defying description
Example Sentences
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However, some looks seemed to teeter on the edge of couture parody, such as a giant silver quilt, defying description, which enveloped the model so completely it almost swallowed her whole.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 3, 2023
It was a moment of creative genius almost defying description.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 4, 2022
Paul Baird’s adopted son runs the lowbrow gamut, his keyboard and accordion skills choicely cheesy, and Aaron Miller’s foundling goes for slapstick broke, his late-inning Napoleon send-up defying description.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2015
And this was Spain!—wondrous land, defying description, and in memory resembling, not realities, but fragments of tremendous dreams.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 456 Volume 18, New Series, September 25, 1852 by Chambers, Robert
Our music to-day, with its many-voiced harmonies, with its procession of chords instead of single tones, with its modulation into related keys, has an infinite wealth and complexity defying description.
From The Principles of Aesthetics by Parker, Dewitt H.
