| 单词 | rigid |
| 例句 | Their wide khaki shorts were rigid with starch, and bobbed over the tall grass like a row of stiff skirts, quite independent of the limbs that moved inside them. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z They stood rigid, looking in Valley’s direction intently. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Mom stood behind her, arms rigid at her sides. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z I had worked my first steam tables acting as rigid as that server was hostile. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He lay on his armour-hard back and saw, as he lifted his head up a little, his brown, arched abdomen divided up into rigid bow-like sections. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z Vola stared straight ahead, right through him, her face as rigid as if it had been carved of wood. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Moss could see her gripping the edge of the pulpit, her fingers tense and rigid, and he moved back to stand next to Javier. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Even Jefferson seemed to acknowledge that Adams did not quite fit into this rigid formula. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I ended up in a hospital, where they kept me for months after I arrived back in New York, staring at a wall, stunned silent, frozen rigid with anger and grief. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z But her jaw has gone rigid and she is frowning into the chips bag. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z His eyes rolled up and he screamed and his body was rigid. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z I was gone Observant, my body rigid; and Dr. 09-01 had his arm about me, and was with great effort trying to turn me away, though my gaze remained locked upon the awful spectacle. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z But even as she shushed her Cares, Jinny had to admit that something about the rigid snake scared her too. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The younger ones were tired and rigid in their Sunday best, and the older ones were beginning to squirm. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Sensing the tension in my voice, Otto went rigid and cried louder. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z But then she puts her rigid exterior back on, like protection against me. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z A San Francisco middle school must have a very rigid idea of acceptable clothes if James had taken her question so seriously. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z I don’t understand why she’s not smiling back until her face goes rigid and she grabs me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The horsemen followed along the crest, too far away for Taran to see their faces clearly; but from their rigid postures he could guess at the livid features and dull eyes of the Cauldron-Born. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Charlie went rigid, offering the doctor robotic nods as she explained what happened. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z At first it was slack, but it soon became stiff, with rigid arms and legs splayed outward. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The Hab is normally a dome, with flexible support poles maintaining the arch and rigid, folding floor material to keep its base flat. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z She went rigid when Mariam came at her with a spoon. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z For blocks and blocks Roy sat as rigid as a fence post, waiting to be knocked down once more. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Their testimony is very important, because they were the only members of the family who lived completely removed from the three-legged table, protected from magic and spiritualism by their rigid English boarding school. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The school was ultramodern for the day, with tables and chairs that could be arranged any way the teacher wanted instead of the rigid desks nailed to the floor we had been used to having. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Mamá’s voice trailed off and she stood rigid, waiting for Special Agent Gonzales to continue. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z He hardened himself so that each muscle in his body was rigid and strained. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Then he put his little arms around his rigid, weeping mother. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z His legs were sore from remaining rigid for so long. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z Colonel Arbuthnot’s face looked as though it were carved out of wood, it was rigid and impassive. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z There were screams from the dining room and Uncle Vernon burst into the kitchen to find Harry, rigid with shock, covered from head to foot in Aunt Petunia’s pudding. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z She looked back at him, the rigid tilt of his head telling her it rarely bowed. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z For him, all of life was a rigid matter of family. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Closer and closer he bent, and then became rigid; his lips moved soundlessly for a while. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Any mention of her ‘works’ always had a bad effect upon Jo, who either grew rigid and looked offended, or changed the subject with a brusque remark, as now. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Only after years of working on criminal justice reform did my own focus finally shift, and then the rigid caste system slowly came into view. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Ethan’s voice is rigid, like the day I called us all freaks at the market. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z It seemed to be a variety of marine algae, but quite rigid, far more so than normal algae. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, ma’am,” I said in my most rigid voice. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I blinked away slippery tears and tried to force my spine rigid, but that made me tremble even more. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z His face was twisted in rigid pain; his mouth gaped over the chipped front tooth. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z She moved next to the body, taking care not to disturb the Wyrdmarks etched into the ground as she lifted Verin’s rigid, cold hand. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Their faces were brick red and they sat very rigid trying not to be sick. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Robbie, my great-aunt, my rigid taskmaster of a piano teacher, passed away in June, bequeathing her house on Euclid to my parents, allowing them to become home owners for the first time. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He stared down at his paper plate, his face expressionless, and I almost had the feeling that he had gone rigid, tense, as a soldier does before he jumps from shelter into open combat. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z I watched it struggle to free itself for a moment and then go rigid, a wind-up toy on its last wind. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z But after a few years, he realized he didn’t like the rules and constriction of any rigid organization—not the Communist Party, and not the military. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The soldier stands there, his rifle rigid in his hand. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Rather thicker than one usually sees . . . quite rigid . . . ten and a quarter inches. Avis!” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z One of Freud’s closest friends, a surgeon named Wilhelm Fliess, invented biorhythmic analysis, a practice based on the notion that various aspects of one’s life follow rigid periodic cycles which begin at birth. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z By nature, he was a rigid and controlling man, and he did not think much of females. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z His whole body was stiff, rigid, like he was dead. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw Danny’s body go rigid again, as it had done before his father began to speak. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Egyptian civilization has long been regarded as the most rigid and conservative ever. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z She stood there, rigid and trembling as the other mother held her tightly. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z The future Reverend, skidding on his heels, rigid with fear, applied his terrified lips to the ring on the Patriarch’s middle finger, leaving it wet with spit. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Some were having convulsions—the final phase, as death sets in—their bodies rigid and jerking, their eyes rolled up into the head, blood streaming out of the nose and flooding from the rectum. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of emphasising the strong beats as the foot-tappingly predictable swing had done, bebop deliberately resisted, suspending the rigid reiteration of the regular pulse. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Devine opened his eyes, startled, and his fingers gripped her head tightly, his body—coming—rigid . . . and the flagrant untouchable stars were so stilled they seemed to have been painted up there. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Smith called out, “Hey there, boy, take it easy,” and Seabiscuit caught sight of him, picking out his rigid form in the crush of men. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z But colleges, particularly small liberal arts colleges like Reed, tend not to be rigid bureaucracies. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Once complete, this grillage of steel would be filled and covered with Portland cement to produce a broad, rigid raft that Root called a floating foundation. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Her hands are large and rough, and when she rubs the Vicks salve on my chest, I am rigid with pain. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z He paced up and down without a word, his tail rigid and twitching. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z “I recommend Batman especially, for he tends to transcend the abysmal society in which he’s found himself. His morality is rather rigid, also. I rather respect Batman.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He knew that the deputy was watching him and he sat rigid, his hands pressed between his knees. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Over the next several days there was a strained, tightly wound quality to the way they treated each other, a rigid correctness that was enforced by repetitive acts of willpower. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z His whole body would go rigid as a board. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z What Tommy was asking me now was to help tie a splint on the arm to keep it rigid through the night. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Miss Lumley knows what the conventions are and pays her own rigid tributes to them. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z His arms were rigid, his elbows sticking straight out as he continued to hold his head in his hands. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Ni'vea, who had shed all her tears, sat rigid on her chair without a sigh, without a word, and without ammonia, to which she was allergic. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The father stood very rigid and quaint in a double-breasted suit with padded shoulders that were much too tight for him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The learning environment of the missionary schools, while often morally rigid, was far more open than the racist principles underlying government schools. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z My body feels rigid and cold, and I am not angry, I am not hurt, I am nothing. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z I noticed how perfectly still she was sitting, how rigid her shoulders were. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z But his face was rigid and grim, not a trace left of the happiness that had just made it look so soft and open. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z He was as rigid as the mannequins at JCPenney, with a baseball cap on his head, dim sunglasses over his lifeless eyes, and his arms crossed awkwardly in front of him. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z As you see it it is, while the seeing lasts, dar\\ nightmare-history, timc-as-coffin; but where the water was rigid there will be fish, and men will survive on their flesh till spring. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z I go rigid, smiling thinly, as I eye her baby bump and try to subtly move away from it. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Sugar was the product of the slave and the addiction of the poor factory worker—the meeting place of the barbarism of overseers such as Thomas Thistlewood and the rigid new economy. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Their bodies are too close and their postures are rigid. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z His back was rigid; he sat down stiffly in the chair Leroy pulled out for him. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I’m not flailing now, as my muscles are rigid with the tension of holding myself together. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z No amount of natural wonders, of rigid cliffs and belching waters, of smoking springs could even engage my attention while that pandemonium went on. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z A San Francisco middle school must have a very rigid idea of acceptable clothes if James had taken her question so seriously. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z I had begun to think of Four as rigid, like a soldier, and forgot that he’s also eighteen. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Even Henriette, still at rigid attention, grinned when hands popped out as he wheeled his car sedately around the corners. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z His hands, rigid to the very fingertips, moved outward and back against his hips, his sightless eyes looked upward, and he began to dance. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Her face was set like stone, but the tears welled up in her eyes and ran down her rigid cheeks. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z If Joe had not known her he would not have given the little pause, the rigid ten seconds of silence, its due. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Boots was quiet now, but he could feel her little muscles were rigid with fear. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The mistletoe was so distraught, it vowed never to be rigid enough to form a dagger again. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z He staggered, his body suddenly rigid with pain. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Standing rigid, partially hidden by low branches, he was turning his head this way and that, as if he was searching for something. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z But one look ahead at her uncle’s shoulders, rigid in their Sunday black, and she knew that she would. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Others shipped them on a rigid schedule to researchers at twenty-three polio- testing centers around the country. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The Magpie sat, curiously rigid, in a green velvet armchair directly below her son’s portrait. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z When she was questioned her eyes widened until the whites showed all around the pupils and her breathing stopped and her body grew rigid and her cheeks reddened from holding her breath. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Doubletree Mutt and Smasher moved sniffing along the edge of the brush, performing the duty with rigid ceremony, but when Jody whistled, their heads jerked up and their tails waved. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z I will consider it a sacrifice in the interest of truth, a lesson for those too rigid, too dishonest, to do what is right. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z The Giver was rigid in his chair, his face in his hands. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z He drove the knife in again, and the bull went over, twitching and rigid. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z I try to look only at the back of his head, to keep track of him, but the oncoming faces distract me, the mouths and eyes rigid with terror. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Despite her muttering, she maintained her rigid dignity, her unchanged bun, her starched blouse, and the ring of keys that hung from her waist. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z That comes in handy in implementing the two principles of composition when they would otherwise be stymied by the rigid word order of English. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Lean back as much as this rigid chair will let me. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z It didn’t matter that my body was rigid as a plank, my hands balled into fists, my breathing erratic . Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z We ate a fist-sized piece of fish meat at each meal, accompanied by dark green leaves, rigid as cardboard, that Wello foraged for us out of the underbrush. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Whenever Mom told the story, she would hold her arms rigid and clench her teeth and go bug-eyed to show how Brian looked. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I tried to move, but my body was rigid; only one hand gave a jerk. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z My own feeling is that one shouldn’t be too rigid about the Oxford comma. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z Ants and bees can also work together in huge numbers, but they do so in a very rigid manner and only with close relatives. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Her right fist shot into the air as she landed, staying rigid after she grew still, pointing toward the sky. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Suddenly, Mustard went rigid, rearing and barking at the cornfields. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z I return to the lot rigid with panic. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z I would have consented to live under the most rigid type of dictatorship, for I felt that dictatorships, too, defined the use of men, however degrading that use might be. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother is the most rigid person I know. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z One’s thought patterns become different, he said, when forced into the confines of a rigid and unfamiliar tongue. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Their hair trickles blood and sweat, their clothes drip, their faces red and rigid. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She had not had the advantage of a rigid Cambridge education only to be so foolish as to misuse it. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Her left leg is in a soft cast and there’s a plastic neck brace holding her chin in a very rigid position. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z When they saw the baby stretched out over two places, they scowled fiercely at Katie who sat rigid and scowled back twice as fiercely. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Now he displayed a rigid righteousness that made him almost a kept prisoner. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She’s joking, but when she looks over at him, The Taker’s face is rigid, and he’s staring out the window. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Gold drops down my spine like a bead of sweat, and my body goes rigid. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z He’s so rigid and rehearsed, he sounds like a talking manual. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Was there anything about India’s environment predisposing toward rigid socioeconomic castes, with grave consequences for the development of technology in India? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Every day, from dawn until midnight, the boys underwent a rigid routine that consisted of calisthenics, rifle practice, and fire-coordination drills. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z And while I was thinking about all this and standing as rigid as a locked door on the porch he looked down at the clipboard again and flipped over some more pages. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I lay rigid on the mattress, remembering what it used to be like, before all of this. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z She was frozen, rigid, as if electrified to the chair. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Mulch twisted the end in the seconds before it became completely rigid. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Behind the light pink cloth, her face was rigid and gray. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z We passed several other Sixer avatars as we walked, and the moment they saw Sorrento, they each snapped to rigid attention and saluted him, as if he were some high-ranking general. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z She posed herself straight and rigid, like a statue, her rendition of a stoic Indian. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It was the first time Richard had taken cover with Kainene; she lay flat and rigid on the ground next to him. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He’s smiling a little, but the muscles in his upper body are rigid in anticipation. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Elizabeth walks out of the kitchen, her posture rigid. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Brisen, standing rigid, as she had stood to bear Sir Lancelot’s glare, looked at the closed door with an inscrutable expression. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Sleet drummed slantwise at the great rigid envelope of the craft, making a noise that almost drowned the clatter and howl of the straining engines, and obscuring the view of the ground. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z She was limp in its thrall or rigid in an effort to dismiss it. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The rigid stems and heart-shaped leaves were covered with stiff hairs that were painful to touch, but she was wearing the special protective gloves Alys had made. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He opened his eyes slightly, curious to find out, and then he went rigid. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The floor beneath them changed from rigid stone to something wet and slick, surrounding…. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z His whole body had gone rigid; his hand in mine felt foreign. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Probably it had been tactful to leave Daisy's house, but the act annoyed me and her next remark made me rigid. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z He was looking at his father, and the rigid lines were gone from his face. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Someone—the owner of the booming voice—was emerging from the tent, and Ekon went rigid when he saw who it was. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Compared to those of Megan's family, our family rituals were either less rigid or nonexistent. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z But Dorus knew his limitations, and was content to be a pastor in the small community of Zundert, in a church that was part of a small movement in the new, less rigid Dutch Protestantism. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I went rigid and silent, unable to meet her eye. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z But beneath the smile, the man’s body was rigid with anger and fear. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Soon we are sitting up once more with the rigid tenseness of blank anticipation. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z He turned his head slowly, just enough to see Rex crouching behind him, back straight, ears swept forward, tail rigid and taut. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z He stood stock still in rigid, cataleptic astonishment while the girls ambled in and made themselves comfortable. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I was sitting in a cold, white rigid chair and a man was looking at me out of a bright third eye that glowed from the center of his forehead. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z But etiquette of the day was rigid, and he followed it to the letter. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z But I stay eyes squeezed shut, hands over my ears, muscles too rigid to release. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z If Minya had gotten Skathis’s power, she wondered, would she be any different from him, or would she willingly subjugate a whole population, and justify it all within the rigid parameters of justice. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z His face was dark and rigid as he stood over her. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z She took his arm, clutching it in a dead rigid hard grip as if her fingers, her hand, were a small mass of wire. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z Pefta motioned me impatiently towards the bench where my two sisters already sat, rigid, clutching their hands in silent prayer. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He picked up a newspaper, folded it into a rigid baton, and clubbed Otis once across the face. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Its rigid back and high armrests immediately forced me into a righteous posture. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Or a rigid figure, a woman with a cat’s head suggesting inflexible, inhuman cruelty. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z His entire body goes rigid as his eyes focus on Marcus. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z She looked across the grave at Con; his body was rigid, and his wide-open eyes reflected the flicker of the candlelight. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z She chose a very rigid order of nuns. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The aunts led us over to the automobiles, where Henriette, in black puttees and with a stiff-brimmed cap tucked under his arm, was standing at rigid attention. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z I was like a knife now, rigid and straight, stabbed into the passenger seat. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z “The slowing thoughts and—” He stopped and grew rigid for a moment. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He knelt by Pippin’s body: the hobbit was lying on his back, rigid, with unseeing eyes staring up at the sky. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The word “control” makes me sit up straight, as rigid as the chair beneath me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z They stopped relying on the actual evidence of their senses and fell back on a rigid and unyielding system, a stereotype. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Rishi sat rigid as a statue while her mouth moved against his. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z They sat in the back, rigid and uncomfortable, like sisters of sin, like a living defiance of the drab sanctity of the saints. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z All at once the wrestlers won and turned to each other undecidedly, for now that they held the young lieutenant rigid they did not know what to do with him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Guns ready, faces rigid, the men were staring down the road. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z “We didn’t think it would be quite so rigid here,” Fulvia explains to us as she massages Plutarch’s shoulders. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z He coaxed a phenomenal amount of work out of his rigid body, laboring so hard over his horses through the week that he had to sleep straight through Sunday to recover. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z His body goes rigid, and he collapses on the pavement, trembling. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z In his era, racing was a business made rigid by tradition and imitation, superstition and wives’ tales. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Blood red, its planes dull and blunted with sweetness, its edges rigid with juice. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z I began to lift, but he moaned and went rigid, so I stopped. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z He straightened his disheveled clothing with fingers that were numb and shaking and walked the rest of the way to the clearing with rigid self-control. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I flipped her a rigid thumb, indicating I hadn’t been seriously injured. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Kabuo recognized Carl’s neat hand in things, his way of establishing a rigid order, the force that had driven him, years before, to keep his tackle box shipshape. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Thanks to the rigid rules governing bug boys, Pollard was not even allowed to turn his head to look at his father as he rode past. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Inflexibly rigid in her own moral conduct, she condoned weaknesses in others. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “But the alethiometer!” she cried, and she sat up fiercely, her face rigid with emotion, like a Greek mask. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z There would be a photograph somewhere, in an old album—all the family sitting very straight and rigid round a tablecloth set upon the beach, the servants in the background beside a huge lunch-basket. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I touched him; his body was rigid and his hair was still on edge. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I sat rigid, as though waiting to hear the explosions again, fighting against the weight that seemed to pull me down. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Her hands are gripping the edge of the table, her entire body rigid. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Everyone sat rigid and tension filled the room. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z But in 2011, the group liberalized its policy, urging parents to limit and monitor toddler screen time but not calling for such a rigid ban. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z For the first time in a long time, I allowed myself to enjoy and experience life without a timetable and rigid commitments. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Face rigid, he watched Capricorn’s men throw more and more books into the braziers. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Mina sat rigid, and the Professor stood staring at her fixedly; the rest of us hardly dared to breathe. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Almost rigid with determination, she does my hair and nails and makeup, fingers flying swiftly to compensate for her absent teammates. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Barrabas was dying without any hurry, his eyes riveted on Clara, who stroked his ears and murmured words of comfort until finally, with a single rattle, the dog fell rigid at her feet. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I can see it in his rigid posture and hear it in the deep, flat tone of his voice. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Danny went rigid and stared down at the plate in front of him. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z She is so rigid, I think she might shatter. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Her hands were claws, every muscle rigid, a scream caught in her skull, scouring out all thought. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The rigid edges of her wedding ring sliced into her tumid finger. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The rigid frame held a skin of oiled silk in place to contain the hydrogen, and although this was tough enough to withstand minor scratches, a hundredweight of blazing rock was too much for it. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z While the dog whined, pawing uselessly at the fence, she stood rigid, staring at the toad, wiping her hand again and again on the skirt of her dress. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z She was so rigid they could not bend her. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Then I saw him waver, rigid from his ankles upward. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Dimple sat, rigid in her seat, refusing to look at anyone, gazing into the middle distance. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z As he got out of the car he was rigid with anger. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The thin texture of cellulose wool felt rigid and rough. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z She sat rigid in the principal’s chair, and a younger woman hovered behind her. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z I saw the tiny body of The Grand High Witch stiffen and then go rigid with rage. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z Its frame was heavy, the metal rigid, the engine big and sturdy. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z With Angleton gone, the Operations Directorate maneuvered for new opportunities to penetrate deep into the heart of Brezhnev's secretive and rigid government. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Before her pencil he sat rigid and unflinching, as he had faced the cannon’s mouth in days gone by. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z He sat in rigid silence, and at last he picked up his hat and left the house without a farewell. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He could hear what Auntie would have to say; he could see her rigid face, her jaws clenched against the things which were being said about him in the village. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z For a while I saw Faxe’s profile rigid as pale stone in a diffuse dust of light. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “Good old Buster,” he said, trying to reduce her rigid postural stance. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z She looked around at her garden, and at the graceful arches of the gallery, through which the dining table could be seen, and the ghost, Ari-Eil, still standing rigid where Minya had left him. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I already knew it but I felt my body go rigid, as though I were the dead one. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Mr. Rochester heard, but heeded not: he stood stubborn and rigid, making no movement but to possess himself of my hand. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z And during the near fistfight in the lunchroom, his face went rigid as stone, and I saw him look with hatred at the Hasidic student who had started the quarrel. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Pa hears them and comes out of the hut, his body rigid as our family gathers around him. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It rattled on its hinges, a rigid green sail tossed in the stiff Yazdi breeze. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z He has the right way of standing, the right way of holding the gun, but he is rigid there, a statue with a gun in hand. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z She glances at the camera and for a moment becomes rigid, forcefully tilting her head sideways, silently pleading for space. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Lola’s face was so white and rigid, like a clay mask, that Emily, unable to read an expression there, instantly knew the worst. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I sucked in air and tried to hold myself rigid. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Their many societies had developed rigid social and economic class structures in which wealth and power were concentrated among monarchies, aristocracies, and the Catholic Church. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z His face was rigid and his hands were tethered to his side. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z However, the interior frame of the boat, being made of ash that remained perpetually dry and rigid, would not allow it to expand. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z She opened her eyes and stood straight up; all of the saints surrounded her; Gabriel stood staring, struck rigid as a pillar in the temple. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z A too rigid equality in rations, Squealer explained, would have been contrary to the principles of Animalism. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z He looked back to his friend, whose leg was awkwardly twisted up and behind him, rigid against the side of the metal detector. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The pilot’s mouth went rigid, he swore and jerked a short series of slams into the seat, holding his shoulder now. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked straight ahead, saying nothing, holding his body more rigid than an arrow. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z His tail had grown rigid and twitched sharply froni side to side, a sign in him of intense mental activity. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z When he was ten, Avery lived with abusive foster parents whose rigid rules kept him in constant turmoil. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Tight, rigid cords of sickly green veins webbed across the boy’s body and limbs, like ropes under his skin. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The frantic and all too graphic squeaks, scuffling, and scraping followed, and when she felt him go rigid Stephanie again explained: “Don’t worry, it’s only a mouse.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Me, Jay, and Nessa sit on the ground, struggling with the rigid boots. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Between daily discussions with him and a rigid schedule of reading, I had been working harder than I'd ever found necessary at college. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Kim is already walking away from us with his eyes looking ahead and his back rigid. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z My sister sat rigid—with anger, I guess. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z He didn’t care that Snape’s face had gone rigid, the black eyes flashing dangerously. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Just as I passed, he suddenly went rigid in his seat. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Not exactly, but there was a scariness to her; she represented a rigid kind of authority I hadn’t yet encountered elsewhere. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Barbee stood with his head thrown back, his arms rigid at his sides, his fists clenched as though fighting desperately for control. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z She reprimands me, her tiny frame rigid with indignation. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Animals associated with female deities display an even more rigid discipline. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z After a really rigid dinner, Mr. Miller had read a passage from the Bible then tried to get a discussion going. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Kino lay as rigid as the tree limb. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Juanita screamed, her arms rigid and her face reddened with rage. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z ‘If you had had an inflammation down there, the stomach would have been hard and rigid. It’s quite easy to tell.’ Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Beside me, the student's eyes swam with a distorting cataract of tears, his features rigid as though he struggled within himself. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a baby pike, absolutely rigid and probably asleep, and it looked like a pipe stem or a sea-horse stretched out flat It would be a brigand when it grew up. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The Toad didn’t respond, but his figure seemed rigid. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z His face was as mild and hopeless as ever; mooning above the snappy, rigid blouse, it gave him the air of an impostor. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly her body went rigid as a board. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z He appears to be holding himself rigid, as if any movement would rupture something inside him. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Professor Trelawney had gone rigid in her armchair; her eyes were unfocused and her mouth sagging. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Things were different here, less rigid and formal. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The children stood behind their chairs going rigid when Mary Anne said, “Ten-hup.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z And all the work was governed by extremely tight, rigid discipline. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z His face was as rigid as if it had turned to stone. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Then the board righted itself and drifted out a few feet into the pool with the two rabbits hunched upon it, rigid and motionless. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It was hard to believe, but there he was, frozen in the doorway, his arms rigid, staring out. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z She went about her day with a stony face and rigid movements. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z It’s cold and warm and slippery and rigid, all at once. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z The class oohs in appreciation, but Sara stands rigid next to me. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z She drew herself up to her full height and stood rigid. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z “I’m kind of glad,” Winnie admitted, easing her rigid grip on the butt of the pole. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z They were sitting side by side with their bodies stiff and rigid. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Her question set off a chain reaction, a chorus of voices shouting and screaming at Berendht, who seemed to get more and more uncomfortable, more rigid. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Certainly rigid attention wasn’t the most efficient way to drive an automobile. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z For a long time after Judith blew out the candle Kit lay rigid, fearful that a single sniff might give her away. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z As they uncovered their faces, I realized that one of them, standing tall and rigid at Papa’s side, was Caroline. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Our sense of galaxies as ponderous rigid bodies is mistaken. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Wonder if she did see the attacker, though?” said Ron, looking sadly at Hermione’s rigid face. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z He perched on the edge of the bed, body rigid. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z His eyes set on a point and he became rigid. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s better,” Bull smiled as the man before him drew rigid. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In disposition, she was Pollard’s antithesis, governing her life with rigid reserve as he scattered his passions. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Her limbs turned rigid, and she lost her grip on Percy. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Her posture was too straight, her backbone too rigid. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z He tilts his chin and catches my eye, then spins his head back into its rigid, proper place. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z And I move more rigid than all the others with a sense of judgment; the vibrations of the chapel bells stirring the depths of my turmoil, moving toward its nexus with a sense of doom. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z As the organ voices died, I saw a thin brown girl arise noiselessly with the rigid control of a modern dancer, high in the upper rows of the choir, and begin to sing a cappella. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He stood rigid, holding the gun, watching, waiting. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z But perhaps, the commerçant decided, looking Mother up and down, avoiding her rigid blue gaze, perhaps he had room for the white woman. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She does what would be a laugh, except that her face is so rigid. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I shuddered violently for several minutes before the steaming spray could finally relax my rigid muscles. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z His body went rigid, his arms stiff at his sides, and he fell over, a last breath rushing from his mouth. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Bull whispered to Ben in the car and pointed toward someone in the platoon of rigid, faceless men. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I can tell by Mama’s rigid backbone that the conversation is uncomfortable, but at least they’re talking. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z His whole body rigid, he swayed where he stood and then fell flat on his face, stiff as a board. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Its goals are rigid and simply drawn, and the minds of the majority of politicians are set, congealed in terms of daily tactical maneuvers. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The writer’s challenge is to come up with a scheme to order these units of text—to turn a dangly mobile into a rigid tree. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I felt his fingers start to probe, and Joan stood, rigid as a soldier, at my side, holding my hand, for my sake or hers I couldn't tell. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z His posture went rigid as he suppressed the urge to shiver. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z After the heat of the fishbowl, the cooler air made Ralph’s muscles feel rigid. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z Her hair was set in elaborate and curiously rigid curls that contrasted oddly with her heavy-jawed face. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Dawn Celeste and Luke are doing impressions of Luke’s parents, and their rigid disapproval of anything that doesn’t follow their plan. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Her gait was rigid and awkward, as if one of her legs were shorter than the other. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The authorities know that it is not so, for they have made it plain in their every act that they mean to keep Bigger Thomas and his kind within rigid limits. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Harry’s body became instantly rigid and immobile, and he felt himself fall back against the tower wall, propped like an unsteady statue, unable to move or speak. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Necessity is the mother of invention, and over the centuries the English language has developed workarounds for its rigid syntax. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z But he kept himself rigid, held himself at an angle so as to not get too close. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Eric stands in the middle of the room, his posture so rigid it looks like someone replaced his spine with a metal rod. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Finally, rigid with constipation, he boarded the bus to Macon. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Kay’s panache, for instance, was shaped like a rigid, flat fan, with its edges pointing fore and aft. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He took the dead man’s head between his hands and with some effort—the ligaments of the neck were extremely rigid— twisted it to the left. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z She went rigid with fear, goose bumps rising all over her body. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The dog was on the other side of the maintenance yard with his head inside a four-foot-wide concrete pipe, tail rigid, back feet bouncing nervously. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z After a last kick they became rigid, and the blue lids rose half over the eye. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a strange letter, written in a tense and rigid hand: Forgive me, my daughter. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Their long-term existence has not damaged the forest, Meggers told me, a testament to slash-and-burn’s power to keep human groups sustainably within the rigid ecological limits of the tropics. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I go rigid as she wraps her arms around me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The mask was rigid and carved and cold and sightless. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z And a rigid corporate policy that doesn’t leave any wiggle room for individual needs is a bad corporate policy, especially for a company that’s trying to attract talent. Yahoo blows it again 2013-04-30T20:37:00Z When I wrote the opening scene, I was interested to see how Pauline’s presence might unbalance the rather rigid, inexpressive relationship between the two brothers, Declan and Aidan. Sally Rooney on Being Seen by Others 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z One doesn't ever think of associating the rigid geometric Neo-plasticisim of Mondrian with the Cornish seaside, and now you know why. TV review: At Home With the Georgians 2010-12-03T08:00:00Z Hench doesn’t have a lot to say; but even in rigid repose, his most common posture, his body is eloquent with radioactive misery. Review: ‘Yen’ Is a Den of Family Dysfunction 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z In lieu of a rigid, immutable pillar, Watt, a citizen of the Seneca Nation, has given us a monument to warmth and variability. Monolith Mania Comes to Chelsea 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z Having no rigid frame, it swung wildly left and right, forward and back. Severed 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z The songs felt surprisingly oceanic, given that they're rigid at the core, and thrusting. ArtsBeat: CMJ: Go Where the Night Takes You 2012-10-18T10:31:45Z Centered on the ways in which home cooking is deeply personal, she rejects prescriptive, rigid attitudes towards food in favor of an intuitive approach. Nigella Lawson is going on tour — here’s where you can see her live 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z Born here in 1984, a decade before the end of apartheid, Mr. Noah grew up in a rigid system where race determined many aspects of one’s life, including choices of culture and entertainment. For Trevor Noah, a Comic Sensibility Shaped by the Scars of Apartheid 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z As a result, the rigid class system, while not destroyed, was given a swift kick in the pants. In a time of adversity, the bone-deep appeal of bone broth moves through mother to daughter 2019-05-05T04:00:00Z "I don't think we can have a rigid system," Rice said. Fox acknowledges need for new hits after disappointing season 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z The unavoidable strategy of make-do-and-mend renders London Zoo an inevitably dated institution, laden with rigid monuments conceived in another era that it must now either work with or around. London Zoo's new Tiger Territory: built for the animals first, and visitors second 2013-03-20T18:32:11Z The more 3D movies there are, though, the more the genre emerges as one boasting some rigid conventions. The rules of 3D cinema 2011-01-23T22:00:00Z He “managed to croak one anti-Semitic ‘Goldberg!’ before he turned to stone, as it were, in his straight-backed chair, his body a rigid half swastika.” Review: ‘Oreo,’ a Sandwich-Cookie of a Feminist Comic Novel 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Protocol on Cannes' red carpet is extremely rigid. Julia Roberts ascended the famed red-carpet steps to the Cannes Film Festival barefoot, a year after several women were famously turned away from festival premieres for not wearing high heels 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z This is history seen from the backstreets, and from its viewpoint Nazi Germany at war is both intensely rigid and intensely unstable. Rereading: Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin 2011-01-07T11:40:24Z Try not to be rigid when you speak with him; start by avoiding words like “bulldozed.” Social Q’s: Dial Down Your Anger 2014-04-24T19:02:57Z More than anything, his time on “Jeopardy!” gave him precious freedom from a rigid career. James Holzhauer Is Dominating ‘Jeopardy!’ But What’s Life Like After the Show? 