This is perhaps both despite and because of the fact that his work resists easy characterization or categories.

Even so, gray resists easy characterization.

Needless to say, the studies behind the headlines didn't lend themselves to this sort of easy characterization.

Although they resist easy characterization, each poem includes meditations on the nature of time in some important respect-theological, historical, physical-and its relation to the human condition.

But Mr. Mather rejects any easy characterization of his work.

Conservative Judaism, whose 2 million members make it the largest branch of the Jewish faith, has long defied easy characterization.

His temperament and his life defy easy characterization.

The incident defies easy characterization, even in the unpredictable world of British journalism.

But it, too, defies the easy characterization of black versus white, insider versus outsider.

While he was known on Broadway for high-quality productions, his taste was eccentric enough to avoid easy characterization.