The playwright knew what he was doing in creating hermetic works and specific images that resist expansive interpretation.

Others, like Ryōan-ji, resist easy interpretation.

The intractable result deflects inquiry and resists interpretation.

The eggs resist interpretation.

His paintings also stubbornly resist easy interpretation.

Hemingway resists reductive interpretation, Ms. Comley and Mr. Scholes insist.

This somewhat macabre impression heightens the emotional impact of a work that resists straightforward interpretation because of the illegibility of its inscriptions.

His own brow furrowed as he pondered the ominous inscription above the sarcophagus, which resisted easy interpretation.

Deer don't want to be around humans; they are hard to tell apart; they resist interpretation.

It's a painting that has famously resisted interpretation: Does it depict the Biblical flight of the Holy Family to Egypt?