Horndog in Winter 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

She couldn’t charm them, which was Temple’s strategy in her Fox films; she must defy and defeat them. Oz Revisited – Part 3: A Parable of Empowerment 2013-09-18T15:30:10Z

Both involve impressive visions of reality reimagined, and both defy logic extravagantly and yet somehow casually, too. ‘The Signal’ Features Geeks Wandering Into a Nightmare 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

Denied a second term, Adams rightly placed a portion of the blame for his defeat on the press, which defied his attempts at control. The Never-Ending War Between the White House and the Press 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

Its particular blend of the classical with the contemporary renders the play — about a young woman who risks her life to defy the cruel dictate of a reckless, power-mad king — both timeless and urgent. Review: A Spellbinding ‘Antigone,’ Both Timeless and Urgent 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

“Black women being recruited to work as mathematicians at NASA’s southern installation defies what we think we know about American history.” Hidden Figures Calculates the Sum of a Story Untold 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

When Alex, defying her mother and grandmother’s orders, rummages through the box, she finds an entire life that Maia has never shared with her. ‘Memory Box’ Review: Reanimating a Painful Past 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

Rizzle Kicks close their good-natured set of old school melodic hip-hop with Down With The Trumpets, a sunny moment defying the overcast chill. Radio 1's Hackney Weekend offers an urban alternative to the Olympics 2012-06-23T18:00:01Z

Fans of “Mystery!” on PBS know that Gorey’s compelling art defies categorization. Perspective | The 10 books to read in November 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

The beach, after all, is a battleground of the Anthropocene that both embraces and defies nature. A Climate Opera Arrives in New York, With 21 Tons of Sand 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z

That defied the initial expectation, which was that this was someone with so much to hide, who maybe is going to be in trouble with the law and therefore maybe an unreliable narrator throughout. The Art Forger Who Wasn't in It for Money 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

He has a sense of composition that is utterly unique to the point where it almost defies categorisation. Rumer wins Mojo breakthrough award 2011-07-21T21:30:04Z

Vogel’s notion of subversive art depended on his setting up of a straw man of conventions that films subverted, the norms that they defied. The Limits of American Cinephilia 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

His tone was extraordinarily bright and shiny, with a steely invulnerability that stood around him like armor and defied the listener to resist. Childlike Stars 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z

The building defies the conventional wisdom that office spaces cannot be inspiring. In Energized Detroit, Savoring an Architectural Legacy 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z

The body language of its individual dancers keeps saying, “I need you; I defy you; take me now; drop dead.” Dance Review: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at City Center 2012-12-17T05:15:05Z

He was also a headline-making swami-entrepreneur who defied his bland Iowa origins to become one of the most renowned eccentrics of the Jazz Age. Books of The Times: ?The Great Oom,? by Robert Love, on Yoga?s Pierre Bernard 2010-04-14T22:33:00Z

The story becomes less about how dismaying it is to work at a big company and more about how confusing it is to be human when life itself defies human understanding. Review: Helen Phillips Tweaks Corporate Culture in ‘The Beautiful Bureaucrat’ 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z

It’s the tale of a small-town preacher whose faith leads him to defy his community and his own congregation, set against an oil boom and a devastating nationwide recession. “The Overnighters”: The haunting true story of a 21st-century boomtown 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

And in the end, this means by which all of them defy those expectations could be the difference between victory and death. A "Game of Thrones" shout out to the last ladies standing 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z

It suggests that no real artist can actually function within a corrupt system, so the only authentic choice is to defy everything in service of the work. Blaze Foley’s Inevitable Sorrow and Spiritual Success 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

His harmonies, like those of Ives, defy expectation even as they maintain a sociable approachability. Music Review: Wayne Shorter and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2013-02-04T23:17:19Z

For a novel about women defying social expectations, “The Spectacular” renders the women themselves too unsympathetic to root for. New Fiction About Family Members Gone Missing 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z

“The world looks different now. She was great at defying expectation. She managed to grow very old and somehow, not old enough. We’ll miss you, Betty. Now you know the secret.” Actors, comedians and president react to Betty White’s death 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z

He was the man who defied the odds and, unscathed, brought back images of pain and suffering, of starvation and displacement, for the world to see. Priya Ramrakha’s Brief, Heroic Life as a Conflict Photographer, in Africa and Beyond 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

In recent years, the Astor Place Kmart bravely defied all consumer-psychology logic: The shop’s aisles were rearranged so often that it seemed like an ongoing prank. ‘Was the Astor Place Kmart Haunted?’ and Other Thoughts on Its Closing 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z

Odder still is the funereal way the dancers seem to defy the beat by drifting across the stage in slowly curving shapes that twist their bodies in one direction and then the next. Review: Brooks Moving Company Hews to Safe Uniformity 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z

Read of poor Harry Eastlack, whose body turned soft tissue to bone, or of the deformed skulls of the children of Toulouse, and I defy you not to wince. Skin and Bones, Hold the Skin: An Author Considers Our Inner Scaffolding 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z

Mr. Tate’s work, in particular, defied easy labels. James Tate, decorated poet of the ordinary and extraordinary, dies at 71 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

Both women defy naysayers who question their foreign policy decisions. ‘Madam Secretary,’ ‘State of Affairs’ and Other Series Channel Hillary Rodham Clinton 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

Mary defied her era’s Southern Belle stereotypes, rejecting racism and classism in favor of everyday advocacy for equality. Walking and Talking About Raising Kids and Surviving Hollywood 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

They also knew that the best place for them, during adolescence, was away from family — in a structured environment that would help them defy Trump’s grim prediction in Playboy. Eric and Don have the Trump name, the money, the genes. Here’s what makes them different. 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

For novices and doubters, she chooses classic well-made garments that defy the concept of retro, and she sends each piece to a dry cleaner before it hits the rack. Sales and Events in New York City Starting Nov. 17 2011-11-16T21:41:09Z

If his work defied categorization, she said, that was by his own choice. Daniel Brush, Boundary-Defying Artist, Is Dead at 75 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z

But my inherited nesting dolls defied those conventions. Mortar shells and dog tags: The objects Post journalists can’t leave behind 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

The latter offers the pleasures of defying changing fashions, of restoring and confirming old hopes, beliefs and enthusiasms, of seeing justice done and traditions confirmed. Searching for Sugar Man – review 2012-07-28T23:05:46Z

The gameplay –which focuses on dousing flames, breaking through doors with axes and otherwise entering buildings by force – defies genre conventions; often the mark of a quality game. Real Heroes: Firefighter 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z

So be it — Reed’s work defies a clean description and that’s why it’s incredible.” Tony Award Predictions: Readers (and Boldface Names) Weigh In 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

But even in 1988, not yet at his most terse, Mr. Leonard was garnering praise so high it defied belief. An Appraisal: Elmore Leonard: A Man of Few, Yet Perfect, Words 2013-08-21T21:31:56Z

Hirst has redefined art and made it accessible, defying the rarified stance of museums and galleries. Damien Hirst at Tate Modern 2012-07-09T14:15:00Z

She defied social mores by hanging out with the free-loving artistic rebels of London's Bloomsbury set. Taproot woos fans of Dorothy L. Sayers in upcoming 'Gaudy Night' 2012-09-12T23:05:04Z

Many of the characters in this year’s nominations don’t just defy the long-held notion that women must always be sympathetic or redeemable to captivate audiences — they’re also driven by anger. ‘The messier, the better’: The righteously angry women who dominate this year’s Oscars 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

Cryer assured Variety that her character “doesn’t operate the way women normally operate on television” and will defy convention. Silicon Valley Needs to Address the Industry's 'Woman Problem' in Season 2 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

In “Alien,” the Nostromo’s android Ash defies orders that would have kept the lethal xenomorph from coming aboard in the first place. Ripley burns it all down: On “Aliens” and the dangers of dismissing women’s rage 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

If some of the plot details defy credibility, Romain Duris’s electrifying performance makes you overlook any inconsistencies, as his likable character becomes a man on the run barely able to stifle his panic. Movie Review: ‘The Big Picture,’ Directed by Eric Lartigau 2012-10-11T21:59:15Z

Danton is the showier role and Toby Stephens invests it with his own charisma and brings out the character's central contradiction: he both seeks to defy death and surrender to it. Theatre review 2010-07-23T00:13:00Z

The first, performed by Mounsey, is both relentlessly slow and seems to defy time entirely. The Need for Art That Hurts 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z

The building that houses the spot where “the laws of nature are defied” features a gorilla on the roof, a vintage VW Bug crashed into the side and an eerie-looking clown over the entrance. West Virginia: Wild and wonderful and, okay, a little bit weird 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

Across the railway tracks, one of Esther’s school friends, Lewis, may have seen something important on the day she disappeared, but telling the police means defying his volatile, trip-wired father. Murder in the Brain-Broiling Heat and Red Dust of the Outback 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z

He learned to defy them, if not ignore them. Ethan Hawke Is Still Taking Ethan Hawke Extremely Seriously 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z

But among the many things this show does right is defy the ancient sword-and-sorcery traditions of the white knight savior and the goodness of some kings countering other rulers' evil. "The Witcher" is back to give women a more equal share in its power 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z

At Showman, Hayden demonstrated how his logs, salvaged from the Pine Barrens in New Jersey, are split and planed into usable planks that still preserve their long branches, defying standard lumber production. Hugh Hayden, Surrealist Sculptor, Addresses the Education Debate 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

He pioneered the use of new structural systems, creating hyperboloid structures of double curvature whose lightness and geometric complexity defy the imagination, even in the computer age. Lord Foster fires up campaign to save rusting Russian radio tower 2010-04-15T17:40:00Z

She flops dramatically into bed, defies her mother’s wishes to marry, says “dude,” and throws a rager with elegant ham slices when her parents are away. Assessing the Apple TV+ new series, from "The Morning Show" to "For All Mankind" 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

But he defied doctor’s orders and played anyway. They Could Be Anything They Want (Together) 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z

She’s the one female character in the series who fully defied gender stereotypes. Disney needs a Princess Leia action figure 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z

Four years ago, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group introduced David Sawer's Rumpelstiltskin, which he designated a ballet, but defied precise categorisation. The Lighthouse Keepers/Words and Music – review 2013-07-05T16:36:06Z

The angles defy gravity enough to be amusing at times, but they can also look like painful contortions. Two Artists, Two Views of the Human Figure 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

He’s alive and swinging, despite the best intentions of Brienne and Arya, and breathing heavily, like every interesting character on “Game of Thrones” who carries a caber or defies death. “Game of Thrones”: Start Choppin’ 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z

The enormous merit – and audacity – of the Stones is to have repeatedly and consistently defied what is a central taboo of the social system: mention of sexual inequality. Ravi Shankar's music was a world apart from the hippy culture that embraced it 2012-12-12T16:00:00Z

The symphony’s five movements use reedy synthetic tones in fast, jittery, nearly nonstop pulsations, repeating and arpeggiating, coalescing into sustained chords or ricocheting from ear to ear, with melodies emerging to defy the surrounding hyperactivity. Playlistjon Pareles: A Symphony on a Chip Packed in a Jewel Box, And Visions of Love 2010-08-29T02:30:00Z

I defy anyone even to glimpse the set that has been created for this production — part of the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival that ends this weekend — and not acquire an instant hangover. | 'The Sun Also Rises (The Select)': For Whom the Glass Is Always Half-Empty 2010-09-16T22:25:00Z

“Stockton on My Mind,” a new HBO documentary available to stream for free beginning Friday, dives into the dreams of this unlikely mayor who defied odds in 2016 to lead his impoverished city. ‘Stockton on My Mind’ shows mayor’s dreams for hurting city 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z

At the same time, it was a hard case that defied realistic solutions for decades. Astley Castle – review 2012-06-16T23:05:47Z

Every time the men touched one another or carried one another, they seemed to defy the environment where such expressions of trust and tenderness are rare, even dangerous. Can a Dance Class Free Men’s Bodies in a Place Meant to Contain Them? 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z

Their friendship both defies and fulfills the social codes and political expectations that govern their interactions. A Five-Hour Crash Course in Italian History That’s Also Great Filmmaking 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z

There are seven male and female lamp-toting figures defying gravity, jutting from walls in all directions. 7 hidden-gem attractions to check out at Seattle’s Pike Place Market 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

With the deluxe remixed release of the Beatles' "Let It Be," I am convinced that the album will always defy attempts at creating a definitive edition. The definitive version of the Beatles' "Let It Be" doesn't exist — but this new deluxe remix sizzles 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

Finding an outlet for her frustrations inside the boxing ring, Diana Guzman, an unruly teenage girl, defies gender conventions. The American Latino Experience: 20 Essential Films Since 2000 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

Instead, the shape of the exhibition opening in June will be formed largely by artists who resist or defy categorization, challenging notions of what an L.A. artist is. What is an L.A. artist? Hammer Museum answers with its 'Made in L.A.' biennial lineup 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

Using only a single voice and the occasional tambourine-like drum, they create an incredible sound that defies any sense of what we would understand as melody while still being utterly captivating. The 101 strangest records on Spotify: Per Henderak Haetta – Pieras Mikkal 2012-08-15T09:33:41Z

Her first electronics were drum machines, but from the start, she wanted to defy the quantization — built into much music software and hardware — that regularizes pitches and rhythms. Georgia Anne Muldrow Builds a Musical World of Her Own 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z

By the mid-1980s when the main story is set, these caped crusaders have either quietly retired, defied the ban and kept going, become shady government operatives, or leveraged their celebrity into business. Auteurs assemble! What caused the superhero backlash? 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z

"Brave", opening in U.S. theaters on Friday, is the tale of a young, red-headed Scottish archer called Merida who decides to defy her mother, break with tradition and do her own thing. Feisty female finally gets Pixar spotlight in "Brave" 2012-06-21T19:38:10Z

Gravity may or may not be defied when "Project Runway All Stars" take part in a challenge inspired by the hit musical "Wicked." TV This Week Nov. 9 - 15: 'Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B' 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

Butler's novel structure likely defied simple adaptation until recent years when the whole "in media res" gambit became fashionable. Butler's "Kindred" features a Black woman doing what most people fear: grappling with ugly history 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z

Why can't she give an articulate answer when asked what she's thinking as she lays down a touch volley at an angle that defies Euclid? Sue Arnold's audiobook choice – reviews 2012-09-28T21:45:04Z

“It does defy definition and description in so many ways,” says Riley from his home in Los Angeles. Versatile Tom Riley tackles sci-fi fantasy in ‘The Nevers’ 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z

Velázquez was possibly looking at a hillock with clusters of wild grass when he drew a rhythmical composition that defies identification. Fair Swamped by Second Raters 2010-03-12T12:30:00Z

It seems he had a bit of a fixation there for a couple of decades, but beyond that he defies pigeonholing. Cormac McCarthy – the greatest Western writer ever – didn't actually write Westerns 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z

Don’t buy De Woild! — and waylaying any scab who dared to defy them. Disney?s ?Newsies the Musical? Comes to Broadway 2012-03-02T18:00:09Z

Entertaining a presidential bid during those dark days gave him meaning, “a way to defy the fates.” In Joe Biden’s Memoir, Private Grief and Its Effect on a Public Life 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z

As someone who loves identifying genres, I am delightfully baffled by, and enamored with, “Pet” for defying my every attempt at classification. 6 Great Y.A. Fantasy Novels 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z

This year had its fair share of surprise Oscar nominees defying predictions. The Art of the Oscars Long-Shot 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

By the time we learn what’s inside the package, which dangles precariously from Maude’s arm during her midair stunts, it’s clear that our heroine is defying not just death but also logic. ‘Shadow in the Cloud’ Review: There’s Mischief in the Air 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z

McCarey moves in for a medium close-up of Lucy as she watches Bark’s train pull away, and the range of emotion that crosses her face, during this extended, wordless take, defies written description. DVDs: In the Depression, a Couple Undone 2010-02-19T23:59:00Z

The musician said he was still considering defying his manager’s command not to go shirtless on the red carpet, and that, at 69, he couldn’t quite credit his continued good health. Iggy Pop slams modern music: ‘Why don’t I just die now?’ 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

Some workers argue that the mask double standard — one rule for customers; another for staff — is not just discriminatory, but defies logic. Are Masks a New Signifier of Social Class? 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z

Together, they were an international crime-fighting duo defying Cold War convention in a tongue-in-cheek series that was one of the most popular shows of its time. Robert Vaughn, actor in 1960s TV hit ‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.,’ dies at 83 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

The experiment in scale defies ordinary dramatic reason. Cannes: Malick's cosmic film debuts — at last — to boos, cheers 2011-05-16T14:17:20Z

This extended sequence, which defies all logic, restraint and good taste, is the film’s centerpiece, and Lowe’s performance is great, good-natured fun. Gags, hilarity ensue in satisfying ‘Sex Tape’

It opened with Britten’s “Owen Wingrave”: an opera based on the Henry James story of a young man who defies his family’s expectations by refusing to become a soldier. A Benjamin Britten Opera Opens Aldeburgh Festival 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

The question at the core of it all defies an easy resolution — as it should. Motherlode Blog: Mixing Hanukkah and Christmas 2011-12-20T20:08:21Z

The rebellious posture of the past has been annexed by the very commercialism it sought to defy. David Foster Wallace was right: Irony is ruining our culture 2014-04-13T19:30:00Z

He grimly commits himself to defying the United States ambassador and bringing the Cali Cartel to justice, no matter the diplomatic headaches he might cause. ‘Narcos’ Season 3: Watched It All? Let’s Talk 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z

We spoke with Carell recently about the nature of satire and defying expectations. Steve Carell hopes you want to throw up after seeing ‘The Big Short’ 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z

Standing nearly 6 feet tall with majestic arms and legs, she defied the norm. Lady Gaga’s pointe shoes, punk-ballet tutus in ‘Dance & Fashion’ exhibit

The Orange Tree has one not seen before – a 1924 play, The Stepmother, about a woman defying expectations and defining who she really is; from Wednesday. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-02-01T16:28:58Z

Tuesday’s crowd stayed after curfew, defying warnings that the response from law enforcement could be even more forceful. Peaceful protests continue but violence declines in week after George Floyd’s killing 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z

The image simultaneously evokes structure and defies it. Two artists try to portray the indescribable at Pasadena Museum of California Art 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

These men are not used to being defied. In 'Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem,' unhappy and unequal 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

The inherent intimacy of viral social videos helps explain why they often hinge on events so idiosyncratic and slight that their humor almost defies explanation. Break Out the Chewbacca Mask and You Won’t Laugh Alone 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

Eventually, he defied the odds to win the diversity visa lottery, which admits immigrants to the United States from countries that do not send many people here. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: A Refugee Says, ‘Call Me American’ 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z

But ultimately, Little Richard’s hypersexual nonsense lyrics show us how lust defies language, how our most intense desires can become wild abstractions. Perspective | Life is a scream: Remembering Little Richard, the self-described king, queen and architect of rock-and-roll 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z

It also highlights a black family that defied the odds and thrived. Wanda Sykes Finds Ancestors Thanks to Henry Louis Gates Jr. 2012-03-19T22:13:21Z

“Classical measurement has either been box office or awards. This defies all of it. But creating a phenomenon is bound to translate into something.” Flying high: how Bird Box became Netflix's biggest hit to date 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

This loose affiliation, Mr. Rentschler said, tends to be more radical than Mr. Tykwer’s cohort “in its resolve to defy generic expectations.” film: Tom Tykwer, Director of ?3? and ?Run Lola Run? 2011-09-09T12:30:00Z

It's a work that defies classification but also defies understanding. The Great American Novelist tournament 2013-01-22T12:51:05Z

There’s just something about that yearning for spontaneity and having your expectations defied, or shifted, that’s very important to me as a filmmaker. Ross McElwee’s ‘Photographic Memory’ Captures His Life 2012-10-07T05:00:06Z

In response, Dr. King wrote the “Letter from Birmingham Jail” that defended nonviolent resistance to racism and argued there was a moral responsibility to defy unjust laws. Bull Connor spat in my teenage face: The civil rights march that changed me forever 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z

It markets itself as “tomboy” fashion, defying easy classifications and heteronormative ideals. 3 Labels That Prove Style Has No Size 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z

The Salvadoran topographical engineer Antonia Navarro defies her brothers’ teachers, who tell her, “Girls aren’t smart enough to do math,” to become the first woman in all of Central America to graduate from university. Latina Girls Dreaming 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z

“His Favorites” is primed to be a major work for the #MeToo movement, but rather than seek connection with readers, it stubbornly defies it. The #MeToo Movement Gets Its Novel 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

Chinese bidders’ motivations, the dealer said, often defied scrutiny. Auctions: London Auctions Highlight Insatiable Appetite for Contemporary Art 2011-02-18T17:00:06Z

Within my own circle in Los Angeles, there are parents who more or less fit Ms. Druckerman’s stereotype, but many others who defy it. Motherlode Blog: Who Says American Parents Are Inferior? 2012-02-06T19:36:02Z

“The fear and the consequences of defying the status quo are not glossed over,” Ms. Jacobson said. What It Takes to Save a Mockingjay 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z

The North American Meat Institute said defining red meat as a cancer hazard defied common sense. Processed meats rank alongside smoking as cancer causes – WHO 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z

The setup defies the assumption that athleisure clothes are for running around town more than actually running. ‘Oh, Thanks, These Are Just My Gym Clothes.’ 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

One reason you do bother, of course, is precisely to find experiences that defy expectations and break patterns: movies that challenge your assumptions or alter your habits of perception. Film: The Cinematic State of Things 2010-12-16T19:28:34Z

“If you defy that, it means that you’re not a good actor, you don’t have what it takes, you’re not committed to the craft.” How Female Playwrights Are Adapting, and Revamping, ‘Macbeth’ 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

The consequence of defying my mother's fear wasn't a cure for my anxiety, or hers — it was our estrangement. My mother taught me to fear travel. My dog helped me find my courage 2023-03-25T04:00:00Z

That just proves how fiercely it defies categorization. Books to Breeze Through This Summer 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

Another example is provided by Crohn's disease, an extremely painful inflammatory disease of the intestines whose origins have, until recently, defied the attention of scientists. Genetics: The number crunchers who are saving lives 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z

From every perspective, the view defies logic: Terraces clinging to sheer, 1,640-feet drop-offs hold up colossally heavy granite palaces and sanctuaries. Hiking to Machu Picchu past sacred Inca peaks 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

"I defy anyone to sing his Epiphany without thinking that is a very difficult aria to perform," he told reporters on Tuesday. Thompson 'wept' over stage return 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z

“If the commission can be defied with no consequences, I don’t see how these cases can be dealt with in future,” he added. Rare Violin Tests Germany’s Commitment to Atone for Its Nazi Past 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z

She gained international attention when she defied local tradition by taking her case to the police in pursuit of justice. Pakistani rape survivor Mukhtar Mai comes to L.A. to see justice, if only onstage 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z

She defies the terrible luck of being dumped by turning it into a spectacular success. Comedy gold: Sarah Millican's Chatterbox 2012-11-08T10:37:20Z

Manipulating nature was considered akin to defying God’s will. The role of ideas in the “great divergence” 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

What was once a pointedly outsider and marginal activity — performance art, the creation of time-based work that defied definition and continuing exhibition — has become the everyday stuff of major museums. Genres, Like Sand, Tricky to Pin Down 2013-07-26T20:26:30Z

Today, with digital tools, crews of hundreds of visual effects artists can conjure any monster, devastate any cityscape and defy any law of physics. Forty years later, revisiting the original summer blockbuster: 'Jaws' 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z

Recently on view for more than 18 months, the Serra consists of two plates of cold-rolled steel: one on the floor, the other perpendicular to it on the ceiling, perhaps dangerously defying gravity. Sam Moyer: ‘More Weight’ 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

There's a paradox to it: it's music that clearly requires a lot of time and effort to fully unpick, while defying you to play it often enough to actually do that. Scott Walker: Bish Bosch – review 2012-11-29T15:29:01Z

He’s demanding respect for women’s choices, defying the machismo of too much Latin pop. Best Songs of 2020 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z

Landscapes are distorted, inverted, flipped and skewered with digital editing tricks, often rendered in unnatural formations and positioned as if defying gravity. Exclusive First Look at Bon Iver's Digital Deluxe Edition 2011-11-28T09:58:38Z

But theirs is also a generation that defies definition. The kids are (going to be) all right: Our special snowflakes are leaving home — to make the world better 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

And to Shorter, myth is a way of defying time, surviving the ages, a melody that carries across the ages. Perspective | New opera by Esperanza Spalding and Wayne Shorter remakes myth without sacrificing music 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

Fear and tension are odd accelerants for a comedy, and that’s precisely the point of “Atlanta,” one of several new series that defy the structure and tonal expectations of the standard television half-hour.  Fearless, fresh “Atlanta”: Donald Glover’s dreamy, surreal series is infused with peculiar magic 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z

I kind of know that I am not perfect and that I have done some really dumb things in my past - many defy bloody logic and common sense and for many different reasons. ‘The Affair,’ Season 3, Episode 5: Back to Block Island 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z

