The secret of adventure, then, is not to carefully seek it out but to travel in such a way that it finds you. To do this, you first need to overcome the protective habits of home and open yourself up to unpredictability. As you begin to practice this openness, you'll quickly discover adventure in the simple reality of a world that defies your expectations. More often than not, you'll discover that “adventure” is a decision after the fact-a way of deciphering an event or an experience that you can't quite explain.
Virtue runs before the muse, and defies her skill; she is rapt and doth refuse to wait a painter's will.
Truth lives in the spaces between words. It defies translation.
Bliss defies description, obviously, since it annihilates you, since you're not there to experience it. You get the lead-up and the come-down, never the zenith.
Music keeps time and defies time, simultaneously.
Love is large; love defies limits. People talk about the sanctity of love -- love is by definition sacred. Not some love between some people, but all love between all people.
This bill, by vesting the power to withhold or terminate Federal funds, creates a concentration of power of economic coercion unequaled in the history of governments-a power concentration which defies the experience of mankind with the temptation of power to corrupt.
It defies common sense that stores are fined for selling toy guns to children, but someone who isn't even allowed to board an airplane in this country can purchase as many real guns he wants with no questions asked.
Charm is that extra quality that defies description.
Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry. . . to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart. . . Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.
A suicide is both a rebuke to the living and a puzzle that defies them to solve it. Like a poem, suicide is finished and refuses to answer questions as to its final cause.
Donald Trump defies gravity. And so I guess he has to be Donald Trump. It's gotten him so far.
Politics can be strengthened by music, but music has a potency that defies politics.
Motion pictures are just beginning to live up to their true potential of being immersive experience - going from beyond black and white flickering images to fully immersive 3D color high-definition. You don't even know where the real world starts and the fake world begins. And yet, none of that's going to matter unless the story and the emotions that they allow us to become invested in are something that we can recognize. Pixar is able to do this in ways that almost defies speculation.
The soul, secured in her existence, smiles At the drawn dagger, and defies its point.
The free man is not he who defies the rules. . . but he who, recognizing the compulsions inherent in his being, seeks rather to read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest each day's experience.
There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter - loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and totally without social significance. Bubbling spontaneously from the heart of child or man. Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.
Truth defies simplicity.
But in action, one defies one's character.
Society must take every means at its disposal to defend itself against the emergence of a parallel power which defies the elected power.
