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"rigid" Definitions
  1. (often disapproving) (of rules, methods, etc.) very strict and difficult to change synonym inflexible
  2. (often disapproving) (of a person) not willing to change their ideas or behaviour synonym inflexible
  3. (of an object or substance) stiff and difficult to move or bend
"rigid" Synonyms
stiff hard firm inflexible unyielding taut inelastic unbending compact solid stiffened tense tight flinty hardened immalleable impliable unbendable unflexible unmalleable rigorous stern severe stringent uncompromising harsh intransigent strict unrelenting adamant fixed set austere immutable steadfast authoritarian bound brassbound narrow-minded insular narrow provincial parochial limited sectarian small picayune blinkered hidebound dogmatic restricted conservative conventional myopic Lilliputian opinionated localist high-handed dictatorial imperious autocratic domineering overbearing despotic tyrannical peremptory bossy authoritative oppressive tyrannous arbitrary arrogant masterful overweening autocratical magisterial accurate exact precise literal meticulous scrupulous careful conscientious fastidious unerring painstaking particular punctilious unwavering faultless thorough defined snug stretched stressed contracted drawn strained tightened strung out tightly drawn tightly stretched not loose not slack extended tensed stretched tight unmitigated categorical absolute complete outright total unqualified definite utter consummate pure thoroughgoing unconditional unequivocal categoric downright positive profound extreme radical excessive dire drastic desperate far-reaching forceful inordinate momentous serious tough consequential exaggerated frigid formal icy aloof chilly forbidding unfeeling unresponsive cold cool frosty unapproachable unfriendly distant indifferent steely stony ascetic restrained abstemious abstinent continent exacting spartan temperate moderate puritanical Spartan economical frugal simple solemn celibate refraining straightlaced unreceptive defensive disinclined ill-disposed impervious intolerant unteachable unwilling ceremonious dignified stately civil courtly courteous deferential imperial imposing regal ritual affected correct decorous deliberate erect upright perpendicular vertical straight raised standing plumb cocked upstanding elevated rampant arrect erectile bristling standing up bolt upright pricked-up astringent acerbic caustic mordant sharp cutting rough incisive penetrating piercing sarcastic sardonic scathing searing stinging squawky strident screeching grating discordant raucous rasping jarring hoarse cacophonous dissonant stridulous unmelodious noisy croaking raspy jangling guttural brittle crumbly crisp crispy friable embrittled flakey(US) breakable flaky(UK) short brickle fragile frangible crumbling delicate shatterable frail weak shivery obdurate unaffected unmovable unmoved unswayable untouched immune to unaffected by untouched by closed to heedless of indifferent to insusceptible to invulnerable to proof against lost immune insusceptible resistant closed invulnerable impenetrable unsusceptible not subject to unimpressionable unmoved by pretend fake false artificial sham feigned bogus phoney(UK) spurious pretended pseudo simulated assumed contrived unnatural phony(US) forced insincere rooted unmoving motionless fixed to frozen to glued to paralysed to riveted to stock-still unable to move from as if turned to stone as still as a statue undivided whole entire concentrated full exclusive collective focused(US) unbroken undistracted wholehearted consistent engrossed unadulterated unalloyed catatonic blank expressionless deadpan empty vacant impassive inexpressive stolid numb inert introspective withdrawn wooden unexpressive lifeless inscrutable emotionless More
"rigid" Antonyms
