How To Use fly in the face of In A Sentence
- Because if I'm going to fly in the face of possible detractors I'd prefer to do it with pretty hair.
- And that starts with introducing the mass of Canadian voters to human rights commissions, and introducing them in a manner that demonstrates the abnormalcy of these commissions -- how they fly in the face of our instinctive Canadian notions of justice, fair play, freedoms, pluralism, etc. Ezra Levant: May 2008 Archives
- This ungodly revelation seems to fly in the face of his Christian faith.
- The harsh figures fly in the face of the bland assurances by certain economists and politicians that the US economy was righting itself after a temporary setback early in the year.
- To act as you have done is to fly in the face of Providence.
- Make all the 'moralistic' complaints you want about how alcohol and drugs are bad for society; you fly in the face of evidence that the cure is indeed worse than the disease. Mommy Pact
- These are all extremely entertaining, often silly episodes that fly in the face of the conventionalism most cartoons offer.
- He likes to fly in the face of convention.
- Following the birth of his son, he gave himself over to a rapturous, sensual engagement with paint that seemed to fly in the face of his previous restraint.
- Unfortunately, it seems to fly in the face of our animal instincts.
