defy gravity

The pieces are instantly recognizable as hers: hand-laced rivets holding together a bustier in the shape of a broken heart, the way one of her spiked choker handbags seems to defy gravity.

Some are irked by the standardization of competitive breaking: Dancers strive to defy gravity and capture the music’s spirit in spur-of-the-moment sculptures carved from their muscles, bones and imagination.

But, its wonkiness was brought to national attention, when the BBC's Nationwide programme visited in September 1974, with a reporter making much of how bottles and other objects appeared to defy gravity by seeming to roll uphill.

Her orange hair shoots upward like a bouquet of optical fibers that defy gravity.

Then there’s an unfinished piece he calls “The Land of Nod,” an homage to the men and women who seem to defy gravity as they come down from the effects of opioids.