This Dutch-designed behemoth, with its open centre, seemingly defies gravity.

That exchange with the audience was charming, as were the performers' matter-of-fact trots off stage after seemingly defying death.

Not least, the international crises - rooted in centuries of ethnic, racial and religious bloodletting - seemingly defy solution.

Seemingly defying the laws of physics, Edward saves her life when he instantaneously appears next to her and stops the van with his bare hands.

A wall of water reached from the floor to the ceiling, seemingly defying all laws of nature.

An accomplished contact juggler can roll a ball across his body in smooth, gliding motions that seemingly defy gravity.

The 'origin' of the work of art is mysterious and elusive, seemingly defying logic: "thus we are compelled to follow the circle.

The dramatic, 450-foot-long central hall, capped by a barrel-vaulted glass ceiling and bathed in natural light, seemingly defies spacial boundaries.

Seemingly defying laws we on Earth have come to regard as immutable, they remain stationary, neither advancing nor retrogressing.

The sum of those parts is a status quo that pleases no one and that seemingly defies all efforts to change it.