Whether Mr. Brod defied Kafka’s dying wish is yet another ambiguous aspect of this tale. A Yearslong Battle Over Kafka’s Legacy Ends in Jerusalem 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

A social worker explains to her that women who defy the codes of the ’Ndrangheta are sometimes killed and offers the possibility of escape. ‘A Chiara’ Review: A Mobster’s Daughter Dares to Ask Questions 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z

The Italian coast guard says Schettino defied their entreaties for him to return to his ship as the chaotic evacuation of the 4,200 people aboard was in full progress. Couple missing after cruise ship capsizes 2012-01-16T19:46:00Z

“I try to defy the simplistic labelling of people and things,” he says. Ezra Edelman on making his epic Oscar-nominated documentary OJ: Made in America 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

Some of them are even addictive, albeit in a ways that defy all common sense. Smart Watch: Why you should watch Jennifer Garner play a total jerk in “Camping” 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z

Although they appear systematic and structured, there is always a human element that escapes description, defies our attempts to pin it down. Two artists try to portray the indescribable at Pasadena Museum of California Art 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

Just as dancers seem to defy gravity, you may well fly along with them, vicariously, at a mini-international ballet festival at the Kennedy Center. Escape the heat with gravity-defying dancers 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z

By revealing their faces and voices to the general public, these women contradict their invisibility in ultra-Orthodox media, implicitly defying religious authority. Netflix’s "My Unorthodox Life" urged ultra-Orthodox Jewish women to talk publicly about their lives 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z

Previously, the description read, "Amy, 11, becomes fascinated with a twerking dance crew. Hoping to join them, she starts to explore her femininity, defying her family's traditions." "Cancel Netflix" backlash grows over "Cuties" film’s sexualization of young girls 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z

I assume the title is some sort of drugs reference, though the lyrics defy interpretation. Readers recommend: songs about monkeys and apes – results 2012-05-31T11:46:47Z

She had defied both convention and biology to reflect the truth of who she really was. All Twisted Up by Gender Bending 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

An artist who specializes in visual art and performance, Ms. Wampler shrouds her work in mystery in order to defy audience expectations. Claude Wampler at the Kitchen 2013-01-29T22:40:07Z

These are works that both invite and defy interpretation. At Venice Festival, the Wisdom of Lunatics, the Wildness of Age 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

When women take ownership of the circumstances of their own nudity, they can defy others’ attempts to place them within these hierarchies. 6 reasons female nudity can be powerful 2014-01-22T19:54:00Z

Rightist vigilantes like the Cliven Bundy family openly defied the law, grazed cattle on federal lands and refused — backed by supporters with guns pointed at federal agents — to pay for that usage. Who Owns the American West? And Who Should Profit From It? 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z

The dizzy story almost defies synopsis and involves spies and crooks and scholars and assorted identical red-plaid bags, all spinning like precariously balanced plates. Viewing Party! Let’s All Watch ‘What’s Up, Doc?’ 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z

But Gielen gloried in the critical discomfort, in defying the expectations of a culture industry he thought had its priorities all wrong. His Conducting Wasn’t Always Pleasant. But It Was the Truth. 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

His questions, like sniper fire, abrupt and random, defied anticipation and, therefore, preparation. The Cost of Defying the President 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z

In its mere existence, it defies his doctors’ prognosis that he would likely not be able to paint again. Covid. A Coma. A Stroke. José Parlá Returns From the Edge. 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z

If dramatised by the Marquis de Sade, such scenarios would be proof of our determination to defy biology and to scandalise our feeble creator; for Baker they harmlessly add to the sum of human happiness. Nicholson Baker 2011-08-13T23:04:05Z

The network said: "TNT has decided not to renew Dallas", adding it "defied expectations by standing as a worthy continuation of the Ewing saga". Dallas remake axed by US TV network 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z

But some of the posts circulating on social media display behavior that defies current guidelines to cease nonessential travel. Flight of the Influencers 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z

Knopf Cooks American “defied the expectations of snobs,” Mendelson said and surprised those who associated Jones with refinement and old-world traditions. She brought us France with Julia Child, but Judith Jones’s culinary legacy also tells an American story 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

As I said to you, I have always defied myself as a writer, even before I would say actor. With 'Holy Cow,' David Duchovny is finally, officially a novelist 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

But then, she’s a tomboy, defying the expectations placed on her gender. Review: Pathos Times Two: A Double Dose of Inge, in Close Quarters 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

In an image made from video released by Change.org, a Saudi Arabian woman drives a car as part of a campaign to defy Saudi Arabia’s ban on women driving, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Motherlode: A Mother's Right to Drive 2011-06-21T16:41:43Z

The protagonist becomes the hero by following her/his inner desires instead of deferring to outside pressure, defying the categories set out for him/her. From Gryffindor to Dauntless: “Insurgent” and our obsession with young adult sorting rituals 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

For Ms. Galchen’s stories resist and often defy the styles and structures of her forebears. Books of The Times: ‘American Innovations’ by Rivka Galchen 2014-05-07T20:15:28Z

“Lobby Hero,” a moving drama colored in shades of gray, is not formally daring, but in its tone and genre it defies easy description. Critic?s Notebook: Reconsidering ?Lobby Hero? by Kenneth Lonergan 2011-11-06T22:45:44Z

Who knows why Harrison defied the eternal mother’s warning and wore neither hat nor coat during his inauguration on a chilly March day. Berkeley Plantation, where George Washington danced ’til dawn  2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

By openly defying both Pope and emperor before a public gathering of the great men of the empire, he burned his bridges, and eliminated any chance of reconciliation. Christianity’s original anti-science crusade: The religious order that tried to crush modernity 2014-04-13T18:00:00Z

Melodic lines snaked quickly through oblique intervals, defying resolution. Music Review: Setting Leadership Aside For Collective Control 2011-01-14T23:24:00Z

Navy pilots have reported regular sightings of such objects — corroborated by multiple sensors — that seem to defy the capabilities of terrestrial engineering. There’s a ton of crap in the sky we haven’t shot down (yet) 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z

There is a sensuous appeal to his drawing that defies description.” Cover Story: Seth’s “Virtual Music” 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

In a town where many children don’t finish high school, she raised a grandson who managed to graduate from Ohio State University and Yale Law School, defying skyscraping odds. Review: In ‘Hillbilly Elegy,’ a Compassionate Analysis of the Poor Who Love Trump 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z

He allowed his actors to age naturally and gracefully on screen, defying Hollywood’s usual age-phobic strictures. The best movies of 2014: ‘Boyhood,’ ‘Force Majeure,’ ‘Selma’ and more

The consequence of defying my mother's fear wasn't a cure for my anxiety, or hers — it was our estrangement. My mother taught me to fear travel. My dog helped me find my courage 2023-03-25T04:00:00Z

Yet a seafront statue of Drake still stands in Plymouth, defying a petition demanding its removal. How Sir Francis Drake and Queen Elizabeth I Made England a Global Power 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z

Plunging us into a fully automated, intergalactic world, he shows some things remain reassuringly the same – we see 17-year-old Grace defying her rich dad by choosing a rough boyfriend. Surprises – theatre review 2012-07-17T11:29:54Z

Ms. Maye, who bounded onto the stage like a young woman in a hurry, continues to defy the laws of nature. Music Review: Michael Feinstein and Marilyn Maye at Feinstein’s 2012-09-05T22:09:12Z

Instead, the book’s most memorable character may be Mongolia itself, a rugged physical and political terrain that defies easy generalization or the exoticizing accounts of Westerners. The Bizarre Tale of the ‘Dinosaur Artist’ Who Trafficked in Stolen Fossils 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z

Exploring a character — especially a cryptic one whose choices defy expectations — gives him the language to grapple with his own desires. Caleb Landry Jones Can Do This 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z

And I defy anyone to watch the clown Feste’s leave-taking at the finish without regarding it as a kind of valedictory from Mr. Hall himself. Theater Review: Peter Hall Makes a Dusky Return to Illyria 2011-01-25T12:00:03Z

Yet Roma is a wonderful film, a thrilling journey into the past, all but defying gravity in its staggering set pieces and crowd-scene choreography with profoundly mysterious and moving moments. Oscars 2019 verdict: lovely surprises can't compensate for shock horrors 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

An elegant and witty celebration of orchestral virtuosity, its series of surges towards climactic peaks defies expectation by ending quietly with a wry smile. BBCNOW/Søndergård – review 2012-10-14T14:56:03Z

Designers are mixing and matching materials that defy traditions. The Most Wondrous Things at the Milan Furniture Fair 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z

“Tracker” is populated with characters who are constantly examining their pasts as though looking for some way forward, often defying the world to define themselves. Mark Knopfler: “This getting older stuff ain’t for wimps” 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z

Their music, too, defies classification – touching on hip hop, indie, dub, electronica and pop. Gorillaz new Glasto headliners 2010-05-26T14:10:00Z

This is one of several reasons the wan comedy defies classic TV debates about what constitutes a reboot versus a revival. Hulu's "How I Met Your Father" is the sad cover version of a show that's best left forgotten 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z

The story is about Neil Baldwin, a man with learning difficulties who turns his hand to anything, and whose life defies limitations. Toby Jones on Marvellous role 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

Heads and hands are lopped off at regular intervals; the body count practically defies computation; and the finale is a banquet that only the meat-pie-making Mrs. Lovett of “Sweeney Todd” could love. | 'Titus Andronicus': ?Titus Andronicus? at Public Lab - Review 2011-12-14T03:01:00Z

But Senegal faces a tall order in facing the rejuvenated Colombian team led by James Rodriguez, who recorded a long-distance assist last game that seemed to defy physics. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ and ‘CMT Crossroads’ 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

Lukashenko's rule has been underpinned by Russian subsidies -- cheap oil and gas -- that have helped the Belarussian economy to defy gravity. Underground actors seek last act for Belarus leader 2010-12-20T18:24:48Z

Simpson defied expectations that it would only rehash what we already knew about the idolized athlete-turned-notorious murder suspect. The best movies of 2016: ‘Moonlight,’ ‘Manchester by the Sea’ and ‘Southside With You’ make the top 10 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

Catherine Butterfield’s “It Has to Be You,” as staged by the Abingdon Theater Company, is neither the pithiest nor the best acted play around, but at least it makes an effort to defy your expectations. ‘It Has to Be You,’ a Catherine Butterfield Comedy 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

Disaster defies not only comprehension but representation: When we try to translate it into language, we grant it a tidy order that contradicts its essential nature. Disaster May Upend Reality, but What Is ‘Real’ Anyway? 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z

At one point, Cal indulges in a previously unimaginable thought: defying his father and leaving his “man’s job” in law enforcement. They’re Not Lost in the Woods, They’re Thriving 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z

It was Mukunda, the third youngest and a natural leader, who, in April 2010, at 15, first defied his father’s orders and slipped outside. ‘The Wolfpack’ Brothers Step Out of Their World 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

Neither prosaic nor clinical, it defies all expectations for a story in which the main character receives a fatal diagnosis, telling the tale in the most lively, surreal and surprising ways imaginable. Review: ‘You Will Get Sick’ Tells the Untellable, for a Price 2022-11-06T04:00:00Z

“But interrupting business as usual and defying the normal, it’s very profound.” These Booths Are Made For Talking: Soothers Hit the Streets 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z

His style is sentimental gothic, and though it should be easy to caricature, it defies imitation. Review: ‘Attorney Street,’ a Gothic Elegy for a Fleeing Here and Now 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

Ford plays Rick Deckard, a burnt-out police operative charged with executing, or "retiring," androids that have defied authority and returned to Earth from a space colony. From the sci-fi mind of author Philip K. Dick to a movie screen 2011-03-05T00:27:18Z

But the terrifying thing about directing—as about writing—is that it defies control and defies intentions. Mike Mills’s Too-Sweet “20th Century Women” 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

His films defy straightforward interpretation; he’s never offered any. Review | David Lynch writes a memoir — but reveals only more mysteries 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z

“Only a unique army of people is equipped to undertake such an enterprise. Since its inception, this merry band of misfits has defied the odds.” ‘Feasting on fantasy’: my month of extreme immersion in Disney+ 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z

I defy the most beautiful woman in the world, Isabella Rossellini is not going to look good, doing that. Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Nicole Holofcener on the Absurdity of Everyday Life 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z

It’s an act of domination and violence, a crime that defies tidy, tiny definitions by politicians wholly lacking in empathy or understanding. A guide to “legitimate” rape 2012-08-20T15:28:00Z

He's already defied the expectations many had of "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah" when he took over in 2015 as a relatively unknown South African comedian on whom Stewart made a gamble. Trevor Noah made "The Daily Show" his own — and better 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z

The enormity of the events defies dramatization without utterly eluding it. “Son of Saul” and the Ungraspable Horrors of Auschwitz 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

For example, Dr. Benedict Mady Copeland, of “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter,” defies most black characters created by white authors, in any era. White Writer 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

Harper defied odds with her survival and will be one of the 12 upcoming contestants on the 17th season of “Dancing With the Stars.” Harper Joins Dancing With the Stars Competition 2013-09-04T13:55:27Z

She was offered several lesser-known Marvel properties to focus on, and she chose Guardians, once again defying expectations despite its obvious match with her sci-fi propensities. How Nicole Perlman Became the First Woman to Write a Marvel Movie 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

It was jubilant music to defy grim conditions. Music Review: Sounds of the World, Sousaphones Included 2011-01-10T22:56:20Z

In one of his latest columns for a Cuban newspaper, Castro wrote, “Yoga does things with the human body that defy the imagination.” Desperate for health care in Myanmar 2012-06-22T14:06:00Z

It was a rare occasion that Mom defied his wishes, but she stoically ignored his cues for her to "wrap this up." "The Eyes of Tammy Faye" helped me reconsider my painful Evangelical childhood 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z

“The last thing I would want is to not fly — to not defy gravity.” Locally grown ‘Evita’ star travels the long road to the Kennedy Center

Do you carry on as before, nobly defying the ruination of public discourse? Making Art in a Time of Rage 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

"Bob Dylan is a multi-talented artist whose work so thoroughly crosses several disciplines that it defies categorization." AP NewsBreak: Dylan voted into elite arts academy 2013-03-12T20:16:12Z

When he finally, awkwardly, voices his insecurities at length, his particular twist on humility defies expectations but comes too late. ‘They Say Nothing Stays the Same’ Review: Crossing a Modern River 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

A handful of Canadian radio stations defied the original ruling by putting the original version of the tune on repeat. Council amends ruling on Dire Straits' song 2011-08-31T19:58:07Z

Some were executed for defying regime dogma, and others managed to stay in business into the 21st century. 4 Books to Inspire Your Inner Designer 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z

Yet that still doesn’t account for how thoroughly it defied any formula for box-office success and how surprised industry-watchers were about how quickly it seized the cultural imagination. Ghost at 30: the shock romantic blockbuster that tried to do it all 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z

Don and Peggy’s relationship has always defied easy categorization, and it always will -- intimate without being sexual, they are confidantes as well as adversaries, dear friends who know each other on very limited terms. 'Mad Men' recap: Doing it their way 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z

“It would defy censorship,” says David Friend, author of “Watching the World Changes: The Stories Behind the Images of 9/11.” Three men guided millions through horror of Sept. 11, 2001 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z

Rachel, too, defies the typical female character genres—and even the typical female anti-hero. UnREAL and the Evolution of the Female Anti-Hero 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z

In the show, which is filled with music, young spectators become part of the cast and can participate — or not — while happily defying the constraining conventions of traditional theater. ‘A Perfect Party’ That Celebrates All Its Guests 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

Cancer is not one disease but many diseases – more than 100 different types and subtypes, an illness so impossibly multifarious that it defies the very limits of classification. Cancer: The new normal? 2011-01-17T17:35:24Z

He could defy censors and critics in the name of Art, but he ruthlessly counted on his foot soldiers to fight his battles for him. Joyce, ‘Ulysses’ and obscenity viewed in page-turner style

Their relationship was like an Escher drawing with his need to care for her twisting around her need to be cared for, in an endless loop that defied logic. My father, the Rorschach test 2022-08-27T04:00:00Z

But the whole film is a missed opportunity because the situations repeatedly defy credibility, and the humor never says anything remotely fresh about human nature or the world we live in. Movie Review: ‘Walk of Shame,’ About a Trip on Which Everything Goes Wrong 2014-05-02T22:23:30Z

One of musical history's most genre-bending, versatile creators of sound, McFerrin defies all attempts to categorize him "I'm always thinking how to get the audience more engaged in music," he explains. Bobby McFerrin ? singer? songwriter? conductor? all of the above 2011-03-07T20:55:04Z

This, however, is a piece that gloriously defies definition. Gabriel – review 2013-07-21T17:00:00Z

“It was Johnson who was defying the laws of Congress and, in turn, the Army was defying him,” says Wineapple, the author of several books on American history and American culture. The First Presidential Impeachment 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z

No shocker, Donald Trump is once again defying conventional political wisdom and refusing to release his income taxes publicly. The 1 percent’s most dangerous weapon: Donald Trump and the global acceleration of income inequality 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

The shock memo defied Obama-era policy to leave states that had legalised the drug alone. Cannabis tourism in California – a women’s wellness retreat with puff love 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z

Cage had become fascinated by Erik Satie, the then-obscure, feisty French composer who wittily defied the German deification of structural logic. How John Cage made performance the true heart of Black Mountain College 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z

My favorite film of hers, “Stories We Tell,” even defies categorization. Movie Stars Have Heroines, Too 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

A 2016 MacArthur “Genius,” Nelson is known for blurring boundaries and defying genres with such books as “Bluets,” her 2009 collection of prose poems that meditate upon grief, longing and the color blue. Review | In Maggie Nelson’s ‘On Freedom,’ liberation and entrapment aren’t easy to untangle 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z

So too is their own decision to defy the one-child policy, for which officials tried to fine them tens of thousands of yuan—the equivalent of several years’ income for the average Chinese farmer. The power of one 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

In the last year, it’s part of a mini wave of deeply personal albums by artists such as the Weeknd and Frank Ocean that defy genre pigeonholing. Miguel connects with the soul of R&B 2012-11-21T16:19:00Z

Mr. Symington finally admitted to seeing, as he wrote in an article for CNN.com in 2007, “something that defied logic and challenged my reality.” Abandoning Doubt in Sedona, Arizona 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z

Now it has been reimagined in film by Korean director Park Chan-wook, who has defied differences in culture, gender and media to create a complementary classic of erotic cinema. Sarah Waters: ‘The Handmaiden turns pornography into a spectacle – but it's true to my novel' 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z

The National’s new songs defy the idea that maturity means settling down and discovering clear-cut choices. The National Gives Its Sound a Jolt on ‘Sleep Well Beast’ 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

This was an oasis, and I understood why it had been featured in “Girl’s Noodle Club,” a guidebook to shops that defy ramen’s stereotypically macho image. 2010-01-30T05:09:00Z

As a teenager, he defied his family by inviting Black musicians to their home and in his 20s he dated a Black woman, Joyce Alexander, whom he married in 1959. George Wein, Newport Jazz Festival co-founder, dies at 95 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z

The actual details of the heist, which involves minimal advance planning, defy credibility. Review: ‘Victoria,’ a Nonstop Flight Through the Streets of Berlin 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

On Wednesday TNT begins a resurrected “Dallas” that doesn’t meet expectations, let alone defy them. Television Review: ‘Dallas’ Is Updated in New TNT Series 2012-06-12T22:27:52Z

There were classic trench coats of superlight fabric, over stretch tweed military-style leggings, and linen jackets paired with skinny pants that defy their slim fit with cargo pockets. Alexander McQueen sticks to British roots 2010-06-20T16:24:00Z

Moth’s diagnosis hasn’t changed: he is still terminally ill, but he continues to defy his prognosis. ‘Home is a state of mind. You don’t need walls’ 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

It’s not clear that Richard ever slept, for the sheer expanse of his knowledge and writing defies the normal contours of professional life. TIME Movie Critic Richard Corliss Remembered by Editor Nancy Gibbs 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

But visitors who trade high tea at the Fairmont Empress Hotel for a stroll around the city will find that it defies easy stereotypes. Surfacing: A Creative Corner of Victoria 2012-07-06T18:54:23Z

There was an atavistic pull to Piper’s performance that both commanded attention and defied easy analysis. ‘Medea’ Review: Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale, Torched by Love 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

“The Merchant of Venice” is one of those Shakespeare plays that defy easy classification. Artistically in Sync, and Reunited for ‘The Merchant of Venice’ 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z

Bohemian Rhapsody is a foot-stomping celebration of Queen, their music and their extraordinary lead singer Freddie Mercury, who defied stereotypes and shattered convention to become one of the most beloved entertainers on the planet. Bohemian Rhapsody: first trailer of Queen and Freddie Mercury biopic released 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z

“Glass Animals have defied gravity in historic fashion,” he says. Glass Animals ride the slow-burning ‘Heat Waves’ to Grammys 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z

Ajumma is a Korean word that defies translation, though it sometimes comes out as “auntie.” Margaret Cho: No one is more sensitive about p.c. culture than white people 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z

In the end, Tonia’s husband defied her orders and organized dinner at a local restaurant with close friends, who took care of the bill. Shutdown has federal spouses out of work — and on each other’s nerves 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

Above all, this series is so unpredictable that it defies loglines. Terence Nance on “Random Acts of Flyness”: How HBO’s most daring show gets made 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

The piece, never played in Schumann’s short life, famously defies a few conventions by presenting no breaks between movements and downplaying virtuosity for much of its length. Berlioz ‘Symphonie fantastique’ at SSO on Feb. 13, 15 2014-02-06T22:34:39Z

For years they’d defied the odds; so many times they’d been written off creatively, physically, or economically, only to return, sometimes as vital as before. “I won’t see the end of the year”: Backstage at Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead’s final shows 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z

The squad took part in the 1997 Women’s World Cup only after the side managed to defy the Pakistan Cricket Board’s ban on them leaving the country. Balls of fury 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

Her main characters aren’t the embodiment of social problems or political failures, but both women undergo an emotional ordeal that is also a crisis of meaning, an existential conundrum that defies description, or even naming. ‘Saint Omer’ Review: The Trials of Motherhood 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z

Hahn-Bin said that defying genres in this manner is an intrinsic part of his personality. Hahn-Bin Straddles Classical Music and Fashion 2011-02-23T21:15:40Z

Elizabeth Streb presents “Sea II: More Singular Extreme Actions,” a continually evolving one-hour show of several short works in which dancers, with the help of the choreographer’s precision equipment, defy gravity and physical limits. 8 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

In subtle ways, they defy gender roles: These women are not playing the instruments to entertain someone else but, rather, wielding them on their own terms. Afghan woman risks all to bring color to war-torn Kabul with her street art and feminist murals 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z

The game defied trends in television, which consistently sees viewership drop from year to year. Super Bowl has 101.1 million TV viewers, up from 2021 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z

Follow via Twitter : 'Coalition split', 'police facing criticism', 'Spectator would defy a press law'. Leveson Report: Analysis 2012-11-29T14:53:13Z

I realized, eyeing those shimmery palettes, that sex dolls allow owners to not only play with femininity but also defy that early childhood directive, “dolls are for girls”. What I learned about male desire in a sex doll factory 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z

Now that I’ve lived in the United States for more than two decades, I’ve begun to grasp why they defy categorization. The Original Nachos Were Crunchy, Cheesy and Truly Mexican 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z

But what is our fear of repetition, really, if not a hubristic will to defy fate? Am I abandoning my daughter? 2012-08-17T00:00:00Z

“I wanted to defy that homophobic thinking,” Mr. Collins, 44, wrote in an email. Two Men Kiss, an Act of Love and Activism 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

But there’s no evidence indicating a wave of children are defying their parents to get vaccinated. 'God knows how I’m alive': how a teen defied his parents to get vaccinated 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

Harmony Hammond, who began exhibiting and curating in the very early post-Stonewall years, was one of the people responsible for defying and reversing this repression. Harmony Hammond’s Art Is Bold and Prickly as Ever 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

If there was a point, it may have something to do with how sexual behavior defies rigid categories. Dance Review: Gesel Mason?s ?Women, Sex & Desire? - Review 2011-11-12T00:44:19Z

After all, here is a subject that, at its moment, defied categorisation and resisted authority. Postmodernism? London's V&A museum attempts a definition 2011-02-28T17:58:57Z

Some shows served up seasons that were uniformly excellent enough to defy selecting just one episode; for me, this list includes "Andor," "Abbott Elementary," "Severance," "Pachinko," "Atlanta," and "What We Do in the Shadows." From beignet bites to a deadly dance, here are 2022's best TV episodes. Well, six of them, anyway 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z

The music he has made since then with his band David Wax Museum defies easy definition, though some call it Mexo-Americana. A Word With: David Wax and Suz Slezak: David Wax and Suz Slezak on Their Music’s Mexican Influence 2012-09-04T22:13:59Z

