Sentence examples for defies easy classification from inspiring English sources
Richard Nixon was a complex guy who defies easy classification.
The end result is a stylistic complexity in African art that defies easy classification.
Although Ethiopia's complex relief defies easy classification, five topographic features are discernible.
Fleeting musical dedications to friends and artistic figures are a trademark of Mr. Kurtag, an important composer whose music, influenced by Bartok and Webern, defies easy classification.
Her music certainly defies easy classification, and has somehow – you might even say miraculously – remained immune to the conventional demands of record labels.
Respected by her peers and admired by her students, Ms. Jagger, who teaches at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, has kept spacious studios in the old barns of a former dairy farm here, where she makes art that defies easy classification.
Editor Harold Ross sometimes referred to his pieces, which tended to defy easy classification, as "highlife lowlife" stories.
We have spent our lives caught in a kind of demographic and cultural void, defying easy classification, denied even the community-building cliché of a generational identity.
While the best-known Korean movies of the past few years are stylish, violent genre works — crime thrillers like "Oldboy" or effects-heavy fantasies like "The Host" — Mr. Lee's films have a more subdued, literary flavor, and they tend to defy easy classification.
For decades ornithologists have debated the relationships of this unique South American bird: at various times the Hoatzin has been thought to be related to Galliformes (cracids and relatives) or to Cuculiformes (cuckoos and relatives), but to date the Hoatzin has defied easy classification.
As a writer, he defied easy classification: His novels and short stories were sometimes set in historical times and sometimes in the recent past; they could be starkly realistic or veer into fantasy; they could be comic, violent and tragic, seemingly at once.
