Musically, she resists categorization, singing what she calls spiritual folk.
Another reason she may have seemed elusive at first is that she resists categorization.
In truth, thriller is a convenient but imprecise descriptor for "Boarding Gate," which resists categorization despite Mr. Assayas's stated insistence that he was trying (really) to make a B movie in English.
Adobe productions resist categorization; "The Handless Maiden" can count among its inspirations the work of Stephen Sondheim, Rod Serling, Sid Caesar, Walt Disney and even Agnes Nixon.
And, while we're at it, let's add Tom Harrell, another trumpeter who has made a practice of producing albums that resist categorization.
Others resisted categorization.
An iconoclast, Mr. Parks fashioned a career that resisted categorization.
When it comes to topics in LGBTQ studies, especially in art, literature, and political movements, key figures often defy typical organizational frameworks, and resist categorization.
Readers also witnessed a revival of high modernist experimentation and literature that resisted categorization into genres and forms.
The need to resist categorization goes deep in many of the greatest performing artists, and in many of the greatest creative artists too.
W. G. Sebald, a writer who died in 2001 at the early age of 57, wrote strange books that resist categorization: they combine fiction, criticism, biography, and scrapbook.
