And two years later, it seemed to take an even bigger gamble with the Lexus RX 300, a luxury utility that similarly defied characterization.
Little known masterpieces, each defying characterization — "Le Sacré Coeur," "Trouville, la Mer," both from 1904 — are revealed through loans from private collections in the first part of the show, which is stunning.
This quirky singer, who said in a telephone conversation that she often feels surrounded by clowns in New York, "so at least these are professionals," stubbornly defies characterization, both in her songs and her presence.
Well before just about every choreographer on the planet declared their allegiance to multidisciplinary work, Meredith Monk was creating pieces that defied characterization in their use of song, speech, movement, film and images.
The opera's characteristic is less pure humor than an underlying sense of humanity, something it has in common with other great operas poised on the razor's edge between laughter and tears: Mozart's "Nozze di Figaro" or "Don Giovanni" (the most famous example of an opera that defies characterization as either tragic or comic), or Wagner's "Meistersinger".
It defies characterization as a state fair, though it seems to fall into that bucket.
During my trip, I was fortunate to encounter a young man who also defies characterization.
In the 132 stories that reported a financial tie, 5 were coded as positive, one negative, and 126 were neutral or defied characterization.
Because dendritic spine morphology is in turn highly susceptible to the activation state of small GTPases [ 102], an impact of merlin on spine morphology and/or plasticity is very likely but, as yet, defies characterization.
Do you know of any writers who you feel defy this characterization?
