Richard Nixon was a complex guy who defies easy classification.
Editor Harold Ross sometimes referred to his pieces, which tended to defy easy classification, as "highlife lowlife" stories.
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.
Although Ethiopia's complex relief defies easy classification, of the five topographic regions in the country only two (the Western Highlands and the Eastern Highlands) might be classified as mountain ecosystems.
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.
