Others resisted categorization.
Musically, she resists categorization, singing what she calls spiritual folk.
Another reason she may have seemed elusive at first is that she resists 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.
A transmedia artist long before the term was coined, Mr. Marker resisted categorization throughout his career; he once referred to "career" as "that despicable word".
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.
One reason is that the cultural fusions they produced — Spies's gorgeous Balinese landscapes, Segalen's proto-modernist poems in the shape of Chinese "steles," Eberhardt's Russian-Muslim romances — resist categorization.
Sure, Astaire's dancing went way beyond tap — like so many virtuosos, white or black, he resisted categorization — but what he's doing in "Bojangles" and many other solos sure as hell ain't ballroom.
Unlike some South Korean directors who have established larger reputations in America partly through specialization — Park Chan-wook with his revenge melodramas, Hong Sang-soo with his ultra-dry comedies of sexual politics — Mr. Kim, 46, has resisted categorization.
Humans are more complex and resist categorization, but still the brain seems to be biologically programmed in some of these primary ways.
