pigeonhole

He said: "What is wonderful is I feel like people can often pigeonhole queer cinema, and those two films show the spectrum and diversity that can be found."

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

But while the subjects of pleasure and open-mindedness captivate her, on screen Anderson is not letting the industry pigeonhole her.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

Though it may pain me to say, as a frequent critic of Levinson’s work, it’s clear that even he knew that it would be all too easy for executives to pigeonhole Demie.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026

To see how we’ve evolved from the era of pigeonhole desks to today’s Zoom calls, it’s worth taking a close look at 10 landmark inventions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2025

She had read the name Dr. Lister off a pigeonhole on the wall behind him, because if you pretend you know someone, they’re more likely to let you in.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman

Somewhere along the way if you're a young actor coming up, you can bet there are pigeonholes for everyone.

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2024

Everything that’s wrong with this place is the way we put everyone in pigeonholes.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 8, 2020

“It pigeonholes you. I remember having a conversation with my dad in ’74.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2019

Can't it be about something bigger - anger at critics, the guy who grabbed her then sued her, the world in general that pigeonholes women?

From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2017

Amy’s chief delight was an Indian cabinet, full of queer drawers, little pigeonholes, and secret places, in which were kept all sorts of ornaments, some precious, some merely curious, all more or less antique.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

Steinem said that she was pigeonholed because of the story.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

But one gets the sense that Thatcher’s worried about being pigeonholed.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026

If he was implying that the money was specifically pigeonholed for an accelerated retirement of government securities, that’s untrue.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

British coach Fran Jones - a namesake of the British number four - found herself "pigeonholed" coaching under-14s without being aware of opportunities that existed beyond that level.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026

Jazz celebrity though he was, Duke Ellington disliked his music being pigeonholed as ‘jazz’; he preferred simply to call it ‘American music’, and he experimented in many forms and genres.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

Points, too, for the solid casting, from the leads’ tricky pivoting from openness to caginess, to the criminally underseen Wasikowska, who navigates maternal complexities of worry and compassion that confound easy pigeonholing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026

I was intrigued then when the pollster YouGuv, in combination with The Economist magazine, decided to take pigeonholing to a whole different level.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 13, 2024

Where artists used to hate being pigeonholed, now they do the pigeonholing themselves.

From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2023

It seems he had a bit of a fixation there for a couple of decades, but beyond that he defies pigeonholing.

From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2023

It offers no nifty formulas for pigeonholing people or decoding folkways and manners.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times