The word
"pigeonhole" means to categorize or classify someone or something based on preconceived notions or stereotypes. It is like putting someone or something into a specific box or group without considering their individual qualities or characteristics.
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Often a go - to source for education reporters, Hess has worked hard to ensure that he's not
pigeonholed as a predictable conservative talking head.
Often, different family members get
pigeonholed into one specific identity which is pathologizing & limiting, and does not serve them.
That kind
of pigeonholing doesn't help us as a company, and at worst, might even preclude some future licensing opportunities.
Therapy dogs are
not pigeonholed as a certain breed of dog; instead they are dogs that thrive on social contact.
Guilt and anger, acceptance and forgiveness don't fall into neat
pigeonholes in Wim Wender's EVERY THING WILL BE FINE, a title that is what everyone aspires to in this small but powerful tale of searching for redemption.
One unhappy result is that hurry - sick employees and managers often
get pigeonholed as «anxious overachievers, a type that is useful, indeed indispensable, in organizations,» he adds.
Fast completely revamped the exterior and interior of the James Cohan gallery into a pre-gentrification Chinatown shop, complete with a dilapidated exterior, two non-working cash machines, and a grimy counter selling cheap phones and lottery tickets: A play that was well received in the art world but which sparked protests among a group of Chinatown residents who felt
pigeonholed by an out - of - touch elite.
The evolution of Jonah Hill's career offers a lesson to up and coming actors that might be
feeling pigeonholed into a particular genre or type.
The damage is done when we try to apply a «thou shalt not» blanket condemnation to the situation and
pigeonhole people into a single acceptable expression of sexuality.
Which gets right to the heart of why you should take the next online personality quiz you come across with a grain of salt (and also why you should
avoid pigeonholing others as «introverted» or «neurotic»).
When decorating your room, pick a few key items that are pretty and practical, like this lovely wall mounted
pigeonhole unit.
Often pigeonholed simply as the inventor of the mobile, Calder in fact participated in many of the vital artistic movements of his time, but it was Surrealism that rooted his art in a biomorphic universe.
Neuhaus might be forgiven his Luther «
like pigeonholing of life into roles that often are in conflict (magistrate and clergy, to use Luther's example) if it weren't so pernicious.
Even more unfortunately, based on my experiences and those of other writers I've talked to, it is the traditional publishers who cling to the
genre pigeonholes that close down access routes to writers.
This is the one thing all lawyers are going to be doing later, not
just pigeonholing into administrative law or something do with some aspect of business, which are the different courses that we take in law school.
Education reform issues have long defied easy political
pigeonholing on the left - right spectrum, generating particularly passionate debate among Democrats.
There is ongoing debate over the actual existence of baby brain, and I've even read that it's a concept that exists to
pigeonhole women into diminutive stereotypes of ditsyness and so on and... what was I saying?
Indeed, if there is anything that makes him testy it is being
so pigeonholed.
Jess Thomson, who has ghostwritten and co-authored cookbooks with chefs like Renee Erickson and has a food - related memoir upcoming, says she takes her name off not because she's not proud of the work, but rather because she doesn't want to
become pigeonholed in that particular category of cooking.
Perhaps it is time we started to look at the not so
easily pigeonholed family — we may have to accept that those families may always need the support of the court system and the experience of the judiciary.
The returning cast are in fine form — Bale is excellent; and Caine, Oldman and Freeman manage to make us forget who they really are, no mean feat with
such pigeonholed and instantly recognisable actors.
This would - be Steam Machine is intended to sit beneath the TV, but
why pigeonhole into to the living room?
Thomas sums up the ad industry's obsession with
pigeonholing simply: «what advertising is fueled by is prejudice.»
Like any respectable role - playing game, valiant decisions don't
always pigeonhole players into easily identifiable groupings - classifications are based of views of control, power, and lawfulness rather that simple diametrical views of good or evil.
While physicists are seekers of the truth who uncover sweeping laws of nature, the rest are mere collectors,
who pigeonhole things into categories.
The controls are responsive, and I never felt like I was
pigeonholed out of using different types of weapons, even though some had clear advantages against certain opponents.
This snapshot, though unable to reflect all the many elements of this vast, diverse subcontinent, seeks to include an array of topics while avoiding
cultural pigeonholing.
The laconic paintings and blown - up aphorisms in «Neil Jenney: North America» at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum here, organized by Harry Philbrick, the museum's director, are indubitably the creations of this reclusive, hard - to -
pigeonhole artist.
These efforts will simply tend to reinforce the
convenient pigeonholing of religious faith by television and the image of religious faith as just another programming option.
A
neat pigeonhole unit is ideal for family life — especially when wall - hung and out of the way — with room for change pots, car keys, bus passes and combs.
Many MMOs these days seem to
pigeonhole players into being good and pitting them against evil to save the world.
I see the key issue not about whether teachers should use a variety of teaching strategies in the classroom, but that we shouldn't
pigeonhole students, which can reinforce fixed mindsets.
His 16th novel, which follows a group of young squatters seeking refuge from the harsh demands on their generation, is both touching and timely — and showcases the unlikely adaptability of a much -
pigeonholed writer.
Knowing that seinen still lacks, even though vocal fans ask for it, kinda tells me that readers either grow out of manga or only stick with a specific type of it...
Essentially pigeonholing it -LSB-...]
The Premier Rewards Gold Card from American Express lets you accumulate travel rewards
without pigeonholing your spending.
It makes sense why a hero would keep their identity secret, but it
also pigeonholes protagonists into boring or predictable scenarios.
Outpacing neat categories that
sometimes pigeonhole the Abstract Expressionists into «colour - field» artists versus «gesturalists», Guston, Joan Mitchell and the young Helen Frankenthaler evolved their own respective visual palimpsests by the second half of the 1950s.
The American sculptor Claes Oldenburg rummages
through pigeonholes full of oddments — Coke bottles, buttons, plastic pop - eyes — fiddling about, reorganising, redistributing, mulling.
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