Sentence examples for defy ready classification from inspiring English sources

There are also a variety of atypical antidepressant drugs, which defy ready classification.

Part avant-garde animator, part optical alchemist, part mystic, part psychologist of perception, Mr. Belson made more than 30 short films between the late 1940s and 2005, all of which defy ready classification.

Colin Matthews, born in London in 1946, defies ready classification.

What it shares with its predecessor is a belief in the numinous and in personalities that defy ready analysis.

Some of the stories defy such classification.

Editor Harold Ross sometimes referred to his pieces, which tended to defy easy classification, as "highlife lowlife" stories.

Probably his greatest asset is his ability to defy ideological classification.

As previously noted, many reactions defy simple classification and may fit in several categories.

On the southern shore of Staten Island on the edge of Lemon Creek Park, a cluster of 21 buildings defy architectural classification.

In retrospect, it is striking to realize that metamorphosis is a theme that recurs increasingly in dance-related groups that defy strict classification.

These different types of schizophrenia are not mutually exclusive, and schizophrenics may display a mixture of symptoms that defy convenient classification.