The view from the west, pigeonholing the games as a Kremlin project or arguing that "Putin's Olympics" demonstrated a resurgent Russia to the world, only annoyed the Russian people and showed how the mainstream western media and many western leaders are stuck in the past.
And, with his restless, buoyant curiosity, he resisted pigeonholing.
Expecting to meet the latest in a conveyer belt of starlets, instead I found a confident and outspoken young woman who refused pigeonholing.
If any of those artists – and the others who also appeared on the show, Emmy the Great, Johnny Flynn, Dev Hynes – now want to turn around and deny they were ever part of a scene, and criticise the press as pigeonholing them as such, then surely such a clip is Exhibit A in the press's defence.
The Oscar nominee came out in February 2014 and is regularly asked if she fears pigeonholing after signing up for lots of gay parts.
Are you worried about pigeonholing Latin American writers?
It's quite an honor — it's the first time a local band has headlined — but it's also pigeonholing.
DealBook asked Mr. Lazarus whether he had thoughts about whether the firm was pigeonholing itself by so narrowly by defining its practice.
Kathleen Carroll, the A.P.'s senior vice president and executive editor, told Poynter.org that terms like this end up "pigeonholing people or creating long descriptive titles where you use some main event in someone's life to become the modifier before their name".
Why was it such a priority to move beyond the retro label? A. Michael Fitzpatrick We got tired of people pigeonholing us.
Many labels have been hauled out in the parlor game of pigeonholing Bill de Blasio, New York City's potential mayor-to-be.
