Sentence examples for resist definition from inspiring English sources

Then she does her best to describe an exhibition that seems to resist definition.

I will always consider myself queer, recognizing that my sexuality and gender identity resist definition.

Naturally enough, the country finds herself in great difficulty when presented with those who seem keen to resist definition.

By Sasha Frere-Jones Winehouse's voice can sound like aural blackface, but her range and variety resist definition.

His old songs, many of which were written in partnership with composers like Fernando Brant, Ronaldo Bastos and Lo Borges, resist definition.

They're players who resist definition; after a long history of ironclad camps in jazz, these musicians are well schooled yet virtually campless, with ears open to all kinds of music from Ornette to funk to Afro-Cuban to rock, using shrewd formalism to get to exciting new places.

The mercurial landscape of "The Tempest" also resists definition.

The facts of the dish, resisting definition, turn out to be almost incidental.

Winehouse 2.0 works because of the number of different modes that she and her band pile up and the way that she resists definition.

"The whole point about Sam is that he was one of a kind," said Mr. Richardson, who noted that expediency, luck, an appetite for high-living and a nose for inherited wealth, a mordant sense of humor, an innate theatricality and a love of the absurd were the tools of a character whose proper place in the world even now resists definition.

Though the essay constantly resists definition – and has never accrued a corpus of academic critical commentary like that given to, say, the novel - it is unusual among literary forms in that its birth can be traced to a single moment and a single man: Montaigne, whose Essaies first appeared in 1580, arguably heralding the birth of the modern idea of the author as subject (in both senses).