As a critic of all the arts, she longed to discover and bring the news; her method was categorization and praise.
Maggie's work helped change Harry, and it's hard not to notice how her tendency to defy categorization as a writer parallels his resistance to being classified as a person.
The label -- usually applied by others to the gender transgressive girl -- provides an explanation of her behavior, a clear categorization of these activities as not belonging to the girl realm, and an assurance that this is "just a phase".
Jan . 15 Mary Chapin Carpenter has won numerous country-music Grammys, but her intensely personal work defies categorization.
In her email, she took issue with the categorization and asked that I listen to her story.
Her close friend Nosheen Ali wrote, "Sabeen defied categorization.
And of independence: you feel her at all points resisting stereotype, staleness, categorization.
It is a mission she has carried out through means — video, sparsely furnished rooms, spare sculpture gardens, sound environments, even a Paris Métro installation — that, like the books in her diorama, seem to want to resist conventional categorization.
In contrast, subject 5 is more confident about her prior predictions and is more willing to risk categorization errors in order to gain time.
Another aid worker in N'Djamena, in her early thirties, told me that there was a more cynical categorization — the three "M s, she called it: missionaries, misfits, and mercenaries.