I defy anyone not to be thrilled by this production’s conclusion. Review: ‘Germinal’ Sheds a Light on Creativity and All Creation 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

Jillette’s profoundly illogical explanation defies deconstruction: What makes me libertarian is what makes me an atheist — I don’t know. Five atheists who ruin it for everyone else 2012-08-04T14:01:00Z

But in this new work, the surface of the paper is as crimped as a seersucker suit, defying standard techniques for sizing paper to avoid just such an effect. Gary Hume Loves His Mother. His Art Is a Valentine to Her. 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z

A place such as this defies more than borders. A Corner of Europe Frozen in Time 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

That ancestor, Venture Smith, was a colossus of a man, physically and otherwise, who defied slavery at its very height, becoming a landowner and businessman in the early days of the American republic. On Slavery’s Doorstep in Ghana 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

Yet we did have some admiration for the fact that he was willing to defy the chancellor and governor and raise salaries for faculty even when he was told not to. 'Change agent' for the Field Museum 2012-04-14T01:40:00Z

It’s these eccentric careers that I really look up to, people who defy the expectation of their art form and even what their role should be as an artist. Possessed: A Curator at the Whitney, Jay Sanders, Considers, ?Is It Art? 2012-03-17T00:03:45Z

"The Ambassador" defies categorization as it soars from story to story and building to building on sonic wings made of strings, keyboards, bass, guitar and piano. Gabriel Kahane's moving love letter to L.A., 'The Ambassador' 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

But I would defy anyone to try to learn even a few pages of a script so vexingly stylized it seems as though it could only be a Mamet parody. In David Mamet's perplexing 'China Doll,' Al Pacino can only roar weakly 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

And when my father took his last breath, he did what all characters of fable do to defy fate: he became nothing and, in that exact moment, he became something new. Kissing the Dead 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z

These beers seem to defy large-scale production and cross-country shipping; many brewers intentionally keep batches small to ensure freshness through high turnover. Two Big Brewers Try to Cash In on an I.P.A. Craze 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

This Barcelona-based digital artist, who was born in Argentina, is perhaps best known for realistic renderings of petal-covered chairs and undulating couches that seem to defy Newtonian laws. A Panorama of Design 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

Each offers personal perspectives on sweeping changes, alongside fragments of experiences that often seem to defy language. Books of The Times: ‘Diaries of an Unfinished Revolution’: Essays From 8 Nations 2013-12-30T21:05:36Z

“Hyperobjects” makes the case that there are some phenomena that defy our attempts to categorize them as natural or not. Don’t Call It Katrina 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

But Mr. Faber has made a career of defying expectations, and it seems unlikely that he’ll bend to them now. Michel Faber Plans to Stop Writing Novels 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z

They stand bare before you, defying you to accept the abundant riches of the singer's love, in songs like "I'm a Woman" and "I Who Have Nothing." The death of two pop powerhouses 2011-08-23T15:45:00Z

The eerie Portuguese cistern hidden under the town’s main thoroughfare still held rainwater, defying the centuries. My grandfather wrote a Moroccan travelogue in 1920. Almost a century later, I set out to re-create his trip. 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

Every good sonnet strives to encompass the world in its grain of sand: occasionally, there's an inner mass that defies all logic. Poem of the week: Sonnets from the Portuguese, No 43, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 2010-05-24T14:28:00Z

Patek Philippe, founded 175 years ago and one of Switzerland's last family-owned watch brands, pledged last month to defy a wave of consolidation to stay independent for "at least another 25 years". Swiss pocket watch nets world record $24 million: Sotheby's 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z

If anything, the influences on “Allegro” defy easy assimilation. Theater Review: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s ‘Allegro’ 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

That is the equation for the finale Sunday, which has caused a commotion rare for a place that thinks of boundary breaking and tradition defying as the norm. Peter Sellars jump-starts the conversation at the Ojai Music Festival 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

The renovation of this cramped space seemed to defy the opulence the old Alfonso was once known for. Check In, Check Out: Hotel Review: Alfonso XIII in Seville, Spain 2013-01-16T17:50:31Z

Instead, he highlights Ms. McCarthy’s quickness and unpredictability, her genius for defying logic and decorum. Review: In ‘Spy,’ Melissa McCarthy Is a C.I.A. Drudge Who Goes Rogue 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

"She broke barriers, defied convention, made history and set the standard for journalistic excellence for more than 50 years. It's hard to imagine television without her," he added. TV journalist Barbara Walters announces retirement date 2014-04-07T16:35:42Z

The public is invited to step on the facade, giving the impression of defying gravity.” | A 19th-Century Victorian House in London, Built With Mirrors 2013-06-25T21:09:01Z

The car wasn’t the only thing defying gravity. Style Invitational Week 1100: Pun & ink — tell us a mini-story that ends in a groaner

Would have been the year's greatest underdog success, had it not been for… A team with no stars and a bald, eccentric manager with a broad Bristolian accent defied all possible odds this year. Web exclusive! All the celeb lists we couldn't fit in the mag 2010-12-17T12:18:20Z

The Beat's Mirror in the Bathroom truly defies categorisation. Readers recommend: songs about mirrors – results 2012-08-16T09:11:32Z

It's not even the costume drama we've seen before from Wright and Knightley, who defied expectations with "Pride & Prejudice" and "Atonement." Keira's 'Karenina' flips costume drama on its head 2012-11-15T13:55:15Z

From there, Roxy Music continued rolling forward, defying trends and embracing futuristic approaches. It’s time for Roxy Music’s debonair art-glam to get its due 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z

For early audiences, Ivan’s willingness to defy authority at the cost of his life evoked Bonnie and Clyde, the Black Panthers and Che Guevara. ‘The Harder They Come’: A Pop Classic That Has Hardly Faded 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z

But social media websites said many youths vowed to defy the orders from the group's leadership and join the protest. Sean Penn joins Egyptians in Tahrir Square protest 2011-09-30T14:33:44Z

Rising Brazilian talent Pedro Lourenco combined his signature material - leather - with transparent tulle to create bold, futuristic looks that appeared to defy gravity. Lanvin gets world-weary fashion crowd worked up 2010-10-01T21:00:00Z

Torsos bend and twist in ways that defy or exaggerate ordinary human positions, yet the effect is elegantly clean and organic. Review | Washington Ballet dancers are tested by contemporary works 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

Sarah McGrath, the executive editor of Riverhead Books, said the book “brilliantly captures the full portrait of this extraordinary woman who defied being pigeonholed and lived life on her own terms.” ArtsBeat: A Book on Obama's Mom 2011-03-02T18:01:43Z

Ko uses the voices of both the boy and his birth mother to tell a story that unfolds in graceful, realistic fashion and defies expectations. Books to Breeze Through This Summer 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

Ted Danson delivers his speech about defying orders in France with such style. Fargo recap: season two episode ten – The Castle 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

Sometimes I put on the Game Of Thrones music as I bring the weapons down, ruining any microwave that dares to defy me. Experience: I regularly smash things in a rage room 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

As Mr. Trump has defied conventional politics and confounded conventional pundits, so has he frustrated conventional satire. Donald Trump Is a Conundrum for Political Comedy 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z

Detroit seems to be the poster child for defying optimistic statistics. ‘Your dad’s in jail’ 2012-06-26T16:33:00Z

People who'd have never dreamed of watching martial arts found themselves debating the finer points of wuxia, the fighting style that allows its practitioners to defy gravity and soar above rooftops. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: No 9 2010-10-19T10:46:00Z

They’re out there: fugitives from an Upper Marlboro farm where, officials say, three zebras made a break for it in late August, defying their owner and evading animal-control officials for weeks. On the trail of Maryland’s fugitive zebras 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

A clever mix of classic thriller and cultural introspection – about, in this case, the pharmaceutical industry – it's another deft genre-blend from a man who defies categorisation. Rooney Mara: 'I've been guarded since I was three years old' 2013-03-02T06:00:00Z

A month before his death in 1996, he defied doctors’ orders by giving a lecture at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Design: Saul Bass Made the Title Sequence Into a Film Star 2011-11-06T14:09:04Z

Still, the idea of a pianist needing nature, defying physics and somehow bringing the outside world inside, as the best California architects have done, dominated. The natural elements prove a breeze for Vicki Ray's Piano Spheres recital at REDCAT 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

She said he responded by warning her not to defy him, saying, “I’m a f—-ing legend.” R. Kelly accuser says he kept gun nearby while berating her 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

Then there’s Central Florida, a scrubby swath of live oak hammocks and sandy pine woods that defy all the tourist clichés. Cultured Traveler: Zora Neale Hurston?s Florida 2010-03-31T18:01:00Z

The differences among those productions reflect a year of shows that defied categorization and expectation. Best Theater of 2019 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

I thought it was daring – I guess to a fault for some people – but I like that it defied expectation and not in a way that I thought was cheap. ArtsBeat: You Wouldn’t Like Him When He’s Angry: Peter Sarsgaard Joins ‘The Killing’ 2013-05-29T14:00:24Z

While in the hospital after being shot at the lab, Brennan struggles with visions of her mother that defy her usual logic; evidence may link Brennan’s attacker to the Jeffersonian. Monday TV Picks: ‘Bunheads’ on ABC Family 2013-02-08T20:14:23Z

His celebrity defied the image of a stuffy Ivy League professor, but it was his politics that first shattered the manicured boundaries of Western academia. Review | ‘Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said’ explores the full spectrum of sources that shaped the scholar’s ideas 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z

Yet the music defies that description, rising above all maladies to embrace perseverance, to proclaim the narrator’s resilience. Lollapalooza Day 1: Black Sabbath, Black Keys and Passion Pit's black thoughts 2012-08-04T06:11:00Z

As the campers are assigned to binary, heteronormative activities — the guys do athletics and go shooting, and the girls make craft projects and pies — the youth resist and defy. Conversion camp horror flick "They/Them" is a crafty, killer good time 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z

And see how I’m defying puberty; You, too, can try defying puberty While we’re in Never Never Land. Style Invitational Week 1105: A lit obit of fun — write a poem for the late of 2014 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z

It was at its most appealing in its final moments, when all the performers moved in sync for the first time, softly stomping while chanting singsong lines that evoked resilient women defying adversity. A fever dream come to life in ‘Poor People’s TV Room’ 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z

One of the art world’s favorite recent catchphrases is “alternative knowledge,” cribbed from anthropology and misapplied to just about anything that defies rational expectations. Looking Inward, and Back, at a Biennale for the History Books 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z

In one of his latest columns for a Cuban newspaper, Castro wrote “Yoga does things with the human body that defy the imagination.” Is Fidel Castro doing yoga? 2012-06-21T14:39:00Z

“There is something about the film’s brazen mixing of incompatible elements that defies categorization, imitation or even sober critical assessment,” Scott wrote. What’s on TV Friday: ‘The Avengers’ and ‘She-Ra’ 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z

Informed of the state’s clarification by a reporter, a frustrated Dimitriou said he would not defy the state’s order, but planned to contact the governor’s office directly. Jazz Alley announces first concert since coronavirus shutdown, state says not so fast 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z

An Asian-American woman, married with children, was never going to be seen as defying the patriarchy — even if her own interracial marriage was illegal in many states when she wed in 1949. The Japanese-American Sculptor Who, Despite Persecution, Made Her Mark 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z

But Fugard was also, in setting up small theatre groups in Cape Town and Johannesburg, defying a tradition that associated theatre with warmed-up versions of West End hits. Playwright Athol Fugard: a man of obstinacy and courage 2012-06-03T17:45:01Z

It is often said that he transcended or defied the conventions of genre. ‘Level Five’: A serious battle plays into video-game tale 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

In that film, the brothers defy direct-cinema conventions by inserting themselves into the picture, a potential transgression that personalizes the movie all the more. Review: In ‘Iris,’ Albert Maysles Explores Iris Apfel’s Style 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z

Variety critic Alissa Simon called it an “exciting, intelligent mix of romance, Nordic noir, social realism and supernatural horror that defies and subverts genre conventions”. Weird romance 'Border' wins Un Certain Regard at Cannes 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

Geography defies all but the most intrepid souls from seeing everything during such a narrow window of time. 'Current: LA' art biennial: Water may be the theme, but gas is what you'll need to see it all 2016-07-23T04:00:00Z

Plant managers openly defied the federal inspectors he said, and workers followed suit, actually ridiculing them. Federal government is letting us eat metal shards, pink slime 2013-05-17T14:45:00Z

This is perhaps the most shocking moment of the interview: Ford, a man who seems personally to defy the progress of time, acknowledges that he is getting older. Tom Ford: ‘I wore a suit on set. It's a uniform… I feel weak in trainers’ 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z

Both are political thrillers that romanticize malfeasance, imbuing corruption with a sinister melodrama that defies common sense and cheapens the thrill of bad behavior. Television Review: ?Boss,? With Kelsey Grammer on Starz - Review 2011-10-20T20:03:50Z

Like Hogarth, he defies the limits of the visual by evoking sound: saucepans crash, birds screech, flutes toot. Quentin Blake at 80: the illustrator's magical art 2012-12-14T22:55:10Z

The winning tickets were purchased in Tennessee, California and Florida by people who defied the 1 in 292.2m odds to get the award. Frenzy as three US towns wait to find identity of record Powerball winners 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

One of my favorite shows this year was “Twin Peaks,” and what I loved about it was it defied narrative logic. ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 3 Premiere: Sam Esmail on Parallel Universes and President Trump 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z

In mimicking the spirit of the tech industry that inspires it, this is a show that defies all conventions or expectations of how it should operate. How "Valley of the Boom," a story of tech world disruption, disrupts TV too 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z

The masks referred to rebellion, to defying the establishment. Masks are here to stay. And they’re quickly becoming a way to express ourselves. 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z

Miller’s new novel, “Now We Shall Be Entirely Free,” seems bent on defying convention and expectations, and deploys the Mantel magic only intermittently. While You’re Waiting for the Next Hilary Mantel, Try Andrew Miller 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

Levy grew up believing the rules existed to be defied. ‘All my friends had some nightmare experience trying to get pregnant. My story took the cake’ 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z

Like many of Mr. Attenborough’s movies, the story of Chaplin, the lowly born clown who defied the odds by achieving world renown, celebrated courage and endeavor. Richard Attenborough, Actor, Director and Giant of British Cinema, Dies at 90 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z

He became the unlikely champion of culture when he defied the national government and passed a decree allowing the city’s four museums to welcome visitors for the first time in over three months. French Mayor Opens Museums, Defying Coronavirus Orders 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z

The friendship between Elena and Lila offers a sort of refuge from patriarchy; it could even said to be autonomous from it, certainly in the sense that it defies male understanding and interpretation. 'A language of secrets': how My Brilliant Friend revolutionised female friendship on TV 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z

Her fiction, like the rest of her work, defies easy genre categorization. Miranda July Blurs Fiction and Reality to Promote a Novel 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

It then chronicles her return to the island, with results that defy easy summary. The Wild, Rangy, Unclassifiable Delights of Joy Williams’s Fiction 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z

This year the world saw Malala Yousafzai share the Nobel Peace Prize for defying the Taliban on her quest for education for girls. Here's What Hannah Simone Is Thankful For 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

So too was a scrappy Anglo-Dutch company, the product of a merger of Shell Oil with Royal Dutch in 1907, which had defied fearsome odds to muscle onto Standard’s home turf in America. Guts, greed and gushers 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the snubbed It Shoulda Been You continues to defy expectations, with a $70k bump this week and not a closing notice in sight. Broadway Box Office 6/29: Grosses Up, 'The Audience' Breaks Record in Final Week 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z

Mental illness, by its very nature, defies logic. It wasn’t feminist theory that cured my anorexia – it was having something to eat for 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z

On the fictional side, there are tales of forbidden or just romantic love from Israel, Korea, Malaysia, Jamaica and even London, while I Am Divine, celebrates the Baltimore superstar who defied categorisation. This week's new film events 2013-03-09T06:00:09Z

They push at the boundaries of audience experience and defy conventions of cinematic space and time, trying not to represent reality but rather to supplant it. ‘Vortex’ Review: A Split Screen and a Shared Fate 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

Our gatherings of family and friends are freighted with reverence and meaning, defying any attempts at alteration regardless of whether a clan's defining actions serve us anymore, or if they ever make sense. "The Bear" hides crusts of meaning and trauma in an episode about the Feast of the Seven Fishes 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z

We have created a world that defies our capacity to understand it—though not, of course, the capacity of a small number of people to profit from it. The Deliberate Awfulness of Social Media 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

“Will this hard-luck president again defy death while his stoic sidekick vanquishes the nasty, uncivilized terrorists?” What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Parks and Recreation’ and ‘Circus of Books’ 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z

The movie follows Doug and his family as they work and pray to defy the odds stacked against their survival, with remote assistance from air traffic controller‌s and flight instructors. ‘On a Wing and a Prayer’ Review: Faith as Flight Insurance 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z

Beyoncé’s little surprise defied a major norm of releasing an album in today, which is waiting. Beyoncé One Year Later: What If It's a Breakup Album? 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

As you may conclude upon reading those celebrity names, the casting of "The Stand" defies criticism. "The Stand" is barely alive enough to capture this year's "end of the world as we know it" vibe 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z

In both she commands the eye, even defies the limits of it. Can I Hold Out Hope That My Best Creative Years Are Still to Come? 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z

The seductive ease of life under surveillance capitalism has so far stilled the countervailing instinct to defy the bully, to protect the sliver of the self. How Big Tech Built the Iron Cage 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z

In small but significant ways, “Queen to Play” defies expectations. | 'Queen to Play': Chess as a Slow Dance of Seduction 2011-03-31T22:55:26Z

Other characters throughout the updated “Fear Street” universe similarly defy the typical “wholesome, white final girl” trope that has helped to define the genre. In ‘Fear Street,’ a Lesbian Romance Provides Hope for a Genre 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z

An extraordinary moment is an incident in which your senses tell you information in ways that defy the laws of science. His near-death experience and my doubt: When life defies hard science 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z

Indeed, social media’s dance stars defy the judgment of shallowness. Janet Jackson hired her as a backup dancer. Instagram made her a star. 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

The word “melodramatic” is usually deployed in a pejorative way to suggest an affected, exaggerated fervor designed to draw attention, or to describe something that defies conventional rules of propriety. Review: A Lack of Passion Keeps This ‘Orpheus Descending’ Earthbound 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z

And there are intriguing scenes and settings to envisage in “Kings,” which tells of Millsap’s quest to defy special interests and legislate in a way that will actually benefit the country. Review | Audio adaptation of Beltway drama ‘Kings’ tantalizes but ultimately falls flat without a stage 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z

It was a trope beloved by Fidel Castro, who spent five decades honing the role of the righteous David defying the imperialist American Goliath. ‘José Martí,’ by Alfred J. López 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

Chiuri was, she says, defying the Italian tradition of multiple generations of a family sticking close to home. Perspective | Dior was part of the patriarchy. Then she changed everything. 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z

The one-man show is an example of how many who work in theater are increasingly defying COVID-19 by refusing to let it stop their art, often creating new hybrid forms. Theater uses its creativity to defy pandemic and stage shows 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z

Where Kafka, ever practical, ever persistent, defied convention was with her suggestion to roast the bird at 500° F. Remembering Barbara Kafka, whose roast chicken changed everything 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z

These episodes are additional examples of the ways that “Watchmen” defies conventional superhero franchise entertainment plotting. A divine interlude in the tunnel of love: "Watchmen" and the intersection of comic books and faith 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z

Unlike some of his contemporaries, however, Mr. Sillitoe wrote about people who were more concerned with defying the elite class than joining it. Alan Sillitoe, ?Angry? British Author, Dies at 82 2010-04-26T04:37:00Z

Her resume “almost defies belief,” says her Rock Hall biography. Rock Hall of Famers, Kids Celebrate Darlene Love 2013-10-18T15:18:43Z

That might be a high ambition, but for now they are helping regular people defy gravity with little more than their fingertips. Urban Athlete: Climbing the Walls in Brooklyn 2010-05-27T21:58:00Z

Known as "America's Toughest Sheriff," Arpaio was pardoned by President Donald Trump after being convicting for defying the courts and continuing to illegally detain suspected undocumented immigrants in Arizona. Sacha Baron Cohen asks Joe Arpaio if he’d accept oral sex from Trump 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z

I defied the French when I walked down the catwalk, and that’s when people started screaming and the programs went flying in the air.” American Fashion?s Coming-Out in Paris 2011-01-12T22:38:19Z

But Americans defy categorization, and that same person enjoying Benjamin may be a defender of the Second Amendment, pouring port from a crystal decanter decorated with a shotgun-toting hunter from the old Park Avenue emporium scullyandscully.com. T Magazine: The Click Fix 2010-12-05T22:00:00Z

"Borrowed Time," a new magic act by Helder Guimarães, doesn't quite defy description. Spoiler alert! 'Borrowed Time' magic show will leave you astonished 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z

The movie, which opens Friday for a week’s run at Metrograph in a remastered digital print, defied Hollywood conventions, most obviously in its daring use of male frontal nudity. Erotic Energy Restored: ‘Women in Love,’ With Sex in Their Heads 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

Glasco notes that even some controversial pictures seem to defy current expectations of what the past was like. Pa. exhibit showcases legendary black photographer 2011-11-27T22:31:04Z

But one character, Uncle Nallayyan, is unhesitant in his choice — he defies ancient customs when he cuts off his head-knot, refuses to marry and generally lives his life as he pleases. An Indian Couple Consider a Daring Gambit to Have a Baby 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

During production, Smith found himself thinking about Fry as an American hero defying his own government. In ‘Transatlantic,’ Stories of Rescue and Resistance From World War II 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z

Seen all together, Gilbertson’s photographs defy any effort to seek in a room’s furnishings an echo of its former occupant’s fate. Knowing War Intimately 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z

Antigone openly and intentionally defies his edict, covering her brother’s body with dirt and publicly declaring her allegiance to a higher law — the law of love. Front-line nurses star in online staging of play ‘Antigone’ 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z

Instead, “I Am Here” is something more familiar, although undeniably stirring: a portrait of a dynamic soul whose life continues to defy the horrors she experienced. ‘I Am Here’ Review: A Holocaust Survivor Reckons With Her Pain 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

To defy the popular misconception that actresses spent their free time receiving lovers, publicity campaigns showed Hading, Elsie and Burke playing with children, gardening and hosting parties. Antiques: New Auctioneers Take Over for Tepper; Long-Ago Spokesmodels 2012-01-19T22:49:43Z

When Pater claims art exists to give pleasure, he is defying the ethical patriarch Ruskin, for whom art exists to redeem the world. Did the aesthetic rebels get Ruskin wrong? 2011-03-29T16:14:06Z

In “Antigone,” his daughter Antigone defies her uncle, Creon, and the family strife results in a string of deaths. How ‘Sophocles in Staten Island’ Gains in Translation 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z

I defy you to watch documentaries like “When We Were Kings” or “Magic and Bird: A Courtship of Rivals” and tell me these “games” don’t have the ability to create revelation. I love-hate football! 2014-02-02T16:30:00Z

Resounding proof that Sondheim, at 60, had lost none of his artistic daring or precision, or his willingness to defy convention. Now You Know: A Critic’s Guide to Sondheim 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

Celebrities, of course, are far from the only examples of those who, attempting to defy time, end up effacing themselves altogether. Dr. Fredric Brandt: Cosmetic Dermatologist to the Rich and Famous 2014-03-28T20:25:48Z

He has used all his brazenness and skill to make something that, once it leaves the ground, defies not only gravity, but time as well. Review: ‘The Walk,’ High-Wire Bravado at World Trade Center 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z

“Yet there’s a deeper question than even that, one which defies any attempt at a reasonable explanation, and it is, how does Jimmy Scott move us so deeply and profoundly?” Jimmy Scott, hard-luck singer with a haunting voice, dies at 88

In Season 2, Elliot seemed to reach an understanding with Mr. Robot, only to be shot for trying to defy him in the finale. ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 3 Premiere: A Whole New World 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z

“Stripped-down and defying its old formulas, U2 has given itself a fighting chance for the 1990s.” R.E.M.’s leap of faith: 25 years later, every curveball on “Out of Time” makes perfect sense 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

While frustrating for people in the business of using words to convey precise meaning, the fact that QAnon defies easy definition is exactly what makes it so powerful. Confronting the Threat of QAnon 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z

Arca Bowery Ballroom, April 8: Arca’s electronic music defied digital neatness and claimed the physicality behind synthetic sounds. All the Best Shows, of What the Critics Have Seen 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z

From the beginning of her career, Ms. Hadid lofted her buildings, defying gravity: Air has been her design habitat. Building Zaha Hadid’s Bold Afterlife 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

This paradox shows that Eastwood-the-filmmaker is far greater and more important than Eastwood-the-talker—and that the essence of the art of cinema is for movies to surpass and even defy filmmakers’ intentions. The Best Movies of 2016 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

