Sentence examples for attempt to categorise from inspiring English sources

Magnolia, the next out of the blocks, was an even bigger, more complex and yet richly evocative film that belied any attempt to categorise it.

The first systematic attempt to categorise the elements of story was undertaken by the French theorist Georges Polti, who in 1921 published The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations, whose number is echoed - in "a singular corollary" - by "the discovery that there are in life but thirty-six emotions".

While the median identifies the central value in the list of values supplied by participants, the modal groups attempt to categorise the values (into 25 value groups, e.g., 1 25 links, 26 50 links, and so on) and give an indication of which value-groups appear the most in the sample.

A key finding was that participants were equally able to distinguish List 1 from List 2 items, regardless of whether they had been asked to attempt to categorise or recognise them.

It would be unreliable to attempt to categorise the women in our study to these syndromes without detailed neurological assessment.

There are many different theories and models coming from different disciplines which attempt to categorise and explain the factors impacting on workforce mobility.

He spends a while evading my attempts to categorise his output.

Better, then, to see the psychology of religion as a taxonomical endeavour, one which attempts to categorise.

With this in mind, and tongue-in-cheek, I have attempted to categorise the various types of online comments and the creatures who make them.

Since the release of his band Antony and the Johnsons' 2005 album I Am A Bird Now (which chronicled his experiences as a transgender person and was the surprise winner of the Mercury prize, selling upwards of 500,000 copies), there have been many attempts to categorise his sound, ranging from "chamber pop" to "ethereal torch singing".

This piece places itself firmly in the emergent so-called genre Afrofuturism – a label that attempts to categorise similarly minded genre-flexible art which might include anyone from musicians Janelle Monae and Sun Ra to filmmaker and fellow Kenyan Wanuri Kahiu, whose short film, Pumzi, created a stir at Sundance a few years ago.