Closure is not a word with an easy definition.

In that moment, as it has for three decades, their collaboration defied easy definition.

"Do you want the easy definition or the hard one?"

Budden's pulled off a rare feat, but what can I say, the man's always defied easy definition.

The distinctions between worker, professional, manager or owner eluded easy definition, but it was not for lack of effort.

But even among the cardinals, easy definitions of liberal and conservative do not always fit.

The terms deregulation and reregulation do not lend themselves to easy definition.

Finally, I think that very easy definitions and very easy recipes are, by definition, suspect.

It's also a style that resists easy definition.

Ms. Horn's avoidance of easy definition is far from whimsical.