flexible pliable yielding adaptable bendable pliant supple versatile adjustable elastic flexile formable lithe loose malleable modifiable slack soft stretchy bending lenient compromising lax relaxed tolerant carefree casual liberal obliging open accommodating amenable easygoing forgiving moderate half-hearted mild insignificant modest middling minor minimal trivial trifling temperate superficial nominal faint slight token vague meagre(UK) unimportant variable alterable changeable mutable mercurial nonimmutable irregular changing varying inconsistent differing erratic wavering unfixed mobile varied unsteady movable capricious changeful deviating fickle fluctuating fluid inconstant nonuniform skittish uncertain unpredictable unsettled unstable volatile liquid aqueous gaseous hydrous liquefied liquescent solvent gassy vaporous watery fumy liquiform dissolvable tenuous aeriform steamy permeable dissolved smoky humble lowly unarrogant unpretentious democratic limited unreliable disreputable undependable untrustworthy dishonorable(US) dishonourable(UK) questionable shady guileful reckless shifty dubious unassured dishonest unsure deceptive dodgy unscrupulous giving disposed inclined enthusiastic willing altruistic reasonable kind bighearted freewill prepared wilful benevolent eager nice ungrudging keen merciful humane charitable compassionate kindhearted kindly sensitive softhearted sympathetic tender tenderhearted warm warmhearted beneficent caring feeling pitying sparing tender-hearted generous airy insecure baggy free loosened saggy unrestrained unsecured detached slackened unrestricted disconnected undone broad undisciplined slapdash careless erring indolent lazy undetailed shaky quivering trembly weak nervous trembling faltering tremorous quivery infirm shuddery flimsy atremble shuddering wobbly shaking undecided hesitant indefinite uncommitted irresolute ambivalent dithering indecisive torn unclear unresolved tentative noncommittal disorganised(UK) disorganized(US) partial imperfect mixed friendly cordial genial happy hearty warm-blooded ardent hospitable impassioned passionate responsive sensual amicable amorous lovable loving immoderate indulgent abandoned immoral extravagant prodigal excessive extreme inordinate uncontrolled wild intemperate profligate uncurbed wanton overextravagant hypotonic recumbent bent flat horizontal leaning prone supine lowered prostrate emotional intimate outgoing personal informal interested personable

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For example, Musk asked if it should be rigid or flexible, to which Stanton said rigid.
They freeze, they become completely rigid, they go from sloshing to rigid, and in science that's called a phase transition.
Like Platonic solids, rigid objects are typically rare, and sometimes theoretical objects can be so rigid they don't exist — mathematical unicorns.
The rigid, inflexible selfThe rigid self is a propped-up god, a custom made tyrant designed to keep us from encountering unpleasant realities like our own fragility or finiteness.
For me, the main thing that I wanted to touch on was how rigid religious conviction can be within the rural South, especially under sort of rigid interpretation of Protestantism.
Rules are rigid, and the most rigid are referred to as "bright line" rules because they're so straightforward to interpret: If you steal a loaf of bread, your hand gets chopped off.
Here are five signs you've gone rigid with your routine.
It's important that the mushrooms are not soft, but rigid!
The world of The Handmaid's Tale is rigid, limiting, claustrophobic.
A rigid schedule kept us occupied from dawn to dusk.
Or how our rigid ideas about masculinity harm them, too.
Science, you see, is more reliable than Gilead's rigid rules.
My beliefs were rigid, dogmatic, and fervent — until they weren't.
This evil, rigid, sick, twisted convert or die ideology continues.
Nothing that follows will be any less nonsensical and rigid.
A teenager sits rigid, staring out of the open window.
Mechanical stuff moves the waves in a very rigid pattern.
That's why the schedule has remained rigid instead of flexible.
This can lead to obsessive, rigid thinking about social categories.
Baston imposed a rigid set of rules on the prostitutes.
Well, in the '70s, we had rigid structures for implants.
Chongqing and Hangzhou are set to impose similar rigid requirements.
His views on basketball personnel decisions were rigid and unflinching.
In general, Olmert is against any kind of rigid routine.
Lawyers criticise an overly rigid interpretation of the subsidiarity principle.
Congress is weighing bipartisan bills to loosen rigid sentencing laws.
Its rigid, numbing cloak was his vesture for 30 years.
Not necessarily rigid, but consistent, because the words mean something.
There were no rigid barriers between men's and women's options.
It's not just a Surface Pro with a rigid keyboard.
He also said rigid rules on age might be loosened.
Instead of making a rigid plan, I'd make no plan.
Awe is the opposite of the polarized and rigid mind.
This law was too detailed and rigid in defining compliance.
