That type of media coverage and pigeonholing has to stop.

Such gender pigeonholing isn't all that healthy for the country either.

But there is another level at which the decision defies ideological pigeonholing.

But perhaps there is something to be learned from these anomalies about the uselessness of stylistic pigeonholing.

Such pigeonholing allows for a person to gain a quick, though possibly inaccurate, assessment of an interaction.

He specialized in Shakespeare and avoided any ethnic "pigeonholing," he says.

He has always been political, he said, and a nonfiction book on a serious subject was another way to resist artistic pigeonholing.

With a major news story, the media may intentionally or unintentionally collaborate in the pigeonholing through details they emphasize.

But dancers can be versatile, and good choreographers resist stylistic pigeonholing.

Her charge is first of all against the pigeonholing of "young ladies in mindless pursuits."

It ultimately defies either label or any pigeonholing.

How harmful can such pigeonholing be?

Thelonious Monk, pianist and composer, always eluded easy pigeonholing.

Such pigeonholing doesn't bother her.

He loves that his name defies easy pronunciation and his background easy pigeonholing.

Yet the miracle of Old Filth is that its hero eludes sociological or psychological pigeonholing.

But DeFeo finally resists easy pigeonholing.

Beware of artistic pigeonholing.

She has expressed unease at the pigeonholing of her art as a melancholic, expressionist variant of Minimalism.

Yet recalling the frustrations he faced after "Rent" rekindled his exasperation with the pigeonholing that pervades the rock and pop industry.

Mrs. Taylor is a registered Republican, although she was a Democrat for 20 years, and said she defied political pigeonholing.

He stood weak and trembling at the discovery of this pigeonholing, for he had not known, had had no inkling that it was going on.

Oregon, which has the nation's only all-mail-in balloting system, often eludes political pigeonholing because of its voters' tradition of fierce independence.

For a long time, Carpenter was ambivalent about this pigeonholing, saying she preferred the term "singer-songwriter" or "slash rocker" (as in country/folk/rock).

Yet it is just that resistance to formal and thematic pigeonholing that makes a patient perusal of Ms. Leaf's exhibition worthwhile.