His critical insights are thin, too: There’s little consideration of the economic barriers that separate the artists Postema engages in debate from the people on the street whose consent he openly defies. ‘Stop Filming Us’ Review: Wary of Their Close-Up 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

Mosswood could simply be an intentional community defying the norms of Keller, or it may indeed be a cult. A cult next door? “The Sinner” and the dark allure of retreating to a “utopian community” 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z

But the geography of an exile’s interior life defies traditional cartography. Dina Nayeri’s ‘Refuge’ Follows the Reinvention of an Exile 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z

Really, they are big creatures with no wings at all, but which can controlledly defy gravity, scaly skin, a horn on their nose and two on their necks, short stumpy legs and they breathe wind. Your stories: Dragons are not what you expect them to be by Ellathebookworm 2013-01-11T09:00:00Z

Since then he had sought innovative treatments that enabled him to defy a string of dire predictions about his prognosis. Gregory White Smith, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author, Dies at 62 2014-04-14T04:57:45Z

Their prison sentences were suspended on the condition that they leave the state for 25 years, a ruling they eventually defied. The Film ‘Loving,’ About a History-Making Interracial Couple, Sets Cannes Abuzz 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z

Wright’s “Cooling Time,” a book that defies and eludes definition. 11 popular authors discuss the books that are helping them cope 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

They form the emotional backdrop against which Theriault’s forlorn assemblages strut their underdog stuff, defying futility by making room for real renegade beauty. Paul Pascal Theriault: Turning everyday junk into childlike wonder 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

“Upstairs Downstairs” sticks to the rules established by the original and defies the odds by being as good, and in some ways, even better. Television Review: Like Old Times, Almost, In an English Household 2011-04-07T22:20:14Z

Now it defies all of Mr. Spacey’s serious gifts and hambone tricks to bring it to engaging life. Review: Kevin Spacey as Clarence Darrow, Stadium Size 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z

These fragile, dry collars are as amazing as Tut’s gold death mask: they show the swift passage of time, just as the tomb finds defy it. Exhibition Review: King Tut Reigns at the Discovery Center and the Met 2010-04-22T22:18:00Z

In scene after scene, Vallanzasca goes to great lengths, sacrificing his freedom for others and defying authority to the point he accepts beatings as part of his condition. 'Angel of Evil': Gangster portrayal lifts ordinary crime drama 2011-06-16T20:09:09Z

While preconceptions of Asians having lighter voices still exist, He defies that with a voice that’s proved to be well suited for the heavy roles of Puccini. Soprano He Hui Is Blazing a Trail for China's Opera Singers 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z

American Ballet Theatre star James Whiteside has spent a good portion of his career defying expectations. Review | James Whiteside isn’t a typical ballet star, and his memoir isn’t a typical ballet story 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z

Thus we're relegated to glimpses of thoughtful portrayals that defy profound feeling. Hulu's irksome "United States vs. Billie Holiday" is a stunning, soul-wrenching debut for Audra Day 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z

Faith and doubt went together for him, and even the greatest abandonment had a fecundity that defied war. When Cultural Heritage Becomes a Battlefront 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z

Though Holiday’s music, like all music, defies description, it doesn’t defy analysis, and Szwed, joining musicological precision to historical insight, traces the course of Holiday’s career through recordings. The Art of Billie Holiday’s Life 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

Many of the Ring Finders have at least one story about recovering a lost item that they say simply defies belief, or seems like “a miracle.” The New Detectorists 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z

His frequent laugh is the triumphant guffaw of Robin Hood once more defying the Sheriff of Nottingham. Perspective | With ‘Lupin,’ Netflix created a series worthy of Maurice Leblanc’s enduringly popular gentleman thief 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z

But it’s the willingness to defy expectations and experiment that makes “Louie” special. The TV Watch: Louis C.K. Returns With His Brand of Dark Comedy 2014-05-04T21:45:12Z

And while Divine may have cross-dressed, he defied the common drag scene of the time which prized conventional views of glamour. My streaming gem: why you should watch I Am Divine 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z

The women who appear throughout the issue, on the other hand, defy such easy categorization. | T Women's Fashion Spring 2011 2011-02-25T22:00:44Z

But that the very organisation which sacked Carol Thatcher for calling a tennis player a "golliwog" should commission such a series in the name of comedy, for me, defies belief. Come Fly With Me is tasteless comedy 2010-12-28T10:00:02Z

But as people got used to it this box of tricks opened up which we fully intend to use to defy viewer expectations. Big Brother 2011: will it thrive on Channel 5? 2011-08-14T17:30:01Z

She defies public decency, which discourages people, especially women, from talking graphically about their bodies. Comedy gold: Sarah Millican's Chatterbox 2012-11-08T10:37:20Z

The book that inspired this play is a densely literary work that defies classification and would seem to defy translation to the stage. Review: What the Crow Knows in ‘Grief Is the Thing With Feathers’ 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Everett/REX/Shutterstock This show revolves around a group of girls who are being tormented by a mysterious antagonist, defying numerous murder attempts in high heels and perfect makeup. How to watch Netflix as a feminist 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

This Danish series, whose first season is now available to stream, somewhat defies those expectations. What’s on TV Monday: ‘And She Could Be Next’ and ‘The Sommerdahl Murders’ 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z

“Beef” provides ample evidence of this, in the cascade of escalations that builds to a climax so weird and explosive that it defies spoiling. ‘Beef’ Review: Mad in America 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z

For nearly as long, he has defied their expectations. Roger Federer, Sneakerhead? 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z

It is a reminder of how lucky they have been, to have a father who defied his society to give them a different life. Geeta and Babita Phogat: ‘Our father taught us never to be scared' 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z

As our reviewer, David Means, noted, this collection “fuses cultures, or perhaps leaps over them, defying time, beating like pop songs, touching universal nerves.” New in Paperback: Haruki Murakami and Richard Thompson 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

The channel reported on Tuesday that two million protesters defied a curfew to gather in Tahrir Square; most Western news organizations put the number in the hundreds of thousands. ArtsBeat: The TV Watch: 'Skins,' Sex and Foreign Affairs 2011-02-01T21:07:39Z

Is an event that defies any understanding we have of causality a physical event? Marilynne Robinson: Can science solve life's mysteries? 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z

She is both an entirely believable modern woman, defying conventional categories and expectations, and also, for that reason, an excitingly credible feminist heroine. The Telluride Film Festival Features ‘Mr. Turner’ 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z

Works that both defy and create genre, they adopt peculiar forms. Review: ‘Dracula’ and ‘Frankenstein’? Nothing to Be Scared Of 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z

The plotting of “Poetic License” is completely plausible, but squeezing all the revelations and accusations into one evening pretty much defies credibility. Theater Review: ?Poetic License,? by Jack Canfora, at 59E59 Theaters 2012-02-20T23:15:11Z

Her bedraggled head nearly scrapes the ceiling of the Bushwick Starr in Brooklyn, where Jason Craig’s play opened on Thursday night, and her scrawny torso is attached to a Brobdingnagian skirt that defies circumnavigation. Review: Jason Craig’s ‘Longyarn’ Features a Mom Who Won’t Shut Up 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

From beach to museum, church to market, Rio is a city constantly defying its own myths and encourages visitors to join in with unbridled enthusiasm. 36 Hours in Rio de Janeiro 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

That sense of style defies and overcomes any dichotomy between reality and artifice. The Suffocating Solemnity of “The Revenant” 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

So much of what we carry with us as African-Americans has been dramatized and spun into this epic work that defies description. ‘Father Comes Home From the Wars,’ by Suzan-Lori Parks, at the Public Theater 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z

What characterizes these newer players are an instinct for mixing and matching musical genres, particularly hip-hop and R&B, an eagerness to defy gender norms, and often a quirkier presence that young fans respond to. Pop Music Makes Way for the Post-Diva Star 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z

In retrospect, it was a perfect, archetypal mission statement of how he would defy categories. Review: A Reverent Elvis Doc Separates the Trailblazer From His Tragedy 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

If there ever was an issue that seemed to defy comedy, it is the new coronavirus. How late night comedy shows are making sense of absurd and reckless coronavirus responses 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z

Even by its own expansive criteria, the Chinese blacklist defies logic. Lady Gaga and Katy Perry: banned in China for 'being vulgar' 2011-08-24T19:30:01Z

Several of the routines the group executes at the convention are charming but not really stripping, relying on the attendees’ familiarity with the personalities of the men onstage in a way that defies logic. This Is the Biggest Change in Magic Mike XXL From the Original 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

But you'd only really get a sense of it when you're at their shows and can feel the music in your body; the interplay between players defies adequate description. Allman Brothers Band, at Beacon Theater, Plays Final Concert 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z

As Singleton points out, "Precious" defied the conventional wisdom that sees the industry steering away from serious black films. Black actors face snub at Oscars 2010-10-01T07:41:00Z

Having already put witches to death at home, here he means to ferret out anyone, Sámi or not, who defies the church’s dicta. Review | In ‘The Mercies,’ a deadly storm isn’t the only danger for a Scandinavian community 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z

There is also fascination in how Gallagher's songs defy the laws of physics to become more than the sum of their meagre lyrical parts. Suede/Noel Gallagher | Pop review 2010-03-28T00:05:00Z

“Some of them look very futuristic, works that defy easy categorization,” Mr. Seng said, pointing to several metal reliefs and mixed-media works in the show. Singapore Honors a Son of China 2010-10-06T11:30:00Z

At the time, it spoke directly to the patriotic urge and even now, 67 years later, I defy anyone in Britain to watch it and not feel better about where they live. Why Ed Miliband echoes Colonel Blimp 2010-09-29T11:24:00Z

Yet this particular case defies the “common” public expectations. “Shoot your local rapist” — Brock Turner’s avengers get ugly 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z

Bartlett is one of a rapidly growing number of pensioners across Britain who are defying preconceptions about their age, putting on trainers and taking to the track. ‘If you can run, you can do anything’: why over 65s are at park 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z

Though to be clear, some of the women defied the barrier of the observatory itself and determinedly spent cold, hard nights turning the metal dome, climbing ladders not meant for “ladies” and operating the telescopes. Ladies Who Launch: Women Who Opened the Door to Space Exploration 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z

He takes his cues from Death Wish and the films of Don Siegel, where the vigilante willing to defy the law in order to enforce it reigned as king. Trolled across concrete: why Mel Gibson's new film is a curious provocation 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z

Made from bronze left over from World War II, the simple pieces “seemed to defy trend,” says Purnell. Six Emerging Furniture Designers to Know 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z

He ate and drank for three, had a terrible temper when provoked, defied the king when he thought it musically necessary, but loved his fellow composers and performers. Handel and me 2012-11-30T22:55:12Z

Just as his work defies easy classification, so too does Riley himself refuse to be placed in a tidy media narrative. Boots Riley: how the outspoken musician is taking on Hollywood 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z

Grant was inspired by Sophocles’ play “Antigone,” whose female protagonist defies political decrees to honor her dead brother. Two artists try to portray the indescribable at Pasadena Museum of California Art 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

But when she openly defied his demands — declining his invitation to meet him late at night at his hotel; wearing jeans when he insisted on skirts — she worried that her artists would receive short shrift. Music Mogul Russell Simmons Is Accused of Rape by 3 Women 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z

Moore, who has a long history of defying federal law when they conflict with his religious beliefs, said that under his interpretation of the law, federal law had no bearing in Alabama. Watch John Oliver Take Elected Judges To Court 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z

“Dead Poets Society” has to be one of the most conventional works ever written about the importance of defying conventions. Review: ‘Dead Poets Society,’ Starring Jason Sudeikis as the Idealistic Teacher 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

There is much — including this improbable justice league — that defies logic in the film, which is not to suggest that the illogical isn't stomach-churning entertainment. 'Cold in July' turns up the pulp fiction heat with Texas tale 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

It defies reason that Georgia Engel, doing Georgia Engel, should seem so uncommonly fresh in the generally stale new musical “Half Time,” which opened this week at Paper Mill Playhouse here. Review: Hip-Hopping With the Stars in ‘Half Time’ 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

This is an interesting victory because it defies expectations. How you helped save Bruegel's The Procession to Calvary 2011-01-06T12:41:49Z

Well, the appeal is family . . . in addition to the base level onscreen antics that includes plenty of scantily clad women, biceps for days and feats defying the laws of physics and narrative. Tracing the evolution of "The Fast and the Furious" franchise, movie by movie 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z

Crediting her accountant father and costume designer mother with fostering a craving for the uncomfortable, she declares that “the Feldsteins are all about defying expectations.” By giving Monica Lewinsky a voice, Beanie Feldstein may redefine her own 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

Always defying preconceptions, he specialized in pinot noir rather than Germany’s famous Riesling. Raise a glass to mark the recent passing of three wine visionaries 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

Indeed, the play poses far more questions than answers, in part because it addresses matters—about consciousness and memory, time and nature—that defy easy resolutions. Into the forest 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

I had initiated the visit to Oyamel under the influence of those entomophagy articles, yes, but also because of a growing conviction that the best diets probably defy easy characterization. My first taste of flesh 2013-03-12T00:00:00Z

The uses of the plant seem to defy comprehension. Breaking: “Trump can bogart our democracy but never our weed!”: The Greatest Living American Writer 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

The actors are all marvelous, and their characters defy cartoonishness even as they dare us to see them only as cartoons. Striking it Rich with ‘Logan Lucky’ 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

Trump, who has defied traditional left-right categories, has offered something for both liberals and conservatives to dislike. Mainstream media puts out the call for pro-Trump columnists 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

I am amazed that an ob/gyn physician, one who has children, appears to defy this theory! When the Cause of a Sexless Relationship Is — Surprise! — the Man 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z

The 30-minute piece is a "virtuoso cello concerto but also a fascinating multimedia experience that defies simple classification," Marc Satterwhite, the award director, said in a statement. ArtsBeat: Dutch Composer Wins Grawemeyer Award 2012-11-26T03:00:14Z

What they are creating is variously playful, conceptual, and—while often defying conventional beauty—completely captivating. The Season's Most Captivating Outdoor Sculpture From Carol Bove, Olaf Breuning, And More 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

Why the Chipmunks still command an audience more than a half-century after their initial incarnation on novelty records defies explanation, but they do; the first three movies each earned a nine-figure box office gross. Review: ‘Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip’ Features a Trip to Miami 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

All of her training and education, which includes an M.F.A. from Ohio State, has helped frame her sense of how a dancing body can defy labels. Revealing the Labor of Dance Through Constant Motion 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z

Any bars that defy the Mardi Gras ban will also face a possible shutdown. All New Orleans bars ordered to close for Mardi Gras, mayor says: 'We're worried about the entire city' 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z

They include airlines that are openly defying the government’s refund rules, tour operators pocketing hefty cancellation fees and cruise lines demanding three months or more to refund the price of a ticket. Perspective | Confusing coronavirus refund policies frustrate travelers 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z

Incidentally, the recipe as I originally conceived it defies what I've learned from all of my years of souping. My most popular soup recipe was also my most disliked — until now 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z

The ceremony, she added, “bears witness to the rightful inclusion and immense beauty of those dancers whose physicality defies convention and expectation within the dance world.” At Bessie Awards, Joy and Diversity, and Gathering in Person 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z

In part, Mr. Berkman said, Epic hopes “to see if we could defy the competitive nature that sooner or later can infiltrate” the Off Broadway theater scene. ?Sarah Ruhl?s Passion Play? at a Brooklyn Church 2010-04-13T23:19:00Z

In the 1960s, longhaired men in paisley, florals and bell-bottoms defied conventions of what men were supposed to look like and what clothes they were supposed to wear. Gender Fluidity on the Runways 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z

They got jobs together at a pharmacy, and Mr. Tiffany defied his parents’ wishes and transferred to Mr. Hoggett’s secondary school, which catered to an artistic crowd. Spring Performance: John Tiffany and Steven Hoggett Collaborate on ?Once? 2012-02-22T21:17:17Z

Any such bill would lose a substantial number of House Republicans aligned with the "tea party," who, as the past week has shown, are willing to defy GOP leaders. Debt crisis focus shifts to Senate 2011-07-30T03:46:00Z

There is something about the film’s brazen mixing of incompatible elements that defies categorization, imitation or even sober critical assessment. Review: ‘The Great Silence,’ a 1968 Spaghetti Western Unchained 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

The class includes countless people who defied long odds; the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, the first Muslim women, the first Native American women. Max Rose came to Congress to do big things. But first, he has to do dumb things. 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z

These places defy the stereotypes, and draw diners of all ages and backgrounds. The Old-School Reasons to Love Los Angeles Restaurants 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z

He has won major awards, such as the Grawemeyer, and his music defies easy categorisation. Sunken Garden; Nabucco; Mark Padmore & Graham Johnson – review 2013-04-20T23:08:33Z

Was he defying fate, as well as Hitler? My parents’ Dunkirk spirit is probably why I exist 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

We have defied them; the fabric of this place is forever torn. The sex that helped us survive: Love and defiance in an Iranian prison 2014-03-19T23:00:00Z

Having finally disrupted the curse, though, she returned earlier this month to once again defy psycho killers and quantum physics. The cosmic joke's on her: The antiheroine's journey through a cursed universe 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z

An Italian historian traces the rise of Roman autocracy to Pompey’s baffling acquiescence when Caesar defied Senate orders to disband his troops. New & Noteworthy, From John Sayles to Julius Caesar 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z

She defies her pompous politician father, and uses her intelligence and resolve to overcome her fear and save hundreds of lives. For the Most Complex Heroines in Animation, Look to Japan 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z

Goldstone, the author of books about Catherine de Medici and Mary, Queen of Scots, is drawn to female royals who defy “tradition and stereotype,” and on that count her new subjects have much to offer. Fighting Fake News and Salacious Rumors at Versailles 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z

Basil Bunting claimed it was "easier to die than to remember"; Adcock scores the sand to defy the waves. Poetry review: Dragon Talk by Fleur Adcock 2010-05-14T23:38:00Z

The supermodel's artistic medium is assumption – reflecting it, shaping and defying it. When it comes to providing insight, Apple's "The Super Models" only goes skin deep 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z

Box-office queues are shorter, but shows fuller, which defies all logic. Edinburgh festival: day nine at the fringe 2012-08-14T15:35:20Z

This is a movie that defies understanding even as it compels reverent, astonished belief. Review: ‘The Master,’ From Paul Thomas Anderson 2012-09-13T15:23:48Z

The multifariousness of his career defies definition, but one quality did underlie his many activities. John Train, Paris Review Co-Founder and Cold War Operative, Dies at 94 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z

Any time that you defy the rules there’s going to be some pushback, obviously. Scratch that: Cats film to be 'resupplied' with 'improved visuals' 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z

There was a disco streak at Moogfest: not just with Mr. Moroder but with Chic, whose arena show defied the prevalence of machine-made music. Critic’s Notebook: Moogfest 2014 Unfolds in Asheville, N.C. 2014-04-28T22:13:11Z

Focusing on the complex relationship with his handler, this is a gripping account of terror, betrayal and unthinkable choices, along with a friendship that defies all boundaries. The Carpetbagger: Sundance, Film by Film 2013-12-04T22:31:45Z

“This is a piece that just defies that agenda.” ‘La Bohème’: Should Opera’s Most Beloved Classic Be Changed? 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z

Some white Minnesotans, defying their Minnesota Nice reputation, are rebuking the Black Lives Matter movement and showing their continued ignorance of the obstacles people of color face. Silence is no longer an option: Why the death of Jamar Clark in Minneapolis brought me off the sidelines 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z

Earlier in the season, he had defied Viktor Orbán’s repressive regime with a staging of his own opera “The Red Heifer,” a sardonic indictment of modern Hungarian anti-Semitism. Ten Notable Performances and Recordings of 2014 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

It defies expectations of what a military film can be. Raúl Castillo Can Empathize With Ambivalence 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z

He has been defying the gravity of age, and continuing to command the stages of the world’s leading opera houses, as a result of one of the more remarkable transformations in opera history. Plácido Domingo Defies the Gravity of Age 2014-03-07T15:00:03Z

In the last year, it's part of a mini-wave of deeply personal albums by artists like the Weeknd and Frank Ocean that defy genre pigeonholing. Taking chances to 'Dream' 2012-11-21T18:53:44Z

Always one to defy expectations, he surprised fans by releasing his 24th studio album, The Next Day, on his 66th birthday. 11 Essential David Bowie Songs 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z

Despite the difficulties that inhere in Holocaust memoir — we believe we know this history, and its subject matter defies language — “Mala’s Cat” is fresh, unsentimental and utterly unpredictable. A Memoir of a Young Girl’s Survival Amid Mounting Horrors 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z

It’s dizzying dance music that miraculously defies repetition. The Year in Culture: 2010 Anthems: From a Kiss-Off to Jolts of Hope 2010-12-16T19:28:05Z

Nearly two hours later, he was still blasting away, as if defying the looming clouds to let loose again. Lollapalooza closes on high note 2011-08-08T02:22:00Z

And when these rule the game, prices defy prediction. Special Report: Asian Art: Chinese Nationalist Fervor Trumps Basic Facts 2011-05-26T18:00:08Z

With their generous use of eyeliner, painted fingernails, costumes defying gender stereotypes, and videos that feature female-male and male-male interactions, the artists constantly put gender identities up for grabs. Italian rockers Maneskin enjoy blurring gender stereotypes 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z

In “101 Dalmatians,” the dogs of London defy their masters to sound the Twilight Bark, a kind of animal Amber Alert that spreads the word that puppies have gone missing. Review: ‘Zoo’ Is a James Patterson Novel Brought to TV 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z

In each case, we see the subject defying norms of tidiness and organization in order to innovate and even revolutionize. Are You a Slob? That Could Be a Great Thing 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

Music provides the not inconsiderable consolation of at least temporarily defying gravity, in all senses of the word. Review: ‘Now I’m Fine,’ Ahamefule J. Oluo’s Take on Himself 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

The production, since christened "In & of Itself," is all about defying labels. Derek DelGaudio's 'In & of Itself' fills in the blanks — and the seats — at Geffen Playhouse 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

Today, the president took it a step further, energizing even more wannabe #MAGAbomber types with his threat to defy the Constitution and end birthright citizenship. Trump’s pro-white, pro-fear rhetoric will keep fueling — and radicalizing — angry men 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

“These books are really about defying the social order,” said Ms. McCafferty. ArtsBeat: Teenage Girls in a Dystopian World 2011-05-09T13:00:36Z

But the alternatives being grown today defy those dusty 19th century categories. Cooperative banking has arrived 2012-05-24T12:30:00Z

Known as the Voynich manuscript, it defies classification, much less comprehension. The strange quest to crack the Voynich code 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z

Formell’s most recent album, “Johnny’s Dream Club,” is a rare fusion of American jazz and Cuban music, reflecting the same passion for defying strict conventions that brought him to America. Romance and Romanticism in Valentine’s Day concerts 2013-02-07T23:24:23Z

In March, five young Iranian women posted a video of themselves dancing TikTok’s “Calm Down” challenge — defying Iran’s draconian modesty laws, which prohibit women from dancing or appearing without head scarves in public. TikTok Is Dead (Maybe). Long Live TikTok Dance. 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z

Jones, Al Jackson and Love were Black, defying both local and music industry custom. A low-key Memphis guitar legend builds on musical legacy 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z

Their clumsy manner led some scientists to erroneously suggest that their flight even defied aerodynamics. Bumblebees can fly into thin air 2014-02-07T13:15:00Z

The ring road marks a dividing line between the Eternal City and its less affluent periphery, but Rosi's cameras sometimes defy conventional wisdom. Weevils and all, Rome ring-road film marks documentary comeback 2013-09-06T17:17:57Z

The Ballez members, while bravely defying limitations imposed by society and much of the ballet world, seem trapped within the limitations of their training. Review: For This Spin on ‘Sleeping Beauty,’ Someday Her Princess Will Come 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z

In the title story, for example, the schoolgirl narrator defies attempts to shame her mispronunciations and shabby clothes while she simultaneously tries to protect her parents from similar ridicule. Review | In ‘How to Pronounce Knife,’ stories of Lao immigrants reveal everyday moments of racism, classism, power and privilege 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z

In other words, as women’s credibility increases, especially in ways that defy gender norms, their social likability decreases. Deadly silence: what happens when we don't believe women 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z

It tells of a simple realism, true in Lazio in 1903 and in Brooklyn today—a realism that the parenting books and Facebook posts invite us to deny and defy. Fatherhood Apart 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z

The hacking and impalement of ancient combat still yield gore that defies gravity and invites our delectation in the obligatory money-shot slow-motion. Movie Review: In ‘300: Rise of an Empire,’ Greeks Under Siege Again 2014-03-07T01:38:02Z

Coel's series defied expectations for summertime viewing, resolving its complicated story in a manner than can only be described as revolutionary. The best TV shows of 2020 that made staying at home bearable 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z

He’s stayed in the news, defying the tradition of former presidents abruptly falling off the radar upon their successor’s inauguration and despite the shutdown of his favored means of communication on Twitter. Media grapples with how to cover Trump after White House 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z