Yet many remain stuck in positions with rigid working hours.
If you like rigid denim, these jeans are for you.
Robots as we usually conceive of them are rigid machines.
Another rigid camera checks things out from inside his mouth.
My mom had always been really rigid about our studies.
VPN apps skirt surveillance efforts, including China's rigid censorship regime.
The threat of rigid environmental regulations remains remote in Pantanal.
I'm less rigid about genre than I used to be.
I was put in braces that kept my knees rigid.
Blame Tokyo's notorious bureaucracy, rigid labor laws and high taxes.
One was doing something really rigid to play against it.
Seldom, even in ballet, do we find posture so rigid.
But his body was rigid, blood trickling from his mouth.
The department said the law is too rigid and outdated.
And yet, truth stands, rigid and sharp, unforgiving and unafraid.
Trump doesn't see the truth as rigid, absolute and unassailable.
Few people today think a rule that rigid is viable.
I grew up under a less rigid interpretation of Protestantism.
That edifice is at once intellectually rigid and formally rickety.
A rigid atmosphere flows and rejection is in the air.
She counsels people not to be too rigid either way.
The edging of the curb is a special rigid granite.
In the second statement, the wording seems far less rigid.
Rothschild has been retained as an advisor for the Rigid sale, Coveris had said in a statement in November, when it announced the split into the four units: Rigid, Americas, EMEA, and UK Food & Consumer.
We believe that we live in a fixed reality, a world in which culture is fluid and nature is rigid or in which the present is fluid and history rigid, but that is an illusion.
They exemplify rigid beauty standards set by a small, insular group.
Yet when the water crystallizes, the atoms form rigid, set arrangements.
Offred lives her perfect nightmare in the rigid repression of Gilead.
Every family has idiosyncratic customs, but the Windsors' are particularly rigid.
Gilead, with its rigid gender roles, seeks to remedy that decline.
Does hardness make strength or does it just leave us rigid?
Everything shared to an Instagram thread account follows a rigid aesthetic.
But as it turns out, spacetime is not a rigid box.
The delays are partly the EU's fault for over-rigid sequencing.
That may be so, but it also brings rigid labour markets.
Such social restrictions become more rigid higher up the caste hierarchy.
It's also the rigid form: pointed toes, straight legs, good posture.
We've been talking about the limitations of silicon, the rigid material.
It's no secret that Congress has a pretty rigid dress code.
Law school has been traditionally been very rigid with application standards.
It's quite a sticky area, so the questions are extremely rigid.
We've all dealt with rigid chatbots, who can't understand your request.
Rigid labour rules are tougher on young workers than older ones.
It makes rigid plastic trays primarily for food producers and retailers.
Hackable animals can conquer terrains that rigid robots can't, after all.
They're far too small, far too rigid and far too frozen.
The world is far less rigid than we're made to believe.
That could in turn raise concerns about less rigid fiscal discipline.
OneLogin CEO Thomas Pedersen says most MFA algorithms are rather rigid.
Foreign professionals, however, have at times complained about rigid visa policies.
This can only benefit consumers trapped in rigid, expensive ObamaCare plans.
But such tweaks ignore Sweden's biggest problem: its rigid labour market.
Such "rigid origami" needs new maths; it also offers new abilities.
Rigid staff assignment policies and teacher layoff rules are two examples.
Terrified, we cling to the rigid confines of our own perspective.
Therefore, rigid policies and procedures, and documentation of such is essential.
Crocs' skulls are very rigid, with little to no cranial kinesis.
The program also has rigid standards that employers must adhere to.
Still, since my return, I've become much less rigid than before.
A tad rigid, yes, but that's what righteousness sometimes looks like.
So instead of making it a rigid thought, it's more interactive.
She was criticized for her slow-moving approach and rigid viewpoints.
Just 15 minutes ago, he'd felt tethered to his rigid frame.
The edges are not hard and the forms are not rigid.
"Rigid, predictable schedules and explicit defined tasks are ideal," she explains.
At that time, fairly rigid censorship still prevailed in American publishing.
