While this season hardly qualifies as winter in some parts of the country, he said, it runs against historical experience, and cold weather will return.

Afghanistan is ringing with this kind of optimistic talk, and ordinary people are hoping against experience that it might be true.

Of course, scientific ideas, once formulated, must be tested against systematic experience, which itself might rest on more stable cultural belief.

He's lost his ugly qualities by those years of rubbing against experience all ever the world.

They're not shocked or surprised by the facts of life any more, so they don't need to boast; they've also tested romantic ideals against experience.

Marius of Quileia had made a promise to him that day, against wisdom and experience and beyond hope.

These hypotheses can be tested against further experience and experiment, but hypotheses they remain.

This was to be a classic test of youth against experience.

It proved that her mind was working clearly again and that she could harden herself against experience, as she had to.

Mr. Modigliani, who persisted in testing theories against experience, doubted this.