"Death Defying Acts" (a fine title, by the way) is lighter than air, an elegant diversion.

"Death Defying" was a single by iconic Australian rock group Hoodoo Gurus.

The troupe has produced three full-length choreographies, 30 shorter works and has been the subject of a Canadian documentary ("Defying Gravity," 2004).

The Age Defying All Day Lifting Foundation felt like thick grandma makeup on my skin, seeming only to enhance the size of my pores.

Nieuwsma won a second Emmy in 2006 for writing and co-producing Defying Hitler, a documentary about a Jewish fighter in the Polish Resistance.

On the ABC series Defying Gravity, the mission to Mars took place in this year, ten years before the Antares Mission in 2052.

But we do, and that's why I was irritable and dissatisfied when I left the Variety Arts Theater at the end of "Death Defying Acts."

Dylan Taylor is a Canadian actor, best known for playing Steve Wassenfelder, the ship's out of shape theoretical physicist on the TV series Defying Gravity.

UNION COUNTY COLLEGE THEATER PROJECT "Defying Gravity," by Jane Anderson.

Then, on January 12, 2009, she performed with others from the Wicked cast, as well as cast members of other Chicago and tour productions, in Defying Inequality- a cabaret enforcing the value of acceptance displayed in Wicked.

"Death Defying Acts" is so cannily constructed that it successfully builds from its comparatively quiet, spookily funny beginning, "An Interview," through the alternately desperate and hilarious "Hotline," to the riotous revelations of marital betrayals in "Central Park West."

They'd put too much of their power into him though, and he defied them.

He defies anyone to say these things did not happen.

Because if you defy me, that will be on your own head.

For a moment it seemed the boy might defy him.

"He would defy both his father and the king for you."

I could defy it then no more than ever before.

Defying him to tell her why they were really here.

There was an old woman who defied death for years.

As for himself, he had never thought of defying the King before.

She'd been known to put her life on the line to defy it.

She'd gone her own way and defied them to do anything about it.

There was no way he could defy his father over such an important matter.

He thought it would probably be a long time before she ever defied him again.

With it I was able to defy the whole world, and especially my friends.

So many things he'd done in his life had been to defy him, he could see that now.

That is why he cannot be allowed to defy me.

But the problem which was now before him defied analysis.

But now, if society had turned on her, she would defy it.

He did not want to come straight out and defy a god.

I defy anyone to find better shot television than that.

Even so, there were still those who took the risk and defied him.

And it seemed likely, at first, that the old man was going to defy them all.

Some of them had even been ready to defy any possible attack from space.

Everyone should visit and I defy you to leave in under an hour.

You cannot defy our authority, said a small voice in the back of my head.