Insolvent tenants openly defied the collector of the waterrate from their ten-roomed strongholds, and existed for weeks without any visible means of procuring that necessary fluid.
I still don't have a fix on it, but I do believe that there are forces in nature that we don't understand, and probably never will, that have influences on our lives that defy understanding.
The very first view of a bouncing ball must have been extremely disconcerting-this round object, defying gravity and shooting around in random directions.
I claim no exception for my remarks today, but I will attempt to defy the genre by talking about one thing I do know, and that is the importance of courage, without which my presence here today would not be possible.