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z This book enforces a rigid, color-coded class system that places Paige high above others and causes her captors, the Rephaim, to refer to themselves with great, formal grandiosity. Books of The Times: Samantha Shannon’s Fantasy Novel, ‘The Bone Season’ 2013-08-26T22:00:29Z The new rulers create roads and better sanitation, but their strong-fisted policies erode the country’s economy and punish the people cruelly if they don’t adhere to a rigid code of sexual conduct. Best science fiction and fantasy for September 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z America’s social strata are realigning from a familiar and somewhat fluid tripartite arrangement—upper, middle, working—to a binary and more rigid one: haves and have-nots. The Unexpected Power of Your Old Neighborhood 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z This rigid scheme of existence — including its sexual power structure — will soon be turned upside down and inside out. The Restorative Power of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Just watch Cooper’s rigid body language whenever she is in a room with her daughter ; Think there's something missing from one of our 10 best lists? The 10 best ... bad mothers on film in pictures 2013-03-09T16:00:00Z The ludic materials offered freedom from the rigid confines of traditional architecture. A Mexican Jewelry Maker Who Channels ’90s Nostalgia 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z The rigid English class system is still in place, but it is fraying at the edges, as Rose witnesses firsthand when she tries to find a cook. Television Review: Like Old Times, Almost, In an English Household 2011-04-07T22:20:14Z If it took a bullet wound, instead of being rigid, it would be fluid. "Terminator 2" made — and almost ended — Robert Patrick's career 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z Dickens draped his tale of Coketown, a fictional Victorian factory city, with contempt for a wide range of societal ills: rampant industrialization and pollution, worker exploitation and widening income gaps, even England’s rigid divorce laws. 2010-02-16T22:09:00Z No wonder EL writes so passionately about obeying orders and living by rigid rules. Media Monkey's Diary: Chris Moyles, Kelvin MacKenzie and Olympic dolls 2012-07-15T18:30:01Z Parker, the protagonist of 16 Stark novels, is a crook and a killer who nevertheless adheres to a rigid moral code. ‘Parker’: Hard-as-nails malice put to good use 2013-01-24T23:35:34Z And it’s a rather odd building, not one massive palace, but two disconnected wings linked only by a rigid geometry of columns that fill a cluttered courtyard. Piero di Cosimo, a misunderstood master, at the National Gallery of Art 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z The tradition dates back to Socrates, who not only didn’t write but also disparaged writing as too rigid a medium to capture “the living, breathing discourse of the man who knows.” Unpublished and Untenured, a Philosopher Inspired a Cult Following 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z He finally walked us kids to the station wagon when Mom, her body rigid in prayer and face drained of color, refused to leave the prayer vigil. "The Eyes of Tammy Faye" helped me reconsider my painful Evangelical childhood 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z Those able to escape from housing projects, poverty and segregated neighborhoods found access to undreamed-of opportunities just as the police were designated the primary enforcers of the nation’s rigid color line. Recasting ‘Riots’ as Black Rebellions 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z Even the most desperate are offered opportunities to step outside their rigid boundaries. The Horrors of Immigration and the Pleasures of Food in a Debut Novel 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z The result is that one side of the opening is then more rigid than the opposing side, making it easy to open. Hints From Heloise: The cold truth 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z But overturning the rigid infrastructure of South Korean museums and galleries is an uphill battle, he said. Special Report: Contemporary Art: Through a Filmmaker's Lens, a View of Korea 2011-06-13T12:00:06Z In his homily before a crowd of hundreds of thousands, Francis said the martyrs' courage and charity and their rejection of the rigid social structures of their day should be an inspiration for people today. Pope Francis denounces wealth gap in open-air Seoul mass 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z Since I started in television in 1964, everything was so rigid. Sally Field on What Hollywood Keeps Getting Wrong 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z The wavy piece at the heart of “Devil Fish,” a work from 1937, for example, couldn’t be duplicated with the rigid materials they were using for other sculptures. The Secret Stunt Doubles of the Art World 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z There were rigid, righteous arms, which the dancers held up, bent at the elbows before hinging their torsos over. Review: Kids Dance Puts on a Show of Courage, Discipline and Heart 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z We slept on the beach, woke at dawn rigid with cold, and resolved to choose our next destination based solely on the attractiveness of its name. I Lost My Job and My Husband. Then I Found Newfoundland. 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Compared with some of the earlier Armani Privé shows, when the effect was sculpted or even rigid, this was a subtle and lovely collection. Fashion Review: Bold or Subtle, Skin Is In 2013-07-03T17:26:27Z Their search for wives and stability is by turns amusing and harrowing as they balance the rigid traditions of their past with the habits of a culture far more accustomed to migration and upheaval. Lord brings Caribbean voice to science fiction 2013-02-11T13:43:08Z Bechdel writes that fear of falling made her a rigid skier. Alison Bechdel’s Latest Offers Familiar Pleasures in Brighter Colors 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z Starting at an incline, hold a strap looped around a bar and pull the body — which should be rigid — up. 10-12 reps. Why you should try body-weight exercises 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z The songs they’d write together transcended the rigid, one-dimensional imagery that continues to define the hip-hop genre—they rapped about the full spectrum of their experience—but much of Tribe’s output is mischaracterized as positive. Postscript: Phife Dawg, 1970-2016 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z Like “Hamlet,” “Metamorphosis” finds a small company working a rigid style to its limit. Hamlet’s ‘bad’ self and Kafka’s bug, on compact stages 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z Mr. Muldoon revels in the disorder that wriggles beneath and below even the most rigid order. Books Of the Times: Shared Homeland, Different Worldview 2010-09-16T22:36:00Z A few thousand survivors live in railway cars, sorted into a rigid and ruthlessly enforced social order. In ‘Snowpiercer,’ the Train Trip to End All Train Trips 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z Writing in Vulture Thursday, Jesse David Fox praised him as “delusional, narcissistic, rigid, and daft, with flashes of the real man’s incredible sweetness.” “Stephen Colbert” is dead, long live Stephen Colbert! 2014-04-11T14:36:00Z None of these moves feel calculated or rigid, because Mr. Colligan and his partners work so fluently. New Music: Albums From Zac Brown Band and George Colligan 2013-12-23T22:34:00Z The patriarchal world of August Strindberg’s dour late-19th-century tragedy “Miss Julie” — with its rigid social hierarchy of masters and servants, and its entrenched puritanical ethos — may seem remote to American audiences. ‘Miss Julie’ Stars Jessica Chastain and Colin Farrell 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z So let your babies pursue their interests, rather than forcing them on a narrow, rigid, elite academic path. Tiger, Snowplow, Helicopter and Free-Range Parents, Listen Up! 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z In the Gospels, Jesus battled with religious leaders who were so rigid that they stripped the joy and freedom from people’s relationship with God. Rev. Joseph F. Girzone, Author of ‘Joshua’ Novels, Dies at 85 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z The veteran designer appreciates Maluma’s disregard for rigid fashion rules and refers to his blind spots as “insouciance.” Maluma, Fashion Chameleon 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z There is a pretty rigid separation of church and state, which I think is good for everybody’s sanity. As Ricky Reed rises, the producer for Lizzo learns balance 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z Dylan’s imprisonment of women — he tells himself he’s helping them — is echoed throughout the story, in the lives of women trapped by patriarchy, poverty and rigid class divisions. Review: ‘Hidden,’ a Detective Story Under Gray Welsh Skies 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z In “Berliner Platze” she superimposes one street view on top of another, all of them traced from projections with a rigid hand. Art Review: ?Julie Mehretu: Grey Area? at the Guggenheim Museum 2010-05-20T21:50:00Z The style collapses the more rigid shoulder and arm positions of other ballroom dances. Perspective | The tango is back. And it’s never felt more vital. 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z It prompts the question: why is this incredibly challenging, rigid, expensive diet so popular? High on fat, low on evidence: the problem with the keto diet 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z Instead of the fancy hats, rigid up-dos and Chinoiserie theme with which the label first started, bags were discreet clutches and the only styling statement was that Mr. Armani prefers blondes. Special Report: Haute couture: Armani Prive: Forever Amber 2010-07-06T17:36:00Z Moreover, Walter's bigotries are at odds with his rigid sense of justice – a justice so exacting that he reviles the white-collar shortcuts to wealth like stock tipoffs. Lionel Shriver: rereading Mr Bridge by Evan S Connell 2013-02-15T18:30:01Z In a hotel room somewhere in London, Saoirse Ronan lies on a sofa, her back rigid against one of its arms, her legs straight out in front of her. Saoirse Ronan: ‘I’ve played a lot of weird people. I have!’ 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z Bruce referenced the space, an accommodating but rigid cabaret room, in which all the patrons were seated, a far cry from the more cramped and rusty venues in which they’ve generally plied their trade. Review: PWR BTTM Is Part Theater, Part Punk, Entirely Captivating at Joe’s Pub 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z There was a discussion about how Wharton’s characters spoke in a social code that was as rigid and mysterious to outsiders as the code used by his Mafia characters. Brian Selznick: By the Book 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z Anyone expecting critics to be rigid autocrats will be a bit thrown by the new book by New York Times writer A.O. Critics are human, too: “But I don’t think you’re doing the artist or the audience or the art form itself any favor if you pat things on the head” 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z Rich with reverberant guitars and the high, chiming voice of Jim James, it suggested a searching twist on psychedelic rock without settling into a rigid style. Jim James of My Morning Jacket on Lifting a ‘Wet Blanket’ Off a 2003 Album 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z I didn’t want to hate Republicans, Episcopalians or country-club types out of some rigid, schematic anger. Whit Stillman and the Song of the Preppy 2012-03-18T05:30:57Z “And we haven’t seen a big surge yet in Canadian bookings, which we think is due to the rigid testing requirements to go back.” It’s shaping up to be a very busy Thanksgiving travel week in the Greater Seattle area 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z In the courtroom, Clark often looks hurt and confused, but she is the life of the party in Oakland, vacillating between jokes about O.J.’s innocence and presenting the rigid, undeniable facts of his guilt. ‘The People vs. O.J. Simpson’ Season 1, Episode 7: The Glove 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z “I craved a kind of wandering not available to me in the increasingly rigid forms of my life,” she writes. Katie Roiphe Feels Ambivalent About Feeling Ambivalent 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z For the most part, though, the band's struggle to imitate the rigid machine patterns of Cybotron's Alleys of Your Mind or A Number of Names' Sharevari is strangely compelling. Is techno human after all? 2011-01-19T13:00:27Z So many contemporary productions of Chekhov wind up feeling as unnaturally rigid and posturing as those posers before the camera. | 'Three Sisters': Russian Ennui, American Idiom 2011-02-04T03:01:38Z Despite every desire to define them, and describe them within ballet’s rigid terms, they established five distinct and powerful careers. Oklahoma’s Gift to Ballet: The Five Moons Ballerinas 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z The actors in the film all danced as if Fosse’s choreography weren’t the stuff of legend; they’re not phoning it in, but they’re not being rigid and reverent enough, either. A Bob Fosse Film-Festival Diary 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z And then I slowly began to realize that following this quite rigid structure allowed total freedom within the music and the performance. Lily James Taps Her Inner Meryl to Become a Dancing Queen 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z In “Let Us Dream,” Francis also criticizes populist politicians who whip up rallies in ways reminiscent of the 1930s, and the hypocrisy of “rigid” conservative Catholics who support them. Pope Francis’ book explores George Floyd, virus skeptics 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z McGee is right that adhering to a rigid story map undermines characters by making them subservient to plot. Serial Killers: Are HBO-Style Dramas Ruining the TV Episode? 2012-02-21T15:40:59Z And it was then in the late 1860s, as Japan rushed to adopt Western technology and forms of government, that it also imported more rigid Western notions of gender and permissible sexual expression. When Japan Had a Third Gender 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z Debord's map depicts a directionless "drift" through the streets of Paris, as if to argue that the city is created through individual experience and collective memory, rather than a rigid plan imposed from above. Grand plans: how the simple planning diagram has shaped our cities 2012-11-22T15:24:06Z You're doing a certain thing with your mind, where I felt like I was too rigid with my mind. Sad after losing your sense of smell to COVID? Turns out there's a link between sense and happiness 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z But the sounds Can made, mixing the primitive with the avant-garde and total freedom with rigid, funky grooves, continue to send out ripples of influence in underground rock, electronic music, film soundtracks and beyond. Can Was 40 Years Ahead of Its Time. A New Book Helps Us Catch Up. 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z But in the late 1960s and ’70s, she worked as an assistant to Davis, helping to paint the rigid striped canvases that rocketed him to fame. How an assistant to famed D.C. artist Gene Davis earned her stripes 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z “In the early days,” he said, “I was a lot more rigid.” Here’s to Good Health (but No Toast) 2013-12-04T22:03:26Z The brothers used the same rotomolding process that forms the rigid plastic of kayaks, and they didn’t focus on keeping the price low, only making the sturdiest cooler possible. Can the Yeti Unite America? 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Are they Siamese twins or two girls locked in a rigid embrace? Hellen Van Meene’s Otherworldly Adolescents 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z Joseph Roth's masterpiece, The Radetzky March, describes this world before the shock of the first world war, and the collapse of the multifarious society, with its rigid rules and habitual pleasures. The Emperor's Tomb by Joseph Roth – review 2013-01-25T20:00:01Z Mr. Wheeldon asked a group of male dancers, holding his arms out rigid at shoulder height, the wrists perpendicular. City Ballet Readies Architecture of Dance Festival 2010-04-24T02:16:00Z It was like I thought being rigid would somehow make up for my father’s irresponsibility. My father, the player 2014-02-24T01:00:00Z That is not necessarily a bad thing: it gives film-makers the space to create a personal style, in a genre that was once constrained by rigid conventions. Two sides to every story: Whitney, Tupac, Assange and the trouble with making biopics 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z “Many people who develop anti-vaccine views did not start that way but become more rigid in reaction to what they see as the orthodoxy and rigidity of science and medicine,” she said. 'God knows how I’m alive': how a teen defied his parents to get vaccinated 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z In one case, the style is sinuous and rounded; in the other, the forms are rigid and square. Brad Pitt Creates His Own Furniture Collection 2012-11-07T23:41:43Z Also appealing were white lace and knit tops, as rigid as a lacquered doily. On the Runway Blog: Into the Woods with Balenciaga 2012-09-27T12:10:58Z This can reinforce rigid binary views of gender. Lego’s return to gender neutral toys is good news for all kids. Our research review shows why 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z Shanks strode as if he were “rigid, but able to flow, where there is resistance you are still able to move.” Michael Myers Is a Terrifying Acting Challenge, Too 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z Less than a week later the quartet recorded Mr. Desmond’s “Take Five,” a breezy composition in 5/4, with an airy solo by Mr. Morello over a rigid vamp on piano and bass. Joe Morello, Drummer with Dave Brubeck Quartet, Dies at 82 2011-03-13T21:52:59Z Ms. Uchizono assumed the posture Dr. Sacks described, inwardly collapsed and rigid. Dance Review: Donna Uchizono Interprets Ideas of Oliver Sacks 2013-04-23T22:10:51Z Little Dragon rose out of the vibrant Swedish pop scene, and the group’s inventive dance pop is much more expansive and funky than some of the more rigid pop compadres. Coachella music fest: 10 picks out of 166 acts 2014-04-09T17:36:48Z His rigid ideas about work, responsibility and manhood constitute not a demand for attention, but an assertion of dignity. Review: Beneath the Bombast, ‘Fences’ Has an Aching Poetry 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Critics are sticking to rigid gender definitions that the publication seeks to subvert, he said. Nigerian fashion magazine stirs debate about men in skirts 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z The clash between the libertarian attitudes of the Wildlings and the rigid social structure of the southerners. Dead Tree Alert: The Westeros Wing; or, Why Game of Thrones is the Best Show About Politics 2013-05-24T13:14:22Z As the child of a black mother and a white father in a society that kept the two races strictly separated, Noah has long lived outside rigid racial lines. How Trevor Noah went from biracial youth in S. Africa to leading light on U.S. TV 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z But not long after World War I, modernist poets began rejecting rigid rhyme, meter and expressions of emotion. In Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Diaries, the Private Life of a Celebrity Poet 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Much of the evening was a tug of war between the bands doing their damnedest to keep the crowd engaged and fans pulling back to an understandably rigid posture. What it’s like going to shows as live music slowly comes back in Seattle 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z The film is a breezy joyride, as pleasing a summer popcorn flick as you’ll find this season; reprising the iconic role of Mr. Spock, Quinto yet again manages to make a rigid logician totally likable. Zachary Quinto on Gay Hollywood and Why Star Trek Beyond Is the Perfect Movie for Right Now 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z But the rigid order of their society quickly appears coercive and soon turns deadly, with the enforced ritual suicide of two elderly people. “Midsommar,” Reviewed: Ari Aster’s Backwards Horror Story of an American Couple in Sweden 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z But right now, this sprawling tale of loyalty to rigid codes certainly is unlike anything else on a New York stage. ‘Chushingura — 47 Ronin’ Review: A Sprawling Tale of Loyalty 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z According to Serious Eats, this means that domestic Parmesan doesn't have to follow the same rigid standards that define Parmigiano Reggiano. What's the difference between Parmigiano Reggiano and Parmesan? 2023-02-04T05:00:00Z Higher jazz education was a more rigid proposition 25 years ago, and each of these musicians sought out an alternative current to the swinging mainstream. Music Review: Three Bands, Floating Their Music on a Cool Breeze 2011-06-12T22:53:07Z Korean B-girls have a presence too, but in much smaller numbers because of rigid social strictures that ask them to work and raise families, all while adhering to unrealistic standards of beauty. Seoul’s Bumping B-Boy Scene 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z Wishing to distance herself from the rigid lifestyle of the monarchy, she used the building as her main residence, fully updating the interiors and grounds to suit her personal tastes. 5 Incredible Landmarks Built in the Name of Love 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z Hers is a very British story: Born in 1934 to rigid, lower-middle class parents, Smith shaped her future through determination and “stealth,” beginning at Oxford High School for girls, then at the Oxford Playhouse . ‘Maggie Smith’ review: The person behind the ‘Downton Abbey’ star 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z The image that came to mind, again and again, was of human lives being dashed against the rocks of rigid belief.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z Before, the display followed a rigid chronology, explained Bulcken, the curator, beginning in the early Medieval period. The Royal Museum With a White-Cube Gallery Inside 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z In filming, he imposed on himself a rigid code of ethics. Robert Gardner, renowned documentary filmmaker of ‘Dead Birds,’ dies at 88 A student of classical Persian vocal music, he fell out with the music department at the University of Tehran over what he called its "rigid and backward" views. Exiled Iranian singer Mohsen Namjoo makes Northwest debut 2011-02-24T20:40:10Z That edifice is at once intellectually rigid and formally rickety. ‘The Two Popes’ Review: Double Act at the Vatican 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z In a post-Covid era, we may all find ourselves less constrained than in the past by rigid standards of taste, as Mr. Etro suggested. Onesies, Long Johns and Union Suits for a WFH Age 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z He lived a rigid life that is about what people think of him. Chris Messina is a work in progress on and off 'Mindy Project' 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z I always thought that it looked like New York — rigid, sometimes imposing, very muscular. Calmer New York Living Through Minimalist Art 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z You keep waiting for the play to take big risks, but a rigid self-seriousness holds it back. Sex for sale and the cliches abound in 'Bordello' 2011-02-08T00:30:00Z “It was so rigid,” says the 59-year-old artist, who was raised by a policeman father and a stay-at-home mother. T Magazine: The Shape Shifter 2014-03-06T21:30:52Z Herbert Muschamp, the Times’ architecture critic at the time, hailed it as an “icebreaker of a design, a plan for crunching through rigid streetscapes and frozen minds.” The New York That Could Have Been 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z It’s startling to recall how revolutionary the original vision was, and how rigid its strictest precepts were. Movie Review: ?Inventing Our Life: The Kibbutz Experiment,? a Documentary 2012-04-25T03:03:02Z Having a long-term career is really about learning how to ride it and not be rigid. Sally Field on What Hollywood Keeps Getting Wrong 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z Critics are sticking to rigid gender definitions that the publication seeks to subvert, he said. Nigerian fashion magazine stirs debate about men in skirts 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z The era of the Trump administration is where the line is between the white nationalists, this sort of rigid ideology of ethnic cleansing versus— White nationalists love Tucker Carlson, and other startling discoveries in “Rising Out of Hatre... 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z Literature is burdened with the task of finding nuance, of seeing around various calcified narratives and rigid points of view. Joyce Carol Oates’s Novel Plumbs the Depths of America’s Abortion War 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z But at a festival that prides itself on rigid, clockwork rhythm, much will be different. A Cannes (sans kisses) to reawaken our romance with movies 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z The agendas for debate are far from rigid. Restaurant serves ethnic cuisine - with side-dish of conflict resolution 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z “When you have more rigid structures, people get very creative in finding ways to get around it,” he says. Urban entertainment districts: Blocks where no one has fun 2012-05-19T13:00:00Z Anne schemes for her family to surmount Jacobean society’s rigid gradations of rank and status. Review | ‘A Net for Small Fishes’ is dark, entertaining historical fiction 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z Fabrics may be supple, but they achieve a rigid form that looks unyielding. London: Body Snatchers 2010-02-23T19:55:00Z A corps of no less than 40 dancers crosses the stage, the men wielding the women like bayonets or surging against their rigid relevés as against barricades. Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Spring Season Begins 2014-04-30T17:50:19Z Not only were many of the clothes structured, with long sleeves and a waist set where it naturally belongs, but they also recalled the early 1960s and rigid rules of charm. Fashion Review: Milan Goes in All Directions 2010-02-27T01:25:00Z The closest analogy to the Bravo franchise may be McDonald’s, a multinational corporation that is known for rigid standards and uniformity, but that permits small variations overseas. ‘Real Housewives’ in Greece, Israel and Canada 2013-06-06T12:00:01Z But when you could write a user manual of many pages for yourself – down to optimum mealtimes, bedtimes and downtimes – you can get a bit, uh, rigid about sticking to it. Forget cat ladies: the real tribes of modern dating, from fantasists to routiners 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z “You need an agency that doesn’t say ‘here are the rigid rules,’ when the rules become obsolete almost immediately,” Wheeler, who headed the FCC from 2013 to 2017, told me Monday. Perspective | Facebook is harming our society. Here’s a radical solution for reining it in. 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z On the screen, I stare straight ahead, lying on my back as rigid as a statue, my eyes the only feature betraying the manic fear inside. Brain On Fire: 'Blood and foam began to spurt out of my mouth' 2013-01-13T00:05:24Z The vibe works, particularly the jabs at classic musicals’ rigid sexism. Review: ‘Schmigadoon!’ Has a Song in Its Heart, and Everywhere Else 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z A series of light-hearted scenes in Act 1 seem to be mainly depicting a culture clash between the rigid Sister Aloysius and the more progressive Father Flynn. New opera's success is beyond `Doubt' 2013-01-27T21:59:08Z Ms. Noble says she believes that received ideas about how motherhood should be a desire of all women are largely influenced by patriarchal and religious ideology adhering to rigid gender roles. Women Who Said No to Motherhood 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z This facility and its rigors — no half-day options; tiny monochrome uniforms; a rigid curriculum and forlorn little ones — made me shudder. Private preschool is a racket 2013-09-05T13:50:00Z In the face of abundant, tenuous connections, the instinct to sort people according to a more rigid logic than that of mere friendship seems greater than ever. What Jacques Derrida Understood About Friendship 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z When crossed, Ginny flounces and says inappropriate things; when upset, Lot goes rigid and sputters and spits. ‘Corsicana’ Review: Four Lost Hearts in the Heart of Texas 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z By contrast, Wiz Khalifa is by far the most enunciative rapper of the day, his stolid verses served with flat affect and sitting atop the beats, rigid and square. New Music: Big Boi’s ‘Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors,’ and Lifehouse 2012-12-10T23:17:11Z Seldom, even in ballet, do we find posture so rigid. Review: Decades of Lucinda Childs’s Cool Minimalism in Motion 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z "By the 1880s, Monet's paintings were selling extremely well in America ... perhaps because the American taste was less rigid than in France." Monet show to reconcile French with snubbed master 2010-09-17T22:05:00Z Call it setting as set piece, which is all well and good, but set pieces are rigid, not malleable. A Novel of the City, Alive to Its Hidden Connections 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z Auroville continues to attract people searching for a simpler life, fleeing the grind of capitalism or, for women, conservative or traditional cultures with rigid gender roles. When Utopia Met Dystopia, They Were There 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z It's striking how tribal the Thick of It star's show is tonight, how rigid his borders between middle-class and what he euphemistically calls "non-Observer readers". Chris Addison – review 2013-03-31T17:01:01Z Less rigid than the originals that inspire them, his pieces have a slight roundness that makes them more at home in the 21st century, while still drawing on the straightforward allure of Shaker design. A New Set of Tastemakers Finds Inspiration in Shakers 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z She has the rigid countenance of someone enduring unwanted torture. “50 Shades” of coercive sex: The movie is even worse than the book 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z With an intellect that supersedes social boundaries through sheer insistence, Sycamore chronicles the paradox of inhabiting a fluid life in a rigid world. Review | ‘The Freezer Door’ is an aching, playful memoir of vivid desire amid the desperation of midlife disconnection 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z Anti-colonial polemic enlivens prose about his quest for a place his fluid self might move within rigid lines of identity. Review | Rajiv Mohabir’s ‘Antiman’ is a memoir that refuses genre 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z Séances, in the Victorian era, were gathering places where social structures were less rigid, Ms. Midorikawa said. Many Americans Say They Believe in Ghosts. Do You? 