defying description

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.

It was a moment of creative genius almost defying description.

As Times critic Kenneth Turan put in his original review, the film is “both audacious and astonishing, a vision of a charnel house apocalypse that comes close to defying description.”

And to add to all of that, that tailback, Sony Michel, would find a measure of atonement for an earlier, whiplash fumble, which lay back there in memory, stashed among all the plays of Georgia’s win, which came on Michel’s 27-yard run off a high direct snap, in a national semifinal that kept defying description.

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.