We have a very rigid system in place, state by state.
I emancipated myself from that very rigid, controlled attitude toward sex.
Dress codes tend to perpetuate rigid ideas about masculinity and femininity.
Predictably, this rigid adherence to my lifestyle caused only more harm.
But that has only inspired him to challenge such rigid notions.
But the web-based system you describe doesn't sound very rigid.
But check out how rigid the structure of the Taycan is.
We talked about how rigid the structure of the Taycan is.
There's no rigid end time, like a day care would have.
Your boss or coworkers think you're too rigid or too inflexible.
The mutation makes the molecule warp into a rigid sickle shape.
The statistics are undeniably grotesque, yet compelling in their rigid judgment.
What I retained was the rigid, puzzling format of our interaction.
It's awfully rigid, said Colleen Jaconetti, senior investment analyst at Vanguard.
"He was rigid, condescending and exclusionary," Koon said in an interview.
Tom Perez's rigid debate rules have rejected both African American candidates
Here's what a jump might look like with a rigid body.
Boundaries fall on a spectrum between overly porous and too rigid.
These were not the rigid and unforgiving jeans at the Gap.
"Ballet has a reputation of being a bit rigid," she explained.
But in that moment, their thinking is very inflexible and rigid.
Plant cells, on the other hand, are relatively rigid and unflexing.
But I also wondered if it wasn't also somewhat, well, rigid.
Traffic lanes are as rigid as those on an interstate highway.
Second, the firm is becoming less rigid about its system of points.
The extinction of the typewriter made typography less rigid and more proportional.
These rigid expectations of masculinity are finally starting to expand and shift.
A rigid body has size and can rotate, but it doesn't deform.
This is a big story in an era of rigid party polarization.
Its rigid labour law was transplanted from Benito Mussolini's Italy in 0003.
But rigid labour rules and high costs keep the formal sector small.
The modern man is not bound by rigid, outdated definitions of manhood.
Well, the structure would keep a regular, rigid shape like a solid.
This created an acceptably rigid if precarious stand for the sensor arrays.
But Breitbart doesn't have a rigid "party line" on immigration, Marlow said.
Men don't have a rigid biological clock to conceive like women do.
Don't overbook yourself or keep too rigid of a schedule today, Aquarius.
In 1984, a rigid bureaucracy controls its population through fear and paranoia.
But they are a little less rigid than they used to be.
Those who suffer from what Mr Ducol calls "rigid thinking" get psychotherapy.
This conservatism is mostly white, and rigid on sexuality and gender norms.
The figures are approximate because Iran does not have rigid party affiliations.
The morally rigid, like Ned and Stannis, break where they can't bend.
Rigid corporate structures may look neat, but they're vastly overrated. 7. Meetings?
Nothing gets done because everybody's doing the same old safe rigid thing.
Around corners, the Camry also surprised with its grip and rigid chassis.
Most Americans draw their paychecks from companies with more rigid financial systems.
Half his body is rigid and awake, his mind still trailing dreams.
Yes, I can be rigid and adamant about a point of view.
It is the result of the president's rigid, divisive and combative policies.
But increasingly rigid mandates guiding American behavior are often nonsensical in practice.
Florida, struck down Florida's I.Q. score cutoff of 70 as too rigid.
The numbers are approximate because Iran does not have rigid party affiliations.
Some of the court's worst decisions were the product of rigid ideology.
The format also encourages networking and stepping outside a rigid development repertoire.
As soon as Matt lifted her, she went rigid and started shrieking.
Rigid insoles may also help improve postural stability more than soft insoles.
One thing we do know: There is a rigid formula for survival.
"I've had a rigid set of standards," admits Jessica, a regional manager.
But that is also not so rigid we can't improvise and evolve.
With Mercury in Taurus, reflect on your thinking: Is it too rigid?
But he came across as thoughtful, not ideologically rigid, Mr. Schoen said.
Soon Jane, Reagan and other Hosts begin defying the Farm's rigid system.