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Green depicts how power operates in the office and the disorienting nature a toxic environment that has grown rigid through years of practice. ‘The Assistant’ aims to go behind the headlines of #MeToo 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z They contain a rigid “block” made of glue and fabric at the front that allows the female dancer to dance on point — on the tips of her toes. Brown Point Shoes Arrive, 200 Years After White Ones 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z One way to understand the music of the improvising electro-acoustic quartet Glissando bin Laden — especially if you let the name sink in — is as a fight between rigid law and individual choice. Music Review | Glissando bin Laden: Violins Face Off Against Laptops in a Friendly Improvisational Duel 2010-03-08T06:36:00Z As of 2018, the industry was creating 7.9 billion rigid plastic packaging units per year in the U.S. alone, according to a recent study. The Beauty Brands Cutting Down on Packaging 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z It’s not a particularly rigid or scientific system, of course—comedy requires freedom and casualness in order to flourish. How SNL Became the Most Successful Comedy Show Ever 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z In his latest, he addresses the increasingly rigid divides that define American life and seeks out “the dissenters who continue to champion persuasion in an age of polarization.” 15 Works of Nonfiction to Read This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z With each of these, I've been teased about how rigid I am. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Setting ground rules for babysitting without seeming anti-Auntie 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z Yet the Americans made a tactical error in maintaining a rigid sense of turf. 'With Their Bare Hands' tracks America's ascension to military power during WWI 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z These rigid booking systems can feel alienating for nonbinary and transgender travelers who can feel regularly excluded or sidelined. Nonbinary Airline Passengers Ask: What’s Gender Got to Do With It? 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z But the festival doesn’t uphold bebop as a rigid absolute, or impose Parker’s music as a precondition. Review: Charlie Parker Jazz Festival Subtly Recalls Its Inspiration 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z And not the filmmaking, whose rigid structure — once a week for a year, only on Tuesdays — was decided before any other element. Review: In ‘52 Tuesdays,’ What a Difference a Year Makes 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z You’ll only find a satisfying answer if you assumed the movement was solely about converting pain into prison time, about developing a rigid code of transgression and punishment. Perspective | Harvey Weinstein’s conviction allowed victims to have messy stories. That’s revolutionary. 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z The court struck down the state’s rigid policy that anyone with an IQ of more than 70 is mentally fit to die, regardless of other evidence. Lashes and lashing out 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Instead, Can celebrated hypnotic, swirling rhythms and a rigid, mechanical funkiness that still sounds vital. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2015: 11 other acts that should be in 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z He defended the order by saying Americans are in support of classical style, and that it wasn’t calling for a “rigid neo-Classical program.” Draft Executive Order Would Give Trump a New Target: Modern Design 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z Her plants suggest a magic of movement that distinguishes her work from rigid glass or porcelain flowers. | Carmen Almon, The Naturalist 2013-08-21T19:11:13Z Some of the rules of the Freedom and Responsibility workplace sound rigid. Reed Hastings Had Us All Staying Home Before We Had To 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z His left hand is in an almost permanent state of tension, looking like a rigid claw, and despite Haitink's best efforts, he never gets rid of it. A masterclass with Bernard Haitink 2011-08-11T21:30:03Z Then I used a meat mallet to pound the salt into granular form, and after that I transferred the salt back into its rigid storage container. Perspective | Hints From Heloise: Lunch for one 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z What I retained was the rigid, puzzling format of our interaction. How My Worst Date Ever Became My Best 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z People were standing right next to me, rigid as a wall. Festivalgoers killed in stampede at Love Parade in Germany 2010-07-24T19:25:00Z Such themes speak to a sophistication that previous generations of filmmakers didn’t possess or rejected since rigid definitions of racial identity are much easier to market. ?Pariah? Reveals Another Side of Being Black in the U.S. 2011-12-23T18:57:21Z Frightened, even terrified, of committing a wardrobe gaffe on national airwaves, most adhere to a rigid, patently dated style that has all the allure of a milk carton. The Fashion Conservatives 2010-10-20T22:33:00Z Guy Trebay It’s easy to look at binary gender only in terms of pejorative clichés — it’s constricting, rigid, patriarchally enforced, etc. Gender, Lockdown and Really Good Outerwear 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z You had the tail end of Italo, and European electronic music, and industrial, and all of it was quite maximal, and rigid. How the midwest won over the dancefloor 2011-03-03T22:10:01Z If you enjoy Nick — a scrappy Los Angeles author with alcoholic tendencies, a bizarre but eventually successful novel, severe daddy issues and rigid, unusual ideas about personal grooming — try Jimmy from “You’re the Worst.” ‘New Girl’ Returns, Up to Its Old Tricks 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Morgan was just as crucial, giving every note the weight of inevitability, without ever sounding rigid. Review: Jim Black Trio at Le Poisson Rouge 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z That might be fine with Mr. Trump, who was roasted for his bogus birtherism claims by Seth Meyers and President Obama in 2011, as he sat rigid in the audience, turning into a tomato. Michelle Wolf Did Her Job. It’s the Correspondents’ Dinner That Is the Problem. 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z It’s amazing that Kiarostami was able to work copiously and free-spiritedly within the rigid constraints imposed by the religious and political doctrines of the Iranian regime. Postscript: Abbas Kiarostami, 1940—2016 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z To my mind, they mark Bruce at his most playful and uncensored, full of big dreams and New York fantasies, unwary of critics and unwilling to fit into a rigid box. The inauspicious arrival of Bruce Springsteen 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z Perhaps because Ryan tells stories about her life for a living, she maintains some rigid boundaries between her public and the private spheres. A Sitcom for Families With ‘Funny Shapes’ 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z You wished his comments followed any rigid patterns or reasoning, but they do not. The NFL and Roger Goodell aren’t being honest about marijuana 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z White attitudes toward blacks, in terms of institutionalizing slavery, were not always as rigid as they became during the course of the 19th century in America. What is “white supremacy”? A brief history of a term, and a movement, that continues to haunt America 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z As the seconds ticked by, the tension of this rigid tableau, so different from the curling, spinning masses in the rest of the piece, built to a near-unbearable level. You'd Follow Them Anywhere 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z Contrasting deep contractions of her torso with rigid arms and spiky elbows, she created images full of pain and suffering in not-so-subtle terms. Dance Review: Rebeca Tom?s Brings Flamenco to Theater 80 2010-05-16T21:47:00Z She entered the courtroom for the defense’s brief close with a rigid smile, then left after. Mistrial declared in Bill Cosby sex-assault trial 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z The judges are rigid, the accused woman dignified, Christ a liberal.• Magritte, Monet and Tracey Emin ? the week in art 2011-08-26T08:00:01Z There is no commercial producer’s option hanging over us, no rigid timetable, and no thought about what other Tony-eligible pieces might be arriving when. ArtsBeat: 'Grey Gardens' Team Will Make a Musical Out of 'Far From Heaven' 2010-12-17T19:17:58Z The problem, they argue, is that it is unrealistically rigid in a world where families, companies and other countries routinely pay ransoms. U.S. refusal to negotiate ransoms may be risky In "Complexity and Contradiction," Venturi was eager to take on a certain rigid brand of American good taste while also fighting various internecine professional battles. Race, violence in Ferguson, Mo., cop killing play out on Main Street 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z But they also include rectangular shapes, and even their squishiest strokes turn rigid under the shiny glazes that freeze the pigment in place. Review | In the galleries: Trevor Young illuminates buildings, both grand and modest 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z “I develop a kind of a system. I need the structure very rigid.” Beatriz Milhazes Breaks the Circle 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z This rigid, almost mathematical haircut gives the impression that the guy is ordered but also insane. Javier Bardem: is he the best ever Bond baddie? 2012-10-27T23:21:00Z Having escaped India’s ancient caste system, they discover an equally rigid system in their new, supposedly liberal home. ‘The Year of the Runaways’ review: ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ for the 21st century 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z My body often feels like a cage, one that I can dress up differently to be less drab, sure, but also one whose rigid structure clashes with everything society wants. "Dead End: Paranormal Park" explores theme parks as queer getaways 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z A heap of bacon stacked like cordwood attests to the popularity of those excellent rashers: rigid, smoky and peppery. In Ballard, burgers meet fish and chips for a happy 'fast-food' meal 2012-07-27T16:22:03Z Here in the UK, supermarkets have rigid contracts. Price inflation: 5 ways stronger UK supply chains can help reduce rising food costs 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z The colonists, as they call themselves, live by rigid rules set out by a group of anonymous leaders. The Mysterious ‘Parking Lot Attendant’ at the Center of a Web of Intrigue 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z The superhero genre is at present the most lucrative and, for that reason, the most rigid in modern cinema. Review: ‘Suicide Squad’ Chases Nihilistic Swagger but Trips Over Its Own Feet 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z She is also put off by the more rigid hierarchies of the east coast. Rebecca Solnit: California dreaming 2013-06-29T07:00:45Z Camera pictures and personal mobility are inevitable enemies of rigid isolation, and the show's final gallery takes a precipitous plunge. LACMA's lovely show on Korea in a time of transformation 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z Lacking rigid infrastructure, these rectilinear elements have a slightly rumpled aspect; they resemble used furniture cushions. Art Review: The Uncluttered Look Has Its Day 2011-03-03T23:30:06Z “Up until five or six years ago, Paris was a somewhat national scene with rigid structures,” he said. Scene/Seen: Paris Regains Some of Its Lost Aura in Art World 2011-10-28T13:30:24Z But while the path to a personal philosophy that fits often involves plenty of “trying on,” there’s something needlessly rigid – and somehow insincere — about abruptly flicking off one’s faith based on a calendar date. Enough with the “year of” stunts! 2014-01-03T20:39:00Z The dozen or so playwrights that I talked to with TV experience generally shared this skepticism about a rigid distinction between art and commerce. Playwrights Shuttle to TV and Back 2010-11-19T20:43:00Z We no longer suffer from rigid and risible affiliations to a single genre: we have realised that having both Animal Collective and Beyonce on your iPod isn't going to split your psyche asunder. Silibil N' Brains: California Schemin' ? the end of authenticity 2010-04-17T23:09:00Z A rigid scheduling grid is less important in cable; in streaming, not at all. Let’s Hear It (Quickly) for the Half-Hour Drama 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z It was too often used to define a rigid notion of people and of citizens, to justify a politics of exclusion, and it caused an obsession with identity. Rachida Lamrabet: 'Literature helps when you are trying to form an identity' 2013-03-22T17:57:44Z Yet his study of a kneeling figure, for a major commission from the German Confraternity of the Rosary, is far too rigid to be mistaken for a Titian or Tintoretto. Art Review: ‘Renaissance Venice’ at the Morgan Library & Museum 2012-05-31T21:44:28Z Hopefully the two films will complement each other as snapshots, set 10 years apart, of a rigid Bible Belt that’s proving too slow to unbuckle. Why are there so few queer female coming-of-age movies? 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z The book is also filled with amusing and sometimes staggering accounts of goofs and gaffes that make one wonder how someone like Sacks would fare in today's more rigid, competitive, and "increasingly professionalized" environment. Oliver Sacks' 'On the Move' a memoir of an extraordinary life 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z As modern, industrial distilling emerged after the Civil War, and as gender roles became more rigid, women played less of a role in whiskey production, though they left their stamp in other ways. In the Male World of Whiskey, More Women Are Calling the Shots 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z Bigger facial muscles may not yield a more youthful appearance, he argued, but possibly a more rigid, masculine one. Skin Deep: Turning to Electrical Currents to Zap Flabby Muscles 2012-07-11T19:03:13Z The columns behind them and the hieratic figures carved into those columns were straight, rigid. Nrityagram Dancers at the Temple of Dendur at the Met 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z Residents assume roles in a rigid suburban hierarchy, and an “authenticity committee” gathers regularly to minimize “disruptions” from the outside world. Theater: ?Maple and Vine,? a ?50s Flashback 2011-11-27T04:47:17Z He circumvented the rigid traditions of most journalists and newspapers of his day to break a story that changed one woman's life, as well as the political fabric of our country. Why Billy Eichner’s Matt Drudge deserves all the “Impeachment” screen time 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z Beach House Owner: Normally I’d side with your argument here, because I think gifts are lovely and flexibility is even lovelier; rigid rules and ideologies that allow no room for discretion are my Voldemort. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: When you have a beach house and a su-casa-es-mi-casa family 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z This time, I was the one who sat rigid and stared ahead — because it wasn’t enough. This Is What Happens When Friends Fall in Love 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z Its ideas about power — for instance, that leaders can be doomed by rigid purity — muddied the moral dichotomies of Tolkienesque fantasy. ‘Game of Thrones’ Has Moved Past Its Blueprint, and That’s a Good Thing 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z Jackman finds the humanity in someone who’s forced himself to bury his down deep, for the sake of fitting into a rigid template of success. Bad Education: is this Hugh Jackman's greatest performance to date? 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z In September of 1972, after just one night back in New Haven, Maynard says, she left college and moved in with Salinger, where she was inducted into his rigid and reclusive routine. Joyce Maynard’s Second Chances 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Instead, it’s more about wanting gender to be more fluid and less rigid, so that there’s some middle ground between maleness and femaleness. These gender-fluid apps and games are worth your time 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z The Truth About Celia Frost is not without its faults, but it's fast and fun, and difficult to pigeon-hole, which is no bad thing in this age of rigid genres. The Truth About Celia Frost by Paula Rawsthorne - review 2012-10-05T21:55:15Z Their love of costume dramas reflected "the values of the narrow elite" in which "strangulated English accents dominate dramas played out in rigid, class-structured settings". Torin Douglas: 24 years in media 2013-06-03T07:43:41Z So I began my migration from the rigid enclosure maintained by the environmental white kids into the one sculpted by the youth of color. The Long Road to Angela Davis’s Library 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z The most powerful parts of the memoir are those in which Mirvis struggles against a belief system and community that demand rigid adherence and punish refusals to conform. Losing Her Religion 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z The bigger problem was the rigid set of protocols — especially all that staccato tension — that governed the set. Music Review: Phronesis, European Jazz Trio, Performs at Jazz Standard 2013-07-03T20:37:07Z And it made a striking collection — if one that converted the female body from round to rigid. Minimalist Matters 2012-09-23T17:51:45Z A subtheme of the movie is the village’s rigid moral code of behavior and its negative presumptions about unmarried women of a certain age. Movie Review: ‘UFO in Her Eyes,’ a Chinese Satire, at MoMA 2012-06-12T23:02:22Z Over the years I have observed that the rigid protocol in classical music whereby solo performers, especially pianists, are expected to play from memory seems finally, thank goodness, to be loosening its hold. Critic’s Notebook: Memorization’s Loosening Hold on Concert Tradition 2012-12-31T23:18:16Z The effect is stark and rigid, even though Pida’s brushwork is loose. In the galleries: Art that’s coolly conceived, rigorously made 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z If she never quite found her footing in the rigid conventions of bel canto, there is more in common with her theater work in the later, dreamier, more epic “Rusalka.” With ‘Rusalka,’ Will the Fourth Time Be the Charm for Mary Zimmerman? 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z There’s nothing rigid or confining in its heights of refinement. What to Stream: Five Directors’ Outstanding First Features 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z "I was too rigid with my mind. I was too focused, too controlled. I wanted recess. I wanted to let my mind off the leash." Sad after losing your sense of smell to COVID? Turns out there's a link between sense and happiness 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z “The German and Austrian new-music scenes were very rigid at the time,” she said. Olga Neuwirth Maintains Eclectic Path in Her Music 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z There’s definitely physical aspects to playing this part in “Hangmen” — his posture is sort of upright and slightly rigid so I need my muscles to be in good working order. Alfie Allen Gets in the Zone with Gospel Music and Pineapples 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z Every muscle in my body was rigid with fear and disgust with myself. Here's What Ryan Reynolds Is Thankful For 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Yours have clearly opted for the latter and I’m afraid your rigid opposition and focus on your own sense of betrayal rather than their impulse to connect may be partly the cause. My 18-year-old daughter is having a baby with my stepson | Dear Mariella 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z With Bach or Brahms, we try to reproduce the music the way the composers wrote it and people don’t call it rigid,” she said. Ewan MacColl, Dogmatist of British Folk, Gets a Tribute Album 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z Jackson, whose trademark rigid vertical hairdo has been swapped for an easy-care wave, remains a nervy performer. La Roux – review 2013-03-29T17:06:00Z They were rigid, but had a touch of subtlety built into the fabric. | Self Edge: Jeans Made to Be Tough Enough for the Demanding 2010-04-13T22:37:00Z “There’s nothing pressed or rigid,” he said of the watercolor-hued garments hanging around him. This Bond Wears Corduroy 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z Every food possessed fixed humoral qualities — fennel was hot and dry, cucumber was cold and wet — and assigned a place in a rigid cosmic hierarchy. What We Eat During a Plague 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z Despite the centrality of faith in his own life, Bush assured voters that he would not implement the rigid agenda of the religious right. Christian America is an invention: Big business, right-wing politics and the religious lie that still divides us 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z Ballet is a series of the strictest, most rigid disciplines invented to portray ultimate suppleness and effortless musicality. The Silent Song of Maria Tallchief: America’s Prima Ballerina (1925-2013) 2013-04-12T21:50:43Z One, rigid as a mannequin, is lifted up by removal men, to be stowed safely out of the way; the other is carried, heavy and succumbing, to wait in a bedroom. A Woman Killed with Kindness; Loyalty; Ghost ? review 2011-07-23T23:06:30Z Gabriel’s family is supportive of the child’s interest in ballet, but Rob’s conservative Chinese father struggles to see outside his rigid view of masculine expectations. Disney Creates a ‘Launchpad’ for Underrepresented Filmmakers 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z It wasn’t until he stepped outside of his comedy comfort zone that his talent became more clear — when he played the rigid, religious Hank MacDougall on “Everybody Loves Raymond,” for instance, earning three Emmy nominations. Best in Show: Watch Fred Willard’s Most Memorable Roles 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z He says I'm being prudish and rigid and that it's no different from regular modeling. Perspective | Ask Amy: Mom, confronting mess, needs to lose it 2020-09-06T04:00:00Z “A lot of people who teach performing arts are fairly rigid,” Grifasi says. Carmen de Lavallade is 86 and still the best dancer in the room 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Yet even in Spectre, the new James Bond movie – as ramrod rigid MI6 head M – Fiennes manages to keep it light and bag the film’s biggest laugh. Ralph Fiennes: Loosey Goosey? ‘I like that!’ 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z So there is wrong that is right, and that is better than rigid rightness that is wrong. The lost art of editing 2011-02-11T14:05:33Z Released at the tail end of the second-wave feminist movement, “Rabbit Test” is a movie about the scrambling of gender roles that only reinforces how rigid they still are. Pregnant Men Were a Movie Punchline. Now They’re Horror Villains. 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z And there is something troubling about watching these proud wild animals move robotically in rigid unison, evoking images of lordly colonialists in funny hats. | 'The Coney Island Illuscination': The Ringling Brothers Circus in Coney Island 2010-06-25T22:40:00Z “I wasn’t so interested in the rigid structure of jocks and nerds but in how people interact when they’re in a space together,” Mr. Mitchell said. Creating an Adolescence for the Ages 2011-06-25T23:33:02Z Girls were already swimming when I arrived at the pool, flinging from the diving board with arms flexed overhead, torsos rigid with focus. I was a secret hair puller 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z The Grand Trianon was built by Louis XIV in the late seventeenth century as a place of escape from the rigid protocol and formality of the court of Versailles. ArtsBeat: A Close Look at the Ladies of Versailles 2012-07-23T16:57:26Z If rigid geometry is not your style, there are more relaxed ways to grow herbs. Planning the season ahead 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z The Durant sisters are outwardly fortified by the rigid routines and conventions of ballet, but inwardly they are bending under the pressure of maintaining a facade. Megan Abbott’s Latest Crime Thriller Links Ballet and Sex 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z This Dior gown may be the exception: it looks pleasingly like my nan's lampshade and despite having a rigid skirt doesn't look too constrictive. Oscar red carpet fashion - live! 2013-02-25T00:39:26Z Their intent, they said, had been to dispense with rigid, black-and-white thinking about the way individuals responded to life under occupation. Nuance Is Difficult When It Involves Nazis, a Museum Finds 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z The students are inspired and empowered through the teachings of Robin Williams' character, Keating, only to be confronted with life's rigid systems and constraints, resulting not only in disillusionment but in the tragedy of suicide. Clip joint: the best unhappy endings 2013-03-21T12:31:31Z “There’s all this goodness and decency and common sense on the ground,” he said, “and somehow it gets translated into rigid, dogmatic, often mean-spirited politics.” What We Learned When President Obama Interviewed Marilynne Robinson 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z The cast pushed a fairly rigid text to its limits in terms of empathy; Hudson and Sykes did yeoman’s work dredging characters from whatever scraps the musical’s book left them. NBC's 'Hairspray' Hit All the Expected Notes, to Diminished Effect 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Sometimes it stems from a rigid belief system, a fear of the unknown, or a total misconception of what mediums and psychics are all about. Psychic on what "Ghost Whisperer" gets wrong 2010-05-24T19:25:00Z The answer is nobody’s: That organization, like the panicked educators in the film itself, holds fast to its rigid, myopic policies to preserve its own authority. Movie Review: ?Bully,? a Documentary by Lee Hirsch 2012-03-29T15:04:05Z The majority of young performers spend nearly their entire adolescence — as long as 10 years — training and abiding by strict rules imposed by labels that often include strict dieting and rigid practice schedules. Lesser-known K-pop bands struggling amid the pandemic 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z “That is a new and dangerous mixture, with a very rigid nationalist focus.” Shake-Up in Romania Changes a Film Festival in New York 2012-11-27T23:22:22Z Each monochrome image, with its rigid composition, traced memories of people and times past. Red wine and doughnuts at the Daegu Photo Biennale, South Korea 2012-10-29T10:00:00Z It’s refreshing for me because ballet is a rigid art form and you are not given a voice. Minnesota teen ballerina wants to branch out 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z Given Rick’s extremely rigid morale code and Shane’s now demonstrated willingness to do whatever it takes to survive, the showdown promises to be bigger than just a battle of two alpha males. Walking Dead Recap: Save the Last One 2011-10-31T14:34:17Z The implication seems to be that in a world where conceptions of femininity are too rigid, it is "easier" to be a trans woman than a real one. All Twisted Up by Gender Bending 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z Other nationalities may do this with hours of study or a rigid curriculum that depends on memorization. Motherlode Blog: Want to Be a Good American Parent? Teach Self Control. 