Joanna Scott

If the rules of a language are followed, words usually make sense. But these very rules can stir the impulse to rebel. We're obliged to keep trying to convey meaning through correct sentences. After a while, the good-soldier rigidity of polished prose can begin to seem dull, and it gets harder to resist the temptation of nonsense.

American Author

Greg Graffin

The trick is: how do you talk about natural selection without implying the rigidity of law? We use it as almost an active participant, almost like a god. In fact, you could substitute the word 'god' for 'natural selection' in a lot of evolutionary writings and you'd think you were listening to a theologian.

American Musician

Rand Paul

I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.

American Politician

Pope Paul VI

The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Italian Clergyman

Imogen Heap

I just love crafting and shaping sounds. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as organic instruments - guitar, piano, clarinet, etc. But I do love the rigidity of electronic drums.

English Musician

Noam Chomsky

The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination', we might say - exercised through the mass media.

American Activist

Gail Sheehy

Spontaneity, the hallmark of childhood, is well worth cultivating to counteract the rigidity that may otherwise set in as we grow older.

American Writer

Rene Burri

I grew up in Switzerland, in this kind of rigidity. It was Protestant, and I was rather shy. That influenced me a lot.

Swiss Photographer

Andrea Hirata

I changed the course of my life, from the rigidity of mathematics and the corporate rhythm to a more bohemian world.

Indonesian Author

Manolo Blahnik

My mother has an incredible rigidity, which is very Catholic.

Spanish Designer

Refers to solid materials and structural integrity that withstand pressure without deforming.

Physical Objects

Suggests an object's unchanging condition, often implying durability and strength.

Unyielding Nature

Indicates someone's firm adherence to certain beliefs or practices, even when not practical.

Resistance to Change

Conveys a sense of strictness and can imply a lack of empathy or understanding.

Authoritarian Implication

Used to describe abnormal stiffness in body tissues, often indicating disease or injury.

Medical Condition

Typically refers to a loss of range of motion, often causing discomfort or impairment.

Movement Restriction

 a virtuoso ballet dancer in his time. So great progress and treatment has been made over the years. However, there are 6.3 million people worldwide who have the disease, and they have to live with incurable weakness, tremor, rigidity and the other symptoms that go along with the disease, so what we need are objective tools

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 doing to my friend yam stripling who was a virtuoso ballet dancer in his time so great progress and treatment has been made over the years however there are 6.3 million people worldwide who have the disease and they have to live with incurable weakness tremor rigidity any other symptoms that go along with the

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 to destroy mechanical inelasticity in people's attitudes and behavior. Someone doing the same thing over and over, or building up a false image of themself and the world, or not adapting to reality by just noticing the banana peel on the ground -- this is automatism, ignorance of one's own mindless rigidity,

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 and we have had to face more cultural rigidity than Western women. As a result, I would like to think that we poor, oppressed women actually have some useful, certainly hard-earned lessons to share, lessons that might turn out useful for anyone wishing to thrive in the modern world.

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 The resulting material benefits from wood’s structural rigidity in every direction, allowing it to mimic the compressive strength of concrete and bear loads up to 20 times heavier than traditional lumber. Glulam on the other hand, glues boards together in the same direction,

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 or people who are transgender. Kind of break that rigidity. So I believe that, as a school district and as a community and as people who care about others, that the more that we can do to help people be more of who they are, the more they're going to be able to be engaged

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 Because how we deal with our inner world drives everything. Every aspect of how we love, how we live, how we parent and how we lead. The conventional view of emotions as good or bad, positive or negative, is rigid. And rigidity in the face of complexity is toxic.

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 bone in a human skeleton bone is essentially made up of two components an organic parts collagen which provides the flexibility and a mineral one calcium phosphate which gives the bone rigidity these different compounds are

The Smallest Bones in...

 little projections on either side that helped them to move around on the seafloor some of these segmented creatures developed hard protective skins which gave their bodies some rigidity so now the Seas were filled

Explaining the Tree of...

 varying in rigidity, opacity and color, corresponding to pressure points on the human body. Its surface, as in nature, varies its functionality not by adding another material or another assembly,

Rigidity