Afterward, that segment of spine can no longer move — it is rigid.
"There's a lot of preparation, but it's not so rigid," said Seacrest.
These polymer surfaces are framed in a sturdy and rigid aluminum housing.
But Bahbah finds time for decompression in her own, un-rigid way.
Or, Kostick said, they disapprove of Straub's methods, finding them too rigid.
"Ted Cruz is a rigid ideologue," Dent told the New York Times.
Isaac Newton conceived of time as a rigid scaffolding erected by God.
But your seemingly rigid view of gender roles inside relationships surprises me.
But Golden was not prone to make rigid distinctions in this matter.
Also, rigid Italian labour laws may limit banks' ability to reduce staff.
WE HAVE SUCH RIGID RULES SOMETIMES THAT THEY DON'T HAVE TO BERULES.
I think it's far too fast, far too rigid, far too fast.
Klobuchar seemed peeved that Warren was too rigid in her policy thinking.
Hundreds of times, the clear-eyed soldier struck the rigid ground below.
Many of these charter schools have been criticized for their rigid discipline.
The artist is, in every way, mimicking the rigid structure of capitalism.
Cocaine was left out of these rigid controls; it was already inside.
"In each case, these robots are either tethered to or carry rigid systems for power and control, yielding hybrid soft–rigid systems," write Robert Wood, founder of the Harvard Microrobotics Lab and the current study's lead author, and colleagues.
These rigid rules steal thousands of hours of productivity from Brazilians every year.
In them, rigid land-based axioms give way to social and moral fluidity.
People that are rigid and not adaptable are much harder to match them.
So who would trade this breezy reverie for a set of rigid rules?
But the woman hadn't worn rigid gas permeable lenses in nearly three decades.
The cooled-down material would stay rigid during, say, deployment on a satellite.
Watch out for rigid behavior on Wednesday when the sun squares stern Saturn.
"The parties themselves have become so rigid in their belief system," she said.
It was rigid and contained Velcro straps that were fastened by metal rungs.
The rigid testing apparatus, in Zambra's nimble hands, becomes an illuminating metafictional frame.
She saw it as a twisted way to escape her parents' rigid home.
No creases were allowed, so I had to sit very, very rigid straight.
Spain's collective-bargaining agreements are often rigid in the face of changing conditions.
"Despite their rebellious nature, they're a very rigid organization internally," Gartenstein-Ross explains.
He has overseen an excessively rigid visa regime, stemming the inflow of talent.
"During the daytime everything is rather rigid in the mission architecture," he says.
But illicit labs that manufacture testosterone often don't adhere to such rigid standards.
Yet the country's rigid bureaucratic rules are still adjusting to include transgender rights.
Price battles were rare before 223 as rigid government price controls capped margins.
Can you find a way to cross up Saban's rigid sense of order?
"I don't like classical French cuisine, it's too rigid for me," Atsushi says.
Britain is a much less deferential and rigid country than it was then.
The wire stretches, becomes rigid, geometrical—pure plastic—it is the present era.
The rules for inherited IRAs for individuals other than spouses are more rigid.
We need to respond but in a way that avoids rigid government regulation.
Independent voters and candidates are rebelling against the rigid polarization of our politics.
After I did reporting in Arkansas, she began coöperating, but with rigid parameters.
As an adolescent, she had rebelled against its rigid and arbitrary-seeming strictures.
Perhaps because teenage girls are less threatening to the "rigid masculinity" of espionage.
Soft robots need a pressure source, and this is where things get rigid.
It sounds rigid, the opposite of open or friendly or charming or congenial.
Rigid structures, by contrast, are constricted by the size of their launch rocket.
"Holding on to rigid patterns of thinking exacerbates stress and anxiety," Forti said.
In the beginning, the Met will not be rigid about its new policy.
Their awed obedience can encourage rigid enforcement of even vague or conflicting policies.
Nick is not the only one who strives for a rigid social compartmentalization.
But it can also be a place where rigid bureaucracies stifle all creativity.
We didn't specifically have timed bathroom breaks, but the break system was rigid.
