1.   Damian Flint was obviously picking up chairman-of-the-board points at a rate that defied imagination.

2.   Like impresarios of some hyperbolic greatest show on earth, these folks promise economic wonders that defy imagination, profits that transcend the mundane constraints of supply and demand.

3.   Something so shocking, so ridiculous that it defies the imagination.

4.   Some projects defy the imagination.

5.   The costumes and performers defy imagination.

6.   The scope of rape in Rwanda defies imagination.

7.   This challenge almost defies the imagination, given that forces on both sides have spent most of the last months locked in combat.

8.   When he starts with a Nazi analogy, upgrading the description for, say, squirting him with a hose, defies the imagination.

9.   China on Tuesday scoffed at the possibility of its most prominent dissident winning the Nobel Peace Prize, saying such an award would defy imagination.

10.   What a really busy street must sound like defies the imagination.