Defying gravity, defying sense, it grew longer than the unsmoked part of the cigarette.
The best riders grabbed their boards, fastening them to their feet, briefly defying gravity.
In 2011, she sang "Defying Gravity" in all three languages at the legendary Birdland Jazz Club with Schwartz on piano.
In photographs shown to jurors, Noah's small fists were clenched, his arms were raised above his head, and his lifeless knees were bent, defying gravity.
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"Canadian employment not only defied expectations in December, it also appears to be defying gravity, " said Doug Porter, the Bank of Montreal's deputy chief economist.
But what if the OBR is right and the eurozone sorts itself out relatively painlessly (please don't facetiously yabber on about porkers defying gravity and whatnot)?
The launch, a supply mission for the International Space Station, was a bit of a bumpy ride, but ultimately arrived as planned, marking the second such success for SpaceX and further quieting critics who wondered whether private companies could really take on the Herculean task of defying gravity.
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The best part of it, I think, was they had people dressed in some sort of costume with gravity defying fabric, and they'd drop them down 20 feet on these big ropes and it looked like anemones in the ocean.
Goodnight is forced to compete for software talent against every gravity-defying IPO you read about.
When opened and closed, these blinds--coated with a gravity-defying substance--initiate man's voyage into space.
After a rare year obeying the law of physics, Internet advertising is back to its gravity-defying ways.
The gravity-defying ride will be the second of its kind in the U.S., with an unrivalled steep negative-G drop.
The complement of special moves is also spectacular, with a level of variation that makes almost any gravity-defying trick possible.
Blahnik has been designing shoes since 1971, but became a household name when Carrie Bradshaw swooned over his gravity-defying stilettos.
Those gravity-defying levees, along with pumping stations designed to move water away from the center of the Earth, kept the city pretty darn dry.
And for those who know the tale, this gravity-defying, wondrous landscape retains a sense of bittersweet beauty, a faultless paradise somehow infused with lost love.
The ride up was gravity-defying, the ride down sudden and scary.
These politicians tend to rely heavily on the support of unionized public-sector workers and almost always repay the favor by lavishing those same workers with a gravity-defying upward spiral of ever-increasing pay and benefits.
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Still, given the unpopularity of the Republicans and the historic low ratings of George W. Bush, McCain's gravity-defying poll numbers are about more than a few tough ads and one badly timed vacation.
In a culture that encourages the constant search for the limits of human achievement, we, the fans, the consumers of popular sports entertainment, revel in record-breaking, gravity-defying, barely believable feats on the field of play.
Its free roster of dance, theatre, music and visual art performances includes the Garden, a gravity-defying piece of outdoor theatre from the British disabled theatre company Graeae and the Australia-based company Strange Fruit.
More than 1, 500 historic buildings dot the downtown area, and because the city was built atop a drained lake bed, some edifices , like the gravity-defying Ex-Teresa museum, a former 17th-century convent, are teetering like there is no tomorrow.
The lightweight plastic and carbon fiber robot, which is the newest member of a supposed zoo of animal-inspired devices from CMU's NanoRobotics Lab, owes its gravity-defying skills to research done by Harvard University biologists on the basilisk, or Jesus, lizard.
In fact, the whole resort is quite simplistic in design, if you look past its gravity-defying guest room wings: basic wooden slats are placed in straight or diagonal stripes, poured concrete provides dividers between the expansive living areas and dining room, every piece of furniture or pillow is locally made by hand, and there are no televisions just acres of glass overlooking the seal-grey sea and the ever-changing weather.
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