Or was it a step toward breaking down old, rigid definitions of masculinity?
You set up rigid parameters and then figure out ways to loosen them.
Linden found the Elite to be a rigid, responsive, and aggressive racing shoe.
We see rigid dogma and ideology not just as needless but as dangerous.
He helped inch the genre away from the rigid structure of album cycles.
The charity stood apart from other aid organizations, offering assistance without rigid guidelines.
He walked around with buttocks clenched, arms rigid, neck and face turning red.
So any time you've got rigid and flexible interacting, there are failure points.
It's bad enough that we already deal with such rigid contracts from telecoms.
Sam, a human puppet, had a rigid face more appropriate for puppet theater.
Temer also promised rigid rules for executives running pension funds and state companies.
A rigid airship with a true buoyancy-control system was the total package.
They have no sense of interpersonal nuances and are very rigid, says Foster.
Family members are not required to participate in philanthropy in rigid ways, however.
The Empire is a rigid, militaristic hierarchy, obsessed with its high-tech weaponry.
My bones feel rigid, but I can also feel a swelling of excitement.
Suddenly, these games weren't the rigid, inflexible things that they had always seemed.
Plus, it's important to break rigid beauty ideals and change how people think.
With its rigid propriety, Social Usage could hardly have propounded a more subversive idea.
The battery is built into the truck chassis and hidden behind a rigid frame.
Tenzing Montes is packed with rigid water ice, allowing it to maintain its heights.
Femininity was rigid, any attempt to get out of the cage led to ridicule.
What, if anything, can the Sussexes do to repurpose the rigid roles they've inherited?
The faith-based institution's rigid rules around sexuality included barring sex outside of marriage.
Each F5 earbud is made out of aluminum and feels perfectly rigid and tough.
Whole body rigid, pulling on my hand away from the entrance to the school.
Some argue it is rigid and overlooks some restaurants that critics and diners praise.
A gray area is much better than the rigid, black and white Millennial vs.
He's relaxed his wardrobe restrictions somewhat since turning 18, but his diet remains rigid.
Finally, both doctors recommend a rigid, supportive shape with a cushioned, stable arch area.
His characters are often rigid and repressed, reflecting their worlds' considerable anxieties and frustrations.
The platforms' shared policies around buying ads to promote guns are broad and rigid.
This was partly because of defections by Republicans offended by their nominee's rigid conservatism.
The scientists first developed a urine sensor too rigid to embed into a diaper.
Plays would look similar: just looser, less linear, less rigid, more open to improvisation.
The government says it's needed to make France's notoriously rigid labor force more flexible.
After a frustrating Mercury retrograde in rigid Taurus, you're finally able to think clearly!
Rigid work rules can make it difficult for the authority to make timely repairs.
This is because the touchscreen is heavier and more rigid than the keyboard half.
These parameters can vary according to the storyteller's intended structure (rigid versus free form).
Because members' news feeds update very quickly, and in a rigid, reverse chronological order.
Clinton is rigid, and her posts read like they've been vetted by several editors.
This diagram shows how the 3D printer prints everything from rigid materials to liquid.
That challenged the conception, dating back to Aristotle, of stars as fixed and rigid.
She makes the images she wants without "being crushed" by the genre's rigid history.
The Moon challenges taskmaster Saturn at 6:21 AM, creating a more rigid energy.
He has spoken of reforms to unaffordably generous pensions and the rigid labour market.
You'll be more flexible than usual around some issues you might feel rigid about.
Do you think that the pre-Vatican II church was too stuffy, legalistic, rigid?
In fact, they claim, big tech companies are imposing a rigid ideological system: liberalism.
Committing to reinvention will train you to abandon rigid thought patterns and embrace risk.
In return, they demanded unswerving loyalty and a willing submission to a rigid hierarchy.
Incumbents will alter their messages to be less policy focused and more ideologically rigid.
According to Cost, a rigid skull enabled the T. rex to bite through bone.
When we try to be rigid in response, the result is a messy failure.
