pigeonhole

Then he turned to the bank of pigeonholes behind him.

He just sort of tucked the business into a pigeonhole.

The system, he says, pigeonholes information better than any database.

A new form made its appearance from the appropriate pigeonhole.

All they're going to do is stuff him into one of their pigeonholes and then forget about it.

So you can look at what we do and try to put it in the pigeonhole."

"It was in my pigeonhole at school the day after I signed your contract."

I checked the pigeonholes to the left and then felt myself do a double take.

He had seen the clerk look in the pigeonhole marked 808.

And my three weeks' hard work has got to go into the ignominious pigeonhole.

He turned to the pigeonholes on the wall behind.

And some say that even the libertarian pigeonhole does not really fit.

The pigeonhole principle tells us that they cannot all play for different teams.

He went across the room and fished in a pigeonhole of a writing desk.

The pigeonhole was large; roomy enough for many more letters.

But doctors and patients are going to resent being forced into pigeonholes.

He had before him on the table half the contents of the Greeley pigeonhole.

In a pigeonhole of the desk was a key.

In this approach, the usual fund pigeonholes don't mean a thing.

Pigeonholes make it easier to direct particular products to the right buyers.

The clerk gave it to him, from a pigeonhole marked "618."

In other words, films can be put into pigeonholes except when their ideas can't.

The following morning, in her pigeonhole at the theatre, had been a sealed envelope.

"I have a message for you," said the clerk, reaching back into the pigeonhole that held the key.

You can rent a whole block of these pigeonholes for fifty dollars a month.

But it is only in keeping for an artist who has never been easy to pigeonhole.

But many of these freshmen Democrats are hard to pigeonhole ideologically.

A writer in multiple genres, Kennedy is particularly hard to pigeonhole.

It would be easy to pigeonhole Ian as the proverbial lonely guy.

Either way, Kline is not easy to pigeonhole.

But Professor Rice's opinions would be hard to pigeonhole.

"People who are of mixed heritage who are not easy to pigeonhole."

In terms of sound, Lynx is hard to pigeonhole since his sound has changed so much with each album.

Shaped by the 60's Mr. Lieberman is not easy to pigeonhole.

It has not been easy to pigeonhole Mr. Cox.

This weekend was a striking reminder of a central fact about George Bush: He is not easy to pigeonhole.

But Mr. Bryant is not easy to pigeonhole.

He wasn't easy to pigeonhole.

The spa salad is hard to pigeonhole, but will doubtless be a local favorite now that bathing-suit season is here.

One particularly refreshing thing about "Hole in Our Soul" is that its author is so hard to pigeonhole.

For all music lovers the danger of letting context affect your perception of an artist is that it is terribly easy to pigeonhole people.

Politically, too, he was hard to pigeonhole, voting against President Clinton's welfare bill but, at one point, in favor of support for the Nicaraguan contras.

CHINESE restaurants are often easy to pigeonhole.

Despite his pedigree as one of the administration's most hawkish advisers on national security issues, Mr. Libby is hard to pigeonhole among Washington insiders.

The band themselves stated that each new album tends to represent a reaction to the preceding one, and for this reason their output is difficult to 'pigeonhole'.

History is full of shifty characters, antique visionaries, cusp figures and half-crazy oddball innovators, later overlooked because they're hard to pigeonhole.

The band, however, has always been critical of itself and its style, believing as an entity it had yet to do anything unique and was too easy to pigeonhole.

He picks artists - Balthus, Bonnard, Rockwell Kent - who, like him, are not easy to pigeonhole.

Yet for anyone who looks beyond the surface, Dr. Satel, 45, is not easy to pigeonhole, her 5-foot-1 frame a package of unexpected twists and apparent contradictions.