| 单词 | pliability |
| 例句 | To Sosie, Jennifer’s body was a surprise — the curves where she had expected straight planes, the pliability of a breast in her hand, the silky skin of her arms. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Allying with Trump while he was in the White House made financial sense owing to his pliability, bloated ego, and the fact that he was already a brand. What's next for Fox News without its "golden goose" 2020-11-14T05:00:00Z This pliability isn't surprising, given Lee's past cultural circumnavigations. Life of Pi's global vision 2013-01-08T17:09:37Z When a startlingly docile population is succumbing to the often treacherous locutions of a so-called strongman, this study of our essential moral pliability takes on a fresh urgency. If You Could Add One Book to the High School Curriculum, What Would It Be? 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z In the midst of these swirling sights and sounds stands a reedy, bearded man, whose angular postures suggest both unusual pliability and fragility. Review: Listening (Yes, Listening) to the Beauty of van Gogh 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z The effect was like changing channels in the dark: Jehbreal Jackson employed a rubbery pliability while rolling from one harsh angle to another. Dance Review: Dance Theater of Harlem II at the Joyce Theater 2012-02-08T22:51:28Z Radiant in Karen Erickson’s gold top and silk shorts, Ms. Whelan is a marvel in how smoothly she blends Mr. Petronio’s signature pliability with her own nervous, hard angularity to create a sense of urgency. Dance Review: Stephen Petronio, Joined by Wendy Whelan, at the Joyce 2012-03-08T00:28:50Z Mr. Neville, who will turn 72 this week, has built his vocal career on the dual impression of pliability and sincerity, whether he’s singing gospel or funk or swooning ballads or heartstring-tugging country songs. New Music: New Albums by Aaron Neville and Widowspeak 2013-01-21T23:21:29Z Sci-fi, on the other hand, is able to create a new consciousness involving the free play of intellect in a self-defining milieu of infinite pliability. Cowboys & Aliens ? review 2011-08-20T23:05:27Z What Bergson deplores is encrustation—the way in which we dry and stiffen up, taking ourselves, our poses, and our beliefs so seriously that they sap us of pliability, poise, and goodwill. Shooting the Jesters 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z The sitcom, however, with its simplistic plot line, fast-pace and pliability, is what she prefers to work with, artistically. At Hammer Museum's 'Made in L.A.' biennial, Martine Syms makes her moment 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z His rigidity is as much a survival mechanism as Jimmy’s bubble-gum pliability. Review: ‘Better Call Saul,’ Quirky and Absorbing in Season Opener 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z Along with the finely seasoned Wendy Whelan — the pliability of her body is a shock each time she steps onstage, no matter the part — there was a younger generation on view too. Dance Review: New York City Ballet in a Balanchine and Robbins Program 2012-01-27T22:23:54Z “BLACKsummers’night” is an album built around the sound of a band, with songs seemingly built for the pliability of performance. Music Review: Maxwell and Jill Scott Play Madison Square Garden 2010-06-27T22:53:00Z Made with high-protein flour for pliability, the noodles are at once elastic and dense, just short of al dente, demanding more of the teeth. The Sound and Fury of Handmade Dough at Very Fresh Noodles 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z “The shoulder capsule — it’s a thin lining around the joint itself — has to maintain a delicate balance between flexibility, pliability and also integrity,” Fu said. What is frozen shoulder? Symptoms, treatment and a possible pandemic connection. 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z And the people in charge of the property believe it still has plenty of longevity, as well as pliability and potential for further growth, if they stay true to its idiosyncratic values. Can ‘Star Trek’ Chart a Way Forward? 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z By turns fearful and fearless, she used her pliability to show how Odette is a creature from another world: a princess-turned-swan, but, above all, a woman. In ‘Swan Lake,’ Mariinsky Ballet Shows Off a New Generation 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z Which is not to say that pliability is a cakewalk. So, You Say You Want to Do the Splits? 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z This pliability is an asset when collaborating — he never forces someone out of their comfort zone. Review: Jason Derulo Glides Across Genres on ‘Everything Is 4’ 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z In a brilliant critical move Kermode argues that it is the very pliability of the classic, its unfixed quality, that is its essence. Frank Kermode: a tribute by John Sutherland 2010-08-20T23:22:00Z But it’s a bit of a misnomer: he is more obsessed with crunch and pliability, lightness and heft. In Verona, Pizza That Is All About the Crust 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z She was also drawn to “that kind of pliability and mutability of language” — the ability to mold it, to persuade even on the starkest of stages, to defend the worst of crimes. Katie Kitamura and the Cognitive Dissonance of Being Alive Right Now 2021-07-11T04:00:00Z In the hands of the powerful, that pliability has had harsh consequences for centuries. How the author of 'California, a Slave State' revised our too-sunny history 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z “It shows the pliability of Scripture - the way that each group tries to marshal arguments on its behalf,” he said. America’s religious leaders sharply divided over abortion, a year after Roe v Wade’s reversal 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z “It shows the pliability of Scripture — the way that each group tries to marshal arguments on its behalf,” he said. America’s religious leaders sharply divided over abortion, a year after Roe v. Wade’s reversal. 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z Of course the two-time Academy Award-winning actress ditched that pliability long ago. How Sexist Is Hollywood? Check Out Geena Davis’s Spreadsheet 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z Tires use many materials and this new one transitions away from petroleum products to surplus soybean oil to maintain pliability. CES 2023: Companies tout environmental tech innovations 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z But he denies this spells pliability to their demands. Analysis: Will Netanyahu clip the wings of his new cabinet hawks? 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z The New York Times called Brady’s book “short on science,” casting doubt on the concept of pliability and his disregard for the nightshade foods, including tomatoes, strawberries, eggplant and potatoes. Florida students study Tom Brady’s controversial fitness program 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z But he said he had concerns with the word “pliability” being taught in schools as though it was scientifically proven. Tom Brady’s TB12 Method is in schools. Experts have doubts. 