2012-02-20T14:57:24Z And while calling Mr. Obana’s show “performance art” is too glib, the fact is, that within what to me are like fashion’s almost bizarrely rigid conventions, he came up with something imaginative. New York Fashion Week: Male Models at the Line of Beauty ? NY Fashion Week 2011-09-16T23:20:18Z “But we are the keepers of that content, so we can’t just put it online because the legal environment is so rigid.” France and the Library of Congress Start a Media Project 2012-06-29T22:03:01Z We’re also quick to form opinions, stay glued to our cable channel of choice and hold to our rigid mindsets. The wrong side of history: My uncle’s Supreme Court stand against interracial marriage 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z She put herself on a rigid of diet and exercise regimen and lost 117 pounds. Shonda Rhimes' 'Year of Yes' puts positive spin on simplistic self-help solution 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z McCarthy said the Englewood gangs are more rigid and territorial than the gangs he saw when he was a ranking member of the police department in New York and chief in Newark, N.J. Hudson trial showcases violent Chicago 'hood 2012-04-22T20:46:04Z Also explored are an illusion in which a rope rises from a basket and is somehow rigid enough to climb, and the bullet catch, in which a magician supposedly snags a bullet fired at him. Television Review: ‘Lost Magic Decoded,’ With Steve Cohen 2012-10-17T21:55:03Z But, more than that, it provided a dense set of activities in flexible spaces with fluid circulation—there was nothing rigid or dogmatic about it. The Unrepeatable Architectural Moment of Yugoslavia’s “Concrete Utopia” 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z The tight structure of the show is a mixed blessing; at times it feels a little rigid, and fails to connect with the audience. Edinburgh fringe comedy round-up 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z Chiara Gallerani used a vacuum to let the air out, revealing bodies as rigid and inflexible as figures carved into stone. Dance Review: Bodies Like Statues, Beginning to Move and Then Set Free 2010-10-11T21:57:00Z Under white rule, Afrikaans art was heavily sponsored by the government and presented a rigid image of Afrikaners as upstanding Christians — a natural ruling class. The Brilliant Weirdness of Die Antwoord 2012-01-29T07:13:50Z In recent years, Selaocoe’s ability to float above rigid genre categories has resulted in a growing influence among a classical music community increasingly conscious of its deference to longstanding traditions. Abel Selaocoe Finds a Home in Improvisation 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z It’s frustrating when a show capable of so much commits self-owns of such rigid simplicity. The Walking Dead: season 8, episode 12 recap – The Key 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z The term has helped to popularize feminist critiques of rigid gender norms and inequalities. "Toxic masculinity": what does it mean, where did it come from — and is the term useful or harmful? 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z The performance lacks the warmth and tenderness needed to leaven Isabella’s rigid ethics. 2010-02-15T22:29:00Z With a rigid back hunching at the neck, he has the appearance of a large turtle, only slower. Joe Pera and the Surprising Pleasures of Gentle Humor 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z Nor does he maintain the rigid upright stance that has become the norm in Irish dance. ‘Riverdance’ Was Years Ago. Colin Dunne Makes Quiet Music Now. 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z In this 2016 novel, Simon Tolkien tackles issues of class and rigid social structure as well as war. Perspective | Six novels that get to the truth of World War I 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Baby, on the other hand, is a model student, laboring over her classwork with a kind of rigid, petrified intensity. Review | In Elisabeth Thomas’s ‘Catherine House,’ an exclusive university harbors sinister secrets 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z There are no rigid rules without respect for hunger cues and food preferences. An "anti-diet" dietitian’s advice for well-being 2021-01-31T05:00:00Z But rigid schedules that minimize recess and lunchtime often happen because of the pressure of district-chosen curriculums aimed at raising test scores, Davis said. Lunchtime is so short in some public schools, students are going hungry 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z Chike is a serious man with “a rigid morality underlying his mildness”; despite his self-proclaimed agnosticism, he finds solace in the Bible. Going AWOL in Africa’s Largest City 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z In a way, Donatella Versace seemed to be giving physical expression to a Lao Tzu tenet seemingly central to the survival of this fabled label: There are times to be hard and rigid. A Look at Noteworthy Milan Men’s Collections 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Partly through our rigid censorship, partly because of middle-class domination, the British crime film didn't become established in our native cinema until the mid-1940s. Ill Manors – review 2012-06-09T23:08:05Z Their failures to live up to their own rigid notions of Shariah law are evidence of their humanity. ‘Timbuktu,’ an Abderrahmane Sissako Film About Radical Islam 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z It is not helped by a somewhat rigid and funereal display, in which exhibits are placed on boxy plywood shelves. Extraordinary Stories About Ordinary Things – review 2013-02-03T00:05:26Z The policing of public events, he said, "demands more than a rigid response within a conveniently harsh legal environment." Why do our paranoid, anti-fun police seem to think they run the country? | George Monbiot 2010-03-29T20:00:00Z Butter knives and rigid plastic knives marketed for kids are wonderful options for slicing fruit, cheese and soft vegetables. Even the Littlest Helping Hands Can Make Thanksgiving 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z Smerconish changed his voter registration from Republican to independent three years ago, and believes the rigid ideology of many hosts is a dead end for radio. Radio's Smerconish jumping to satellite 2013-03-06T07:16:05Z Baauer’s bass was firm, and isolated in a way that felt rigid. Critic’s Notebook: D.J.’s Play Where Rap, Hip-Hop and Dance Meet 2012-09-12T21:59:31Z The designer used asymmetric lines, rather than rigid geometry, to express the graphism that is the house’s birthright. Special Report: Fashion: At Jil Sander, Raf Simons Plays With Modernism 2011-09-25T16:45:15Z When I was in college, in the late nineties and early aughts, straight-white-male identity was more rigid and unreflective. It’s Raining Menswear 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z But Jolie's dilemma is a surprisingly familiar one -- how do you fit your own unique, amazing, curious children into our increasingly rigid, test-oriented modern system? Angelina Jolie, education reformer 2011-06-03T19:30:00Z An autobiographical novel about one’s emotionally rigid mother sounds like an opportunity for psychic revenge. Colm Tóibín’s ‘Nora Webster’: A masterful portrait of a grieving woman finding herself In much the same way, Christian fundamentalism is a parasitic ideology that inserts itself into brains, commanding individuals to act and think in a certain way — a rigid way that is intolerant to competing ideas. How religious fundamentalism hijacks your brain, as explained by a neuroscientist 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z The delineation of tasks that keeps one couple safe from destitution and filth would feel horribly rigid to another. For Better, for Worse: Three Memoirs Report From Marriage Country 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z In this reading, culture is not fluid, but defined in rigid categories. No need for special treatment? 2010-05-25T15:44:00Z No one wants to see schools treating bullying with the extreme and rigid zeal applied by the school who suspended a 6-year-old for bringing a Cub Scout utensil to use at lunch. Motherlode Blog: How Do We Define Bullying? 2011-11-17T15:39:37Z Her squint, clenched jaw, and rigid demeanor made it clear that she was not, in fact, sorry. How Not to Apologize 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z If she could not source her dream fit in stores, she figured, she’d invent her own: tight and towering, with a rigid seam that scooped up the posterior. How High Can High-Waisted Pants Go? 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z Wedow says he no longer takes a dry, rigid approach, but rather one that is “more authentic.” Gary Thor Wedow back in Seattle to lead ‘Messiah’ 2013-12-19T20:57:02Z “Her enemies, for example, accused her of taking herself too seriously, of being rigid and humorless.” In ‘Sontag,’ the Author’s Myth Takes Center Stage 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z This challenge to rigid gender roles was gentle, not insistent. Review: In Anneke Hansen’s ‘2hymn vb,’ a Billowing Gown as Star 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z It has rigid rules for achieving very high quality standards hard to comply with in difficult years. 2016 Dry German Rieslings: Graceful, Resonant, Delicious 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z And if the rigor and chutzpah of that presentation is the extension of a lifetime of maintaining rigid poise in the face of horrific circumstances, that is impressive fortitude. Mariah Carey, Elusive No More 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z The older MJ, in the show, fights for rigid precision — movement phrases are knotty, spiky, full of angles, while Little Michael is smooth and enviably relaxed. ‘MJ’: Dancing the Pain, and Dancing the Pain Away 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z The director put its withdrawal down to the army’s rigid adherence to what he called “the warrior myth”: the insistence that men who went to war returned somehow stronger in body and spirit. My streaming gem: why you should watch Let There Be Light 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z The top-down, controlled quality of the conducting made the performance seem rigid at times. A Star Pianist Brings Soft-Spoken Virtuosity to Scriabin 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z The rigid genre lines appear to be loosening up a bit, and E-Moves is a great example. Dance Review: Sampling New Work One Step at a Time 2011-04-13T00:19:47Z Often speaking here more as a pastor than as the vicar of Christ, he emphasizes moral sincerity over dogma, an understanding of the complexities of the world and individual experience over rigid doctrine. Review: In a New Book, Pope Francis Calls Mercy Essential 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z Other times, Majok repeats small whorls of dialogue with slight variations to demonstrate how quickly ad hoc adaptations become rigid patterns. Review: In ‘Sanctuary City,’ Slamming the Door on the Dream 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z The same insight is at the core of the rigid comic architecture of Fernanda Coppel’s “Chimichangas and Zoloft,” an energetic, overstuffed play about girls growing up fast while their fathers strain to recapture their youth. ‘Chimichangas and Zoloft’ by Fernanda Coppel 2012-06-05T02:00:00Z The architects’ response to this disaster has been less visionary, focusing on modest, tactical solutions necessarily respectful of the rigid strictures of contagion control. Building Public Places for a Covid World 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z “She has a rigid schedule she has been working for weeks.” Thanksgiving Dinner Recipes and Tips from Regina Charboneau 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z My Boss, My Bikini I work in a conservative field with a rigid hierarchy. Social Q’s: My Boss, My Bikini 2012-07-19T21:18:40Z Discord slowly develops in the household as friction burns between Alan and his father, who expects the son he has barely known to conform to his rigid ideas of manhood. | 'Lemon Sky': ?Lemon Sky? by Lanford Wilson at Clurman Theater - Review 2011-09-28T02:30:33Z He described his inspiration as “Japanese armor, rigid and flou,” using a French word for fluidity. Sense and Sensibility 2012-09-25T18:19:08Z Instead, he said, "we came back to a very rigid set of racial lines that were being drawn. The laws of segregation were being intensified." Academy to honor Harry Belafonte for his activism 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z Cal is not the only character who doesn't fit rigid notions of gender. 2021 was an extraordinary year of making the nonbinary ordinary 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z The first book I ever abandoned was Captain Marryat’s “The Children of the New Forest,” which came highly recommended but bored me rigid. Niall Ferguson: By the Book 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z “But what does remain is this idea that this is a rigid, rule-based society where one of the rules is changing rapidly.” The Curious Career of David Auburn 2011-01-23T00:59:00Z It is a close adaptation of a searing 1975 documentary by Frederick Wiseman, who brought his cameras to a New York welfare center and bore witness as claimants dealt desperately with a rigid system. At Glamorous French Festivals, Poverty is Only Onstage 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z Edwards, 19, is part of a rising generation of gender nonconforming dancers questioning ballet’s rigid gender roles. A Nonbinary Swan, on Pointe 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z One was warm, rigid electro, with extra drums between the beats and Nagano singing about "something missing in the soul." Concert review: Little Dragon at Nectar 01/12/11 2011-01-13T20:23:07Z Faced with crisis, it is not unusual for people to seek answers in cults and dictatorships, systems that offer the stability of rigid rules and the relief of letting others decide your fate. 'The Leftovers' Recap: Laws of Human Nature, Interrupted -- or, The Case of the Disappearing Bagel 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z Presumably, Vega’s view of the world is rigid so that it can evolve over the course of the season. TV’s most conservative show isn’t on Fox News: This new cop show glorifies everything Bill O’Reilly holds dear 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z Sports and fashion are both, he said, “about creative energy married to execution,” about managing talent that often doesn’t easily fit into a rigid structure and that has to evolve as society does. Sports and Fashion Won Big Together This Year 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z Without the rigid schedule and personalized support that aided him through high school, he drifted, often skipping class to sit in the campus library. He has autism. He’s willing and able to work. Can he find the right fit? 2018-03-11T05:00:00Z It's not just the rigid, coarse and repetitive courtyard blocks that rise like 10-storey cliff-faces – it's the gaping boulevards that sweep between them. London's Olympics legacy faces early disqualification 2013-07-21T18:30:01Z Offline, ballet institutions are just beginning to rethink their insistence on conformity, particularly their adherence to rigid gender norms. On Ballet TikTok, a Place for Young Dancers to Be Real 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z It’s working within more rigid parameters, working with ratios. Living in your art 2012-09-09T00:00:00Z In the late 19th century, many governments and merchants agreed on the need to keep money stable by linking it to a rigid gold standard. Money: The Unauthorised Biography by Felix Martin – review 2013-06-05T06:00:11Z Edward is a principled man with a rigid set of beliefs and living standards. "The Girl Before" ending explained: What happens to Jane? 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z Each time, my eyes stayed dry, my back rigid. Modern Love: A Family Label, Ungarbled 2010-02-27T02:32:00Z The format also encourages networking and stepping outside a rigid development repertoire. Train Jam: Strangers on a Train, Creating Video Games 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z “I’m a little less rigid and kinder to myself. Brendan gets the benefit of that,” she said. 2 Divorce Lawyers Better After Their Own Divorce, but Still Together 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z View him as an enemy of civil rights and upholder of rigid, retrograde mores, and you’re not likely to come out singing the praises of his wisdom and intellectual rigor. Review: ‘The Originalist,’ About Scalia, Opens in Washington 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z The Man Box is a set of rigid expectations that define what a “real man” is, particularly in American culture. A real man is strong and stoic. Why men have so much trouble making friends 2014-04-12T16:00:00Z Khoa Sinclair, for instance, treated lockdown as a time of experimentation, a chance to push a style already liberated from rigid binary conventions into the realm of “next-level femininity.” The Boys in Their Summer Dresses 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z The XO, a rigid Norwegian from North Dakota with the surname of Hansen, looked up from his paperwork with narrowed eyes. Inside the mind of one “American Shooter” 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z Most writers simply reject rigid naturalism and strip their productions to bare essentials. New Plays Like ?The Little One? Put Scary Onstage 2010-06-26T02:39:00Z It’s about a protagonist—known around Dickens as BonBon or the Sellout, though his family name is Me—whose father raised him according to the rigid dictates of academic theory. No Compromises 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z Keep being rigid, though, and he might never forget your contempt for his judgment and possibly eventual profession. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Adult son’s career path doesn’t match what you envisioned. Repeat after me: It’s okay. 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z In the second section, they broke through the rigid patterns with brief, explosive solos. Dance Review: Juilliard Presents Pina Bausch’s ‘Wind von West’ 2013-12-16T22:28:36Z A: I certainly was affected by the so-called spectral technique ... but I don't write spectral music because those techniques, although they're very fascinating, are a little too rigid for what I do ... A Minute With: Composer Julian Anderson about his opera "Thebans" 2014-04-30T17:51:16Z Local leaders protest, but those protests are futile, and rigid new security protocols are enforced. Perspective | The danger of right-wing mobs is real. Fencing at the U.S. Capitol won’t help. 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z The codes of genres and the assumptions of categories are the packed-in sediment of presumptive critical expertise, the rigid learning that gets in the way of cinematic experience. These So-Called Bad Movies Prove the Urgency of Film Criticism 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z Their life seems almost idyllic, if not for the reminders of the danger that could result if they stray from “The Wheel,” their rigid tour loop. Review: In ‘Station Eleven,’ the World Ends, Beautifully 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Men suffer from rigid gender expectations, too; it’s like wearing clothes tailored to someone else. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Feeling overworked at home? Don’t hesitate to speak out. 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z But it’s a little more free and a little less rigid than stepping. The founder of Step Afrika! on the crucial steps to bringing his dream to life 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z Numerous studies show that generics, which must meet rigid Food and Drug Administration standards, work as well as name brands for most patients. Your doctor is ripping you off: The truth about brand-name medications 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z I want them to know that religion doesn’t give anybody all the answers, but I hope that they are never too rigid in their worldviews that they can’t allow for mystery. My uneasy Catholic motherhood 2013-05-26T20:30:00Z Seimetz and Kerrigan are skillful and inspired artists, but in “The Girlfriend Experience” the rigid format of serial television dominates their artistry. “The Girlfriend Experience” Is Not an Experience 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z Anderson said he often recommends taking down insulation on the floor and instead installing rigid foam insulation on the foundation walls. Is a French drain the solution for my wet crawl space? 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z Think of Foster on screen and it’s likely that you picture her staring furiously ahead, her lips thin, every nerve radiating rigid control. Jodie Foster: ‘I have a magical thinking that I can cope with anything’ 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z Ms. Sampson reveals that, as a teenager, Mary sometimes suffered from a mysteriously swollen arm: “rigid, and huge with bandages,” her limb resembled “a monstrous appendage stitched from some other body onto her own.” The Mother of Frankenstein 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Those unique abilities allow 717 an unprecedented freedom within the hive’s rigid class system. Review of ‘The Bees’: Paull’s transfixing first novel exposes dangers of the hive mind It's not to cynically say that nice guys finish last—I don't think Thrones is making an argument against morality—but rather that being single-mindedly rigid and tied to formal codes is an encumbrance. Game of Thrones Watch: Talk to the Hand 2011-05-23T16:45:00Z Notions about marriage, divorce and forever are less rigid now, but divorce is still hard,she says. Lonnae O’Neal: He has 3 kids, I have 3 kids, but don’t call us the Brady Bunch 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z I’m less rigid about genre than I used to be. Emily St. John Mandel Will Read Anything, if She Likes It 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z The duck is rigid and alone, while the bunny is pliable, containing multitudes. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in July 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z Their leads often pause or skip into syncopation instead of racing straight through, and they’re not locked into rigid, foot-stamping tempos; it’s music geared to listeners, not dancers. Music Review: Chris Thile & Michael Daves at the Allen Room - Review 2012-01-14T00:30:25Z But most of Franklin’s paintings are recent, so they reflect not just a different language, but also a less rigid ideology. In the galleries: Brave new worlds and fantastic heroines 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z But she is excellent in her climactic encounter with her fiance, well played by Tobias Menzies, when her lean, elegant frame suddenly seems rigid with physical anguish. The Children's Hour - review 2011-02-10T00:54:20Z “At times pop, or modern, music — not that it’s rigid, but it has very predetermined structures,” mused Lafourcade, pausing as she did many times in our conversation to find the precise thought. Allow Natalia Lafourcade to Reintroduce Herself 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z Another goal was sustainability, as well as a rigid substructure designed to withstand another superstorm like Sandy. At the End of the New Pier 26, a Surprise 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z It’s noisy, but at least that noise doesn’t transgress my rigid library etiquette code. Please be quiet: my search for a noise-free life 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z Don’t be too rigid, though: An offer to clean the bathroom, for instance, would be worth several puppy walks to me. I Left My Husband Before the Pandemic. Can I Go Back to Him Now? 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z You don’t need to be rigid about it; just keep everything scheduled enough to really do something. Perspective | How to connect with a teen son as he continues to change 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z Even at its most rigid, however, it allows the siren song of groupthink to soar. | 'The Wave': The Siren Song of Groupthink 2011-05-26T23:10:14Z It consists of rigid foam insulation board attached to the wall, topped by a base coat of synthetic stucco reinforced with mesh and a textured finish coat of synthetic stucco. Why does the inside of this door keep getting damaged by rain? 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z Scriptures typically evolved flexibly to promote compassion, empathy and magnanimity — so it is particularly sad when today they are cherry-picked by ideologues, wrenched from context, to justify rigid and pusillanimous dogma. What Is the Meaning of Sacred Texts? 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z The suburban-style office park, under review now — soulless, rigid and without thoughtful public space — isn’t nearly good enough. Louis Kahn’s Four Freedoms Park to Open 2012-09-12T22:25:05Z The “magical nights” he experienced, he wrote, left him “with a calm awareness of the prejudices of our rigid mental categories.” Searching for What Connects Us, Carlo Rovelli Explores Beyond Physics 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z But if more rigid scheduling can help you forgive your own success, then try it. