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Example sentences for: defying

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His argument is persuasive, but the conclusion is so counterintuitive--why should the soloist meekly accompany the orchestra when he isn't defying it?
Defying the two-year French occupation, philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte exhorted the German people to assume their rightful destiny as a nation.
Dylan's bluesy album wins accolades for introspective lyrics about mortality and is judged his best work in decades, "attesting to the creative renaissance of an artist still bent on defying expectations and spurning trends" (Edna Gundersen, USA Today ). The Rolling Stones' new songs are called "uninspired retreads" (Richard Cromelin, the Los Angeles Times ), and their much-hyped world tour--which uses giant nude inflatable dolls as set pieces--is pronounced "tasteless" (the Independent ). (See the Stones' tour site.)
The Chicago Sun-Times ' Ebert says the themes about defying class and convention don't work: "kids aren't much tuned into that."
For one hour they captivated their large audience of children and adults with stunning acrobatics and death defying spins from the rafters-