The fact that they've managed to keep those rings in place seems miraculous, a defiance of gravity.
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And as far as SIMONE BILES, who could not love her defiance of gravity and origin story?
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I wonder what they'll make of the Levitating CUP, a cocktail glass designed to float above a portable base, in seeming defiance of gravity.
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The same discomfiting sensuality can be applied to the freestanding totems, each of which embodies a different take on the casual defiance of gravity.
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The piece, "Fair and Square," suspends a pair of swings in mid-air on soldered chains, balanced in defiance of gravity and appearing frozen in time.
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The work, created in 1985, consists of a water-filled glass tank, at the center of which is a Spalding basketball, in apparent defiance of gravity and buoyancy.
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He could talk back then and a colleague and I spent some time after his speech sticking a pencil in his tie to make it stand up, in defiance of gravity.
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Only here you're both the motor and the object being moved: You're using your muscles to hoist your body mass up a wall, in defiance of gravity, which would like you to stay on the ground.
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The hill road is actually a downhill road. Objects and cars on the hill road may appear to roll uphill in defiance of gravity when they are, in fact, rolling downhill. It is 7.5 km southeast of Nimmoo and 26.5 km west of Leh on Srinagar-Ladakh road.
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Magnet Hill or Nimoo-Leh Magnet Hill is a gravity hill located near Leh in Ladakh, India. Due to the surrounding geographical features, it has an optical illusion where vehicles seem to roll uphill in defiance of gravity when they are, in fact, rolling downhill. It is 7.5 km southeast of Nimo and 26.5 km west of Leh on Srinagar-Ladakh road.
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Many desert animals do not drink even if water becomes available, but rely on eating succulent plants. In cold and frozen environments, some animals like hares, tree squirrels, and bighorn sheep resort to consuming snow and icicles.Mayer, p. 54. In savannas, the drinking method of giraffes has been a source of speculation for its apparent defiance of gravity; the most recent theory contemplates the animal's long neck functions like a plunger pump.
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The Trophy, donated by Chance Vought Aircraft (now Ling-Temco-Vought) depicts a silver eagle landing into the arresting gear of the Navy's first aircraft carrier, USS Langley (CV-1). The inscription reads: > “The Venerable Order of the Gray Eagle. The Most Ancient Naval Aviator on > Active Duty. In recognition of a clear eye, a stout heart, a steady hand, > and a daring defiance of gravity and the law of averages.” Names of those who have held the title, either actively or prior to the 1961 ceremony, are inscribed on the trophy's plaque.
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Burt Kimmelman, in his article "The Dead and the Living: Hugh Seidman’s Late Poems", wrote: > I’ve thought a lot about William Bronk’s concise, dense, late statements. > They don’t possess the majestic sweep of his poems at middle age (in terms > of line length, overall volume, the philosophical punch in the solar > plexus). Bronk’s late poems, however, hold their own, and they do seem > typically Bronk. For me the comparison here is with someone like Harriet > Zinnes; her late poems — their ethereal, sprightly, fleetingly brilliant > statements seeming to have come from beyond the veil — are exciting in their > exquisite lightness yet fascination that doesn’t dissipate. Zinnes’s last > poems are supremely graceful, intelligent, paradoxically profound in their > sheer defiance of gravity. Yet I’d not be surprised to find readers of her > work, over the years, keeping to mind poems of hers written when she was at, > say, full strength, which they know well, feeling the late poems to be a > distinct leave-taking.
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