Difficult concepts that defy common sense come briskly to life.

It simply defies common sense that a state cannot have a say in its energy future.

Stories often present the European civil service as drafting rules that "defy common sense".

The commission said the agency had taken actions "that defy common sense, logic and law."

It wasn't enough to simply point out that the whole thing defied common sense.

Suspension seemed to defy common sense, or at least most people's experience with magnets.

There was only one possible conclusion to draw from what had happened, and it almost defied common sense.

But it defies common sense, human nature and experience.

There may be legal rows, but it defies common sense.

Often, the tax laws do not behave the way we expect and, sometimes, they even seem to defy common sense.