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z It has also been pointed out that Kelvin failed to consider pliability and convection in the Earth’s mantle as a heat transfer mechanism. An Introduction to Geology 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z “Titane” is an essay, etched in rivulets of blood and oil, on the mutability of gender and the pliability of desire. Review: Outré sex and violence aside, Cannes-winning 'Titane' is a surprisingly sweet love story 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z The combination requires pliability of both body and mind, along with a knack for tuning out worldly distractions. Expanding the consciousness among the dead: Hypno-yoga at Hollywood Forever 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z They have picked up words like “pliability,” used vibrating foam rollers and spheres to loosen up and assessed each other as they lower their bodies into squats and planks. Florida students study Tom Brady’s controversial fitness program 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z He endorses instead exercise bands and something he calls “pliability,” which includes an emphasis on flexibility and massage. Tom Brady’s TB12 Method is in schools. Experts have doubts. 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z Guerrero added that focusing on pliability, be it through training or lifestyle changes, minimizes the risk of injury and pain. Tom Brady's longtime trainer Alex Guerrero talks TB12 method, performance and recovery 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z Brady has marketed his longevity, packaged it into something called the TB12 Method, and explained it in a 2017 book espousing muscle “pliability.” Through Genetics, Luck or ‘Prehab,’ Tom Brady Endures at 43 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z Of course, political pliability was probably never going to be a prominent feature in a contest between two proud men in their 70s. Trump Tries One Last Debate Trick: Be Less Like Himself 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z He defined pliability as “a way of flexibility” and something that “softens your muscles.” Florida students study Tom Brady’s controversial fitness program 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z Her recent switch from tight-money advocacy when Barack Obama was president to low-interest policy favored by Mr. Trump implies that he saw Ms. Shelton’s pliability as her main qualification. Opinion | Senate Republicans haven’t stood on principle often. Rejecting this unqualified Fed nominee would be a good time to start. 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z "The result of pliability is that you recover faster, play better, and spend less time on the sidelines." Tom Brady's longtime trainer Alex Guerrero talks TB12 method, performance and recovery 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z “Balderdash,” one physiology professor has said of the pliability theory. Through Genetics, Luck or ‘Prehab,’ Tom Brady Endures at 43 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z That muscle pliability as a concept is roundly rejected by exercise scientists is beside the point; as Brady’s scripture professes: “Feeling better – that’s the key” Tom Brady's pseudoscientific wellness racket is the American dream | Bryan Armen Graham 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z In order of pliability – from hardest to softest – pound the ingredients using a mortar and pestle and long handled spoon. Before you hang up your apron, make a red curry paste 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z Iranians, from the ruling elite to traders in the bazaar, read Trump’s comments in May in Japan as a sign of the president’s pliability. Opinion | Democratic candidates must get tough on Iran. They could seize the high ground. 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z Several recipients of the checks denied in interviews that the money was intended to buy their silence or pliability. Vatican cardinal, other priests to return cash gifts from ousted West Virginia bishop Michael Bransfield 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z It’s only natural that, as teams redefine how talent is used, the pliability would extend to the game’s most important position. Perspective | Kyler Murray isn’t a typical NFL quarterback. That’s why he can change the league. 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z She notes that contemporary culture tends to accept the pliability of the self, citing Rachel Dolezal as an example. Review | The delight of being inconspicuous in a world that’s always watching us 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z The loss of pliability in a helmet that became more difficult to put on and take off throughout the frigid afternoon was a nuisance. Will Chiefs or Patriots be left out in cold after AFC championship game? 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z It plans to use this information to rank everyone according to their pliability and social utility, and it will reward and punish them accordingly. Opinion | If the Chinese look to the West for a democratic model, what are we showing them? 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z But much of his agenda would be dictated by the pliability of the legislature, which is likely to remain under Republican control, making many of his promises difficult to honor on his own. Andrew Gillum, a Florida Insider Running as a Progressive Outsider 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Depending on what a customer wants, steel makers mix in ingredients like nickel, molybdenum or titanium to create differing degrees of hardness, pliability or resistance to corrosion. When Designer Steel From Lapland Makes Sense, DespiteTariffs 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Given the pliability of testimony of small children, I have to give him the benefit of a doubt. He Was Convicted of Molesting a 6-Year Old. Should He Have a Future in Baseball? 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z Maybe it’s the pliability bands and the dandelion salads that have granted Brady his elastic longevity. Perspective | The secret of the Patriots’ success can’t be found in coconut water or goji berries 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Angelina is a 12-year-old competitive dancer, and canny to the ways in which technical acuity and preadolescent pliability can be combined to her advantage. Inside the High-Drama World of Youth Competition Dance 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z And the denser muscles are, the more pliability they need.” Inside Tom Brady's strange pseudoscience: bioceramic sleepwear and neutral ash 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z The problem with this notion is that exercise science has never heard of muscle pliability. Tom Brady’s ‘The TB12 Method’ Is Hefty but Short on Science 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z Also, five-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady, uncut and relatively scrawny but better than ever as he hits 40, is strongly endorsing muscle pliability and suppleness over bulk. Survival of the Fittest? - Golf Digest 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z One of Zeitels’ patented innovations is to apply a biomaterial – a gel implant – in the tissue of damaged vocal cords to restore pliability. Why do stars like Adele keep losing their voice? 