fly in the face of
Example Sentences
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"So much of my dad's story and how he got away was cover-up and deception, but I want to fly in the face of that and bring things into the light."
From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2025
That move “seemed to fly in the face of market forecasts” but hasn’t, as of yet, led to a “collapse” in oil prices, he said.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 28, 2025
Alexis Hoag-Fordjour, a Brooklyn Law School professor who specializes in capital punishment argued that, given the defendants' differing sentences, an outcome where Glossip is executed "would fly in the face" of justice.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2024
“Nazism, imperialism, and dictatorship all fly in the face of democracy,” said George Mason professor Tehama Lopez Bunyasi who has studied how race and identity intersect with politics.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2024
But if "determined" simply means that every phenomenon is caused, in the philosophical—not the theological or metaphysical—meaning of the word, it does not fly in the face of common sense at all.
From Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) by G. W. (George William) Foote