The content of his prose defies extraction, conversion and consumption: in this way, as in others, his politics are grained deep into his style. Robert Macfarlane: rereading Climbers by M John Harrison 2013-05-10T07:00:01Z

But for the most part, “13 Hours,” with its focus on “ground truth,” is an unabashed celebration of the armed operatives, who were defying orders when they moved to defend the diplomatic compound. ‘13 Hours’ Gives Benghazi Attack Cinematic Treatment 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z

As he says, everybody loves, and whom they love defies logic. The coldly brilliant crime novel, ‘GBH,’ by Ted Lewis 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

It seems to defy the need for further explanation, despite all the French love poems: Street of the Iron Po(e)t, Part XVII 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z

Perhaps because Russell's real-life story defies all logic, the movie refuses to follow any normal narrative conventions, becoming a pell-mell, can-you-top-this odyssey beyond madcap farce into total derangement. "I Love You Phillip Morris": Too gay for 2010? 2010-12-02T01:30:00Z

The lyrics, assessing women’s lives with a touch of theory — “Animal function, shaped by culture,” declares “Baby Song” — are of their era, but the music defies it. Playlist : Music by Wild Flag, Lindsey Buckingham and the Raincoats 2011-09-10T00:08:45Z

Mr. Lauder said the art legislation took great strides toward righting a wrong that has defied an easy solution. Senate Bill Would Help Recover Art Stolen by Nazis 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z

Some will receive a cheer for defying stereotype. It’s All Right to Cry, Dude 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z

He defied the draft at the height of the Vietnam war – “I ain’t got no quarrel with them Viet Cong” – and lost 3 1/2 years from the prime of his career. “He stood for the world”: Muhammad Ali — “The Greatest” — is dead at age 74 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z

This is a movie, he wrote, “that defies understanding even as it compels reverent, astonished belief.” What’s on TV Wednesday: An Adventure Series and ‘68 Whiskey’ 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z

Fox was on the big-screen TVs as Trump won the key state of Florida, and the room filled with increasing optimism that Trump had again defied the polls. The long love affair between Fox News and Trump may be over. Here’s how it all soured last week. 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z

I'd be pleased to see a vibrantly romantic picture defy the Zeitgeist and restore one of Hollywood's central genres. Water for Elephants: Under the Big Top with Reese and RPattz 2011-04-21T10:15:00Z

A lot of parents ignore the standard lexicon and look instead to place names, invented names, international names and names that defy gender stereotypes. Lilith, Lilibet … Lucifer? How Baby Names Went to ‘L’ 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z

The only thing I’d change about the lasagna is the cooking time for the squash, which defied my fork in spots. Review | Like a good neighbor, Pennyroyal Station is there for you 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

A piece of music, he says, carries you through time on an emotional journey that defies easy summary. ‘Tár’ Review: A Maestro Faces the Music 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

Unlike the 1980s, however, the current trend defies neat labels; the debate on whether there is a so-called gay ear is long over. Why Men Are Embracing the Single Dangly Earring 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

One by one, Tevye's daughters escape their arranged marriages and wed men they love, radically defying established practices. How "Fiddler on the Roof" helped usher in the Jewish Pride movement of the 1960s 2023-07-08T04:00:00Z

But the racially mixed Toomer’s confounding efforts to defy being stuck in conventional racial categories and his disaffiliation with black culture made him perhaps the most enigmatic writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance. Scholars Say Chronicler of Black Life Passed for White 2010-12-26T21:46:48Z

Django defied the snow to exceed those numbers, just, but of course benefits from nearly a decade of ticket price inflation. Bad weather makes life Misérables for UK box office 2013-01-22T12:33:26Z

The best art is sometimes hard to understand, because it defies understanding. How David Warner stole “Time Bandits” from the thieves 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z

And slowly at first, the poll- defying assertions began to seem like prescience as the evening wore on. Only a few conservative outlets thought Trump had a chance. Then the night wore on. 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

But he also wondered if the sheer scope and pace of the disaster defied any easy analogies from American history. Will a Pandemic Shatter the Perception of American Exceptionalism? 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z

Acconci defies labels—later in his career he transformed his interest in public space into an unorthodox architectural practice, which never attained the transformative power of his art. Postscript: Vito Acconci, 1940–2017 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z

The result is a pair of movies that defy the transitory to create the mythology of their moments. Lost and Found: Shirley Clarke and Pascale Ogier 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

It's a prime Brad Pitt movie -- arguably the prime Brad Pitt movie -- and an American fable about a battered but lovable divorced dad who defies conventional wisdom and beats the odds. "Moneyball": Brad Pitt's wonk-friendly Oscar contender 2011-09-23T00:01:00Z

It enhanced her reputation as a star of a new order, willing to take chances with difficult material and to defy her studio’s attempts to control her private life. DVDs: Five Movies With Kim Novak on DVD 2010-08-13T21:50:00Z

Ai Weiwei is the most important artist in the world right now, a visionary who is defying an entire political system. Is Ai Weiwei still an artist? 2013-04-24T12:56:05Z

From the outset, she depicted strong women and heroines and further defied convention by making a speciality of female nudes. Special Report: The New Art Season: The Renaissance Flowers Again 2011-09-07T10:30:06Z

An inflammatory segregationist, Wallace flew the Confederate flag over his statehouse and promised to defy federal law by personally turning away any black student who tried to integrate the University of Alabama. J.F.K. at Dawn’s Early Light of Reality TV 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

Arts as Antidote for Academic Ills Stationed in front of one of his large self-portraits, the artist Chuck Close raised his customized wheelchair to balance on two wheels, seeming to defy the laws of gravity. Chuck Close Uses Art to Inspire Students to Academic Success 2012-12-18T22:55:31Z

It's the indomitable Chanda, determined to hold what's left of her family together, rescue Esther and defy the implacable Mrs. Tafa and the hostile villagers, who stops the whole thing from becoming utterly depressing. "Life, Above All": Hope amid Africa's AIDS epidemic 2011-07-15T23:01:00Z

They riotously schemed, fought and defied convention, racing and laughing their way to liberation — or something like it. Rewriting Women Back Into Film History 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z

Their photos are stunning: They defy jet lag, flash blinding smiles over artful lattes and twirl on the edge of breathtaking landscapes. That Solo Travel Blogger? She Just Wants a Vacation 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

On a recent Saturday, Reaction Band is closing in on 3 a.m. with a beat so forceful, it’s inspiring a wide-awake crowd of 20-somethings to bounce their bodies in ways that defy gravity and decorum. How long can go-go keep going? 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

But the final triumph, if such it is, belongs to Kate, who defies all attempts at occupation and remains resolutely herself. Old Times - review 2013-01-31T23:00:02Z

Weinstein cultivated journalists who ran glowing pieces about favoured actors – and negative pieces about those who angered or defied him. 'Pack of hyenas': how Harvey Weinstein's power fuelled a culture of enablers 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

As important, they also added distinctive stylistic flourishes: Their bold lighting, bright colors, jarring scores and unconventional narrative structures defied the norms of American and British horror. ‘Suspiria’: Stream the Original and 8 Other Italian Horror Classics 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

She was at the height of her popularity in 1955 when she married the screenwriter Zenzo Matsuyama, and again defied convention by continuing to work as an actress rather than withdraw into domestic life. Hideko Takamine, Lauded Japanese Actress, Dies at 86 2011-01-04T01:08:46Z

Third, the men deputized to stop the carnage experienced something so rare as to defy belief. 'The Tiger': John Vaillant's mesmerizing tale of a man-eating tiger, vengeance and survival 2010-08-25T23:16:00Z

It's an art form that defies easy description: a fusion of dance, music, poetry, classical dressage and shamanistic magic. Bartabas: dances with horses 2011-02-21T21:31:00Z

Some of the new tracks, like the high-tech Electrodome, let you defy gravity, so you’ll find your vehicle clinging to walls and ceilings. Review: Nintendo’s ‘Mario Kart 8’ defies gravity 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

“They have defied court orders to release him, of course with impunity.” Ugandan authorities face pressure to free detained author 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

The subject seemed to defy illustration, because Mr. Mendelsund’s central thesis is that readers often invent images that the text does not support. Peter Mendelsund, Book Designer, Debuts as a Writer 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z

Filmmaker Lutz Gregor follows a quartet of exiled musicians from Mali who defy religious extremists in order to play their music and appear at the Niger River Festival. At Filmfest DC, a snapshot of a world in flux, with many not-to-miss titles 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

When Dr. Ghaemi does come up with anything remotely new, he is quick to congratulate himself for defying conventional wisdom. Books of The Times: What Befits a Leader in Hard Times? An Intimate Knowledge of Insanity 2011-08-10T21:05:51Z

She never regained the use of her legs; her marriage to the womanizing Balanchine, however, defied the odds. New Books by Sadie Jones, Laurent Binet and More 2012-05-30T21:07:15Z

The original inspiration for “Lucy” — a woman who defies expectations — is a signature of many of Mr. Besson’s films, especially women who transform themselves into unusual heroines and persevere in violent tales. Scarlett Johansson Gets Superpowers in Luc Besson’s ‘Lucy’ 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

She also embarked on a number of endeavors that defied classification. Amy Krouse Rosenthal, author of best-selling children’s books, touching farewell essay, dies at 51 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

Though the album is billed as soul, its sound defies easy categorization. How a Band Called The Internet Became the Best Thing on the Internet 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z

Paul, defying racist society in Missoula, dates a Native American woman. A Father’s Love, Whether He Says Too Much or Not Enough 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z

But an "Argo" win despite Affleck's omission from the Best Director shortlist would defy the conventional wisdom that says the Oscar for Best Film usually brings a trophy for its director. Oscars in Hollywood cliffhanger over Best Picture, Director 2013-02-20T13:03:42Z

This is another really thoughtful documentary short about women excelling in sports in ways that defy cultural norms. Here are 9 great Netflix short documentaries to watch for inspiration 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z

A lingering memory from the 2016 election is how Colbert’s live special collided with the news that Trump had defied polling numbers and data crunching and defeated Hillary Clinton. Perspective | Election night TV was high anxiety, flat comedy and Trump taking us to a new low. We can’t say we weren’t warned. 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z

“Reflection of Evil” doggedly defies conventional plot description. On Netflix, a Genuine Nail-Biter, and on Amazon, a Genuine Eccentric 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

Torturing yourself for months now over a few days then just defies logic and wears you down. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: The in-law and politics — oh, this can’t be good 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z

The best art is sometimes hard to understand, because it defies understanding. How David Warner stole “Time Bandits” from the thieves 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z

Ms. Mandell, executive producer of the film, said it started off as the story of 13 diplomats who defied the Nazis and saved Jews during World War II. | Hartford: Hartford Jewish Film Festival to Open March 17 2012-03-11T02:50:05Z

The carnival atmosphere was muted by the early-morning crackdown, but demonstrators defied the authorities the following day by dancing a mass tango in gas masks. Taksim Square protests bring hope to Turkish musicians 2013-06-13T13:31:00Z

Lehrer’s low-key delivery almost defied viewers to figure out where he was coming from. Perspective | Always low-key, Jim Lehrer anchored TV news for grown-ups 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

There is the matter of his strange last name, its awkward B bristling aggressively in a string of consonants, defying casual pronunciation. Matthew Macfadyen Has Mixed Feelings About the End of ‘Succession’ 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z

And the film’s nonlinear structure frequently defies both logic and expectation. In portraying jazzman Miles Davis, Don Cheadle took his cues from his subject 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

The achievement recognizes “an emerging standout artist that defies convention and breaks boundaries” – it’s also sponsored by a car manufacturer. Rihanna, Sam Smith, Madonna to appear iHeartRadio Awards 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

It doesn’t always mean that the U.S. is free to defy international rules and standards, but it’s only a quick jump to that kind of conclusion. What Trump’s slick catchphrase really means: “Make America great again” is just code for “get the best deals” 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

Titled “Father Time,” it includes a thrift store photo of a sleeping baby and is a lovely evocation of the cycle of life, defying the many dehumanizing factors that conspire against it. Joel Kyack's kinetic sculptures: The cycles of life in water bottles, buckets and a record player 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

Al Jazeera, which plans to appeal, said the sentencing “defies logic, sense, and any semblance of justice.” 'Think Like a Man Too' cleans up. Stephen King on 'Under the Dome.' 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

I cannot tell the woman who believes she is my biological mother – who continues living, defying her doctors’ prognoses – that I am not her son, because it would crush her. Swapped at birth, then adopted by mistake: 'For 41 years I lived someone else's life' 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

It’s rare to see a show filled with such mysterious complexity, stridently defying the conventions that would traditionally make a show seem initially binge-worthy. The Girlfriend Experience: a welcome return for TV's most audacious drama 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z

“I defy you to name a movie, primetime network television series, or made-for-television movie that espouses any sort of intelligent conservative position,” it read. The Giver: conservative parable or a Hollywood film like any other? 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z

Some defied the social codes and got to see action. Freedom force 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

I, too, write to cope but I want to create things of beauty that defy the ugliness of abuse. Tiger, Tiger: What is the point of reading this memoir of abuse? 2011-03-27T00:05:57Z

Prince’s catalog was huge, and defied neat summation — he was outrageously good at so many things. Popcast: Remembering Prince 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

It's a record born from calculated chaos, designed to defy easy description. Enigmatic Okkervil River plays Marymoor Park Monday 2011-08-18T23:52:04Z

Hummingbirds are sacred to a lot of people in Los Angeles, hovering dabs of wildness that seem to defy the city's concrete and cars like tiny, iridescent heroes. 'Fastest Things on Wings' is the soaring tale of a hummingbird rehabber 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

The album is Jones’s second, following a debut Pitchfork almost admiringly referred to last year as “bombastic and unreasonable” for how stubbornly it defies easy listening. Caleb Landry Jones is known for playing weird, kind of creepy characters. His new album is also weird and kind of creepy. 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

Something else she says is: “Some things defy pondering.” Sarah Paulson on relationships, her Emmy win and female beauty standards 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

An 86-year-old woman contacted a scuba diver to find her missing wedding ring in a Pennsylvania lake and he somehow defied the odds to find it. Diver helps woman, 86, recover wedding ring she lost in Pennsylvania lake 2019-06-29T04:00:00Z

But then one of the play’s themes is the notion that human beings are ornery creatures given to establishing inappropriate relationships that defy logic. | 'Graceland': Grieving as an Odd Family Affair, From LCT3 2010-05-18T04:59:00Z

He contacts her through Facebook and then visits her house, where they have a bizarre, stilted interaction that defies description. TV's best new taboo-busting comedy 2010-06-26T23:01:00Z

Kamala's self-determination journey, through which she learns to shirk the expectations of her family and community, and defy the sexism she faces in her graduate research program, lands in a lovely way. "Never Have I Ever": Jeff Garlin becomes a problematic distraction to the show's finale run 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z

Millet didn’t fit into any categories, in part because he consciously defied them. Review | It’s easy to see Millet’s influence on other painters. It’s harder to see his genius. 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

It becomes clear that she left for Frankfurt in a fit of adolescent angst, intent on defying the “inaccessible divinity” of her father. The Story of the Girl Who Volunteered To Be Imprisoned by the Nazis 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

“Live Dangerously” spotlights the works of 12 photographers who defy predictable, passive images of the female form in nature. In the #MeToo Era, Museums Celebrate Women 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z

"The idea of The Vigil is to defy the norm of boxing you into playing music in a certain style," Corea said. Corea competes against himself at Grammys 2013-02-02T14:28:14Z

Gamzatti tries to defy her own guilt and Solor’s grief to marry him, but Nikiya’s irrepressible Shade invokes the holy flame on which he swore his oath to be true to her. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater?s ?La Bayad?re,? at Lincoln Center 2010-05-19T22:05:00Z

However, I defy any of you to idolize these women. Plus-Size Wars 2010-07-29T15:41:00Z

Every great artist knows the magic of defying reality and frailty. The Voice of America: Whitney Houston (1963-2012) 2012-02-12T03:38:37Z

But the biannual journal Esopus defied the odds last month when it published its 20th issue, “Special Collections,” which features work by Matthew Weiner, the creator of “Mad Men.” | The Independent Journal Esopus, Still Going Strong After a Decade of Publishing 2013-12-27T21:16:27Z

Yet new artistic director Andrew Russell, a revised board and many supporters have defied the odds to save the Intiman brand from extinction. Intiman's 2012 revival season: the pluses and the minuses 2012-08-17T16:43:32Z

Sometimes even the things we think we know can defy our expectations, reviving the stagnant into something worth believing in again. Why is "Ahsoka" so intent on maintaining the old "Star Wars" order instead of forging a new path? 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z

Del Árbol routinely accumulates European crime-writing prizes, but “A Million Drops” is an effort that defies categorization, pulling together the best elements of historical fiction, psychological thrillers and literary character studies. Review | A child’s murder sets off a sprawling tale of politics, war and family 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

Naturally, Henry defies his grandfather, saying, "Starting today, the world will know me for who I am, and not who you want me to be." The hidden history of queer British royals 2023-08-20T04:00:00Z

Once again, the sequence allows Sydney to defy the patriarchal model her Hollywood forbears set forth. On "The Bear," Sydney's Chicago-wide smorgasbord liberates women from food guilt and girlbosses 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z

With the addition of sugar and dye, these scraps were transformed into a product that not only concealed but in some ways defied its origins. In ‘Jell-O Girls,’ a Dark Family History Behind a Candy-Colored Dessert 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z

Big Brother’s pronouncements are treated as absolute truth by his acolytes, even when they defy rational thought — so Black is White, 2+2=5, War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength.” Why Orwell’s ‘1984’ matters so much now 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

At Ok Lah!, their food defies such neat geographic categorization. A Menu That Defies Tidy Categorization at Ok Lah! 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

Thanks to the internet, rap has become a dominant genre in Russian pop culture over the past few years, with new stars defying the government’s preferred aesthetics and values. A Russian Rapper Brings His Banned Antiwar Message to Istanbul 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

A cerebral film far from the world of Jason Bourne, there are no high-speed car chases through crowded plazas, major helicopter explosions or building-leaping spies who defy gravity with their hair neatly in place. No one wears a white hat in the uncomfortably real 'A Most Wanted Man' 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

On Twitter, Rose accused the Trump campaign of relying on venue licenses to defy the group’s demand to be excluded from the playlist. Axl Rose and Rihanna Want Trump to Stop Playing Their Music. Can They Succeed? 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z

It’s this: His reluctance to disappoint and possibly defy his parents is greater than his commitment to you. We Can’t Hide This Relationship Forever 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z

Vestiges of a past or harbingers of the future, the skeletons of once mighty oaks and elegant loblolly pines defy efforts to wholly preserve Tubman’s memory on these lands. Finding Traces of Harriet Tubman on Maryland’s Eastern Shore 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z

But with the Silk Road he was able to marry his business ambitions and anti-authoritarian philosophy; he envisioned it as a powerful way to defy what he perceived to be the state’s irrational drug policies. How the Dark Web’s Dread Pirate Roberts Went Down 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z

While he was out of jail on appeal and under house arrest, he deftly defied the regime with a movie, which he made in his home, about his own situation. What to Stream This Weekend: Documentary As Performance 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z

Its genius lies in its marriage to the sophisticated music of Burt Bacharach, which defies expectation at every turn, and the peerless Dionne Warwick, with whom there are no unnecessary embellishments, nothing surplus to requirements. Readers recommend: songs about eavesdropping ? results 2011-07-14T12:18:29Z

“He was a scientific genius who created real magic by defying what his peers thought was possible.” Million Volts for David Blaine in ‘Electrified’ Endurance Test 2012-10-01T19:11:03Z

“I adore Quadratl for the perfect marriage of sculptural framing with detailing so exquisite that it defies traditional metalworking methods,” says Diaz-Azcuy of the line. AD Loves: Janus et Cie’s Quadratl Line 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

Stridently independent, she shunned the industry in the face of systemic apathy toward a blind woman whose music defied all norms of the time. Pauline Anna Strom’s posthumous album cements her legacy as an electronic music visionary 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z

Sometimes U.S. meat inspectors were openly defied and laughed at. Meet Monsanto’s evil twin: 8 disturbing facts about the chemical fertilizer industry 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Spedding stalks the edges, attacking, drawing back, dropping bombs here and there, making music that defies description. Roy Harper: 'I'm not very communicative' 2013-07-17T16:49:47Z

Mount Righteous, a joyful noisemaking outfit from Grapevine, Texas, defies categorization. Mount Righteous makes a joyful punk-marching-band noise 2010-04-15T20:30:00Z

Mr. Washington stars as Hickey, the traveling salesman who defies the regulars at Harry Hope’s flophouse to face up to their dissipated lives. 16 Plays and Musicals to Go to in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

The result is a versatile celebration of the season that defies categorization. Here’s a dish that won’t make you choose between sweet and savory 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

How to describe the captivating creations of an occasionally humorous, cutting-edge violin-guitar duo whose music defies all genre pigeonholing? Probosci’s sharp improvisers to play the Royal Room 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

He will confront us with being, and defy us not to care about him. Teatro Línea de Sombra's 'Amarillo' an unsparing look at immigrants' journey 2012-11-09T23:43:04Z

By day, they defeated planning officers to push through building schemes or run rent rackets; by night they defied moralising prudes in the cause of libertinism. An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo by Richard Davenport-Hines – review 2013-01-04T10:00:01Z

He defied doctors who did not expect him to return to work, and in his last months described composing as a welcome distraction from constant pain. Composer Sir John Tavener mourned 2013-11-13T09:51:21Z

Mr. Mangold defies cliché by dramatizing the actual devastation of a city from a discreet distance early in the film. Movie Review: In ‘The Wolverine,’ Hugh Jackman Broods Again 2013-07-25T21:12:49Z

But this latest musical adapted from one of Disney’s popular movies, which opened on Thursday night at the New Amsterdam Theater, defied my dour expectations. Theater Review: ‘Aladdin’ Tweaks the Disney Formula With Breezy Insouciance 2014-03-21T02:00:01Z

Their contending voices alternate in the novel’s second half, when Hoffman’s propulsive drama of a woman defying convention deepens to include a rueful assessment of the ways in which we resemble our adversaries. Alice Hoffman’s compelling tale of the artist Camille Pissarro and his mother 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z

In this sense Barack Obama defies the stereotype of the American Liberal for whom American failure on the world stage is not the starter course but the main. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Barack Obama’s ‘A Promised Land’ 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

The work itself is satisfying in a visceral, precognitive way and mostly defies explanation. Is it possible to make Noguchi boring? Almost. 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z

I'm totally sick of productions that defy the true nature of the work. The Problem With Broadway Revivals: They Revive Gender Stereotypes, Too 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

Yet her eccentric and marvelously original art defies easy categorization. For Michelle Ellsworth, Practice Makes … More Practice 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

As with all such shows, a few participants defied the format, but most followed it. In the galleries: Few hard edges in sight 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

Ms. Tecklenburg takes his place for her screen test but defies the desired simplicity of the form by goofing her way through it, to Mr. Will’s outrage. | 'Gob Squad?s Kitchen (You?ve Never Had It So Good)': ?Gob Squad?s Kitchen,? Inspired by Warhol, at Public Theater 2012-01-24T03:01:11Z

But Mr. Musto, who is 54, defies the definition of a modern-day celebrity gossip. 2010-01-29T23:40:00Z

That is how powerful these emotions are: They defy reason. My 5-year-old is scared to go to bed by himself. How can we all get some sleep? 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

A nonessential chocolate shop defied the lockdown last week. In France, coronavirus confinement a la Nice 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z

One yogurt place defied all logic by introducing sushi to expand business. It had seemed such a fun goal: Eat at every restaurant in Bethesda. Hoo boy. 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

Those sports fans who demand players to pay respect to the flag act as if Kaepernick was the first athlete to defy American patriotism. The 6 most iconic times American athletes protested racism before Colin Kaepernick 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z

Among his 53 volumes – including novels, short stories, plays, children's , poetry, travel books, drama, memoirs and criticism – there are works that defy classification. Alan Sillitoe obituary 2010-04-25T14:15:00Z

The two defied convention, prejudice and opposition from both their families to marry. 'A United Kingdom' tells historic tale of love defying prejudice 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z

The Fringe Festival, which turns 70 this year, has adopted the slogan "defying the norm since 1947" so perhaps it's little surprise so many shows are reacting against the status quo in Washington. Donald Trump Takes Center Stage at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

“To shut down Stars and Stripes on Oct. 1 would also defy the expressed will of the House and preempt full consideration by the Senate.” Stars and Stripes closure ordered by Pentagon as Trump, lawmakers signal push to save legendary military newspaper 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z

At the trial of Emmett Till’s murderers, he defied a judge’s no-cameras order and got off one quick, sharp frame as an accuser fingered one of the killers. The Civil Rights Movement Photographer Who Was Also an F.B.I. Informant 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z