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z He uses resistance bands and anti-gravity treadmills and focuses as much on pliability as strength. Tom Brady rejected NFL’s medical culture. At almost 40, he’s never played better. 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z Rigidity is your enemy while pliability is your friend. There’s a right way to fall, and here’s how to do it 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z Mr. Brady and Mr. Guerrero have not conducted or published clinical trials of muscle pliability. Tom Brady’s ‘The TB12 Method’ Is Hefty but Short on Science 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z Duality informs much of Nguyen’s work, which extrapolates the personal to the universal to explore nationalism, history, atrocity, truth and lies, ethical pliability and how, depending on allegiances, one person’s monster is another’s liberator. National Book Award finalist Viet Thanh Nguyen speaks out on war, capitalism and Donald Trump 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z But pliability on the Trump question has been the rule, not the exception. How Donald Trump convinced the Republican party to revolve around him 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z Blake is a deceptively frail vocalist; his voice retains a pliability usually lost in people who are falling apart. On The Colour in Anything, James Blake finds comfort in emptiness 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z While traditional training in football emphasizes the building of muscle strength, Guerrero’s also focuses on pliability, which Brady equates to sponginess and elasticity. Tom Brady Cannot Stop 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z Mr. Brady attributes much of his unusually long N.F.L. career and the relatively little playing time he has lost to injuries to this kind of gnomic self-talk and his muscular pliability. Tom Brady’s ‘The TB12 Method’ Is Hefty but Short on Science 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z The smartphone insurance company SquareTrade told me that due to the perceived pliability of Apple's Apple's latest creation, they would be including a new category in their famous stress tests. Smartphones Of The Future Set To Use Graphene Touchscreens 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z Conformist lends pliability and hold, best on hair that is 1-2.5 inches long. Easy Summer Styles From The Biggest Names In Hairdressing 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z And she is a mesmerizing performer with her exceptional pliability, seeming to raise and stretch her leg beyond 180 degrees in her layback spin. A Battle for Gold and Posterity 2014-02-17T21:10:43Z They feed off the pesky energy of Joakim Noah and the bruising forcefulness of Carlos Boozer inside, as well as the brashness of Robinson and the pliability of forward Luol Deng. Nets Must Dig Deep to Stay With Bulls 2013-04-29T03:21:00Z Mere massage does not produce pliability, they write. Tom Brady’s ‘The TB12 Method’ Is Hefty but Short on Science 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z That the fight took place at all was a testament to the pliability of the W.B.A. Gerrie Coetzee vs. John Tate in Apartheid-Era South Africa 2012-10-21T06:00:06Z About 90% of human voice loss is because of lost pliability. Can gel vocal cords heal voices? 2012-08-20T22:44:54Z This pliability has been much urged against him; but after the re-establishment of Arnoul, a perseverance in retaining Bertha would have led almost infallibly to fatal consequences. The Power Of The Popes 2012-03-27T02:00:20.043Z Mr. Romney’s political opponents seized on the image as a sinister expression of the candidate’s pliability. Etch A Sketch Becomes a Symbol of Second Chances 2012-03-21T22:22:27Z On the huge PubMed online database of published science, I found only one experiment that contains the words pliability and muscles, and it concerned the efficacy of different embalming techniques. Tom Brady’s ‘The TB12 Method’ Is Hefty but Short on Science 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z This substance is undoubtedly designed not only to nourish the hair, but to give it richness and pliability. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. 2012-03-21T02:00:35.167Z Petrarch's epistle, eulogizing the virtues and recounting the glory of the tyrant, remains a humiliating record of the power of wealth and greatness, and the pliability of genius. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z Spires and plants are not endowed with equal pliability, and the idea of one of the former waving about, or nodding gracefully, suggests an immediate "stand from under." Mathieu Ropars: et cetera 2012-03-15T02:00:28.013Z After a number of years experimenting, Yeaton at last hit upon this invention, which consists of a number of thin layers of boards of different degrees of hardness glued together to give pliability. The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young 2012-02-03T03:00:20.453Z Overcast′ing, the action of the verb overcast: in bookbinding, a method of oversewing single leaves in hem-stitch style to give the pliability of folded double leaves. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) 2012-01-30T03:00:13.887Z Bad management impairs the pliability of the wool, by arresting the secretion of the yolk. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. 2012-03-21T02:00:35.167Z It is a great mistake to suppose that assertiveness is the only mannish trait taken on by successful women, nor is pliability the only feminine mark they lose. A Woman of Genius 2012-01-18T03:00:09.517Z It usually happens that those species which have the greatest pliability of organization, those which are most capable of accommodating themselves to a great variety of new circumstances, are most serviceable to man. On the Variation of Species, with Especial Reference to the Insecta ; Followed by an Inquiry into the Nature of Genera 2012-01-17T03:00:21.933Z His claims rested on his abilities, but even more on the friendship of the Duke of Cumberland; perhaps, too, on a presumed pliability. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z The laws of mechanism are the same whether applied to a man, or to a lever, or a wheel; but the man has more pliability than any combination of wheels and levers. