I loved having all that information categorized so neatly.

Thus, an issue network is not as easily identifiable or as neatly categorized as an Iron Triangle or subgovernment: "Looking for the closed triangles of control, we tend to miss the fairly open networks that increasingly impinge upon our government."

Veronica is a person whom she can't categorize neatly.

It is easier to define by what it is not: neatly categorized tropical music (salsa), regional music (Mexican accordion and brass-band styles) or Latin pop.

As a result, my cultural diet over the last several years has been largely vicarious, filtered through newspapers and magazines - all neatly categorized, headlined, predigested and spoon fed.

I looked enviously at other patients, all neatly categorized, all following a treatment plan.

Just when I think I have you neatly categorized, you say or do something that turns it all upside down again.

But as the General Accounting Office, an investigative arm of Congress, has said, "it is often impossible to neatly categorize travel as either purely business or purely political."

Many euphoriants have a "mixed" mechanism of action (MOA), which is to say they don't categorize neatly in to one of the above groups, or affect more than one system of receptors or neurotransmitters.