Jones cited a health problem last week when he defied an order by Judge Barbara Bellis to attend a deposition. Alex Jones faces fines for skipping Sandy Hook deposition 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z

In the three decades since, Mr. Landesman, 62, has built a résumé, both professional and otherwise, that defies categorization. Rocco Landesman, N.E.A. Chief, Storms Washington 2010-04-07T20:20:00Z

Andrew Sullivan seems to think he is defying the slow construction, by our president and his allies, of “the kind of authoritarian state that America was actually founded to overthrow.” Letters to the Editor 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

Two time 'n' space defying stars of the season face off in this year's "Doctor Who" holiday special, "Last Christmas," which airs on Thursday on BBC America. The Doctor spars with St. Nick in 'Doctor Who: Last Christmas' 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

In the process of shifting the playing field away from the time travel machines and the dark futuristic alleys, Johnson finds a way to defy the genre and upend our expectations. Looper Debrief: Come for the Time Travel, Stay for the Creepy (Brilliant) Devil Boy 2012-10-01T12:00:36Z

A bizarre and ultimately self-sabotaging movie that defies categorization, "Kick-Ass" is at times cheap and cynical, while in other moments is ingenious and strangely noble. 'Kick-Ass' knocks comic-book conventions upside down 2010-04-16T00:31:00Z

What heats “61 Hours” to the boiling point is Mr. Child’s decision to defy his own conventions. Books of The Times: Lee Child?s ?61 Hours,? a Jack Reacher Thriller 2010-05-13T21:31:00Z

Before I go further, you should probably just watch the thing, because it defies description, and because someone put it on YouTube: When Patti LuPone Haunted a Laundromat 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

There is one female artist in the show: the incomparable Artemisia Gentileschi, who defied the customs of her day to become a professional artist. SAM’s ‘Flesh and Blood’ exhibit depicts desire, violence and more using the artistic vessel of the human body 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

For now, at least for those who recall it, the story is still woven into the landscape, which conjures memories of a young woman who, ages ago, defied convention to follow her heart. Following a Folk Tale Through the Himalayas 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z

Next we see Holocaust survivors "on a promise from God" defying Britain's naval blockade of Palestine. The Promise delivers but still divides 2011-02-14T11:27:00Z

But the idea of Oberlin students as “social justice warrior troops” is so abominably stupid as to defy rebuttal. Why do conservatives hate Oberlin so much? 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z

He celebrated unabashed hedonism, sang of broken hearts and spiritual longing and had a mysterious personal identity that defied easy definition. Prince, mysterious, inventive chameleon of music, dies at 57 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

His reward — and the American theater's — has been a series of critical and commercial successes that have defied the scaremongers and naysayers whose mission is to preserve the conservative status quo. Tonys 2015: Meet the biggest hit maker on Broadway 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

In an extraordinary series of tableaux that are alternately idyllic and severe, "Sweetgrass" defies the conventions of what most of us regard as a documentary film. 'Sweetgrass' follows sheep up majestic mountains of Montana 2010-03-25T21:33:00Z

Papa Pilgrim teaches his children to steal, to defy authority — except his own — to be self-reliant in some respects but utterly subservient to him. ‘Pilgrim’s Wilderness’: in Alaska, a patriarch runs amok 2013-08-01T22:57:59Z

Many of Schmidt’s visual or acoustic puns defy English translation. A Great Translator Takes on One Final and Nearly Impossible Project 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

Mr. Aronson’s work animated Old and New Testament allegories to convey universal human emotions — defying the deference of his father, a rabbi, to the Second Commandment. David Aronson, Expressionist Artist, Dies at 91 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

While I was doing all that plotting, there was one artist who seemed the very embodiment of defied gravity, the patron saint of the mission. Jay-Z’s ‘Black Album’ Helped Me Beat the Odds. Will We Finally Even Them? 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z

In “Pep Talk,” he fearlessly defies writing instructors everywhere by using the word “nice”: Review: Looking Inward in Poetry Books From Ron Padgett and Nick Flynn 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

“I defy anyone to run a company of this size with zero revenue and not run into a cash-flow problems,” he said. Is Snopes.com, the original Internet fact-checker, going out of business? 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z

A Pakistani girl whose once peaceful existence was rocked by the Taliban, the young teen defied the reactionary terrorists when she insisted that girls be allowed to attend school. The Grammys: What your kids (and you) need to hear 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

She writes sharp, sparsely beautiful scenes that excitingly defy expectation, and part of the pleasure of reading her is simply keeping up with her. ‘Lucky Us’ by Amy Bloom, a Tale of the 1940s 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z

The history in question, divided into five chapters, involves the Colombian drug trade from the late 1960s to the early 1980s, but the film defies narco-drama clichés and superficial period atmosphere. ‘Birds of Passage’ Review: An Epic Narco Tale That Will Open Your Eyes 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z

When Marie learns of her father's plans, she dares to defy him. 'The Princess of Montpensier': Bold take on war, marriage and submission 2011-05-19T19:57:09Z

That anticipation collapses distinct moments into one another, defying the absences that time creates. When John Berger Looked at Death 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z

And while the premise works to dispel widely held notions of what it means to be a stoner, the script defies expectations in other ways. Budding Success 'High Maintenance' Is About More Than Drugs 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

But what might be good for the digestive tract isn't great for the palate, leaching food of all its flavor, so I regularly defied him on that score. When it comes to table manners royalty should be your benchmark 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z

In this and other ways, “Birdcage Walk” defies and includes a number of genres; it steadfastly refuses to be one thing. A Novel of the French Revolution, Enacted in British Parlors 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z

However, there’s a subsect of foodies that has emerged that both defies conventional wisdom, and could help further debunk the idea that eating well is equivalent to being wealthy. Hip-Hop foodies 2012-06-27T13:46:00Z

Watching “The Crown,” we desperately want Elizabeth to defy the courtiers and the advisers and her own mother, all of whom are determined to override Princess Margaret’s wishes. Tina Brown on the Final Two Episodes of ‘The Crown’: Love and Duty 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

For Capote and Mailer, the murderer loomed as an antihero, a tragic figure defying the conventions and expectations of mainstream America. Book Review Podcast: 'One of Us' 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

In this volatile place, the past has a long reach, and the future defies contemplation. Review: ‘Five Star’ Casts a Cool Eye on Gang Culture 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

After creating a show that seemed to defy the boundaries of a sitcom, blending heady concepts with extreme silliness, Schur felt he had discovered a winning formula that he could deploy in a book. Michael Schur’s Unending Quest to Be Perfect 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

Linda’s passion for the man she has never met will literally defy death. Ismail Kadare Grapples With the Supernatural 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

Jim Linderman collects American folk art and popular culture artifacts, which include items like vintage sleaze to religious tracts and items that defy categorization. Art: Jim Linderman Collects It All, Vintage Sleaze to Baptism Photos 2012-02-12T15:28:58Z

Unshaven in casual pants and a long-sleeved collarless shirt, with a New York accent and a forthright warmth, he defies the image of a cultivated connoisseur. In a Red-Hot Art Market, the Collector Martin Margulies Stays Cool 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z

Having defied that diagnosis’ original death sentence — he was given three to six months to live — Simon continues to push ahead with no whiff of “Why me?” ‘Simpsons’ co-creator finds the funny in cancer 2013-08-28T22:35:38Z

New York, New York – a city whose art, like its architecture, defies stereotypes of modern art to embody the true romance of the modern world. George Bellows: an exhilarating encounter with American history 2011-03-15T16:01:16Z

Recommended for audiences 12 and older, this production frames the story of the titular character, who defies her uncle to seek justice for her dead brother, with references to Black Lives Matter and contemporary feminism. 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

More subtly, she was abstracting architectural objects – starting with little metal souvenirs of the Empire State Building and the Sagrada Família – and playing with ideas of "not quite defying gravity" by suspending objects. Cornelia Parker: 'I've always been happy to sleep with the enemy' 2013-05-18T09:00:02Z

The whole defies the audience to do more than gawp at the unlovely passing parade. The Rake's Progress; BBC Prom 35; Three Choirs festival 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z

He deliberately defies you but he’s so adorable that you forget everything. Priyanka Chopra Jonas’s Week: Fireside Chats and ‘Bridgerton’ Episodes 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z

When the Nixon administration successfully sought an injunction to prevent further publication, the Washington Post stepped in, defying the law by printing more stories. Meryl Streep's newfound politicisation fires up timely drama The Post 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z

When his boss threatens to uproot his homeland by exiling its residents, Sandi defies the mobster, fleeing with his son soon afterward. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z

Ono is by no means unusual in defying the conventional wisdom that artists peak in early or midlife, then suffer a long fade into the sunset. From Yoko Ono to Leonard Cohen ? the old masters finding new inspiration 2012-02-10T19:24:18Z

As Freddie Mercury, Rami Malek overcomes a distracting set of prosthetic teeth to project the restless, exuberant artist who defied conventional notions of what rock songs and rock singers could be. Where to Stream ‘Green Book,’ ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ and Other Big Oscar Winners 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

Something odder than a masterpiece, Orson Welles’s “Othello” is at once a credible abridgment of Shakespeare and a jigsaw puzzle that nearly defies comprehension. ‘Othello’: Shakespeare’s Tragedy Was Orson Welles’s Triumph 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

“The aim of this investigation was to find when and how people would defy authority in the face of a clear moral imperative.” Review | What the ‘Resistance Library’ shows us about America’s struggles today 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z

Most striking, though, about the legislature’s veto was how it defied partisan expectations. The Art of a Bipartisan Budget Deal in South Carolina 2011-08-02T11:00:03Z

Nostalgia for that hug makes many tango dancers, or tangueros, defy restrictions to dance in outdoor spaces. In Argentina, pandemic exacts a heavy toll on tango culture 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z

All in all, the piece defies any easy reading. Black Grief, White Grievance: Artists Search for Racial Justice 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z

The Moore sculpture defies all prejudice in people's minds about one of London's poorest boroughs. Henry Moore sculpture decision raises fears for public art 2012-11-07T20:16:35Z

But Peck defied those assumptions by building the character from the text instead of following prior depictions. How Ethan Peck's Spock became the mirthful glue binding us to "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z

It’s a point of pride that the group — not quite running club, not quite boot camp — defies categorization. The Early-Morning Workout Flash Mob 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

Now, there’s Inside Out, which defies the conventions of family movies by being an animated comedy about brain chemistry and situational depression. Review: 'Inside Out' Is the Craziest Movie Pixar Has Ever Come Up With 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

This four-part series examines forces of Earth, starting with how shape helps defy gravity as shown by a competition of human towers. What’s on TV Wednesday: Archie Panjabi on ‘Blindspot’ and ‘South Park’ Hits 20 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

The situation defies all logic, as much as he and the others might want it to be real. Grief is a distant planet: How "A Wrinkle in Time" is helping me deal with my father’s decline 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z

The Mad Hatter’s lines welcome us into an episode that confirms the elusive truth about how our world can defy our perception. That Twist and 4 Other Things We Learned About Westworld 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z

Jazz is a quintessentially American form of musical expression that has often defied attempts to explain it — and to make it popular. Listen up: ‘How to Listen to Jazz’ 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

Alas, a big dramatic moment when Franz defies the Gestapo, feels toothless, not powerful. Sigmund Freud offers love advice in the visually stunning but impotent WWII drama "The Tobacconist" 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z

Enlightenment ideas about reason and liberty began eroding inquisitorial powers in the late 1700s, but the Inquisition did not officially expire until 1870, when soldiers defied the pope, entered Rome and unified Italy. Books of The Times: ?God?s Jury? by Cullen Murphy - Review 2012-01-18T22:38:44Z

It’s a music-business underdog because it largely defies current marketing niches and radio formats, particularly in the United States, where lyrics in Spanish face a language barrier. Critic’s Notebook: Calle 13 at the Latin Alternative Music Conference 2012-07-15T22:22:21Z

Both Fonda and Tomlin have defied age enough that they might look silly piloting their Buzzarounds through a casino or languishing in hospital beds while prone to infections. In Netflix’s ‘Grace and Frankie,’ age is just a number that sadly averages zero 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

Her theatrical spirit seems to defy the incredible frailty of her frame—feet dangling from a wheelchair, knuckles gnarled, wisp-thin hair collected in a shred of a ponytail. Louise Bourgeois’s Final Act 2015-12-26T05:00:00Z

She is taking all the issues flattened out by aid appeals and rhetoric and weaving a story around them that defies you to resent Darling for her departure for America. ‘We Need New Names’: harsh vision of the African Diaspora 2013-08-24T15:12:52Z

There’s also an everyday deceptiveness to “Set and Reset,” in which ribbonlike bodies caress the air and defy gravity with unceasing shifts of momentum. Review: An Incandescent Journey Through 20th-Century Dance 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z

Some have even called it atonal because, while its harmonies consist essentially of chords, the startling relationships between them defy normal practice. Prince, Killer and Composer,' Gesualdo' Inspires Sound and Fury 2010-10-19T11:30:00Z

Rather, it is about the relationship between abstract reasoning and visual imagination at a time — not long ago — when the most advanced theorizing in math and physics seemed to defy visual representation. Art In Review: ‘THE ISLANDS OF BENOîT MANDELBROT’: ‘Fractals, Chaos and the Materiality of Thinking’ 2012-10-04T21:12:39Z

He dislikes his agency’s penchant for brutality, torture and summary execution, imagines a professionalized police force, and defies the official edict that murder is a crime of capitalism, by definition unknown in the worker’s paradise. Putin hates this film: KGB agent seeks redemption in “Child 44,” Tom Hardy’s murky Soviet-era thriller 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

But the full scope of their jobs is so wide that it almost defies description. Seattle-area film producers head to Sundance 2012-01-12T19:47:25Z

While the dribs are barely visible, they defy the era’s briefly influential gospel of flatness. In the galleries: A painter’s progress revealed 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

It works because Bridget is the same lovable goof she’s always been: a fallible normal who defies the unrealistic expectations thrust upon modern women. Bridget Jones Hasn't Lost Her Charm 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

Thus it is a tremendous downer when the second half of the movie shirks logic, defies its own established principles and raises more questions than it answers. Source Code: A Sci-Fi "Groundhog's Day" Awash in Bombs, Paranoia and Inconsistency 2011-03-31T20:25:00Z

Most of the artists acknowledge the influence of jazz and hip-hop in their music, even as it defies categorization. The Changing Sound of Baltimore 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z

Waldrop is a writer who defies categorization, who will not rest under any title. Rosmarie Waldrop’s Novel of the In-Between 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z

The documentary series “True Life” recently broke the mold to follow four young people defying the rules in Saudi Arabia, including a young woman who makes abayas in bright colors instead of the traditional black. Television Review: A Spoonful of Exotica Makes the Geography Go Down 2010-12-05T22:47:00Z

This childhood helps to make sense of his apparent compulsion to break rules, defy moral codes and, as it were, profane the host. Mat Collishaw: still sensational 2013-04-26T15:30:00Z

On Thursday, Burke rejected a defense motion demanding he remove himself from the trial after he dressed down Weinstein for repeatedly defying an order to stop texting in the courtroom. Challenges, distractions stymie Weinstein jury selection 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z

In so many ways, Beyoncé defies traditional expectations of a pop star. The meaning of Beyoncé: a dispatch from inside the Beyhive 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

The Con, as aficionados call it, defies any overarching narrative. Comic-Con 2012 draws to an end, and Whedon whets the appetite 2012-07-16T14:30:19Z

He defied his twin sister Cersei and fought gallantly with his former enemies the Starks against the army of the dead. Fire, ice and fate: Endgames arrive for ‘Game of Thrones’ 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z

But the show has devoted itself to defying those expectations at every turn, by making pleasure another component to be analyzed, like a cold body on a slab. ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 9: You Broke My Mind 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z

In doing so, each becomes a virtual landmark that defies government indifference. Photographs of Wendover Air Base and Chernobyl 2012-03-10T05:03:24Z

Leaning towers made of discarded ship containers defy gravity to send shadows into rippling pools. Anselm Kiefer Raises History’s Ghosts 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z

I find myself imagining their steamy courtship over a sizzling rumba, leading to a sexual tsunami that defies even my vivid imagination. My Strictly debut 2010-10-05T19:00:00Z

It feels a little like defying the gods! Jesus would back gay marriage 2012-09-16T12:00:00Z

On Sunday, at a style awards party in Hollywood, Kate Bosworth defied convention by wearing a look from the spring Jil Sander collection that fused a white T-shirt with a long mint green skirt. Front Row: Red Carpet Dress-Up Is Stylish Again 2010-12-16T05:50:05Z

Dead center: The founder of Venice, pictured under an Italian-style archway with piercing eyes, bushy mustache and grim expression, dares anyone to defy his idyllic vision for a small, upscale resort town by the sea. Restored 'Abbot Kinney' mural anchors exhibit on Venice history 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

I've studied that shot many times, but it's such a cocktail of different emotions it defies verbal analysis. Anne Bilson 2010-08-26T21:00:00Z

“It defies reason that unmanned aircrafts are putting the lives of thousands of passengers in danger without clear consequences,” Joe Sitt, the chairman and founder of the alliance, said in a news release. The Selfie-Drone: Invasion of the Vacation Snatchers 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z

In her melodic, richly imagined novel, Forbes uses the discovery of an abandoned Jamaican baby — born with skin that defies color or caste — to examine issues of race, colonialism, heritage and love. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

Women — Dr. Lennon among them — especially seem to grow a little unhinged, going to extreme lengths to try to defy the odds and become pregnant the traditional way. ‘The Lottery’ on Lifetime, a World of Tough Choices 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

Not only did he not concede, but Brown, the former chair of the state Democratic Party, is defying his party’s nominee and is running as a write-in candidate. In Buffalo, a democratic socialist vies for mayor in a race she thought she’d already won 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z

From the Vedas to “Dianetics,” scripture is a literary category that defies genre. The Book of Mormon: the Great American Bible 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

Under the bar snacks is one I defy you to read without feeling a spasm of curiosity: “Turkish disco pistachios.” Hunger and Desire, Stripped of Window Dressing, at Prune 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z

The switch to a queen hasn’t made much difference, he said, except in the part of the show when she rebukes the sexist knight who defies her. Medieval Times Goes Modern, Replacing Its Kings With Queens 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z

Having defied the dictatorial rule of Robert Mugabe. he faces trial for "undermining the authority of the president". Everyone's talking Globish | Robert McCrum 2010-04-06T10:21:00Z

Yet at the same time, the album title suggests how art defies intention. Wye Oak Delves Inward and Opens Up on ‘The Louder I Call, the Faster It Runs’ 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z

American military personnel risked court-martial by defying that decision. Rory Kennedy recounts the 1975 fall of Saigon in new film 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z

“Early Summer” again shows Ms. Hara as a woman who defies societal and familial pressure to marry, rejecting a series of suitors and impulsively making a choice of her own. Setsuko Hara, Japanese movie star of exquisite power, dies at 95 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

Featuring characters mostly drawn from life confronting illness, loss, violence and death, this exquisite collection of pieces defies classification, blending intuition and observation into something unaccountably yet undeniably real. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

Ms. Witherspoon is both an entirely believable modern woman, defying conventional categories and expectations, and also, for that reason, an excitingly credible feminist heroine. Telluride Film Festival: Finding Familiar Faces in New Poses 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z

Thankfully for Australia, that never happened, as nowadays Perth is a sparkling boomtown defying the global recession by way of its wealth of nearby mineral mines. Five Reasons to Visit Perth 2012-05-09T05:20:00Z

But in placing his story of righteous payback in the Old South rather than the Wild West, and in making its agent a black former slave, Mr. Tarantino exposes and defies an ancient taboo. Movie Review: Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Django Unchained’ Stars Jamie Foxx 2012-12-24T20:07:04Z

The show defies any notion that stories are something that build toward a moral or a theme or even a central idea. Review | ‘Euphoria’ is a depressing, dirty show about teenagers. Of course you’ll watch. 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z

Later, defying the witchy elderly lady who has adopted her, she moves on to a pair of crimson clogs — which lead her astray into nonstop dancing and, eventually, bloodcurdling amputation. Musicals from movies, TV, history try to find footing on slippery Broadway 2010-12-18T01:22:59Z

The one truly dumbfounding story in “The Fat Lady Sang” is that of Mr. Evans’s decision to defy his doctors in a very big way. Books Of the Times: ‘The Fat Lady Sang,’ a Robert Evans Memoir 2013-12-25T21:16:54Z

Boyle is belligerent, defying Down's sufferers to picket his show, and accusing his antagonist of disingenuousness. Frankie Boyle 2010-04-20T22:00:00Z

The foulness of these places, for the animals that live in them and the people who live near them, truly defies words. When Thousands of Hogs Are Your Neighbors 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z

I defy anyone to work out all their twists and turns. Val McDermid: addicted to crime fiction 2013-07-11T11:35:00Z

Borders — crossing them, moving them, defying them, erasing them or savoring and finessing contrasts from each side — are very much on the mind of both Nortec and the conference itself. Music Review: Latin Alternative Music Conference: Politics and Hybrids 2010-07-08T22:15:00Z

What is most important is defying categorisation; being impossible to pin down. Eccentric women: why they are more important than ever in our oppressive era 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

Jolie Pitt dares, and dares herself, to film wild and intimate emotions that, by their intense and primal nature, defy control. Angelina Jolie Pitt’s “By the Sea” Is Personal and Daring 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

‘It Has to Be You’ This mild comedy isn’t all that well acted, but at least it defies expectations. Theater Listings for Oct. 17-23 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

The story of Civil War spy Elizabeth Van Lew almost defies belief. Karen Abott's history of four Civil War women who spied or lied 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z

But the Golden Globes are fun because they usually defy predictions. Golden Globes 2019: who will win – and who should win – the TV categories 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

The idea that he and Robert Gottlieb, who have edited thousands of pages together, still meet prepared to go to war over semicolons defies any rational partitioning of time. ‘Turn Every Page’ Review: It’s Not Done Yet 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z

His mother’s rendition was so delicate that it defied being made in volume. Eric Ripert Looks Back on a Youth Both Tender and Tough 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

They defied the critics with gusto, binging on drinks, sex, yachts, resorts and jewelry. Television Review: ‘Liz & Dick,’ Starring Lindsay Lohan, on Lifetime 2012-11-23T21:58:09Z

Organizers said about 1,000 people defied wintry weather to protest, but police put the number much lower. Russians protest, alleging election fraud 2011-12-10T11:37:00Z

Really, watch just the trailer for the US re-release, and I defy you not to still be just a little astonished. The view: Why Metropolis will be this year's real summer blockbuster 2010-04-30T09:19:00Z

The movie also focuses on Jett as a feminist, who defied the boys’ clubs of musicians and music critics through sheer force of will. What’s on TV Friday: ‘The Lego Movie’ and ‘Velvet Buzzsaw’ 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

The Times defied a Nixon administration warning to stop but abided by a preliminary injunction granted June 15. Who’s Who in ‘The Post’: A Guide to the Players in a Pivotal Era 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z

I could jettison the diaeresis, impose my own logic on the hyphen, and defy Webster’s by, say, making two words out of “hardworking.” Wigwag: The Magazine That Lex Built 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z

The Israelites wandered 40 years in the wasteland, and it took Jesus being driven to a mountaintop and defying Satan before he could fulfill his calling. How going camping saved my sanity – and made me a better father 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z

Broadway seems to be defying the cultural odds: An ancient art form in the digital age, it is strengthening thanks to an ever-increasing influx of tourists and a resurgent enthusiasm for musical theater. Broadway Defies the Odds With Another Record-Breaking Season 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

And it’s a kind of visuality — the hand is so intrinsic to it — that all but defies translation from manuscript to print. Books of The Times: ‘The Gorgeous Nothings’ Shows Dickinson’s ‘Envelope Poems’ 2013-12-05T21:53:47Z

The headstone bears the clan crest — a roaring, crowned lion — and the words “MacGregor Despite Them,” an epitaph meant to defy the English. Follow in the footsteps of Scottish folk hero on the Rob Roy Way 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

I defy anyone to read The Call Girls and then say with a straight face that Koestler is a major novelist. Koestler: The Indispensable Intellectual by Michael Scammell 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z

And yet, upon reflection, it shares much with classical Greek tragedy: The protagonists have the hubris to think they can defy fate, or whatever alarm system is in place. ‘American Animals’ Review: Reading Room Ruckus 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

After “Russian Doll” plays its full hand, it defies simple summary. This one (only) goes up to 11: the Best TV of 2019 and the many runners-up 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

No one was allowed in or out, and those who dared to defy these orders were shot dead. ‘Biography of X’ Rewrites a Life Story and an American Century 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z

Some of the characters at first seem like they are cast from teenage drama cookie-cutter molds, but they defy expectations. 5 Spooky Halloween Comics for Horror Fans 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z

He added of Ms. Oppenheim, “She defied expectations and inspired a lot of artists.” TEFAF New York, a ‘Little Jewel Box’ of a Fair, Carves Out Its Own Niche 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z

