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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

The doctor found them both on the floor insensible, down with typhus fever, shut up with the pigs and cows, the room and its odour defying description.

From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Buckley, Robert John

The whole affair was ludicrous in the extreme, defying description.

From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 Volume 23, Number 4 by Clark, Lewis Gaylord




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