But it would be hard to pigeonhole him as a moderate or a hardliner.
In Los Angeles, lifestyle-identity categories that ruthlessly pigeonhole people elsewhere exist in far more porous form.
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We often like to pigeonhole things but there are so many unknowns and variables.
In his mind, it's never been that easy to pigeonhole his team, except in one regard.
Like his figures, Mr Botero is hard to pigeonhole, even among Latin American artists.
It became, and remains, bad form to pigeonhole a writer by country.
On economics, too, the Edwards brand of populism is hard to pigeonhole.
He was able to break out of his pigeonhole with "Gone Baby Gone" and "The Town" as a director of Boston crime stories.
Latino voters in the United States can be difficult to pigeonhole.
Since current salary is such a strong anchor to future prospects, taking a low salary now could pigeonhole you for years after leaving this job.
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Last year's top MTV Video Music Award winner, for example, was the eclectic, hard-to-pigeonhole Beck, who took home five of the cable channel's odd-looking silver-astronaut trophies.
"It is complicated and off-putting to an employer to have to undertake paperwork gymnastics to pigeonhole their system into a redefined set of curricular approaches, " he adds.
Members of The Mekons might have started out as punks in 1977, but three decades on, they've evolved into a category of their own, outside any pigeonhole.
"Skylight, " a penetrating study of a soured extramarital affair that made a very big splash when it played on Broadway in 1996, fits neatly into the second pigeonhole.
Instead, Mr Hatch flits confidently from one pigeonhole to another.
Yet Lord Scarman was a tricky man to pigeonhole politically.
You can't completely pigeonhole Skype when it serves both as a partial substitute for traditional phone service and an instant messaging service with voice and video on top.
The point of the prize is not however to pigeonhole authors as regional interest writers, but rather to put the spotlight on good writers who normally would not get much attention.
But he is not an easy man to pigeonhole.
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We are all educated and thinking people who will not be used by either Mr. Beckel or the hijackers of Islam in order to fit into a prefab social and ideological pigeonhole.
As the sociologist Alvin Gouldner wrote in his influential studies of group interaction, from the fifties, social identity is a role designation basically, a pigeonhole and people in a group play into, or against, the expectations it encompasses.
You need answers that will heighten their curiosity rather than satisfy it, that will not allow them to pigeonhole you as "too eager to commit" or "just a player, " even if you are in fact one or the other.
It's hard to pigeonhole it now.
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It is difficult to pigeonhole his approach, as while he praises seasonality and local produce, the peas he uses in that first dish sometimes come from Britain and sometimes from the Rungis market near Paris, depending on which are better on the day.
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Oakeshott is hard to pigeonhole.
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