I don’t really believe that anyone can see the future, but I also don’t find the idea any more preposterous than that of God, insofar as that both defy reason and any tangible evidence. 'I thought psychics were full of shit': how a sceptic turned to clairvoyance 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z

She too is smitten — with Cyrus’ good looks and stylish clothes, with how he talks to her as an equal, with his bold advances when they defy convention to be alone at Bandra Beach. 'The Widows of Malabar Hill' is a thrilling mystery set in a changing India, a century ago 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

You could deride Cage for over-acting, as many have, or you could say his performance in Vampire’s Kiss is so exquisitely eccentric – so wild and restless and imaginative – it virtually defies description. I watched Nicolas Cage movies for 14 hours straight, and I'm sold 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z

It was an avoidable tragedy: The fire spread because of cladding that defied building regulations, due to government neglect. Read Your Way Through London 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z

But he defied the doctors' predictions and it was recently found that his tumour was less aggressive than normal. Wilko Johnson has cancer surgery 2014-04-30T14:58:11Z

Like a sideshow barker, Young writes with unbridled enthusiasm, a showman’s conviction, and a carny’s canny, telling a story that at times defies belief. How fake news, hoaxes and humbug are about race 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

“But his search for meaningful architecture was reflected in his buildings that to this day, defy stylistic categorizations, are constantly evolving, and always fresh in their approach.” Pritzker Prize Goes to Arata Isozaki, Designer for a Postwar World 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z

He threw in many small rubatos, dynamic gradings and other marks of expression, defying the period-performance police whenever possible. A welcome visit by Academy of St. Martin in the Fields 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

As captors led him away, Burn put up his hands with fingers in a V for victory sign, defying cameras that were recording the surrender for Goebbels. Michael Burn obituary 2010-09-23T16:57:00Z

I defy anyone to yawn over any of these: my top 10 books with teens behaving badly ... Cat Clarke's top 10 books with teens behaving badly 2011-04-04T08:53:17Z

This time though, the band appears when there’s still a few minutes left in the episode, defying the “when the music starts, the show’s over” structure of the previous three parts. ‘Twin Peaks’ Season 3, Episode 5: Vegas Baby 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z

“In this small, final, seemingly quiet but ultimately volcanic book of stories, Trevor denies and defies — maybe spites — the promise of decline,” Cynthia Ozick wrote here. New in Paperback: William Trevor’s ‘Last Stories’ and Dani Shapiro’s ‘Inheritance.’ 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

She is submissive and rebellious in ways that defy easy summary. Review: ‘A Quiet Passion’ Poetically Captures Emily Dickinson 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

He might have defied the Roman emperor by standing up for Christ. Doctor Who slays St George 2010-04-21T16:00:00Z

There, we subject our fellows to anger, insult and offensiveness, and defy authority, as we would nowhere else. All the road rage: Fast & Furious 6 taps a modern vein 2013-05-20T13:40:02Z

Are there any examples of classic dishes that defy the logic of science in the book? | 'Ideas in Food' 2010-12-21T15:29:28Z

Some Middle Eastern photographers have taken their cameras to the barricades, physical ones and those less obvious, like the barriers erected by stereotypes, which they remain determined to defy. Art Review: Mideast Photography at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 2013-12-26T22:22:28Z

Everyone in this book is defying gender norms. 12 groundbreaking books for young readers of all genders 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z

It defies explanation — it’s a bit of magic, maybe a trick of lighting. In “Romeo and Juliet,” the Washington Ballet unleashes a star 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z

Not Domingo, who is defying biological fate as no opera star before him. Plácido Domingo's sound and fury in L.A. Opera's 'Macbeth' 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z

All 12 notes of the chromatic scale are heard, defying the traditional musical structure that would insist on a home key and a limited subset of harmonically related notes. Stravinsky and the modernism that still stirs 2013-01-03T07:30:01Z

She defies the gods, falls in love with a heroic dragon-slayer and ultimately redeems the world through love before immolating herself. A Soprano Survived a Vocal Crisis. The Met Found Its Brünnhilde. 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

The Washington Post wrote, calling the exchange “wild to the point of defying belief.” This C.I.A. Officer Wants to Give Peace a Chance 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

It's more thrilling to defy gravity than let it control you. The orchestral worlds of Los Angeles and Venezuela collide for Beethoven's Ninth at Disney Concert Hall 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

And they are consistent and beloved, defying a music industry that consistently overvalues the young. The Persistence of Pink and Kelly Clarkson, Outspoken Pop Survivors 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

In the other, they are outspoken heroes that inspired the second half to defy anyone who dared to tell them to shut up and sing. The ‘Dixie’ is gone. The Chicks are forever. 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z

Dore zeroes in on the oppressive conventions her subjects questioned and defied. 'She's Beautiful' gets the word out 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

Some who have lost a loved one revel in defying convention and remaining joyful. The stunning rise of cremation reveals America’s changing idea of death 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z

Once, walking in the Blue Mountains eucalypt forests with a fire-fighter friend, I learned that these trees also defy classification, their wild genetics producing new species every year. People tree 2010-05-14T23:20:00Z

This is a game that is as enjoyable to play as it is to defy. Video Game Review: The FarmVille 2 Video Game Is Released 2012-09-21T17:11:48Z

It turned out that the Brotherhood pillagers had defied their own group by decimating the Hound’s settlement. ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6, Episode 8: I’m Still Me 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z

We are so used to walking into a gallery organized by a single painter or a period or theme that this exhibit is meant to challenge or defy more comfortable kinds of museumgoing. | Bernard-Henri Lévy on Art and Philosophy 2013-05-31T21:49:07Z

Or — more likely — she will defy him and set up a sort of “shadow” life that he can’t surveil. Perspective | Ask Amy: Dad’s parenting style includes surveillance 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z

Her reedy, determined voice and her subtly accomplished guitar parts defy any thoughts of fragility. Music Review: Laura Marling Brings Folk Traditions to City Winery 2010-05-16T22:35:00Z

First, she defies Bernard’s attempt at reprogramming her by forcing him into a moment of self-awareness outside Dr. Ford’s control. ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 9: You Broke My Mind 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z

He longed to see his firstborn son defy all limitations and land a judiciary position. My father, his honor: Losing his prestigious job likely saved his life 2019-06-15T04:00:00Z

Amid the yeah, we sure did do that mechanics is a lot of magic — pleasurable stuff whose rib-tickling and cultural acuity defy easy explanation. ‘Atlanta’ Skips a Grade 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

“We all defied Newton,” Mr. Gamboa said by way of explanation. Works by Asco at the Los Angeles Museum 2011-08-27T04:10:06Z

They said that unlike Benjy's section, in Quentin's there were nuances they simply couldn't disentangle or unpick, so it defied that kind of unravelling. William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury to be published in coloured ink 2012-07-04T15:02:33Z

Everything Frederick did was designed both to defy his father and to get the better of him. Prussian and powerful 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

"Breaking Bad" shuffles between the full-color past and Gene's future in a way that defies the viewer to ignore the obviousness of its foreshadowing. "Better Call Saul" connects with the inevitability of Gene breaking bad 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z

"He defied the restrictive reporting rules by subterfuge and went on to have an extraordinary career, actually coining the term 'no man's land'," said Evans this weekend. Authors prepare to mark centenary of first world war with flood of new books 2013-06-09T08:30:02Z

For better or worse, American audiences have been conditioned to expect certain kinds of narratives with certain rhythms, and this movie openly defies that. The "Drive" backlash: Too violent, too arty or both? 2011-09-23T14:01:00Z

Kael also defied convention, marched to her own beat and by dint of talent and audacity, seared herself into the zeitgeist. 5 great gift books for performing-arts fans 2011-12-15T21:11:25Z

“The Personality Brokers” is history that reads like biography that reads like a novel — a fluid narrative that defies expectations and plays against type. ‘The Personality Brokers’ Conjures the Mother and Daughter Who Helped Us Think of Ourselves as Types 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z

Suffice to say, the entire show revolves around a single deck of playing cards, and the cards behave in ways that defy reason and, occasionally, the laws of physics. ‘He Must Have Superpowers’: Asi Wind and His Sublime Card Tricks 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z

Upstairs, where the remainder of the exhibition is, the wares on view defy categorization, largely because both were many things rolled into one. World’s Fair Artifacts, From ’39 and ’64, at Queens Museum 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

Like Judi Dench, she defies time and knows how to weight every syllable to communicate meaning: when she cries "Give me my Romeo" it is with the intensity of a woman enslaved by love. Juliet and Her Romeo | Theatre review 2010-03-17T22:20:00Z

A hop and skip over the Tasman Sea and Australia is gearing up for its famous new year celebrations in Sydney and will be defying the increased terror threat. New Year's Eve around the world - live! 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z

Photograph: Murdo Macleod The world's greatest arts festival begins tomorrow and runs until 30 August, seemingly defying the economic downturn with a record 2,453 shows running over four weeks. The Edinburgh festival on less than ?50 a day 2010-08-05T13:52:00Z

The extravagantly odd Holly Burn is a some-time sketch performer, some-time character comedian, but in truth her refreshingly peculiar material defies easy categorisation. This week's new live comedy 2013-06-08T05:00:14Z

But he persevered, finding ways to produce microtones on his saxophone that defied the standard notions of pitch and key. Ornette Coleman, innovative force in jazz and modern music, dies at 85 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

But even as it uses loops, programmed beats and complex algorithms, Autechre’s music defies the easy repetitions and obvious grids of so much electronic music. Autechre Worked in Isolation for Decades. Now It’s Unintentionally Timely. 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

It’s just that true adventure requires something that defies an itinerary: failure. Extreme Travel of ?45 2011-06-03T16:51:51Z

On the other hand, every once in a while there are people who defy any category, and I think she’s one of those.” Megan Fairchild, the Swan With the Screwball Spark 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z

As Olsen mulled Marvel’s offer to star in “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” she listed the pros: It would defy her indie typecasting. How Elizabeth Olsen Came Into Her Powers 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z

But there is an aspect of these programs that defies data. Perspective | Can making vegetables cheaper improve our health? 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

As a director, he knows how to weave a web of images that defy language. Review: A Fantasy Town Builds a Wall Against Time in ‘Ballyturk’ 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z

A fish shack that defies geography with New England chowder, lobster rolls, poke, guacamole and po’boys is now tucked into a compact storefront next to the new seafood restaurant the Flying Fisherman. Hill Country Food Park Opens in Downtown Brooklyn 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

Atlanta’s creators are noteworthy for the ways in which they defy prevailing ideas about the influencer economy. The New Influencer Capital of America 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z

It was one more unusual moment in the most unusual of all Oscar telecasts, one that defied convention in so many ways. Oscar moments: History, glamour … and what a weird ending 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z

Alongside defying the opposition and outrage meted out to artworks or artists deemed obscene or unattractive, some filmmakers have sought to redefine the sex scene altogether. The sex scene isn’t disappearing — it’s simply shifting from clichéd fantasy to messy reality 2021-05-29T04:00:00Z

Pity the curator trying to get a handle on our current era, where a show as diverse as this is much more of the every-artist-for-themselves spirit, defying both conventional categories and easy generalizations. Review: Diverse notions of drawing at the Whatcom Museum 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z

Santa Cruz, a city of some 60,000, defies easy categorization. How to Spend a Perfect Weekend in Santa Cruz 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

Angel d'Cuba: Another local act, this singer's Cuban heritage comes to the fore in a sound that defies categorization. Sink your teeth into a better Taste 2011-06-23T11:42:00Z

The focal point is a glass tank in which a large boulder defies expectations by floating. What to Do This Weekend 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

Prince delights in defying expectations while Springsteen fulfills them with plenty of gusto and little imagination. Be still, the unseemly beating of Madonna’s “Rebel Heart” 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z

There is the hothead, the beatnik, the talented painter, the idealist who defied the rest of her white Texas high school class by staunchly opposing segregation. The Real Janis Joplin 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

And, to Ted and Beard's satisfaction, it proves to be an elegant way to manipulate a game that perpetually fluctuates between order and chaos by requiring players to be adaptive, thereby defying predictability. Time to move on from the "Ted Lasso" way after a bloated season 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z

For perhaps any other character on “The Wire,” escape would have been impossible, but for Omar, defying the odds was a way of life. Michael K. Williams Brought His Whole Life to His Characters 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z

What this camera records – what the soldiers endure – almost defies belief. The human heart of the matter 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z

Our cultural notion of beauty is quite narrow; and yet beauty defies definition. Perspective | How Rei Kawakubo left her avant-garde mark on the Met Gala red carpet, and the world 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

For Ms. Maye, 88, it means defying gravity and singing with the force of a performer half her age, exploring the many layers of a voice whose richness and warmth remain nearly undiminished. Review: Warmth of the American Songbook, From 2 Keepers of the Flame 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z

In nearly every case, you’ll find that “Feud” has its story more or less straight, even when the events it portrays seem to defy plausibility. Review | FX’s ‘Feud: Bette and Joan’: Another total knockdown, drag-out hit from Ryan Murphy 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

American Ninjas are plumbers and dentists and stove cleaners and computer programmers and farmers who leap hay bale to hay bale, defying gravity and frightening the livestock. The Great American Obstacle Course 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

Though the phrase today connotes approval, rather than admonishment, Eiland and Jennings are in agreement with Scholem, Arendt, and Benjamin’s befuddled contemporaneous critics when they affirm that their subject defies categorization. Hannah Arendt was right: Walter Benjamin is “sui generis” 2014-03-19T11:50:00Z

He rotated his shoulders and hips in moves that defied logic, raised his arms and beckoned the audience to come closer. Algerian Chaabi Musicians Reunite in the Band El Gusto 2012-10-12T18:21:46Z

Meanwhile, Mr. Bettany is an archangel on a mission from God who defies orders and fights off an army of heaven-sent monsters. 2010-02-06T02:29:00Z

Besides his inexplicable ability to attract pretty women, he defies all trends for this demographic group by being able to land jobs effortlessly, whether as a sandwich maker or as a junior executive. Movie Review: ‘Brightest Star,’ a Story About 20-Something Relationships 2014-01-31T01:01:07Z

She choreographed works meant to defy gravity that took place on rooftops and on the sides of buildings. The Persistence of Vision (Trisha Brown’s, That Is) 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

He used that thumb, more often than his fingers, to pick his 1960s Gibson Firebird guitar: a choice that made each note stubbier and more separate, defying fluidity. Music Review: An Old Hand Plucking At the Heartstrings 2010-11-19T06:00:00Z

Though Ms. Mamlok often employed the techniques of serial music, her style defied ready categorization. Ursula Mamlok, Avant-Garde Composer, Dies at 93 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

Even cable dramas that defy network rules cling to extreme scenarios. Thrills More Boardroom Than Bedroom 2010-10-14T21:27:00Z

We lived in a perpetual game of catch that defied all discussion. Motherlode Blog: When a Game of Catch Is All a Father Has Left 2013-06-16T12:28:06Z

That starts, of course, with the athletes, who’ve defied the national firestorm that enveloped them as teenagers and emerged as consummate athlete-advocates. 'Visibility is so important': trans teen athletes shine in new documentary 2019-05-03T04:00:00Z

"Afghanistan was and is an awful and painful tragedy. Lives were lost and billions of dollars spent. I defy anyone who says it was a good idea." 'Korengal' shows the lasting effects of war on U.S. soldiers 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

Such discussions defy the black-and-white morality tales spun as entertainment in the ’90s. The New Menendez Defenders 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z

Ivan urges Cat to discover "real proof of what happens after we die" by investigating a series of cases that defy explanation. What happens after you die? TNT's 'Proof' examines the mysteries 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

For photographers working in such areas, defying these commanders’ whims carries the threat of deportation or detention, accusations of espionage, or worse. Inside the Field Hospitals for Soldiers Wounded Fighting ISIS 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

In the case of Cattelan, the artist "defied the taboos of representation by disguising evil incarnate under a cloak of innocence," he added. The highly anticipated art auction season arrives Sunday with a specially curated sale that includes a sculpture of a kneeling Hitler by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan and a ball suspended in a water tank by Jeff Koons 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z

A whole section is devoted to Nijinsky, allowing you to ponder how a dancer whose jump became world famous could defy gravity in costumes so heavy and ornate. Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes 2010-09-23T20:30:00Z

Like any precocious child, Caesar will learn from, outgrow and defy his doting, fearful "father." Rise of the Planet of the Apes: Chimpan-tastic! 2011-08-04T16:05:00Z

He is likely one of the more than 100 older residents who defied initial government restrictions and moved back to the area, and were later granted permission to stay. Heads Up: Near Chernobyl, Touring a Disaster 2012-05-25T20:11:47Z

Like Brown, Matta-Clark defied both gravity and architecture, and probably sense, too. Pioneers of the Downtown Scene: a walk on the wall side 2011-03-02T21:30:01Z

Showgirls is one of those movies that doesn’t so much divide opinion as defy it. The naked truth about Showgirls: the 90s flop is a misunderstood gem 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z

In the press notes, Tippett admits his film “kind of defies description.” ‘Mad God’ Review: Highway to Hell 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z

Netflix's "Squid Game" has taken the world by storm, and defied all expectations of the foreign language series that began streaming last month. “Squid Game” faces controversy over English subtitle translations 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z

Where 1960s minimalism defied interpretation, Colón is willing to offer multiple possible meanings. Review | In the galleries: Depicting an energy of constant fluctuation and growth 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

“That I was doing this illegal thing, defying the system and buying them books, and that they were secretly reading them.” Some of Adam Rapp?s Life, in ?The Metal Children? 2010-05-17T22:02:00Z

Over the last few months, though, the words have taken on a different meaning: They encourage Sehring and his "Boyhood" team to defy the odds and become an awards-season powerhouse. The 'Boyhood' awards season campaign comes of age, delicately 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z

Not tear-slowly-trickling-down-Liam-Neeson’s-cheek type crying, but sobbing uncontrollably, bodies heaving, faces contorted as men defy the concept of the stoic, “strong” male and face up to their emotions. What I learned at man camp, where men get in touch with their emotions 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z

Her body, out of her control, is defying her. The Dance Delight in ‘Barbie’ Belongs to the Kens 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z

When an official warned him against defying doctor's orders, Mandela replied: "Today, I am prepared to die; I am going to eat it." Nelson Mandela anguished over family's suffering, says book 2010-10-11T11:04:00Z

For one thing, the sheer range of photographs that Burns discovered in the archives defies belief. The haunting power of old photographs 2011-07-08T10:50:57Z

They are like Rickey's huge site-specific sculptures that defy gravity and move in the wind, "except that he engineered the earrings for a head and an ear," she said. NYC exhibit focuses on jewelry by famous artists 2011-09-28T17:13:08Z

The show is really a celebration of Baldwin’s legacy as an inspiration for artists to create their own work that, like his, defies genres and expectations. Review: ‘Notes of a Native Song’ Is Stew’s Homage to James Baldwin 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

They also mention “a pattern of defying certain proscriptions of the Orthodox shtetl” in Soutine’s art, reminding us of the Second Commandment’s prohibition of graven images and the many folk superstitions about the “evil eye.” Chaim Soutine Show at Paul Kasmin Gallery 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

And that many women in her hometown defied convention, too, by having vibrant, and by most standards, unusual careers. On Being Black Female Math Whizzes During the Space Race 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z

It’s a demanding show, one that defies casual perusal. 'Alternative Dreams: 17th Century Chinese Paintings From the Tsao Collection' at LACMA 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

There are mass transit networks that appear to defy gravity, dreaming city spires that reach higher than the Shard, and cloaking technologies that allow an entire nation to be concealed from the outside world. Black Panther – the most radical superhero film yet? Discuss with spoilers 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z

Yet they defied low expectations based on gender and race with composure. Ladies Who Launch: Women Who Opened the Door to Space Exploration 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z

Now Rumpelstiltskin has a sibling, intended as the other half of a double bill, and equally likely to defy easy categorisation. Pusha T, Stan Tracey, Pissed Jeans: this week's new live music 2013-06-29T05:00:14Z

Exhibits explain how Nobel, who built the refinery Stalin defied, helped turn Batumi into a major commercial center. Next Stop: Glamour Revives Port of Batumi 2010-09-12T07:05:00Z

Anyone caught defying the order could face fines, the loss of their business license and other penalties, according to the state. California wineries, restaurants sue Newsom over in-person dining ban 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

But the comic defied the critics by revealing he has been invited back to host the film awards for a third time. Ricky Gervais invited back to host Golden Globes 2011-08-26T18:04:00Z

The mayors of Cannes, Villeneuve-Loubet and the Corsican seaside resort of Sisco imposed the ban last week, arguing the burkini, which leaves only the face, hands and feet exposed, defies French laws on secularism. Australian burkini designer profits from French ban 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z

Of course, I’ve come up against plenty of the predictable tropes I anticipated as an HBO-watching teenager, but I’ve more often found that men defy the cliche of superficial, unemotional wanting. What I learned about male desire in a sex doll factory 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z

His 'I defy you, stars' in Romeo was memorable. Guinness diary raises curtain on rivalry with "tiresome" Olivier 2013-02-08T14:14:47Z

At that moment, Trump was visiting a Ford plant producing ventilators in Ypsilanti, where he defied Michigan orders by not wearing a mask for part of his visit. The turbulent rise of Gretchen Whitmer 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z

Fortunately for the audience, her essence defies being muted. Hulu's irksome "United States vs. Billie Holiday" is a stunning, soul-wrenching debut for Audra Day 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z

After all, it is the arts pages of our national newspapers that regularly write about the precarious state of regional theatre, praising those practitioners who are successfully defying the economic odds. Get out more 2010-05-26T15:56:00Z

It seems the chateau is another aspect of Marseille that defies its reputation. Thanks to Netflix, the Mediterranean city of Marseille gets an overdue close-up 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

"We don't defy the laws of physics," Miller said. 'Mad Max: Fury Road' rules: Keep it real and really wild 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

Hertz does not advocate defying evacuation orders but knows that it’s inevitable that some will stay behind to defend their homes. Building for Resilience in California’s Fire-Prone Future 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z

A directing category that defies the trappings of sexism, racism and ageism. The One Big Awards Show That Didn’t Lock Out Women Directors 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z

In its success in less than ideal circumstances, its insistence on growing beautiful and strong, in defying winter, there is hope. My houseplant garden is a tiny national park Donald Trump can never destroy 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z

In fact, Mai’s real courage may not have been defying a barbaric tradition and confronting her attackers. With 'Thumbprint,' witness an opera's power to empower women 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z

The Watson pictures show Parks’s growing sophistication with artificial light, composition and the use of symbolic details, and also his insistence on presenting African-Americans in ways that defied stereotypes. ‘Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940-1950’ Review: Young Talent in Black and White 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

How fitting that a movie made without any imagination whatsoever should end by defying our own. "Monster Hunter" review: Jovovich and Jaa team up for a virtually unwatchable video game movie 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z

The HBO series — a semi-apocalyptic drama about the aftermath of the Sudden Departure, in which 2 percent of the world’s population disappears — defies easy classification. ‘The Leftovers’ Leads Television’s Musical Golden Age 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

It defies categorization, even for Under the Radar’s programmers. Making a Show From Found Videos, Both Unsettling and Lighthearted 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z

Yet Church always appears to have triumphed, defying it all to have emerged that rarest of beasts; a child star who has not dissolved in a pool of sex and drugs and depression. 'I've just gotta sing' 2010-03-24T07:00:00Z

John Macrae III, a dashing publisher who gambled on groundbreaking books and dauntlessly defended authors who defied injustices committed by their own governments, died on Feb. 1 at his home in Manhattan. John Macrae III, Eclectic Publisher and Rights Champion, Dies at 91 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

It’s not the responsibility of a show to defy stereotypes, nor does Silicon Valley have an obligation to inspire young girls to become coders. Silicon Valley Needs to Address the Industry's 'Woman Problem' in Season 2 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

It was the last stubborn act in a life built on defying people’s expectations. Trailblazing surgeon Mary Walker still one of a kind 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z

Greenhouse gases, economic downturns and extremist ideologies, to name just three examples, respect no borders and defy the best efforts of nations to insulate themselves. The Challenges of a Threatening World 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

“This is a deeply insecure woman whose need to be relevant defies logic,” Grisham told The Washington Post in late August. Melania Trump denounces violence but calls ‘passion’ of Trump supporters ‘inspiring’ 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z

When Marie learns of her father’s plans, she dares to defy him. | 'The Princess of Montpensier': Pawn, Prize and Beauty, So Submit She Must 2011-04-14T22:43:40Z

The portraits he creates more often defy the usual identity pigeonholes of contemporary parlance. Review: Love Among the Shadows in Edgar Oliver’s ‘Victor’ 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z

Still, in this small, final, seemingly quiet but ultimately volcanic book of stories, Trevor denies and defies — maybe spites — the promise of decline. One Last Book From a Virtuoso of the Short Story 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z

