But it defies common sense, human nature and experience.

Initial bravado - man defies nature - gives way to a broken man's weary fatalism.

You cannot defy human nature with laws of injustice.

We can defy nature only at our peril.

It is a description of people defying nature.

To accept not knowing what became of her favorite works would defy human nature.

"The lines defy geography, history, nature and reason for a single goal: getting an ethnically correct Council."

It clung to the cliff, one side facing the water, a limpet defying nature.

In a perverse logic that defies nature, a farm needs to get ever larger and more specialized to survive.

A policy focused on preventing human activity is one which defies human nature.