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A midday nap is American ingenuity at its best 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z It’s as though, in pursuing the rigid goal of correct representation, the writers forgot that the characters’ unhinged vitality propelled the original show. “The L Word” Reboot Seeks to Absolve the Original’s Sins 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z He then freezes rigid, terrified, on hearing real gunfire. The Trouble With Harry: Hitchcock's lost masterpiece 2012-07-02T18:00:01Z I do a routine, but there’s nothing rigid about it. Laurence Fishburne Cools Down With Classic Jazz and Cashmere Blankets 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z It was the far worse crime of being mostly rigid but bending only when pushed too hard and only in the direction of appeasing whoever’s pushing on you hardest at that moment. Victory for the douchebags: Not taking sides is the easiest way to help the worst guys win 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z What connected those figures was impatience with the rigid rule-making of International Style modernism alongside an emerging interest in history and rich materiality. The restored Met Breuer (formerly the Whitney) has a new energy as well as a lived-in look 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z Second-generation conceptual body art, the sculptures loosen, with a laugh, our rigid expectations. Yes, stick the bucket on your head: You're part of the art in Erwin Wurm's 'One Minute Sculptures' 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z The two interrogation scenes also beautifully capture the bewilderment of a rigid state when confronted by works of imagination. The Arrest of Ai Weiwei – review 2013-04-18T00:04:17Z He later remembered this environment as a "very austere one with a philosophy of life, a rigid Protestantism, from which one cannot escape easily". William Scott, the painter who made the everyday into a masterpiece 2013-03-02T08:00:10Z It makes such fast work of things that are really rigid and fibrous and maybe a little bit tiresome to chop by hand. Ali Slagle takes the stress out of cooking because "it’s only dinner" 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z Given that the word "stoic" is mostly used to describe a rigid, emotionless person, Stoic musical practices would seem doomed to the boring or bizarre. How Stoicism influenced music from the French Renaissance to Pink Floyd 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z The walkway itself also goes up and down to let ships pass and I like that these functional structures aren’t always rigid — that they involve movement. The East River Waterfront Dazzles. Take a Virtual Tour. 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z The more men cling to rigid views of masculinity, the more likely they are to be depressed, or disdainful, or lonely. Perspective | How ‘traditional masculinity’ hurts the men who believe in it most 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z The emotional stakes have been raised way too high, for which your parents may be held largely responsible, as their rigid stance has forced all parties to take entrenched positions that make compromise difficult. My parents put me down, so I moved in with the boy I love | Dear Mariella 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z But the filmmakers’ bold pushback against the rigid formality of the genre they draw upon doesn’t always deliver. Review: Fraternal Dysfunction in the Old South in ‘Men Go to Battle’ 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z My body, rigid with anxious anticipation, relaxed as soon as the fake blood began to pour. Confronting the “Shocking” Virtual-Reality Artwork at the Whitney Biennial 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z These were men who would probably have stood out anywhere, in their dark suits and earpieces, but who stood out twice as prominently at Get Motivated! thanks to their rigid frowns. Positive thinking is for suckers! 2012-11-25T13:00:00Z The description is included in Mr. Stelter’s outline of this former Democratic political strategist’s rigid early-morning routine, which begins at 2:35 each workday and includes 10 minutes of cross-legged meditation. Books of The Times: Brian Stelter’s ‘Top of the Morning,’ on Talk Show Wars 2013-04-22T20:27:32Z The stencil’s rigid outline fits the industrial quality of the pieces, some of which are three-dimensional. - The Washington Post 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Cultures seem to swing between extremes of Puritanism & permissiveness; rigid order & disorder; control & "freedom." Joyce Carol Oates tweets: With ISIS, 'is there nothing celebratory & joyous?' 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z Some designers regard haute couture as too rigid and steeped in the past to be of much value today; the action is in ready-to-wear and ever-changing accessories. On the Runway Blog: Not for Everyone 2012-06-29T17:35:13Z Under legislation before the City Council, rigid plastics would be added to the list of items that are collected for reuse. About New York: Toothless Law Allows Commercial Waste 2010-06-05T00:44:00Z The man saw me and made his way over with slow rigid steps, making machine noises with his mouth. ‘You can’t go home again’: A one-time Denver local confronts a gentrifying city 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z She took a similar approach to movement: wringing possibilities from a narrow set of steps; building rigid structures from which, somehow, emotion could blossom, like flowers from cracks in the sidewalk. Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s Youthful Dances Get a Youthful Jolt 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z As she tells it, her mother was absent, and her father rigid and tyrannical as he slowly immersed himself in alcohol and gambling. 6 Books for Thinking, Drinking and Changing the World 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z The American Psychiatric Association rewrote its diagnostic manual from scratch, throwing out Freudian terminology and replacing it with rigid checklists meant to standardize diagnoses. Her Illness Was Misdiagnosed as Madness. Now Susannah Cahalan Takes On Madness in Medicine. 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z He’s rigid and some of that is in opposition to everyone around him. Kumail Nanjiani Didn’t Know He Was Playing the Bad Guy 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z With her rigid posture and somber, focused air, Nicolás channels a good deal of the play’s drama and meaning. Art, life and disappointment in the deserts of 1950s Mexico 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z "In the Louvre in Paris, everything is exhibited in rigid departments, like an encyclopaedia of art," says Adrien Gardère, responsible for the exhibition design of the Lens outpost. Louvre-Lens: helping a mining town shed its image 2012-12-05T15:11:46Z Tight, rigid armholes constrict the arms in lifts. Wendy Whelan, Tyler Angle and Others on Collaborating 2014-12-27T05:00:00Z Though "Fiddler" begins with an embrace of rigid tradition, it's not long before romance finds new ways around it. How "Fiddler on the Roof" helped usher in the Jewish Pride movement of the 1960s 2023-07-08T04:00:00Z The climactic battle scenes are seemingly interminable; other episodes in imaginary realms are rigid, lumbering, and perfunctory. Review: What “Avengers: Endgame” Could Have Been 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z It also replaces the often rigid museum etiquette, with its near silence and strictures intended to protect the artwork, with a looser atmosphere filled by music, lounging and chitchat. Immersive van Gogh Experiences Bloom Like Sunflowers 2021-03-07T05:00:00Z In “An Ideal Husband,” accommodation and even forgiveness are pitted against rigid morality in a series of deliciously contrived dramatic conflicts. Deep Dives Into Justice From Shakespeare, Wilde and Atticus Finch 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z Oftentimes in period pieces, they can be rigid about the language being biblical. From "Perry Mason" to "Severance," Jen Tullock explores the various shades of "American loneliness" 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z Here, the rigid rituals of duty and honor form an inextricable bond of pleasure and degradation, of sex and death—and render sin all the more exciting. Movies 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z The arrangements of the ensemble gradually softened from rigid squares into loose circles. Critic’s Notebook: Mark Morris Directing Britten’s ‘Curlew River’ 2013-07-30T20:59:50Z Because there was no insulation, he removed the asphalt shingle roof — which was not so beautiful — added rigid foam insulation and covered it with an elegant gray powder-coated steel roof. In the Desert With Jackrabbits and Clint Eastwood 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z Her voice first presented its power during “Ministry of Defence,” a rigid, rat-a-tat ode to a crumbling government building in Afghanistan. Review | PJ Harvey forges a new style of protest music in the summer heat 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z “People tend to get very rigid about what these bees require, but it’s very straightforward,” he says. A quarantine project that’s a win for you, your garden and pollinators: A bee house 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z Her posture is ... bizarre, the spine curved and rigid — give her a push and she’d rock. Books of The Times: ‘Umbrella’ by Will Self 2013-01-17T21:22:51Z She wanted to complicate rigid conceptions of race, following the stance that her family had clearly taken for generations. As Her Music Is Reconsidered, a Composer Turns 135. Again. 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z But on closer inspection, its presentation was highly unusual: topsy-turvy, even, by the rigid standards of concert etiquette. Yannick Nézet-Séguin Leads the Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z With partnerships broken and the genre becoming overly rigid, many producers peeled away to the more financially verdant pastures of rap. How the midwest won over the dancefloor 2011-03-03T22:10:01Z Perhaps there are ways to fuse the new ways with the old that the current administration is either too busy or too ideologically rigid to see. ‘The Mandalorian’ Season 3, Episode 6 Recap: Nuts and Revolts 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z It may sound a bit old school and rigid, but the forbiddenness fostered by abstinence can build lust, plus the on/off plan happens to correspond nicely with most women’s monthly swings of desire. From “kosher sex” to love maps, 5 tips for keeping your sex life hot 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z The pressure of these engagements ultimately helped, in many ways, to break down the rigid boundaries of Los Angeles’ racial heritage. Following L.A.'s history through maps 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z “To attempt to divide us into rigid categories,” she writes, “is like trying to apply the laws of solids to the state of fluids: it’s our fluidity that keeps us in touch with each other.” You can’t do the Time Warp again: Fox should have left “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” alone 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z The congregants, fed by Sister Moore’s selfish ambitions and the Boxers’ resentments, tire of Margaret’s rigid prescriptions for faith. Review | See ‘The Amen Corner’ and feel the power of James Baldwin 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z But then, as elsewhere, a rigid bite crept into Mr. Lang’s tone. Lang Lang Shares the Spotlight With the Philharmonic 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z I presumed the show was the platonic ideal of my most loathed TV subgenre: dull and mawkish period dramas, saturated in nostalgia for a rigid class hierarchy I consider deeply disturbing, rather than reassuringly organised. 'Downton Abbey is ludicrous': the biggest TV hits we've never seen – until now 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z Additionally, these late transitioners grew up in an era of rigid gender stereotypes, which they have been both oppressed by and in some cases internalized. For Some in Transgender Community, It’s Never Too Late to Make a Change 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z Still, there’s something oddly rigid and predetermined about the lives onstage, as if the real problem was that they were limited not by society and culture but by the playwright herself. | 'American Sexy': A Quest for Life and Sex. And Doritos. And Sex. 2011-02-03T21:27:44Z “There’s just a rigid energy right now in our country,” Davis said. “Hood Adjacent”: James Davis’ funny, necessary tour of the black experience 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z One of his fundamental points is how rigid, though invisible, America’s caste system is. On the Touchy Subject of Class in America 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z In both of these large, multi-character shows, the women are constantly defining themselves against, and through, rigid societal constraints. “Game of Thrones’” overstuffed finale 2012-06-04T15:26:00Z Both Pappas and Kroll, whose Emmy-nominated animated comedy show "Big Mouth" explores the emotional ravages of middle school, said it was refreshing to work without a rigid script. Nick Kroll on returning to his filmmaking roots and the recommended age for starting "Big Mouth" 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z It occupies a 19th-century walnut table and recalls a Greek kylix, but it flops, uncannily, to one side, its body made not of rigid and impermeable pottery, but of softly coiled machine-braided rope. Inside a Designer’s Theatrical Apartment and Studio in Rome 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z The idea is that in a country defined by rigid inequality, a self-made man is that kind of beast. ‘The White Tiger’ Review: Don’t Call Him a Slumdog 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z But these moments get lost in the movie’s stiflingly rigid yet bloated three-hour span. Review: What “Avengers: Endgame” Could Have Been 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z The distinction between character actor and conventional leading man isn't always rigid. Brendan Gleeson: the character actor who steals the show 2010-03-18T23:15:00Z Aside from the faint gurgling they make when blowing bubbles, they maintain a rigid vow of silence. Perspective | My doctor told me to get a dog, but I couldn’t. Meet my emotional support fish. 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z The title of the book is a reference to the ways that Black boys are often socialized into rigid conceptions of manhood — sometimes by the use of violence. In a New Memoir, the Miracle of Black Queer Self-Creation 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z We cling so desperately to a rigid notion of monogamy, and monogamy is a fine goal to have. Two Real Stories That Will Change Your Mind About Cheating 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z As the girls grow up, they begin to see far more than their rigid, narrow-minded father ever will. Cathy Cassidy's top 10 stories about sisters 2010-09-22T06:55:00Z As she listens with a rigid smile, she spins a ring on her left hand with the middle finger of her right hand. Camille Cosby: A life spent juggling her role as public figure with desire to be private 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z The first is complementarianism, which finds beauty in the idea of men and women holding rigid, separate roles: men lead and women provide support for men. Mike Pence’s Marriage and the Beliefs That Keep Women from Power 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z It’s more important to be flexible than to adhere to rigid standards. Perspective | Life is about to get busier again. Here’s how to keep your time — and mind — organized. 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z You do not need to use a coffin – although most crematoriums will insist on a “rigid container”. ‘It was an incredibly enriching day’: the families taking control of death 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z They follow rigid formats and they have built-in rules for our protection: good guys will win, problems will resolve happily. Dead Tree Alert: Don’t Fear the Spoiler 2012-07-19T14:50:06Z The two nonagenarians appear relaxed together, with little of the formality and rigid deference often seen in people addressing the monarch. Light-hearted Queen Elizabeth jokes in her garden in new TV show 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z Best known for his grid paintings that use a limited palette of primary colors, Mondrian is often regarded as static, rigid, depthless and unemotional. Want to Understand Mondrian’s Paintings? Try Dancing to Them. 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z But if you interpret “real music” as code for a rigid set of rules, then Mr. Glasper’s efforts start to seem less like a bridging of worlds than a closing of the ranks. ArtsBeat: Robert Glasper Releasing Sequel to Grammy-Winning ‘Black Radio’ 2013-08-01T14:14:53Z Lewis wrote a review in 1955 of "Lord of the Rings" that reported some readers "imagine they have seen a rigid demarcation between Black and white people" draw along clear moral lines. "The Rings of Power" receives racist backlash, but Tolkien’s work has always lured white supremacist 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z About them: Upright, northern, honest, prone to making stupid decisions due to rigid moral code. Game of Thrones: would you join Julia Gillard in House Targaryen? 2013-05-27T02:40:05Z But I also wondered if it wasn’t also somewhat, well, rigid. Into the Land of Happiness 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z A small, finely worked painting by James Bard, the artist best known for portraits of mid-19th-century steamboats, pictures a man and his enormous horse in rigid profile. Art Review: ?Jubilation/Rumination? at American Folk Art Museum 2012-01-27T00:08:07Z Later historians praise her prose but have discounted her emphasis that the war was inevitable because of entangling alliances and the rigid requirements of railway schedules for mass mobilization. Margaret MacMillan Discusses Causes of World War I 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z It must empower local communities to make informed decisions about the fate of their own resources and be attentive to existing transparency measures that rigid Eurocentric standards may not embody or recognize. Illuminating dark seas: Why fisheries management must be more transparent 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z She turned out harder and more ideologically rigid. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: ‘Sight’ Balances Grief, Freud and Parenthood 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z As if my body was preparing itself to fight or flee, muscles forming an armor, rigid as steel. Rapture in the Zoom 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z Resist the temptation to set up rigid food rules; deprivation leads to overeating, Scritchfield says. How post-workout food rewards can sabotage your goals 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z With a rigid ex-army father, and educated by nuns, he started to rebel. John Callahan obituary 2010-08-17T17:15:00Z Make-believe was the guiding principle, and it was here that Marie Antoinette could be herself and escape a world of rigid convention and stiff formality. 2010-02-01T05:00:00Z We distrust the restrictions of a rigid form like opera seria. Mozart’s Opera ‘Clemenza di Tito’ at the Met 2012-11-09T23:06:30Z Across the lawn is the atelier, in continuous operation for more than a century and a half, where the company’s famous rigid trunks, beautiful bags and special orders are made by skilled artisans. | A Rare Look Inside the Atelier of Louis Vuitton 2013-06-13T19:06:05Z Staffing comes under the direct control of the ministry in Rome and it is rigid. Europe's heritage at risk from economic crisis 2010-12-03T19:07:00Z Supporting a class system as rigid as Violet’s spine, the Downton staff are so devoted to their betters that even when they stage a revolution, its purpose is to deny themselves a night off. ‘Downton Abbey’ Review: Back to the Past 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z My former student obviously sees a man who lives in a world of rigid statements, but for me, the question mark is a holy symbol. Apology to my former student 2012-08-27T01:00:00Z "The Divergent Series: Insurgent" arrives as the second installment in the dystopic sci-fi franchise about teenage rebels tearing down a society organized into rigid factions based on personality type. 'Insurgent' a routine action flick with no rebel spirit, reviews say 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Duncan was the night's ingenue: compared to confident old hands such as Patti Austin and Juliet Roberts, she was stiff and too young for her rigid black evening gown. London jazz festival: Jazz Voice – review 2012-11-12T13:40:28Z Larger elements — tombs, armor and human forms — were replicated via a computer-controlled milling process that chisels shapes from a block of rigid polyurethane foam. Art and Bacchanalia on the Met Roof 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z The rigid right adore him; they admire his cheek and spin, But Cruz can make you shiver ’Cause he just might win. Style Invitational: Dead letters — our annual obit poem contest 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Programming went from rigid and Eurocentric to flexible and more inclusive. Best Classical Music of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z Though she’d taken ballet lessons as a child — her mother, a dance teacher, insisted — she chafed under the tutelage of a rigid instructor in the Bolshoi tradition. Tiler Peck, spinning in new directions with the Kennedy Center’s ‘Little Dancer’ As the country emerged from a rigid, 10-week lockdown this month, the family reunited, but Paola worries about the physical contact. Coronavirus toll on Italy's elderly strains "nonni" safety net 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z Do you pack sandwiches or something that needs a rigid container? What’s new for lunchboxes? Pixels and sequins and bright colors. 2018-08-04T04:00:00Z A sunflower, four more, one bowed, and horses in the distance standing rigid and still as toys. Unfinished Business 2011-03-31T11:15:00Z The categories of relationship available in your world and your mother’s world may be too rigid for you now. No more slackers, please 2013-01-18T01:00:00Z In conversation with an academic advising committee, Julie must stand her ground in the face of dubious filmmaking veterans accustomed to certain rigid practices. When Women Filmmakers Get to Tell Their Origin Stories 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z Already, the phrase was taking on shades of irony — here used to describe the rigid orthodoxy of a fascist government. How ‘politically correct’ went from compliment to insult 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z As we saw in “Downton Abbey,” the war brought the beginning of the end of a rigid class system. A novel to cure your ‘Downton Abbey’ withdrawal: ‘The Summer Before the War’ 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z There’s an ominous sort of understatement, even minimalism, to his performance as Bowman – a constant sense of danger bubbling beneath the rigid crust. My streaming gem: why you should watch Pit Stop 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z Again, Stephanie checks in with each new beat of the story to guide the viewer with her commentary, an oppressive method of rigid structuring. Press stop: why Hollywood needs to quit relying on the vlogger 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z The boys were encouraged to join in with the ongoing household debate from an early age, but neither brother views it as a rigid or overly serious upbringing. David and Ed Miliband on sibling rivalry 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z The pursuit of wealth is seen as the basis of a society free from rigid old-world hierarchies, even as the acquisition of wealth creates dangerous inequalities. What I Learned About Democracy From the Movies 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z The light drawings may march in rigid mathematical patterns or switch to fluid undulations. Review | In the galleries: Artechouse’s ‘Infinite Space’ has waves of natural influences 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z He thought her profile made her sound “rigid” and awkward. Vows: Christy Ely and Peter Tiboris: A Reunion That Was a Long Time Coming 2014-01-17T18:41:34Z Pointe shoes are still made that way today, with cotton-lined satin, a rigid insole — or shank — and a cupped portion around the toes that is hardened with glue, canvas and paper. Pain, satin and paper towels: What it takes for ballerinas to dance on their toes 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z That’s contemporary and welcome, especially since it’s rare in the Taylor repertory, which is nearly as rigid in fixed gender roles as classical ballet. Review: The Paul Taylor Company Returns With a New Voice 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z In the work’s most mesmerizing moment, he appears as a puppet, a modern-day Pinocchio in gold paillettes, his rigid joints slowly warming into human motion. Framing a difficult past with sequins and hip-hop The process involves a 15-minute scan with a handheld scanner, during which the subject must stay completely still, in the manner of early portrait photography – no doubt resulting in similarly rigid poses and fixed stares. Print yourself: the rise of the 3D photo booth 2012-11-23T10:04:30Z They resumed — and with greater brio than was ever seen in the 1980s, when the rigid machismo of early hip-hop culture put a crimp in playfulness — having fun with how they look. The Gimlet Eye: Haircuts From the 1980s Are Back 2010-06-17T01:39:00Z Wright’s buildings have hard lines and rigid geometrical shapes. How Frank Lloyd Wright Tried to Solve the City 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z It’s true, unfortunately, that the art of baking is more rigid and exacting than that of stovetop cooking. The Best Cookbooks of the Century So Far 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z Describe him to someone who hasn't seen him yet, because he is a very unique personality in this otherwise very rigid, by the book environment. "Space Force" standout Ben Schwartz reflects on pandemic anxiety, career shifts, and Carrie Fisher 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z They howled, writhed, went rigid and spoke gibberish. Stacy Schiff’s ‘The Witches’ Shines a Torch on Salem Trials 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z She wanted to move away from such rigid delineations and found inspiration in the works of Eva Hesse, who mounted works out of fabric and latex. Phyllida Barlow, British Sculptor of Playful, Scale-Defying Works, Dies at 78 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z But beyond this, and much deeper and less personal, is a challenge to a rigid, unreasonable and unreasoning authority. Beyond the Hills – review 2013-03-17T00:05:37Z If there was a point, it may have something to do with how sexual behavior defies rigid categories. Dance Review: Gesel Mason?s ?Women, Sex & Desire? - Review 2011-11-12T00:44:19Z While it is a more freeing form of dance – less rigid, significantly more forgiving of differing body types – I honestly wasn’t very good at it. 'She’s good, but she’s big': my years as a 'fat' ballerina 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z Ingui pointed out that the rigid way regional theaters function is very different from the fluid way theater is created — “and that’s part of the base problem,” she said. After a Long, Starring Run, Will Racism at Last Get the Hook? 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z It’s a rigid mouthpiece that stretches the lips wide, exposing the wearer’s teeth and gums. The Art of Summer: The Words We Live By 2011-08-03T12:00:05Z The strongest recurring theme of “Stealing” is that rigid Christianity tears apart Kit’s entire family. A Religious Boarding School That’s Actually Hell 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z But my sister is totally rigid and unforgiving. Should We Lie to My Parents? 