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z The pliability and adaptability of his mind, his easy transitions from grave to gay, his sympathy with all a friend's interests and feelings, are visible in every page. Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 2011-12-06T03:00:20.687Z Particular soils injurious to Wool.—Soil, also, has much influence on the pliability of wool. A Treatise on Sheep: The Best Means for their Improvement, General Management, and the Treatment of their Diseases. 2011-12-04T03:00:03.890Z You see, then, why at first I experienced resistances, in spite of the pliability of the neck, of which I could not imagine the cause. New Method of Horsemanship Including the Breaking and Training of Horses, with Instructions for Obtaining a Good Seat. 2011-12-03T03:00:11.190Z The higher organisms are more adaptable, because there is more to be modified in them,—more nerves and synapses, more pliability. John Dewey's logical theory 2011-11-28T03:00:21.547Z It corresponded to the pliability of her body; it would have been a face in which some clever actress might have found a fortune. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z His pliability endeared him to his master, whose lasting affection he earned. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z It was a drowsy image, the head fallen upon a hand, the lids drooping, the relaxation of all the muscles giving softness and pliability to the pose. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z This exercise must be frequently repeated, even after the horse's education is completed, in order to keep up the pliability, and facilitate the getting him in hand. New Method of Horsemanship Including the Breaking and Training of Horses, with Instructions for Obtaining a Good Seat. 2011-12-03T03:00:11.190Z The stiff, upright, careful old man cannot understand the jocund pliability of the boy, who, nevertheless, simply expends the superfluity of his natural vigor, and relieves his excess of nervous excitability. Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 2011-10-15T02:00:25.820Z The weak pliability, miscalled mercy, which is supposed to be worked upon by a mediator, is a human infirmity which men have transferred to their idea of God. My Path to Atheism 2011-08-30T02:00:29.183Z He had been born with the customary number of bones in his vertebra, wonderfully joined together after Dame Nature’s regular custom and good style of workmanship, with suitable muscle and nerve to give proper pliability. Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family 2011-07-08T02:00:20.557Z Charles I was a man of staunch self-righteousness, who had little of pliability and much of stubbornness in his nature. The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 2011-07-06T02:00:47.077Z Besides, it is important that the pliability and flexibility, especially necessary in the upper part of the neck, should be transmitted throughout its whole extent, so as to destroy its stiffness entirely. New Method of Horsemanship Including the Breaking and Training of Horses, with Instructions for Obtaining a Good Seat. 2011-12-03T03:00:11.190Z But Troilus, with his tearfulness and emotionalism, his readiness to procrastinate and to look to others to help him out of his difficulties, with something of Bassanio’s gallantry and attractiveness, has also Bassanio’s pliability. Chaucer and His Times 2011-06-30T02:00:26.883Z The most likely reason is—as most repairers have concluded—the absence of thread, its lightness, pliability and evenness of texture, being thereby adapted for the necessary long strips for fitting round the curves. Antonio Stradivari 2011-06-28T02:00:11.050Z It is indescribable what pliability of all ideas is thereby communicated to children's minds. The Invisible Lodge 2011-06-09T02:00:19.470Z She listened intelligently, and with a pliability—he did not then know about the Bishop's training—rarely to be found in combination with intelligence. The Pastor's Wife 2011-06-02T02:00:23.873Z Thus, by means of this direct force a few lessons will be sufficient to give a pliability to the part in question that could not have been obtained by any other means. New Method of Horsemanship Including the Breaking and Training of Horses, with Instructions for Obtaining a Good Seat. 2011-12-03T03:00:11.190Z Such thread is covered with tin foil for embroidery, its pliability rendering it peculiarly fit for the purpose. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland 2011-05-10T02:01:00.460Z Honest Coachee was then fined twenty shillings for the pliability of his conscience, and he left the office, observing, "I'll take 'nation good care how I gets into this here sort of a scrape again!" Mornings at Bow Street A Selection of the Most Humorous and Entertaining Reports which Have Appeared in the 'Morning Herald' 2011-04-08T02:00:09.863Z Expressly designed to give ease and pliability when playing, support to the ankles, and a firm grip of the ground, ensuring great power when kicking. Association Football And How To Play It 2011-03-27T02:00:16.723Z She arrived, therefore, at Kökensee with her mind a blank from prejudice, and finding the atmosphere thick with babies immediately with her usual uninquiring pliability adopted the prevailing attitude and was not shy either. The Pastor's Wife 2011-06-02T02:00:23.873Z But for once Mr. Harborough's love of sport exceeds his pliability. Doctor Cupid 2011-03-13T03:00:23.987Z This requires a combination of various qualities, strength, hardness, elasticity and pliability. Wood and Forest 2011-03-01T03:00:42.647Z He loved his prudence as an artistic capability, and was glad to give proofs, by all kinds of virtuoso performances, of its extent and unusual pliability. Asbe?n From the Life of a Virtuoso 2011-02-27T03:00:30.780Z Youthful recollections!" said the Doctor, as he removed his felt hat, and took advantage of its pliability to press it into diverse forms, "who has not similar ones to note down in his diaries? Withered Leaves. Vol. I. (of III) A Novel 2011-02-25T03:01:10.707Z Richard Feynman memorably demonstrated this effect on television by dipping a sample of the material in ice water to show how it quickly lost its pliability. Challenger remembered 2011-01-28T11:18:37Z A rope-dancer trains his pupils to the continual contraction and dilatation of their muscles, that they may acquire the more pliability. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 2010-12-31T03:00:11.350Z In woods like hickory and ash, however, which are used for purposes that require pliability, as in baskets, or elasticity as in handles of rakes and hoes, sap-wood is more valuable than heart-wood. Wood and Forest 2011-03-01T03:00:42.647Z "You're getting the blood flowing, which improves the pliability of the tendon and muscle," says Spivey, who does dynamic stretching for 10 minutes before a workout and static for 10 after. Exercisers debate stretching 2010-09-24T20:49:00Z Having done so, as they report in Psychological Science, they tested those volunteers’ moral pliability. 2010-01-21T10:37:00Z It must be ample and symmetrically proportioned; and its material must have sufficient stiffness as well as pliability—drapery always requires a certain volume of material to be effective. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 His most striking characteristic is pliability and dexterity. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. Henry’s pride also was wounded by a suggestion of the French that, as a return for Clement’s pliability, Alexander de Medici, Duke of Florence, might marry the Princess Mary. The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History The list might be enlarged almost indefinitely from the gallery of female characters, in view of the greater pliability and more habitual dependence of the nature of women. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" Still “Browne,” with all his pliability, found it a hard matter to please him. English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. It is a pliability of mind which no honourable man requires in conversation, and which he does not approve. Talkers With Illustrations This is done several times and results in the removal of considerable moisture, the prevention of wrinkling, and greater pliability of the straw. Philippine Mats Philippine Craftsman Reprint Series No. 1 There was about him a sturdy persistence and the good common sense that lends an adaptiveness or pliability of disposition, so to speak, that is often mistaken for content. Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart If time and maturity had improved Raoul's person, and added the strength and majesty of manhood to the grace and pliability of youth, infinitely more had it bestowed on the beauty of his betrothed. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 3 September 1848 They had found Congress as generous as the tramp had found the Mayor of Alton, and now reproached themselves for their modesty and resolved to bring the pliability of Congress to a severer test. The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses I have often been struck with the delicate pliability of the Chinese expression and taste that might suggest a broader and deeper criticism than is becoming these pages. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index Then, too, his massive intellect made him wanting in pliability. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice So common a plant, with the peculiar pliability of the shoots that distinguishes all the family, was sure to be made much use of. The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Only this thorough training guarantees good individual riding, and insures the 'pliability' which alone makes it possible to correct disobedience rapidly should it arise. Cavalry in Future Wars If I fail, recollect that he is not proverbial for pliability. Macaria On the other hand, its pliability as to form is very small, and therefore the cost of coining it would be high. Principles Of Political Economy The first stage is getting the liquid mass of glass about to be operated upon into a thorough state of toughness and pliability: one should be able to pull it like rosin or sealing-wax. Little Folks (July 1884) A Magazine for the Young In many cases, it seemed to me, that they were chosen for their superior stupidity and pliability. British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo His conduct has been loyal and frank, nor does he seem to exhibit that pliability in principles too common among this nation. Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez. Vol II In this way, too, the wickedness of many would have been restrained whose audacity to revile grew from your pliability, as they called it. Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church On account of its pliability it is easily adapted to the walls and margins, and a perfect fit is made, thus preventing capillary action and preventing further caries. Tin Foil and Its Combinations for Filling Teeth Napoleon, flushed with this unexpected success, was encouraged to make further trial of the pliability of the British diplomatists. The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) When dried the leather should always be treated with dressing to restore its pliability. Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition His docility and mental pliability exceed those of any other animal; his habits are social, and his fidelity not to be shaken; hunger cannot weaken, nor old age impair it. Anecdotes of Dogs Through its pliability, which is almost unlimited, it produces in equal measure absurd comparisons and very original inventions. Essay on the Creative Imagination A little more pliability—all you ever lacked, and which your trouble should have brought you, could make it so that we could live together in very perfect harmony. Letters of a Dakota Divorcee A young bird can be distinguished from an old one by the pliability of the tip of the breastbone. American Cookery November, 1921 Leather requires oil to preserve its pliability, and if not supplied will become brittle, crack, and break easily under strain. Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition Each fiber of all muscles owes its pliability to that yielding septum-washer, that gives all muscles help to glide over and around all adjacent muscles and ligaments, without friction or jar. Philosophy of Osteopathy There is every reason to suppose that their mental capacities in other directions have something of the same pliability. Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization Rachel looked at her father quickly, but with a pliability surprising in the male mind he managed to look unconscious. The Arbiter A Novel Drink, my children: health consists in the pliability and moisture of the parts. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I Thereafter it is entirely a matter of judgment, as indicated by the appearance and pliability of the leather. Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition It was not clever to rest so much on the pliability of a “society lady” with whom she was unacquainted. The Arena Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891 They will only remain to later ages as monuments of the patience and pliability with which the people of the nineteenth century sacrificed their feelings to fashions, and their intellects to forms. Lectures on Architecture and Painting Delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853 The sweet brightness of her manner was mingled with dignity, with the comprehensive sympathy and pliability of a woman of the world; an innate distinction of mind and person radiated from her looks. The Arbiter A Novel The effect of disease and emaciation upon the pliability of the skin have been referred to above. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Half a dozen Moors sit round this repast, on cushions or on the ground, cross-legged; a position which they remain in with perfect ease and pliability from custom and the loose dress they wear. An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa That prelate owed his appointment mainly to the pliability of his temper, and to the assumption on the monarch's part that he would prove a ready tool. The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa The grander the nature the greater its pliability towards truth. The Love Affairs of an Old Maid Indeed, all of these little ones inherited in a great degree that sweet pliability of character for which the Otaheitan women were, and we believe still are, famous. The Lonely Island The Refuge of the Mutineers They demanded that the patched and stiff leathern bottle, which had no elasticity or pliability, should still contain the quick fermenting new wine of the kingdom. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. The unusual pliability of the spine and joints with which they are endowed, imparts agility, elasticity, and elegance to their movements, whilst the happy proportions of their limbs give grace to every attitude. The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 She studied the whip and tested its hissing pliability. The Secret of the Storm Country There is no more pliability in her with regard to Asbury than there is in a steel rod. The Love Affairs of an Old Maid In texture and pliability these hats are said to even surpass the genuine "Panamas," are absolutely impervious to rain, and can be produced at a much lower cost. Ranching, Sport and Travel He had been promoted out of office, and they were now pressed upon the judgment and pliability of another. Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams. Neteen or fly net— A stiff open-meshed material—comes in black, white, and ecru, one yard wide—a very popular material on account of its great pliability and lightness. Make Your Own Hats But we owe no less to Mrs Piper, who has lent herself to the investigations with perfect good faith and pliability. Mrs. Piper & the Society for Psychical Research "That retiring and gentle temperament," said Genji, "gives far greater beauty to women than all beside, for to have no natural pliability makes women utterly worthless." Japanese Literature Including Selections from Genji Monogatari and Classical Poetry and Drama of Japan I feel the pliability of my organs plainly as soon as I sing higher. How to Sing [Meine Gesangskunst] It was only the pliability of the moccasins, which each man was wearing, that made the journey possible. The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon It is prohibited to blacken them or to diminish their pliability. Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. The situation was not new, nor was there any novelty in Michael's pliability. Prisoners Fast Bound In Misery And Iron She could not conceive how anybody might be different from her and from Tyope, and of course she had no doubt concerning his ultimate pliability. The Delight Makers I feel like a child, full of joy and pliability; and all ambition of every character seems to have left me. Life of Father Hecker We accepted you; the pliability of your features, your studied orations, your premeditated axioms—all those productions of art that nature disavows, seemed suspicious to the more clear-sighted patriots. History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution Behind it dangled from dusty pegs portions of leather harness, which all the neat's-foot oil of the military pharmacopœia could never again restore to softness or pliability. Foes in Ambush Wych Hazel waited—a slight growing doubt on the subject of his deafness not increasing the pliability of her mood. Wych Hazel The most distinctive feature of Roman rule during the early period of expansion was its marvellous elasticity and pliability. Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 Mrs. Floyd's smile implied a certain confidence in his credulity and pliability that was galling to his proud spirit. Westerfelt Dumouriez soon became an object of suspicion to them for his mind escaped their dominion by its greatness, and his character escaped fanaticism by its pliability. History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution There is much pliability of meaning, however, in an interjection; and in company, where there are always several persons who are anxious to be heard, it is a positive virtue. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 425 Volume 17, New Series, February 21, 1852 The men are here distinguished by that softness and pliability of character, which properly belongs to women. Corinne, Volume 1 (of 2) Or Italy They are made of willow, on account of its toughness and pliability. The Ladies' Vase Polite Manual for Young Ladies She is uncompromisingly Anglo-Saxon and lacks that pliability which would endear her to the children of another race. The Onlooker, Volume 1, Part 2 Now all sound educational work must possess an intrinsic quality of pliability: it must grow, expand, and be capable of development in a hundred ways. Music As A Language Lectures to Music Students The reason of this pliability on his part was, that Phelim being every person's friend, by his good nature, was nobody's foe, except for the day. Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three The operation of transforming the skin into leather is now finished, but age is necessary to secure perfect pliability and softness. Scientific American Supplement, No. 794, March 21, 1891 There is no pliability in a curtain, it does not show more night than it has. Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein With Two Shorter Stories Yet I am willing to forgo these advantages when I consider the wonderful pliability of the gut strings for which Stradivarius built his violins. Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers It was not easy for him to get into the state of political pliability that he saw others assume so readily. The Ramrodders A Novel But it is perfectly clear that this quality in the man of affairs, which is akin to the artistic temperament, may very easily degenerate into mere pliability. Success (Second Edition) Its operation is accompanied by that of others whose purpose is to secure elasticity and pliability, and mainly to preserve that beautiful texture which makes kid leather superior to all others. Scientific American Supplement, No. 794, March 21, 1891 It was his pliability in Bassett's hands, manifested at the convention where he had appeared as the boss's spokesman, that had earned him Sylvia's first rebuke. A Hoosier Chronicle It is a great handicap to begin really serious work at seventeen or eighteen, when the flexible bones of childhood have hardened, and have not the pliability needed for violin gymnastics. Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers Nature gives each of us the neural clay, with its properties of pliability and of receiving impressions; nurture moulds and fashions it, until a character is formed, a mingling of innate disposition and acquired powers. Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia Their Causes, Symptoms, & Treatment There is no more unsafe politician than a conscientiously rigid doctrinaire, nothing more sure to end in disaster than a theoretic volume of policy that admits of no pliability for contingencies.