William H. suffered, too, perhaps, from doing many different things well — defying easy categorization, leapfrogging across disciplines. ‘American Urbanist,’ a Well-Timed Biography of a Man Who Reshaped City Life 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z

Wow, here’s a delicious pinot noir that seems to defy gravity: Its color, body and flavors leave an impression of weightlessness. This crisp, minerally $12 French white blend evokes the mountains where it’s grown 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z

Initial tracking was a bit damp for The Meg but on release, it defied expectations and has so far made over $320m worldwide in just two weeks. Summer 2018 box office: what can we learn from the hits and misses? 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z

It’s okay, by the way, to defy expectations of instant family and proceed at your own pace. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Congratulations, it’s a happy, healthy, 180-pound boy! 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

Ms. France is among a group of bakers for whom making confections that defy traditional convention is the point. Let Them Eat (Wacky, Whimsical) Cake 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z

In that respect, this is a novel that continually defies expectations — all presented in chapters so short you could read one during a yawn. Review | Bill Clinton and James Patterson are back in action — and still ridiculous 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z

Hot Chip defies the programmed, gleaming, pumped-up artificiality of current dance music by featuring hand-played keyboards, guitars and drums from its touring musicians. Review: Hot Chip’s ‘Why Make Sense?,’ Rooted in Dance Music’s Past but of the Now 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

But when Baldwin trains his focus Nick and Emily’s story, the novel becomes more frictionless and shrewd, exposing how our emotions tend to defy our attempts to apply tidy narratives to them. Bad news sells in the 'The Last Kid Left' 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z

He was on exceptionally fine form, alive to everything and defying fatigue. Merce Cunningham's last dance 2010-04-27T20:35:00Z

Expectations are defied with such vim and vigor that they also fall by the wayside. In Scott Anderson's 'Supper Club' paintings, pretty isn't the point 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

The premiere sacrificed that momentum in favor of defying expectations. 'Sleepy Hollow' Recap: Horseman With No Head; Ben Franklin With No Breeches 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

At least five other states have considered—or are still considering—similar bills this year, all attempts to defy the oft-heralded “death of handwriting” wrought by the almighty keyboard. Five reasons kids should still learn cursive handwriting 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z

The report faults CPS leaders for a widening achievement gap between white and black elementary students, defying the national trend. Report: CPS reforms failed many students 2011-09-30T11:00:00Z

The Emmy-winning "Primal" established its fable about a pair of tragedy survivors banding together against a supernaturally savage world over 10 riveting episodes that defy the common approach to narrative. "Primal" may be the most unconventional love story on TV. Just not in the way you think 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z

But Mr. Watts’s eccentricity may be his greatest asset, helping him earn this crucial booking and defy an audience’s expectations. Reggie Watts, a Master of Improvisation 2010-05-28T22:35:00Z

But some of the climactic turns seem to follow the kind of narrative rules that this film, and this filmmaker, have otherwise defied. ‘Night Moves’ Tracks Three Eco-Terrorists in Oregon 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

Along with contemporaries such as Marc Jacobs and Isaac Mizrahi, she created collections that defied the 1980s power suits and masters of the universe who were seeking their fortune on Wall Street. Anna Sui was ahead of her time. Now fashion is taking inspiration from her glorious escapism. 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z

And it felt gently subversive besides—an easy way to buck expectations, or defy the norm. The Nostalgia in Beto O’Rourke’s Indie-Rock Videos 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z

Still, the art market has defied the basic rules of economics before, and Schiff conceded that exceptional artworks could outmaneuver logic. The S.I. Newhouse Auction: 16 Paintings, $177.8 Million 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z

Going rogue – defying the establishment, the elites, the Deep State, the mainstream media – is what populist politics purports to be all about. How Tom Cruise made ‘going rogue’ a Hollywood staple 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

The taste is so unique as to defy description, but think of a yeasty, salty, soy sauce-esque flavor with the consistency of old engine oil. Marmite: Americans wonder what's all the fuss over divisive British spread? 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

They defied barriers for the privilege of offering their desperately needed technical abilities. Ladies Who Launch: Women Who Opened the Door to Space Exploration 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z

Silver medals go to the casting directors, who defied the imaginary difficulties claimed by the producers of "The Bachelor" and managed to find several Black men to feature along with other participants of color. On "Sexy Beasts," love isn't quite blind – but it's an entertainingly shallow heavy petting zoo 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z

That his oeuvre defies simple categorization suits Houck’s admirers just fine—he’s scheduled to be in six exhibitions next year. Bright Prospects: John Houck 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

“But I think we both agree that the need is not to defy the expectation, but just to do things that are interesting and good and fun for us to do.” Television: Discomfort Zones 2011-04-06T16:02:12Z

But the New York Times' Charles Isherwood, who admitted he was not enthusiastic about the prospect of yet another Disney show on Broadway, said the show defied his dour expectations. Disney's 'Aladdin' unleashes a genie on Broadway 2014-03-21T18:58:12Z

"The Silver Linings Playbook" defies categorization: it's both comedy and drama, without fitting neatly into either genre. 'The Silver Linings Playbook' is quirky, uncategorizable and terrific 2012-11-20T17:12:04Z

The local musical style borrowed from those cultures, defying attempts to classify it. Grammy-winning singer Cesaria Evora dies at age 70 2011-12-17T19:52:37Z

What propels him to continue working on the machine that would help break the code and to defy superiors who doubted his efforts is self-belief. Stiff upper lip or man on the edge? How movies see real-life heroes 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

And it defies the television industry's insistence on youthful female presenters. Loose Women: more super than superficial? 2011-01-26T15:12:56Z

And this is where he starts defying expectations. Niko von Glasow Flouts Conventions in ‘My Way to Olympia’ 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z

Because I’m not usually someone who defies social norms. This Week in Fiction: Curtis Sittenfeld on the Necessity of Writing Sex Scenes 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z

Ergo, little of what we see in this hour defies that mission statement. The Roys never had a chance: "Succession" sells Alexander Skarsgård as TV's finest Viking conqueror 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z

Wow, this delicious pinot noir seems to defy gravity: Its color, body and flavors leave an impression of weightlessness. Perspective | The 12 best bargain wines of the year will set you back as little as $10. How can you resist? 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

For a Wright-themed object, defy the no-art-on-the-walls order for a decorative wood hanging styled after the circular pattern on the glass dome in the Administration Building. On the trail of Frank Lloyd Wright in Illinois and Wisconsin 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

Play defies death and at the same time prepares us for it. Gabriel Orozco: Permanent playtime 2011-01-24T21:29:00Z

Like Adam a former competitive wrestler, Irving the literato tends to wriggle from analytical grasp, defying easy categorization. Sex, Secrets and Absent Fathers: It’s the New John Irving, of Course 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z

They are, wrote Dickens, “the curious old records of likings and dislikings; of jealousies and revenges; of affection defying the power of death, and hatred pursued beyond the grave.” Last orders: what do our wills say about us? 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

As a contributing editor at New York Magazine, Ms. Senior is a skilled interviewer, good at finding parents and children who defy expectations. Books Of the Times: Jennifer Senior Studies Parenthood in ‘All Joy and No Fun’ 2014-01-26T22:06:59Z

"Godzilla" towered over the competition at the box office this weekend, as Gareth Edwards' update on the classic Japanese monster tale defied industry expectations to post the second-biggest opening of the year. 'Godzilla' takes in $93.2 million for 2nd-best opening weekend of 2014 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z

But I reckon he's thrilled to be able to appeal to little Englanders by defying the court. When wrongdoers forfeit human rights 2012-05-26T23:05:57Z

Hissrich uses this aspect of "Witcher" lore to defy paternalistic fantasy traditions in the second season by highlighting the ways that Geralt isn't simply an able guardian but a stalwart, morally upright ally. "The Witcher" is back to give women a more equal share in its power 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z

Easy – by swearing a lot, killing everyone and defying all trace of logic at every turn. Die Hard 2 recap: 'Insane bloodlust, gratuitous profanity, zero logic' 2013-06-21T16:15:40Z

This man defied the easy categories I had come up with. Modern Love: Broken, Not Bound, by an Intimate Tie 2014-03-27T21:54:34Z

His interpretations of the barrios in Caracas include staircases and structures that defy gravity, a world where García Lorca meets Escher. Those Who Stay 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z

What makes Uncaged compelling is that it’s just as interested in upholding and reassuring the typically rigid genre convictions in contemporary country as it is interested in defying and bending them. Zac Brown Band Defies Country Expectations with Uncaged 2012-07-06T12:00:24Z

It defied gravity and was one hell of a jolt in what was already a strong performance. Dancing with the Stars Watch: Tango in the Night 2012-04-17T12:30:07Z

Despite this, he directly defied her and invited “friends” over the first night we were away from home. Ask Amy: Son turns 21 and throws a party for the ages 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

“You have photographers in Lagos, London, Johannesburg, New York and Los Angeles making images that defy easy categorization and that are emphasizing Black desire, Black beauty and Black community. For me, that is significant.” Beyond Beyoncé Fame, Awol Erizku Expands What Black Art Can Be 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z

As Electricidad joins with her brother to defy one parent and honor another, a bilingual "chorus" offers gossipy commentary about the family's strife, and the plight of a community scarred by internecine warfare. eSe Teatro stages Spanglish 'Electricidad' 2011-05-19T20:00:13Z

And like the most satisfying politically minded art, it’s rife with complication — not just in the score’s uninhibited blending of genres, but also in the treatment of its subject, defying stereotypes and hagiographies. 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in January 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z

Look up what happened next on YouTube, and I defy you to watch without a little tear in your eye. Running for your life: lift, inspire and be healed 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z

There she is, leaning “halfway out of a tenement window, taking in the drama of the block and defying gravity’s downward pull.” An Exhilarating Work of History About Daring Adventures in Love 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z

She has defied critics, stayed true to herself and turned stereotype into power. Dollywood: A Little Bit Country, a Little Bit Gay 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

In a city crowded with vegetarian restaurants and yoga studios, the cavemen defy other people’s ideas of healthy living. 2010-01-09T03:29:00Z

The older characters don’t change much during the play, but the younger ones behave in ways that complicate, even defy, their roles. Review: Like Life, ‘Catch as Catch Can’ Throws Curveballs 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

As your son is defying you and doing the opposite of what he is told, he is focusing on his own desires, thoughts, impulses and feelings. Perspective | My almost-4-year-old is willful and disobedient. How can I regain control? 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

In their home country – Europe's last dictatorship – they risk imprisonment and worse for daring to defy a government that ruthlessly stamps on protest. Eurepica. Challenge ? review 2011-07-22T17:38:50Z

The movie tells the tale of a Scottish princess, Merida, who defies her parents by pursuing archery. ArtsBeat: Pixar Removes Its First Female Director 2010-10-20T19:21:00Z

Mr. La Farge’s novels and short stories defied easy categorization, but they were all characterized by a sort of writer's derring-do. Paul La Farge, Inventive Novelist, Is Dead at 52 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z

Screening daily at 7 and 9 p.m., it's a collection of 10 suppressed Bugs Bunny cartoons that defy political correctness in their racism, sexism and violence. Look for vampires at Seattle Center this week 2010-08-19T21:04:00Z

The Palacio Salvo at Plaza Independencia is one of South America’s tallest buildings, and a piece of design that defies description. A sojourner cheats the chill in the warmth of Argentina and Uruguay 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

But the Young-Edwards version of the Faust story defies reductive theorizing. 2010-01-29T06:14:00Z

Still, it’s remarkable how he manages to create magical spaces, where objects often defy gravity, without any digital manipulation. Daniel von Sturmer's video art: A delightful play on perception 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

Lou Reed and Allen Ginsberg stare unblinking at the camera as if to defy its attempt to probe their innermost selves. Art Review: Warhol?s Silent Film Portraits 2010-12-23T22:39:01Z

The hero is Moshe Fisher, who in his infancy was found floating in a basket like Moses, with a skin that defied color and caste. A Novel of Jamaica Brimming With Magic, Passion and History 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

Zarza added that she "knew what was at stake" when she decided to defy an indoor dining ban and now the Minnesota bar is being sued by the state. Minnesota bar owner faces lawsuit by state for defying 'unconstitutional' COVID-19 restrictions 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z

He spoke truth to power, shaming and defying slave traders and keepers. A radical for our time: Benjamin Lay, the Quaker dwarf abolitionist you didn't learn about in class 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z

In one of the funnier exchanges between him and Roy, Jamie delightfully defies expectations by rattling off the correct definition of a term often applied to him in response to a malapropism. The "Ted Lasso" way gets tested in the beloved show's third season 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z

Great sculpture has a tactile quality that almost defies you not to touch. Hermann Obrist 2010-06-06T21:45:00Z

Many pianists believe that the piece somehow defies memorization. What It’s Like to Hear the Same Piece of Music for 19 Hours 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

Once he started reading deeper into the scripts, Mr. Lincoln said, the material defied his expectations. Television: The Zombie Attack as Stress Test 2010-10-22T18:23:00Z

Not only was "Merry Christmas" defying convention in that respect, but it was also promoting a new song in a season dominated by nostalgia. How "All I Want for Christmas Is You" made Mariah Carey de facto Queen of Christmas, sans trademark 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z

It was a moment of creative genius almost defying description. Paris Fashion: Loewe delights, brands end silence on Ukraine 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z

Only 18 out of more than 200 pressmen defied their union and accepted The Post’s invitation to return to their jobs. Goodbye, old Washington Post, home of the newspaper the Grahams built 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

Other actresses, including Amy Adams and Thandie Newton, opted for more classic silhouettes in darker colors, while Hollywood stalwart Meryl Streep defied the trend by turning up in a black blazer and trousers. Metal shades shimmer on BAFTAs red carpet 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z

In another sense reality was perhaps stretched but not defied. Aron Kallay experiments, triumphs in Piano Spheres' 'Nothing Is Real' 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

Never mind that his high expectations and imperious will meant that it was difficult to defy his wishes. Books of The Times: David Nasaw’s ‘Patriarch,’ on Joseph P. Kennedy 2012-11-29T21:09:38Z

It defies the mind, the violence that goes on there and the shadow that these women live under. After actress Kate del Castillo met with El Chapo, "they tried to destroy me" 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z

Aurora Flores, a music journalist and composer who was working with him on his memoir, said Mr. Harlow had displayed an acerbic wit, an acid tongue and a willingness to defy conventions. Larry Harlow, Influential Figure in Salsa, Dies at 82 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

Agents Peña and Murphy, in that order, crossed that particular Rubicon as soon as they learned that Escobar’s operation defied conventional policing. ‘Narcos’ Season 2, Episode 5: No Turning Back 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

But in the main, being forced to respond to a presidential election that defied satire did Wilmore no favors. Larry Wilmore's Show Wasn't Built to Survive 2016 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z

In “Whistle Up the Devil,” a man intent on defying a family curse barricades himself in a sealed and closely watched study in which there are no secret panels or cubbyholes. ‘The Derek Smith Omnibus,’ by Derek Howe Smith

The romantic, journalistic and political high jinks that drive the picture defy easy summary, but there are a lot of spoilers here. He Said, She Said, We Said, You Said 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z

Its entanglements of winding streets, defying the city grid, include remnants of cow paths and property lines from when the area was a sprawl of Dutch, then English, farms. Greenwich Village, Storied Home of Bohemia and Gay History 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z

Sunday talk shows, and most particularly NBC’s “Meet the Press,” defy the normal rules of television news: spit-and-polish good looks and slick urbanity are unwelcome. Chuck Todd Begins as Host of NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’ 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z

He said he does occasionally face customers who try to defy the store’s rules. The Line Dance of the Pandemic 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

The Guardian lauds felfies for shining a new spotlight on agricultural life, and Twitter in general as a way for modern farmers to defy the isolation of the fields. Behold the felfie: Farmers take selfies, too 2014-01-13T20:21:00Z

That defies the wishes of the Smiths, who are both now dead and buried adjacent to the statue. Once-popular Arkansas Passion Play of Jesus' life closes 2012-12-06T18:57:39Z

Edith Sheffer has written a book that defies easy categorization — an appropriate, if perhaps inadvertent, response to her fascinating and terrible subject matter. Once Viewed as a Savior of Children, Hans Asperger Is Now Called a Nazi Collaborator 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z

"Something about this woman defied a traditional chick-at-a-glance inventory," Beck writes. Glenn Beck's Thriller Mixes Romance, Tea-Party Politics 2010-06-16T08:30:00Z

With sculpture, video, installation and even a book of poetry, they defy expectations of what global art should look like, choosing to make intimate statements, rather than take on broad sociopolitical issues. Art and Museums in NYC This Week 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

By turns revolutionary and retrograde, liberated and conservative, a traditionalist who defied labels and loved a title, Colette was nothing if not contradictory. The Essential Colette 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z

It’s puzzling because an upbeat piece in Inc. magazine in November claimed Gravity had “defied doubters” and profits had doubled. Dan Price: the CEO who took a pay cut to give his staff a $70k minimum wage 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z

Their sexual passion simply escalates into a bloody destruction that defies mortality, ageing and the slow, dull retreat of sex. Nagisa Oshima: provocateur and poet 2013-01-15T17:37:26Z

To older Villagers, like my parents and my aunt and uncle, the big blocks and towers looked oppressive and monolithic, defying the scale, character and diversity of the area. Hudson Yards Is Manhattan’s Biggest, Newest, Slickest Gated Community. Is This the Neighborhood New York Deserves? 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

From the beginning, it was important to her that the stores were clean, modern and easy to navigate, to defy the stereotype of Asian groceries as grimy and run-down. The Lure of H Mart, Where the Shelves Can Seem as Wide as Asia 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z

But if there is one thing that defies long-term prediction, this is it. Auctions: In an Uneven Night, a Lesson for Art Investors 2011-02-10T14:23:15Z

Suspense and intrigue depend on the ability to defy reasonable expectations, but reason must eventually prevail: What seemed inexplicable must be explained. A New Thriller Imagines a Revolt Against the Corporate Order 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z

Tour operators across Africa say they face difficulties as the Ebola outbreak, which has killed more than 2,200 people in four countries, continues to defy international efforts to control it. Rampant Ebola fear takes toll on Africa tourism 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z

It’s the first glaring indicator that the rest of these songs are not going to conform to patriarchal ideas of propriety — most of the time they seem to be aiming to directly defy them. Fiona Apple Is Back and Unbound: Let’s Discuss 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

Think of Bugs Bunny explaining that he can defy the law of gravity because he never studied law. "The Social Network": A modern horror film 2010-10-04T18:01:00Z

Often, there was the feeling that what the reviewer had seen defied description. The Mythic Performances That Are Keeping Me Company 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z

Ms. Murata said she wanted to write from the perspective of someone who defied conventional thinking, particularly in a conformist society where people are expected to fulfill preordained roles. For Japanese Novelist Sayaka Murata, Odd Is the New Normal 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

But Maazel is not a hard-boiled hack — she’s a dazzling prose stylist with a gift for creating characters caught in extraordinary situations that defy credulity. Fiona Maazel's 'A Little More Human' is like Pynchon writing a telenovela 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

The film is incredibly taut as Julija struggles to defy her father. "Murina" filmmaker: "You need to be a 'dangerous' woman in Croatia to survive" 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z

Cage, who died two years before “Stomp” debuted in New York, was the influential avant-garde composer who thrived on defying convention, and urged other artists to do the same. ‘Stomp’ Turns 25. Here Are 10 Things You Didn’t Know About It. 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

More women are defying the stereotypes around Latina artists, but the physical image portrayed in the Spanish-speaking entertainment industry remains woefully homogenous. Women in Latin music are poised for a breakthrough. Is their industry ready for them? 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

She maintained an active lifestyle there into her second century, defying her advancing years. Olivia de Havilland, a Star of ‘Gone With the Wind,’ Dies at 104 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z

For Ottinger, the play of imagination is an essential realm of freedom, a way for women to defy and liberate themselves from the misogyny that’s embedded as deeply in consensus styles as in consensus politics. Style as Women’s Freedom: The Photographs of Ulrike Ottinger 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z

Writing her book as urban women’s lit was also a way for de León to defy the claim that literary fiction is inherently more valuable than commercial fiction. This professor turned to erotic fiction to promote social change 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

While some U.S. and British news organizations, including the New York Times, did not report on the conviction of Australian Cardinal George Pell on the judge’s order, social media and other news outlets defied it. An Australian court’s gag order is no match for the Internet, as word gets out about prominent cardinal’s conviction 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

Will this hard-luck president again defy death while his stoic sidekick vanquishes the nasty, uncivilized terrorists? Review: In ‘London Has Fallen,’ the President Must Be Saved From Terrorists 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

They defied a president of their own party so they could be, in the words of Republican Sen. Richard Lugar, “on the right side of history.” The real US policy toward Nelson Mandela 2013-12-12T12:35:00Z

“Fences” is part of a cycle of 10 plays about the African-American experience that amounts to a critique of the American dream from the standpoint of people intent on defying their exclusion from it. Review: Beneath the Bombast, ‘Fences’ Has an Aching Poetry 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

Even when she's in more obvious movement, her control defies belief. Review: Beyond the Threshold festival off to a stunning start, indoors and out 2010-06-05T17:44:00Z

These chocolate chip cookies, with crispy edges and gooey middles, defy all reason. 9 best egg substitutes in cooking and baking 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z

Police Commander Andrew Smith said about 200 people were arrested, mostly hold-outs who defied orders to clear the area. Police dismantle Occupy camp in Los Angeles 2011-11-30T13:00:14Z

“Natural Causes” asks us to accept that our bodies defy our control. Is Our Obsession With Wellness Doing Us In? 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

“I defy you to see where the wig begins and my real hair blends in.” Up Close: By Her (Couture) Hair You Shall Know Her 2012-03-19T22:45:36Z

At the time, Ginsburg and his Beat Generation were renegades who defied convention. 2010-01-22T05:52:00Z

Then, in 2010, one dared to defy his father and venture beyond the front door. What’s on TV Tuesday: Dave Chappelle and an Irish Hit 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

When two distinct musical traditions continuously defy their boundaries, they’re bound to overlap somewhere, right? Review | For these jazz drummers, time is a flat circle (with a skin across the top) 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z

They portray a long-married couple whose imperfect but comfortable relationship defies gender norms as well as the worst that cruel fate can throw at it. | 'A Small Fire': A Sense of Touch, a Sense of Life 2011-01-07T03:30:20Z

How unexpected: Iran was full of surprises, exemplified by nine women who defied our stereotypes of life in an ultra-conservative, cleric-dominated Islamic republic. New friendships narrow the Persian gulf 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

A pool, library and restaurant focusing on local seafood defy guests to leave for entertainment. Sweet Dreams in Seven Heavenly European Inns 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

There's a lot of utilitarianism to our design, almost the equivalent of fast fashion, that might defy what a sex room requires. Just the tips: "How To Build a Sex Room" host wants to spice up your life with sensual design 2022-07-10T04:00:00Z

He advises readers to “secede culturally from the mainstream” and adopt a “hands-on localism” in politics, inspired by former Czech dissident Vaclav Havel and others who defied Eastern Bloc communism. Rod Dreher is the combative, oversharing blogger who speaks for today’s beleaguered Christians 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z

Rarely, however, there comes a performance that defies the simple binary, resulting in some actors being nominated for both Oscars acclaim and Razzies ridicule. Here are four actors who received both Razzie and Oscar nominations for the same performance 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z

David Gyasi turns in a wonderful performance as a faun named Agreus, who defies social order and purchases a nice house in a nice community and as one might imagine, the neighbors are not thrilled. "Carnival Row": Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne's fairy tale is fractured by competing narratives 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

And yet it continues to be cable’s most popular attraction, defying predictions of its decline, let alone its demise. Another Fox News scandal in the making? The viewers don’t seem to mind. 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z

The most affecting pieces are mixed-media collages highlighting natural phenomena that defy our attempts to classify them. Candice Lin explores the unruliness of the natural order at Francois Ghebaly Gallery 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

But what makes "Hoarders" so fascinating is how its participants defy one dismissive description; there really is no typical hoarder. Inside the strange world of "Hoarders" 2010-09-06T20:01:00Z

But partly because he so determinedly defied traditional laws of stylistic consistency and coherence, the number of people who fully grasped what he was about is probably small. Art Review: ‘Mike Kelley: 1954-2012’ at the Watermill Center 2012-08-16T19:48:14Z

The Japanese soufflé pancake seems to defy pastry physics: An airy vanilla batter is cooked in a pan, which leaves it lightly toasted on each side and cloudlike in the center. Fluffy Japanese Soufflé Pancakes Have American Fans Waiting in Line 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z

In a burst of inspiration, I realized what would please him most: for me to leave this department store empty-handed, to defy Hallmark’s insistence on the significance of this holiday. The Valentine’s Day we got it all wrong — and right 2014-02-14T00:00:00Z

By defying old baby-name conventions, however, they also stumbled into a new one: the quest to brand one’s child with the most idiosyncratic name possible. Lilith, Lilibet … Lucifer? How Baby Names Went to ‘L’ 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z