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Most of our company was made up of young, single soldiers, far from home and despite the evident loneliness they felt, it was always warm, inviting and not as rigid as one would think. Instead of Making Turkey, They Make Reservations 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z We shot inside in a very restricted and rigid and studio mode. "Lady Chatterley's Lover" director on sensuality and "a woman who takes ownership of her body" 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z The images dovetail with the notion of returning to a more pure form of the faith, an idea inherent in the particularly rigid strain of Islam that the Sunni extremist group follows. Islamic State's soft weapon of choice: social media 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z Watson achieved some fame in the early 1900s by advocating a mechanical, rigid, affectionless manner in child rearing. Why are Americans so easy to manipulate? 2012-10-13T14:00:00Z In the evenings, the light is as soft as the local politics are rigid. Three architects who built Jerusalem: How they shaped and fled (and were forgotten by) the conflicted city 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z Stories can be many things in these books: rigid shackles or malleable clay, weapons or armor, infection or cure. Storytelling Can Be a Dangerous Game in These New Novels 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z The rigid delineations among tiers in loyalty programs are uncomfortably vivid metaphors for the way we live now, no matter how euphemistic the terms. 7 Hours of Travel, 2 Hours on the Ground: Worth It for the Rewards Points 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z It was also a droll statement about the rigid hierarchy of the art world being 100 percent white, Baer said critically. After Half a Century, White Columns Still Surprises 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z “I do appreciate the larger push for actual recognition of diversity, but it remains incredibly rigid.” A Nonbinary Swan, on Pointe 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z Trendwatchers describe a cohort that bridles at being boxed in and tends to shrug off conventional gender labels and other rigid classifiers. In Fashion, Gender Lines Are Blurring 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z The tavern scenes – molls with arms akimbo and accents afloat – are rigid, like unsung musicals. This Happy Breed; Henry IV, Parts One and Two ? review 2011-07-30T23:05:50Z Astrology in the royal court, involving rigid rituals and precise calculations, is a world away from commoners’ divinations. Royal astrologer casts Thai king's horoscope ahead of coronation 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z There was nothing in the standard course of study to accommodate the kind of creative thinking we want to teach, and the system is so rigid.” Putting New Tools in Students' Hands 2010-08-22T19:30:00Z You might think this would render the moment dramatically rigid. Music Review: ‘Figaro,’ From Budapest Orchestra, Has Silly Touches 2013-08-12T22:01:58Z By contrast, she films the royals in their palace with a rigid and stifling frontal symmetry, and she makes much of the cultural contrast between the two realms. A Great Ballerina’s Explosive Movie Performance 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, a Marina Abramovic-organized evening at the Park Avenue Armory set rigid rules for how we were meant to listen to a performance of Bach’s “Goldberg” Variations. Starring Me! A Surreal Dive Into Immersive Theater 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z I thought, ‘He’s not a guy of absolute rigid habits, maybe he’ll come later.’ 10 Things You DIdn’t Know About Fraggle Rock 2013-05-14T18:24:54Z The growing violence, and the occupiers’ reactions to it — occasionally subtle, mostly rigid — carry the story forward. Review: An Empire Declines, Awash in Adultery and Gin and Tonics 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z The salad fork, at least, a rigid sea serpent with four braided tongues for tines, did come from Dalí’s own drawing. The Unforgettable Meets the Unimaginable at the Winter Show 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z Among fashion insiders, the gap’s ubiquity seems a sure indication that the industry has, for the moment at least, grown bored with its own rigid notions of photo-retouched perfectionism. Gap-Toothed Smile, the New Fashionable Calling Card 2012-02-15T22:29:11Z It’s a way of inserting his own identity into the enduring modernist conversation, of course, and of counterposing a humane, individual gesture to rigid bureaucratic categories. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z There was the show in which models dressed in rigid body armor were deployed by radio signal across a giant chessboard like so many rooks and queens. 2010-02-12T21:59:00Z Also like Mr. Trump, no one holds her to the rigid standards of campaign conduct, giving her license to say what she wants without all the consequences. Cher’s Latest Road Show? The Campaign Trail 2016-09-03T04:00:00Z The stays are a little looser but the whalebone is just as rigid. Motherlode Blog: I Don't Want My Preschooler to Be a 'Gentleman' 2013-01-10T15:22:59Z Or was it a step toward breaking down old, rigid definitions of masculinity? ‘Metrosexuals’ Were Just Straight Men Who Loved Self-Care. Right? 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z But a rigid workplace is not really why Anne-Marie Slaughter ended up quitting her State Department job. Is The Atlantic making us stupid? 2012-09-10T16:26:00Z The flip side of painting as aesthetic expression is painting to signal discretion and compliance, particularly in communities with rigid historic preservation or homeowners’ association rules. Is this really Washington? See the color-splashed houses that pop in a gray city. 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z The bathers buck the religious stereotype of rigid monochrome uniformity in their choice of fabric and color, from sombre taupe gabardine to raspberry and teal jersey. A Separate Beach 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z This is the year to eliminate rigid constraints. Good Wines Won’t Fix Thanksgiving, but They Couldn’t Hurt 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z On the rare occasions when she is permitted contact with her daughter, Frida must follow a rigid script. A Chilling Debut Novel Puts Mothers Under Surveillance and Into Parenting Rehab 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z The two met in London, though they were both raised in Bulgaria, an environment Ms. Kirova described as rigid. A Dating App for Three, Plus 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z In keeping with its genre, “Vicious” has a rigid structure that’s repeated weekly and becomes so familiar that Mr. Janetti can play variations on it for comic effect. ‘Vicious’ Stars Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z The deeper problem is just that they seem leering and gratuitous, even as Hopper’s rigid handling infuses them with a certain Yankee primness. Review | This Edward Hopper exhibition on hotels is worth an extended stay 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z “I immediately realized that this 90-degree pattern could be the starting point of an outdoor furniture collection that is both flexible and rigid, antique yet contemporary, graphic and iconic.” See a New Line of Colorful Tables for Spring 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z With its right-rectangular rectitude and immutable sense of authority, the iconic attaché case is as rigid as the values of the corporate culture of which it remains a symbol. | To Have and To Hold 2014-03-06T14:00:39Z From the 1970s until her death in 2022, Jennifer Bartlett melded the expressive tics of painting with the rigid grids of Conceptual Art. Art Gallery Shows to See in February 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z Virtual volunteering, where activities are done using a computer or phone, and asynchronous volunteering, where they’re completed independently without following a rigid schedule, have transformed the traditional fundraiser. Volunteering can give kids purpose in uncertain times — and there are still ways to do it 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z A visit to the luxurious ninth-floor executive offices and upper-level conference spaces made clear the rigid, Versailles-like hierarchies embedded in the corporate model of American journalism. Perspective | Born in the age of high hopes, the Newseum dies in the days of fake news 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Maybe it’s their uncertain economic status, their sense of experimentation, or simply the times they grew up in, but many parennials seem less rigid than their elders. App Time for Nap Time: The Parennials Are Here 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z As she listens with a rigid smile, she spins a ring on her left hand with the middle finger of her right hand. Camille Cosby: A life spent juggling her role as public figure with desire to be private 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z The interior art had rigid word balloons and recalled the early days of video games, with pixelated, somewhat clunky images. Superhero or Supervillain? Technology’s Role Changes Comic Books 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z Capable of rigid objectivity in the kind of landscape sketching dictated by military necessity, the artist could display in equal measure boundless fantasy when driven by fury. Review: Paul Sandby, Unlikely Founder of Dazzling School of European Art 2010-04-16T12:05:00Z “Believe all women,” on the other hand, is rigid, sweeping, and leaves little room for nuance. Perspective | ‘Believe Women’ was a slogan. ‘Believe All Women’ is a straw man. 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z Mainly, though, you noticed that there were not rigid definitions of what was “formal,” or “classic,” or “street.” On the Runway Blog: Back to the Hood for Men at the Paris Shows 2012-01-21T23:35:45Z He offered a note of refinement and structure at a time when graphic design was either too rigid or over-reliant on glitches and a sort of anti-design randomness. Designer for the age of austerity 2012-06-25T00:00:00Z Lewis said he hoped to help the ensemble move beyond rigid notions of genre, in part by encouraging artists to listen to each other through improvisation. Outspoken Composer to Lead International Contemporary Ensemble 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z As the men sling and hoist their partners about, the women’s bodies go to extremes: either appearing rigid, or limp as rag dolls. Dance Review: Mimulus Dance Company Opens Jacob’s Pillow Season 2012-06-22T22:43:21Z Instead, he relied on an instinctive, emotional response to his surroundings and preferred interacting with locals over rigid itineraries. In Crete, Henry Miller Found His Muse Amid the Ruins 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z These little things are hugely important in schools with rigid codes and protocols. This Week in Fiction: Petina Gappah on the Insular World of Boarding School 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z When I asked Richard what he thought of the main floor, his face and lips grew rigid, as though something unpleasant-tasting were being offered to him. Barneys Remakes Itself for the New New York 2012-12-13T15:14:47Z “You can put us in rigid conditions, but we will prevail.” COVID and Black Lives Matter brought an explosion of street art to Seattle. But graffiti was already having a moment 2020-08-22T04:00:00Z You can imagine them as sci-fi architectural parasites strung buoyantly between the skyscrapers of a Miss Haversham city, its rigid glass and steel gradually returning to the chaos of nature. Light is right at the Brit Insurance Design awards 2011 ? review 2011-02-17T09:51:50Z I’d always been a rigid child—the good boy—and now I was free of that, at least for a moment. How I Learned to Dive 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z However, I do want to bring awareness to mixed race politics and break down rigid categories of race. Owning my mixed-race identity: Why I don’t have to choose sides 2014-03-12T23:00:00Z Instead, he transferred deftly his comic skills into a dramatic setting as his character liberated pupils formerly rigid with obedience. Robin Williams obituary 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z The rigid corporate lifestyle that compelled workers to long office hours, often at the expense of family and personal wellbeing, is undergoing a pandemic-inspired revolution. Remote working is not going away: who wins and loses when workers stay home? 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z Although Mr. Turchin was part of a liberal Jewish family that supports gay rights, Mr. Bass’s Mississippi roots were more rigid. Lance Bass Marries Michael Turchin in California 2014-12-20T05:00:00Z He’s become a rigid if often stunning stylist, whose longtime collaboration with the designer Jan Versweyveld is his most important partnership. The Demolition Artist: 3 Critics Debate Ivo van Hove 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z But he’s also rigid and arrogant, reckless and hurtful, and he refuses to adjust to changing circumstances. “Mad Men” finale recap: “The moon belongs to everyone” 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z The problem with disordered eating — often a precursor to eating disorders, where behaviors start to become more rigid or compulsive — is that it’s often not caught and treated early. Could social media’s ‘healthy food’ focus be contributing to a little-known eating disorder? 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z As realisation dawned, the colour drained from his face, and his features turned rigid and death-like. Short story: England and My Clan by Yan Lianke 2010-03-22T12:02:00Z Moreover, our self-knowledge on this account need not be delusional, rigid, nor friable—it may be a real, if mercurial, source of wisdom, a “part of nature that just keeps pouring and pouring.” The Re-Enchantment of Carolee Schneemann 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z And the big-band format, though never quite as rigid as it seemed, has been revitalized within the last dozen years or so by an engagingly pliable set of protocols. Music Review: The Joel Harrison 19, a Big Band, at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola 2013-07-17T20:24:01Z It opens with five female dancers in raccoon-eye makeup and in rigid formation. Seattle's BOOST dance-festival works explore anxiety, entrapment, escape 2011-03-23T21:26:07Z The Colony's 100-odd residents, descended from children sent West in 2 A.V. to escape the horror, live by a rigid set of rules intended to keep them alive. 'The Passage:' Post-apocalyptic vampire thriller imagines a frighteningly believable future 2010-06-24T19:28:00Z Fashion is not an altogether natural fit for Los Angeles, a town more or less founded in opposition to the compulsive one-upmanship and rigid hierarchies that rule the industry. | Los Angeles, Where the Wild Things Are 2013-08-20T18:49:15Z As the lead, PeiJu Chien-Pott, transcendent in a long white gown, glides to groups of women, who maintain rigid devotion, holding angular, stationary shapes or changing formation in unison packs. Early Martha Graham: Deep Movement, Eternal Mysteries 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z "I broke my finger and wrist two years ago and I was literally typing a 'Magic Tree House' like this," she said, mimicking the action of typing painstakingly with rigid hands and two fingers. "Magic Tree House" film premieres in Japan 2011-10-24T06:56:38Z As a youth he was unwilling to yield to the rigid orthodoxies of French musical education. John Adams on Debussy, the First Modernist 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Sleepy Teddy riding into Sweetwater on the train — the noble outsider with a rigid sense of morality — ends up being a robot programmed to serve that very purpose. Westworld finale: even with the spot-on fan theories we're still left guessing 2016-12-03T05:00:00Z And they were strict, her mother a rigid stickler for good manners and proper behavior. Cristina Alger Writes ?The Darlings,? on Ethics, and Fortune Brought Low 2012-02-17T22:28:30Z The Yukon is not for the meek or those tied to a rigid plan. Chasing Yukon magic: Fall under the spell of the northern lights and all northwestern Canada has to offer 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z Making a rigid material unexpectedly malleable, she evokes an ancient history of fluid sculptural drapery dating at least to the swirling, 2nd century B.C. chiton worn by the “Winged Victory of Samothrace.” New Marciano foundation proves the potential and the pitfalls of a vanity art museum 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z The icon of Saints George, Climachus and Blaise, painted in Novgorod around the same time, is stylized in a rigid manner based on early Byzantine tradition. Review: The Foundations of Russian Culture and Art 2010-03-05T14:00:00Z Ms. Lee’s nocturnal revels are staged assaults against societal conventions and, in her case, a rigid upbringing. Shien Lee Presides Over Peripatetic Costume Parties in New York 2010-04-21T22:42:00Z Many of the curators acknowledged that like the slope itself, they are trying to nudge visitors toward a less rigid experience. Can the Sydney Modern Change How a ‘Sporting Nation’ Sees Itself? 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z It is governed by the Sons of Jacob, religious fundamentalists whose rigid new society evokes a Puritan past. We Live in the Reproductive Dystopia of “The Handmaid’s Tale” 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z There’s no overarching structure or rigid timeline or even a singular presentational song style, which adds to the evening’s freshness. Perspective | A cool musical where? The autumn season of plays at American Shakespeare Center is a rich one. 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Houdini was famously attached to his mother, and here he is also a little afraid of a disapproving father, seen only briefly as a rabbi so rigid he refuses to learn English. TV Picks: 'Houdini,' 'Breathless,' 'Doctor Who' 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z J’aime the handwritten brasserie menus, the cursive writing less rigid and boxlike than print, with a feminine flourish, like a Peugeot. Street of the Iron Po(e)t, Part XVII 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z The design here is never static; there isn’t the oppressive sense of control found in some classical architecture, with its rigid perpendicular lines. Architecture Review: Chinese Gem That Elevates Its Setting 2011-07-05T21:43:47Z Gagarin lay rigid in his seat and tensed his muscles. T Magazine: First Man Up 2011-03-08T14:00:35Z Clarice, the drama’s cunning political wife, is dressed with rigid formality. On the Runway Blog: Historical Dramas Play Out in Fashion, Too 2013-04-19T18:41:40Z The work of Louis Patric Alderson-Bythell suggested an ethereal meditation on alternative realities, with its futuristic skirts that undulated in rigid material hybrids. Youth, Beauty and Politics at a Student Fashion Show in London 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z Over the course of a weekend, you'll learn to coerce the rigid bow — a Hungarian-made reproduction — up over your knees to fix its string in place. Next Time You're in ... Hong Kong 2010-04-29T14:25:00Z In the morning, after a particularly restless night, she lies rigid with exhaustion: “Just the prospect of showering, or having to make breakfast … seemed an immense task.” James Wood’s New Novel Confronts the Mystery of Other Minds 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z “I’m not sure what’s stranger: that a sheet of drywall just randomly fell on my toe, or that my newspaper is made of rigid steel.” Style Invitational Week 1260: What lies (are) ahead for 2018 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z “The Locator,” in particular, is formatted to within an inch of its life, following the same rigid choreography of search-and-reveal each week. Television: ?Runaway Squad? and ?The Locator? Make Hiding Hard 2010-04-02T22:40:00Z At the same time, there are harmful variants of Islam and Christianity — specifically the rigid fundamentalist versions — that cause the host mind to process information in a biased way, think irrationally, and become delusional. How religious fundamentalism hijacks your brain, as explained by a neuroscientist 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Scarlett felt like the oldest child; I started to see her as rigid in a certain way, and I started to poke fun at her rigidity. ‘Black Widow’ Star David Harbour Loves Being a Big-Screen Loser 2021-07-11T04:00:00Z She was stiff, rigid and robotic in her movements. "American Idol" recap: Sexual frustration edition 2010-03-10T16:01:00Z She set rigid quotas, sometimes requiring herself to conceive up to three new toys a day. She brought kids joy with her ‘magical’ toys. And hid her own misery until it became unbearable. 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z When met with resistance by a person in the grip of psychosis, experts advise, try to work around rigid beliefs rather than attempting to dismantle them. My Brother Tom’s Schizophrenia 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z Its rigid grid system, featuring a large central plaza and blocks arrayed around it, became the model for the cuadrícula española, or Spanish grid, that would be promulgated up and down the Americas. How Latin America Was Built, Before Modernism Came Along 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z Is this a story of an outsider in a rigid national culture? Review: ‘Yasuke’ Reclaims a Black Samurai From History 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z At its simplest, a rope is thrown into the air and grows rigid, then a boy climbs up it and disappears. Review | The story behind some of the world’s most awe-inspiring magic tricks 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z And what’s left, I think, must be blankness and rigid veneer, slick surfaces to which memory and sentiment don’t adhere. The day Vida Wayne vanished, wearing a quarter-million dollars in jewels 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z Mirman has always defined comedy as broadly as possible, and while there are still comics with rigid ideas about what constitutes stand-up, Mirman’s more catholic tastes have won the day. He Made Brooklyn Comedy a Scene. But His Life Took a Different Turn. 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z Its rigid, grid structure has been subtly disrupted at the center, the aftermath I’m told, of an explosion. Artists turn L.A. gallery into a museum of nuclear dystopia 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z This is appealing to people who associate religion with controlling authority, rigid dogma or social adherence. "Oprah: Gospel of an Icon": Worshipping at the church of Oprah Winfrey 2011-03-13T18:01:00Z The ones I recorded all sound rigid to me. Linda Ronstadt, Retired From Singing, Is Still a Glorious Voice 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Their obsession with sex and social issues results largely from a futile attempt to enforce rigid gender stereotypes, using shame to punish those who don't conform. A Conservative Catholic Begs the Pope: Lead Us Not Into Temptation 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z Township grid, 1785 – the Public Land Survey System defined the US direction Ever wondered why US planning, from the scale of the city block to the rigid state boundary, is so square? Grand plans: how the simple planning diagram has shaped our cities 2012-11-22T15:24:06Z We tend to think in categories, to imagine that distinctions between individuals and aesthetics can be rigid, when in fact it is the other way around. Loris Lora looks for California modernism's connections 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z As a tribute to Lagerfeld, a towering figure at Chanel for more than 35 years, there were rigid white collars on top of light dresses and oversized bows on the chest. 'All-aboard' the Chanel Express for debut Viard collection 2019-05-03T04:00:00Z A self-described “pizza bagel — a Jewish and Italian mutt-girl,” Lucy grapples with the rigid expectations of others, especially her harshly critical high school peers who have rendered her an outcast. Growing Up in New York, Just Like Holden and Francie. Only With Basketball. 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z One thing we do know: There is a rigid formula for survival. Is New York Too Expensive for Restaurateurs? We Do the Math 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z This opens up a range of topics independent of more rigid and conventional tropes. Blog jam: AudioFemme 2013-04-03T17:22:00Z And yet the danger and displacement could be exhilarating – it broke the rigid frames of life, shook up class consciousness and made individuals hungrier for pleasure, more impatient at postponement. The Love-Charm of Bombs: Restless Lives in the Second World War – review 2013-01-18T09:00:02Z The sisters kept a rigid schedule that began at 4:30 a.m. and only included 30 minutes of unstructured recreation time, which was most often spent catching up on work that hadn't gotten done. "The Turning": The dark side of Mother Teresa's order, according to nuns who left 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z He also writes about research that found that when asked to draw negative emotions, people tend to draw sharp, rigid lines; others, like happiness, elicit curves. How Balloons Blew Up 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z Giusti wants chefs who can develop delicious recipes that adhere to the government’s rigid nutritional standards and who consider feeding schoolchildren to be just as important as feeding the one-percenters at Noma. Former Noma chef turns his talents to school food. But will students go for it? 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z It’s as if Stewart has been freed from the rigid cage of Professor X’s eternal war with Magneto, allowing him to finally find the soul of the X-Men’s mentor at the umpteenth time of asking. Why X-Men is right to ditch Magneto and Professor X's tired double act 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z Interesting — I think of R&B as being so loose, yet Rachel’s so rigid. Here's How Tatiana Maslany Gets into Character on 'Orphan Black' 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z The irony was always there and is central to Polsky’s film: a rigid, oppressive system, at both national and team levels, created the freest, most expressive hockey there ever was. Cold War Puck: The Beauties of Russian Hockey 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z Even though this felt like a daunting disadvantage, I now see how that rigid upbringing served as the foundation for my music career today. Five Minutes That Will Make You Love Avant-Garde Jazz 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z I was really interested in the format and the ways in which the system is both rigid while trying to appear as if it might encapsulate an entire human. This Week in Fiction: Ramona Ausubel 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z Raised by her angry mother and rigid grandmother, Ford’s only contact with her father was through his deeply loving letters, which bolstered her self-worth despite family tensions. 