—J.R. Rebuilding Britain A Survey of Problems of Reconstruction After the World War After they are dyed the skins are sometimes somewhat hard, and in some classes have to be staked again in order to restore their pliability. Scientific American Supplement, No. 794, March 21, 1891 He found that he could be contented in almost any environment, the weakness, the certain pliability of his character easily fitting itself into new grooves, reshaping itself to suit new circumstances. Vandover and the Brute But this amiable pliability, while angering very many of the Orleanists, failed to move the monarch-designate by one hair's-breadth from those principles of divine right against which the more liberal monarchists always protested. The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) This is due partly to the richness and pliability of the language itself. Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations This illustrates the force of established habit, and the pliability of our nature in yielding a voluntary subjection to it. The Christian Home Writing depends upon so many things—a firm grasp of the pen, a pliability of the muscles, clearness of vision and brain power—even the writing materials, pens, ink and paper, all make a difference. Disputed Handwriting An exhaustive, valuable, and comprehensive work upon one of the most important subjects of to-day. With illustrations and expositions for the detection and study of forgery by handwriting of all kinds There are many others, less serious in their nature, such as indecision, exaggerated scrupulousness, extreme pliability, hypochondria. Poise: How to Attain It I assure you I am pliability itself in delicate fingers—although iron and steel to a threatening hand.... The Fortieth Door The gate proper was made of wire, webbed together with stays, admitting of a pliability which served a double purpose. Wells Brothers The Young Cattle Kings Hence, the child will not appreciate the parent’s motive, and will lack that pliability of spirit which is essential to reformation. The Christian Home He had lost the good-humor and easy pliability which had tempted him to frankness, and he had gradually become bitter and hard. Frontier Stories Boiling produces a condition of great pliability, especially in the case of hardwoods. The Mechanical Properties of Wood Including a Discussion of the Factors Affecting the Mechanical Properties, and Methods of Timber Testing And what a voice for power, pathos, pliability! Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 It gives just pliability enough to lay the belt flat upon the pulley. Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887 Its pliability at that period insures its free assimilation to the spirit and truth of religion. The Christian Home Sweet pliability of man’s spirit, that can at once surrender itself to illusions, which cheat expectation and sorrow of their weary moments! A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy Toughness is dependent upon the strength, cohesion, quality, length, and arrangement of fibre, and the pliability of the wood. The Mechanical Properties of Wood Including a Discussion of the Factors Affecting the Mechanical Properties, and Methods of Timber Testing He had all a true vagabond's pliability to circumstances and adaptiveness to momentary surroundings. An Outcast of the Islands Her expression—bright, frank, and intelligent—appeared, while she was silent, to be altogether wanting in those feminine attractions of gentleness and pliability, without which the beauty of the handsomest woman alive is beauty incomplete. The Woman in White The fair-haired beauty had a large proportion of that softness and pliability of temper which physiognomists assign as the characteristics of such complexions. The Purcell Papers — Volume 1 She was smaller and thinner than Lily Bart, with a restless pliability of pose, as if she could have been crumpled up and run through a ring, like the sinuous draperies she affected. House of Mirth Flexibility is not the exact counterpart of stiffness, as it also involves toughness and pliability. The Mechanical Properties of Wood Including a Discussion of the Factors Affecting the Mechanical Properties, and Methods of Timber Testing Brittleness has given place to pliability, but the pens are black in color and scratch at the point, and to remedy this defect they are subjected to the next process—scouring. The Story of the Invention of Steel Pens With a Description of the Manufacturing Process by Which They Are Produced She used to be pliability itself, but she was now inflexibly passive in her resignation—I might almost say in her despair. The Woman in White His beauty, his pliability--whatever he really possessed, or whatever the fond eye of a mother fancied he possessed--all was forgotten, lost, and annihilated in God. Female Scripture Biographies, Volume I His religious enthusiasm stopped short of fanaticism; his pliability would not bend so low as duplicity. The Slave of the Lamp It had the further effect of increasing the haughtiness of the Boer leaders, and infusing a corresponding spirit of pliability or generosity into the negotiations of Her Majesty's Government. Cetywayo and his White Neighbours Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal I have lost my pliability, lost my humanity. The Far Horizon The Arabic is characterized by its guttural sounds, by the richness and pliability of its vowels, by its dignity, volume of sound, and vigor of accentuation and pronunciation. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities His apparent pliability hid a dexterity which evaded every recognized principle. The Native Born or, the Rajah's People In his nature, there is the fatal pliability which finds companionable qualities in bad friends. Blind Love He would not be in possession and so predominant if he had not these qualities, and great pliability of instinct and readiness to seize on vacant places. Birds in Town and Village We cannot reflect on the effects of these inundations without admiring the prodigious pliability of the organization of the animals which man has subjected to his sway. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 The parallel position and toughness of its fibers render it easy to split, and, when split, its pieces are of extraordinary pliability and elasticity. The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes Drink, my children; health consists in the pliability and moisture of the parts. International Short Stories: French There is no magic water, a drop of which will restore to them the vitality and pliability of their youth. Mercy Philbrick's Choice They afford us again ground for believing, that there is a peculiar softness, and plasticity, and pliability in the African character. Thoughts on the Necessity of Improving the Condition of the Slaves in the British Colonies With a View to Their Ultimate Emancipation; and on the Practicability, the Safety, and the Advantages of the Latter Measure. There is by far too much pliability about him for principle of any kind, unless indeed it be a principle to please, no matter how. Precaution My Lords, the explanation of this is to be found in the placability, perchance, I may say, in the facility and pliability, of the female sex. The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 Inez has all the pliability of an only daughter, and the readiness with which she accepts the advances of a mere adventurer ought to rouse your anxiety. Vautrin And while by the pliability of his disposition he avoided making enemies, by his readiness to oblige, he learned the surest way of making friends by becoming useful to them. Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 1 There is, as I have observed before, a singular pliability in the constitutional temper of the Negroes, and they have besides a quick sense of their own interest, which influences their conduct. Thoughts on the Necessity of Improving the Condition of the Slaves in the British Colonies With a View to Their Ultimate Emancipation; and on the Practicability, the Safety, and the Advantages of the Latter Measure. There was a row of eight of these snug-built machines, all the same type and monogram, all with machine guns strapped solidly to the fuselage of each, and with motors of great power and pliability. Our Pilots in the Air You haven't pliability enough for a schoolmaster; you're too isolated, too much out of the common run; your ideas are too peculiar. Philistia "You seem to have lost a certain pliability, or perhaps I ought to call it looseness of disposition," he admitted. The Great Impersonation My sister was and still continued to be an undefinable being, the most singular mixture of strength and weakness, of stubbornness and pliability, which qualities operated now united, now isolated by will and inclination. Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life "Well, I haven't finished thinking it out yet," said Mr. Fairfield, who, in spite of his apparent pliability, had a strong will of his own. Patty in Paris All this betokened a native refinement of soul, else he could never have evinced the pliability which had rendered him so pleasant and agreeable a companion to her he secretly loved. The Sea-Witch Or, the African Quadroon : a Story of the Slave Coast A man born here is distinguishable by his gait from among an hundred other men, so remarkable are they for a pliability of sinews, and a peculiar agility, which attends them even to old age. Letters from an American Farmer Even at the risk of offending France, England is showing wonderful pliability with regard to our claims in Morocco. The Great Impersonation Those particles alone—there was something ambiguous, something almost disreputable, in their jocund pliability, their readiness to lend themselves to improper uses. South Wind The counter-assertion of the natural indifference of men, their pliability to circumstance, while it is certainly truer to our modern experience, is also in itself more hopeful, more congruous with all the processes of education. Plato and Platonism In the embalming it had lost nothing of its beautiful shape; even the wrist seemed to maintain its pliability as the gentle curve lay on the cushion. The Jewel of Seven Stars Beware, my dear, of ever falling into unskilful or bad hands, for then you would be lost, notwithstanding your elasticity and pliability. Louisa of Prussia and Her Times Because of all these things—his ability, such as it was, his pliability, and his thoroughly respectable savor—he had been slated as candidate for mayor on the Republican ticket, which had subsequently been elected. The Titan Gifted with a disposition the pliability of which adapted itself to all emergencies, his generosity disarmed enemies, while his affability made friends. Antonina The Upavishta, majlis, or sitting postures, when one or both "sit at squat" somewhat like birds, appear utterly impossible to Europeans who lack the pliability of the Eastern's limbs. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 03 On the other hand, temperamental pliability and lovableness were the directing traits of the man who, in his way, made contributions quite as solid to the extension of the Pittsburgh steel industry. The Age of Big Business; a chronicle of the captains of industry With fruit-trees, it is well known that certain varieties, for instance of the peach, stand forcing in a hot-house better than others; and this shows either pliability of organisation or some constitutional difference. The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 Cowperwood detected that pliability of intellect which, while it might spell disaster to some, spelled success for him. The Titan He had all its pliability, its good humor, its broad and easy way with things, its passion for playing politics. Abraham Lincoln and the Union; a chronicle of the embattled North He had lost the good humor and easy pliability which had tempted him to frankness, and he had gradually become bitter and hard. Found at Blazing Star He had a steely colourlessness, and a steely pliability, and a steely strength. Eminent Victorians The adaptability and pliability of the Phoenicians was especially shown in their power of obtaining the favourable regard of almost all the peoples and nations with which they came into contact, whether civilised or uncivilised. History of Phoenicia Do you not fall back on the plasticity and pliability of nature and take your air and exercise in large parcels? Bunyan Characters (3rd Series) But time passes, and there passes away with it all the humility, meekness, pliability, softness, and sweetness of the obstinate man. Bunyan Characters (1st Series) Much of what is called her subservience, and even her pliability, is merely the subservience and pliability of a universal remedy; she varies as medicines vary, with the disease. What's Wrong with the World Benny Hempstead always smiled and nodded acquiescence, but there was in him the strange persistency of a willow bough, the persistency of pliability, which is the most unconquerable of all. The Copy-Cat and Other Stories The prominent qualities in this description would seem to be industry and perseverance, audacity in enterprise, adaptability and pliability, acuteness of intellect, unscrupulousness, and want of good faith. History of Phoenicia Was this the nemesis of Lincoln's pliability in action during the first stage of his Presidency? Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War Wertz had joined his mate, and both were working pliability into their frozen moccasins. The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke Now this sort of pliability does not merely prevent any heroic consistency, it also prevents any really practical compromise. What's Wrong with the World Monmouth had been very willing to take this advice; but Wade and other republicans had been refractory; and their chief, with his usual pliability, had yielded to their arguments. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 The same man, whom an enemy would have found it hard to deceive, was pliability itself in the concerns of his friends. Agesilaus |
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