10 books to read in June 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z The unfamiliar soundstages and the more rigid, less natural performance style required by talkies, added to her burden. Clara Bow: the hard-partying jazz-baby airbrushed from Hollywood history 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z What you lose is any sense of what Orton was trying to say: namely, that our rigid categorisation of people as mad or sane, straight or gay is confounded by experience. What the Butler Saw ? review 2012-05-17T11:01:56Z Few opera houses still have a rigid dress code of the sort Terry Gilliam describes. It's not elitist to dress up for the opera 2012-10-04T09:48:12Z Your daughter may not resemble a Barbie doll, but only a scattering of the world’s population fits that rigid mould. My daughter needs plastic surgery – how can I tell her? | Dear Mariella 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z The festival’s offerings are divided into three rigid categories: opera, concerts and drama. Alexander Pereira Leaves Austrian Festival for La Scala 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z Soon Jane, Reagan and other Hosts begin defying the Farm’s rigid system. A Novel About Surrogacy, Set at a ‘Farm’ Where the Crop Is Human Babies 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z The suits look expensive — also, they are expensive — but they are not rigid. Shopping at Band of Outsiders 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z Much of it is, of course, down to biology, specifically the differences between your developing brain and your parents’ more rigid ones. 'Tidy your room!': a teenagers' guide to arguing with your parents 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z In a movie that mostly treats womanhood as something that’s both rigid and incidental, Hathaway, playing the vapid, self-entranced actress Daphne Kluger, delivers a subversive and shockingly funny disquisition on femininity performed to fit. Anne Hathaway Wins “Ocean’s 8” 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z Some argue it is rigid and overlooks some restaurants that critics and diners praise. New York's Jean-Georges restaurant loses 3-star Michelin status 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z You should "be yourself" when you meet men and "be less rigid" in your requirements. What have Cherry Healey and Dawn Porter taught us? 2011-08-05T23:12:01Z Somehow, it was in this moment that jazz programs began to spring up in academia, declaring the music’s history basically complete and assembling rigid curriculums based on bebop theory. Jazz Has Always Been Protest Music. Can It Meet This Moment? 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z Some five-year-olds are scared rigid by the rats in The Nutcracker, or left inconsolable at the death of the dad in The Lion King. Tim Crouch proves that theatre for kids doesn't have to be childish 2010-05-17T14:05:00Z “Apple sells you freedom, but the mechanism of its design is extremely rigid,” says Gibney. Steve Jobs' widow pulled out of documentary on late Apple chief, claims film-maker 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z Her feline sensuousness can appear alluring one moment, and predatory the next, as she and Jean are drawn into a gradual intimacy that threatens to destabilize the rigid class divisions between them. Review: ‘Miss Julie’ Resets a Celebrated Drama in Putin’s Russia 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z Many young men who overexercise and follow rigid diets often skip meals with family and friends, and complain of feeling isolated and socially anxious. What Is ‘Bigorexia’? 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z The two TV presenters broadcasting from the crowd – she in a gold-spangled minidress and rigid curls, him dour in black tie – shot baleful looks in his direction as he carried on honking. Tony awards in Times Square make for perfect street theatre 2012-06-11T13:16:53Z Close's Hewes was a top lawyer whose demons threatened her sanity but she portrayed a rigid ruthlessness in keeping all that under the surface. Damages' final season has come at just the right time 2012-07-11T14:28:00Z James Whalen offers a velvety version of Dr. Sloper; he’s far less rigid than Ralph Richardson was in the Hollywood classic. Review | Rich acting pays off in ‘The Heiress,’ a surprisingly timely classic at Arena Stage 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z In India, family ties remain tight and societal expectations rigid, and many gay Indians marry and have children while keeping their sexual identity secret. A Gay Film Festival in India Strikes a Chord 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z Sure, things were a little more rigid in the middle of the last century, but there was also the three-martini lunch, as “Mad Men” has so alluringly reminded us. | 'Maple and Vine': ?Maple and Vine? at Playwrights Horizons - Review 2011-12-08T03:01:15Z When he arrived in the United States in 1959, Pepin carried with him the rigid French view of food: that if you add carrots to boeuf bourguignon it ceases to be boeuf bourguignon. For Pepin, cooking is about technique, not stardom 2011-08-03T13:34:09Z Miller, by comparison, seemed too rigid, a dramatist whose determination to force his point of view on audiences stirred only resistance in van Hove. Broadway’s man of the moment: Ivo van Hove 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z His head remained rigid for the first few minutes, seemingly mired in anxiety, as she entered him. Dominatrix for a day 2012-11-04T01:00:00Z There’s more to gossip about on “Gossip Girl” without the rigid do-si-do of a gender binary. Review: ‘A League of Their Own’ Broadens the Field 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z It takes many more pages to uncover what exactly the narrator means by this confession; in the meantime, those lines kept me rigid with dread. Ghosts, Literal and Figurative, Haunt Magda Szabo’s Novel 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z But when it comes to tackling the big, metaphysical questions, the horror framework is in danger of being too rigid to come up with new answers – like a dying religion. How post-horror movies are taking over cinema 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Lohan's attorney, Shawn Chapman Holley, said her client was eager to demonstrate that she could comply with the rigid outpatient rehab requirements laid by the judge. With new rules, judge sets path for Lindsay Lohan 2010-08-25T22:05:00Z He grew up hating the system, like so many people in the rigid, small-minded 1950s. To Live Outside the Law by Leaf Fielding ? review 2011-07-07T13:13:00Z Rather than encounter a rigid ideology at work, one senses a fruitful tension between these two commitments. Ross Douthat Has a Vision of America. It’s Grim. 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Ms. Seeger considers criticism that Mr. MacColl was rigid as unfair. Ewan MacColl, Dogmatist of British Folk, Gets a Tribute Album 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z Over the Victorian period, this manners-based culture became as rigid and enclosing as a whalebone corset. The wealth gap: How changing fortunes tear close friends apart 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z The rigid imagery paralleled, a bit uncharitably, his vocals: gorgeous, yet not readily adaptable to more casual situations. Music Review: Josh Groban at Madison Square Garden - Review 2011-11-15T22:42:12Z He’s rigid and shy, while she’s an artist with a wild streak. | 'Any Night': When Sleep Opens the Door to the Dark Side 2011-06-10T22:46:24Z Black members were less rigid: they were 10 times more likely to contact whites than whites were to contact blacks. Online Dating as Scientific Research 2011-11-12T15:00:05Z Comparing Ms. Sanders to Aunt Lydia, the rigid enforcer for a misogynist state on “The Handmaid’s Tale,” jabs at Ms. Sanders’s role, not her looks. Michelle Wolf Did Her Job. It’s the Correspondents’ Dinner That Is the Problem. 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z But there were significant issues with her set design within the rigid confines of the Theater, the biggest space at Lincoln Center. The Making of Carolina Herrera’s Fashion Show 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z "Props is a little more rigid and has a more well-defined list of what you need. Set decorating is a little more fluid and free flowing," she says. How did Chemex, the coffee-making darling of the 60s, earn a recurring spot on "Friends"? 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z He’s a moth, ostensibly drawn to flame, yet rigid because there’s a pin through his thorax. A Minister’s Troubled Son Takes Center Stage in Marilynne Robinson’s ‘Jack’ 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z Driven by the need to demonstrate their worth in the face of vague, bizarre but rigid systems, the hunger-maddened settlers of "Proving Up" accept blame for the unimprovable condition of their lives. Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell – review 2013-03-14T08:00:01Z He’s rigid with purpose, masking Eric’s interior doubts with a stiff exterior bravado that comes rapidly undone by the film’s climax. With ‘Cosmopolis,’ a Limo Ride That Redefined Robert Pattinson’s Career 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z This sorry effort was directed and co-written by Madonna — the Lady Gaga of the '80s — but it's got the florid language and rigid schematics of a flop play that closed in Pittsburgh. Odd Couples at Venice: Freud & Jung, Wallis & Edward, Cronenberg & Madonna 2011-09-02T09:15:00Z Yet recognizing that it is a classical company does not mean rigid adherence to form, he said, suggesting that his ideal would be 70 percent older repertory and 30 percent more contemporary works. The Bolshoi, Under the Exacting Eye of Makhar Vaziev 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z Oh, I knew what I was in for: screams, gun shots, a whistling psychopath, fraught minutes in the dark and rigid postures of fear. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Comfortably Mousetrapped 2012-01-26T14:30:40Z Its frank, gritty language brazenly violated the Production Code, rigid guidelines that had dictated the content of American movies since 1934. How Elizabeth Taylor silenced the censors 2011-03-30T23:53:15Z This might sound insignificant, but few codes are more rigid and impenetrable than the one for Neapolitan pizza. Perfecting Neapolitan Pizza in Los Angeles, With Help From Tokyo 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z The tube is rigid, eliminating the age-old marital fight over whether to roll or squeeze. Beauty Spots: Luxury Oral-Care 2014-04-16T23:19:38Z They were leaving a country with high unemployment, especially in rural areas, rigid Catholic church control over sexual behaviour, and poor marriage prospects for young people. Me and Mine: A Warm-hearted Memoir of a London Irish Family by Anna May Mangan ? review 2011-08-05T21:55:02Z The festival, whose sponsors include the national and city governments, upends the rigid stereotypes of the dance. Tango Queer festival challenges stereotypes 2011-11-16T21:05:18Z Mr. Polshek had a modernist sensibility, but not in a rigid ideological sense. James Stewart Polshek, Quiet Giant of Modern Architecture, Dies at 92 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z Morita's movies were distinctly Japanese, depicting the fragile beauty of the nation's human psyche and visual landscape while daringly poking fun at its ridiculous tendency for rigid bureaucracy and ritualistic hierarchy. Award-winning Japanese director Morita dead at 61 2011-12-21T12:00:11Z We used rigid frames inside where you feel her claustrophobia more. "Lady Chatterley's Lover" director on sensuality and "a woman who takes ownership of her body" 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z If you stand there rigid, you are not in the flow of things. Dinner, dusk and dancing Russians: my best winter shot 2012-12-16T17:59:01Z “You dance away if she seems really rigid and uncomfortable with it and continue dancing if she seems pretty casual and relaxed in her movements.” After Curfew: Rendering Grinders Toothless 2011-08-12T21:22:27Z She recognised that the problem was not her veganism, per se, but the particularly rigid and restrictive diet regime she had imposed on herself. Why we fell for clean eating 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z Major suspension of disbelief is required to buy into the idea that educated urbanites would take so quickly to the rigid roles they are required to play. | 'Maple and Vine': ?Maple and Vine? at Playwrights Horizons - Review 2011-12-08T03:01:15Z His voice is raspy, and his flow isn’t as rigid as it was early in his career. New Music: The Game, Eric Revis and Ryan Blotnick: New Albums 2012-12-24T22:49:33Z In the beginning of the film he's very hardline; his moral compass is rigid. Oscar live-action short film spotlight: From voyeurism to a donkey with headphones 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z Here are some helpful, but not rigid, guidelines. Perspective | Worried about whether your child is eating enough? Some helpful guidelines and advice. 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z Still, there were rigid rules I had to follow. ‘For five years we dreaded every meal’: my infant son’s struggle with food 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z Today's children are enclosed in school and home, enclosed in cars to shuttle between them, enclosed by fear, by surveillance and poverty and rigid schedules. Why parents should leave their kids alone 2013-05-04T08:00:00Z It’s a fury that, like Scorsese’s own, is all the more powerful for the fierce, rigid, and precise control that underlies it. The Front Row: “The Wolf of Wall Street” 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z All agree that British radio, with its lack of rigid generic separation, played a vital part in creating UK soul's sonic melting pot. UK soul: the sound of the Union 2011-07-07T19:59:00Z During the postwar era, at least, we might credit an art-academy system that encourages independence, or maybe a society that remains somewhat more rigid than many of its Western counterparts. Art Review: Bleak Visions From Early-20th-Century Rebels 2011-03-24T22:07:05Z The genre overlooks questions of colourism, treats racial identity as rigid and fixed, and the complexities of the mixed-race experience are ignored. 'Passing for white': how a taboo film genre is being revived to expose racial privilege 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z China’s elite are not big fans of the country’s rigid education system. As war on corruption mounts, China’s rich flee to America 2014-02-09T22:00:00Z Directed by David Mercatali for the Cardiff, Wales-based Sherman Theater, this hourlong drama unfolds at first like a simple meeting of exes — him rigid and defensive, her nervous and on unfamiliar turf. Review: A Bus Crash, a Breakup and More Reverberations in ‘Tremor’ 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z “She knows the regimen of a hospital as well as Jane Austen knew the rigid cycle of the Assembly Rooms at Bath.” P.D. James, who brought a gritty realism to the British detective novel, dies at 94 There were also capes and loose-back jackets, all in matte black leather that didn’t look rigid and wasn’t embellished. On the Runway: Junya Watanabe Takes Leather for a Ride 2011-03-05T19:55:45Z Prince is notoriously rigid about controlling his music and image, and organizers warned the crowd three times before the show that taking pictures was forbidden. Prince delivers funk-filled finale at SXSW 2013-03-17T12:10:27Z “I am content to understand a mystery without a rigid definition,” says Browne. Weird science 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z The rigid and scientific rules of cartography simply do not apply here! How to Make an Illustrated Map in 8 Steps 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z Washington’s color painters helped pioneer the shift of imagery from messy abstraction to rigid geometry. When the Washington Color School earned its stripes on the national stage 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z It is rigid, but with the topography of a padded surface, which does soften the quality of the white light. Lighten up: can a sun simulator improve my winter mood and lethargy? 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z It only seems a few days since the Baftas bored everyone rigid impressed everyone with the sophistication of their choices – and that’s because it is. Oscar predictions, timetable and all you need to know 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z “Corsets are like an umbrella: very structured and rigid,” Mr. Tamarin said. Cultured Traveler: In Paris, Where Artisanship Becomes Art 2012-10-12T20:04:36Z When the counter-cultures of the 1960s objected to oppressive structures by looking inwards and seeking self-realisation, there was no shortage of good reasons to throw off the shackles of a rigid society. It’s time to stop looking for yourself 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z Their year-round training regimen under Mr. Tikhonov kept them away from their families for months, and they chafed under his impersonal, rigid discipline. ‘Red Army,’ the Rise and Fall of a Soviet Hockey Dynasty 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Yet Bavouzet’s incisive and nimble lines were set against an orchestral backdrop that was unfashionably heavy and rigid. Pianist and conductor diverge, clash during their BSO debuts 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z Jean-François Laguionie’s witty animated film “The Painting,” takes place within the borders of an unfinished canvas whose characters represent a rigid caste system. ?Intouchables? in Rendez-Vous With French Cinema Festival 2012-02-29T13:00:00Z The dancers' limbs are often rigid as the bars of a cage. Spectrum's 'The Beast': brutal rigor and energy 2011-10-01T17:17:04Z The display will not be the first time the curves and sharp angles of Chamberlain works have been set against the rigid lines of Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building. ArtsBeat: Chamberlain Works to Be Displayed at Seagram Plaza 2012-08-08T19:20:48Z To take just one example: Taleb thinks modern states become fragile when they get into debt, and that a prerequisite of political antifragility is rigid fiscal conservatism. Antifragile: How to Live in a World We Don't Understand by Nassim Nicholas Taleb – review 2012-11-21T10:15:01Z But his music was far less rigid; the Staples essentially made up their own rules, established their own vocabulary, one that borrowed from several genres without really embodying any of them. New book traces the Staples family's soulful journey and unique sound 2014-01-18T06:00:00Z He included some rigid motocross armor and fasteners for football equipment, while Gill made sure everything looked good on the body and was visible from an opera-house-size distance. For a Washington Ballet premiere: Dancers, spacesuits and Velcro. Lots of Velcro. 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z It helped, of course, that INXS' hits sounded relentlessly modern, and transcended rigid pop and rock boundaries. New INXS doc revives Michael Hutchence's vibrant mystique amidst the band's diminished legacy 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z It may be the first time that we hear Stannis talking about a decision that he came to, not because of honor or rigid adherence to law, but simple, febrile love. Recap: Game of Thrones Watch: Inglorious Bastards 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z “That way only madness lies. … I wouldn’t have played Nathan Detroit or Max Bialystock” if casting followed such rigid rules, Lane said. Nathan Lane: Straight actors can play gay roles 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z Conceptual Art, as Ms. Antin saw it in the 1970s, was a boys’ club; it was also intellectually rigid, with little room for narrative, biography or fantasy. Art Review: Eleanor Antin’s Selves at Columbia University 2013-09-05T21:49:22Z The chromatic contrast between the inkiness of their cassocks and the room’s ascetic whiteness finds an echo in Rodrigues’s rigid dualism, a belief in absolutes that will be tested. Review: Questions and Prayers Go Unanswered in Scorsese’s ‘Silence’ 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z I think it’s very rigid to some degree, or at least it was — the fashion and in terms of the look and the types of bodies that are hailed as the ultimate. Mona Awad on her sharp-voiced debut, '13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl' 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z Jekyll feels hidebound in his own skin, made to comply with the rigid conventions of his class and society. Ian Rankin on The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 2010-08-16T14:31:00Z The defining word of Becker’s career would be “elegance,” but he approaches it as a dynamic and ironic idea, one that conveys the rigid bearing of social convention, the deft performance of a social role. An Essential Retrospective of the French Filmmaker Jacques Becker at the Newly Renovated Film Forum 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z The songs form a rigid narrative of music, pictures and choreography — much of the show’s first half is a mini-act moving from Bono’s neighborhood, to his bedroom, to Northern Ireland, to the Berlin Wall. My five nights with U2 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z Russell also does well playing a man who seeks refuge from his shady past in the rigid formalities of religion. ‘Fetch Clay, Make Man’: An unusual sparring match And from a logistical point of view, Germany’s rigid rules-based administration has had to show flexibility to meet artists’ needs. The Bumpy Road to a Group-Led Documenta 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z The time is, obviously, today, and Ms. Morisseau’s work suggests that little has changed in the world, in terms of rigid divisions between class, since Strindberg wrote the play in 1888. ‘Bastards of Strindberg,’ Four Short Plays at the Lion 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z Instead of encouraging McCartney to produce more unusual albums like Ram, Wenner's Rolling Stone was using its power to punish Paul for not conforming musically to the rigid rules of 70s rock. The Licentious Life and Times of Jann Wenner 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z Mr. Uwechue is mindful of rigid cultural controls imposed on artists by the Chinese government. Nigerian Finds Pop Stardom in Beijing 2011-03-15T20:49:01Z Even though the "Chicago" star's intentionally rigid performance of Pat Benatar's "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" is good for a laugh, the whole story thread seems like a feeble attempt at injecting tension. Review: `Rock of Ages' revels in big-haired kitsch 2012-06-12T23:30:13Z The memoir starts with Hare’s childhood in southeast England’s socially rigid Bexhill-on-Sea, where his father was absent and his mother’s amateur theatrical experience included a brush with Julie Christie. David Hare’s political stages 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z On the road, Jacobowsky develops what he knows is a hopeless love for Marianne and wins over the rigid and prejudiced Colonel before the final curtain and a tear-jerking act of quiet heroism. London Theater Journal: In the Shadow of the Nazis 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z Unlike instinct — which leads to preprogrammed, rigid responses — emotions “focus the mind and prepare the body while leaving room for experience and judgment.” Frans de Waal Embraces Animal Emotions in ‘Mama’s Last Hug’ 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z But there’s more going on, including an occasional touch of fascism conveyed by dancers in military sunglasses, shifting into rigid formations. Perspective | Storytelling is the key ingredient in the year’s best dance works 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z My middle and index fingers were missing, and those that remained were either achingly rigid, crooked or both. I lost the use of my most important kitchen tool: My hand. The only way forward was to keep cooking. 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, against a wall between the two off-beat clocks is a subtly surrealistic array of slender, upright objects: lengths of pipe, wood and other rigid materials. Art in Review: Alicja Kwade: ‘The Heavy Weight of Light’ 2012-12-20T21:40:23Z It is, after all, a big deal that rigid social hierarchy upholds this family in a place of unchallenged importance. Royal spawn is horrifyingly important 2012-12-03T21:15:00Z Gleaming with assurance, Rutter is rigid with purpose, moving as if armour-clad. Rutherford & Son; Glasgow Girls; Playing Cards 1: Spades – review 2013-02-17T00:06:21Z He is the fussy, respectable head of a household, rigid in his arrangements but temporarily flaccid in bed. Swallows and Amazons; Get Santa!; The Animals and Children Took to the Streets; A Flea in Her Ear ? review 2010-12-19T00:06:17Z Friday's effort persuasively integrated the many changes of tempo, sounding not at all rigid and relishing even the slides between notes characteristic of period style. A spirited opening to the chamber music festival 2011-01-08T20:58:00Z And there is great use of physicality, from saucy writhing in the nightclub to Angelo's sudden, rigid grip of Isabella. Measure for Measure ? review 2010-11-22T21:30:00Z AP: Was part of the appeal of “Let Them All Talk” giving yourself a rigid time frame? Q&A: Soderbergh on his ‘boat movie’ & the blockbuster’s fate 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z Even as Clinton promises that she will no longer be the “rigid and awkward” woman that America once knew, her delivery itself is forced. Hillary’s Saturday Nights: The good, the bad and the ugly of “SNL’s” Clinton impressions 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z She felt the snake between her breasts, felt him there, and loved him there, coiled, the deep tumescent S held rigid, ready to strike. Harry Crews, Writer of Dark Fiction, Is Dead at 76 2012-03-30T05:32:16Z The US director was famed for his rigid attention to detail and refusal to compromise. Hell of a film-maker: the directors who make Clint Eastwood look soft 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z I thought anything beyond the song and the story ended up feeling too rigid and distracting. The Boss on Broadway: Bruce Springsteen on His ‘First Real Job’ 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z The story features lost cities, pirates, anarchists, an exotic carnival and a rigid Watchmaker who imposes precision on every aspect of daily life.” Dude vs. Chick Rock: Is There a Music Gender Divide? 2012-06-12T13:29:51Z That may be true, but I tend to bristle at such rigid pronouncements, especially around cooking. Review | At this Maryland restaurant, hand-pulled noodles are the star attraction 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z Disillusioned, she says at one point: "I do not believe blindly any more", in reference to the character's previously rigid communist views. Lyudmila Gurchenko obituary 2011-04-03T17:19:23Z In the third movement, Mr. Vanska — specific in his gestures but never rigid — led a dance by turns rustic and ghostly. Review: The Minnesota Orchestra’s White Light and White Heat 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z Until Lee, martial arts was a rigid system of schools and styles that fiercely competed to be called the best. Bruce Lee remembered for more than his movies 2010-04-05T03:40:00Z Miller’s book shows what results when a survivor can tell her own story, when she is not contained by rigid brackets of a courtroom cross-examination. Analysis | Women, once relegated to supporting roles, are becoming the protagonists of their own stories 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Mozgala’s cerebral palsy is less physically penetrating than his character’s, meaning he has to both contort his body and act rigid onstage for the role. For Disabled Actors, Memorizing the Part Is Only the Beginning 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z |
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