When rigid mechanical systems are employed, they often solve one problem by creating another.
I like suitcases that are not too rigid so there's always room for more.
Generally one thinks of robots as powerful, rigid things packed with motors and actuators.
After playing around with the easily bendable Seaboard, the Lightpad's top felt pretty rigid.
By acquiring Bemis, Amcor could bolster its offerings of so-called rigid plastic packaging.
"A rigid atmosphere can get him in trouble," Mr. Giuliani said about Mr. Trump.
There's no need to put these in a rigid schedule or have an agenda.
But what does seem clear is that rigid ideological beliefs impair our cognitive functions.
Men want to make their seem dicks enticing, which means a proud, rigid dick.
A rigid scheduling grid is less important in cable; in streaming, not at all.
Muhammad Zia ul Haq's oppressive efforts to confine women to subservience and rigid domesticity.
Ted Cruz — who's amassed a reputation as a rigid ideologue — and, possibly, Florida Sen.
She describes herself as a somewhat rigid parent, filled with expectations for her kids.
In her experience, the center's rigid, and seemingly arbitrary, rules would hit families hard.
"I took an extraordinarily rigid position," Mr. Heart said in an interview in 1994.
As a practical matter, it is not an especially rigid limit on federal power.
Ash is not overweight, perhaps because his owner keeps him on a rigid diet.
In Jupiter-ruled Sagittarius, Uranus reflects conflict with rigid religious views and unjust politics.
The corporate culture at Volkswagen has been defined by its rigid, top-down approach.
She stood with her rigid hands, with her desperate smile, with her socks slipping.
Kirchner captures her ritual sexiness exactly, the playful but rigid quality of earnest deceit.
"Senator Moran is clearly showing that he is not a rigid ideologue," she said.
Something that is rigid cannot be deformed or bent without destroying its essential nature.
People in this moderate middle are less ideologically rigid than their politically aroused compatriots.
A young woman in a pink T-shirt stood beside him, rigid with surprise.
I always thought that it looked like New York — rigid, sometimes imposing, very muscular.
"As a woman, I like jewels that are flexible, that aren't rigid," she said.
"The French couture industry has rigid high standards and its own history," he said.
And the tired-er they get, the more rigid, hyper, and irritable they become.
Two men who are engaged struggle for acceptance from one man's rigid, religious family.
Inside the blister, the surgeon finds a contact lens: a rigid gas-permeable one.
Still, in total, Mr. Tillerson has excelled in the somewhat rigid atmosphere inside Exxon.
Before Leahy, just one committee chair imposed such a rigid blue slip rule: Sen.
But the young entrepreneur didn't want to be bound by that publication's rigid standards.
Last summer, while filming "Space Jam 2," he stuck to a rigid workout schedule.
But Kerala's Hindus could also be more rigid and hierarchical than their counterparts elsewhere.
Thanks to program booking and a rigid schedule of releases, studios could attract backers.
Because members' news feeds update very quickly, and in a rigid, reverse-chronological order.
He then asserted the need for a rigid hierarchy: leadership above and staff below.
"One is that you'll become muscle-bound"—so bulked up that your body becomes rigid.
So you don't have any evidence to suggest that people have become more ideologically rigid?
He proposed more rigid requirements around transparency, specifically in relation to online ads during elections.
TikTok is dominated by videos with a very rigid, formulaic structure: a song, a dance.
His devotion to being a Jehova's Witness led him to rigid and occasionally regressive albums.
" Yacoubian promises "we'll always be inclusive," but prefers to stay away from a "rigid formula.
The best slices emerged thin and curly, shaved by slicing downward, rigid tail held tight.
Euro-area jobs markets are more rigid and run into bottlenecks more readily than America's.
Anywhere other than Belarus, the rigid formality and brusque service would have seemed painfully Soviet.
We have rigid sanitation standards that are closely adhered to in all of our plants.
Black Tie Optional Black Tie Optional is still formal, but the rules are less rigid.
It came too late to save his hands from deformity; they are twisted and rigid.
And other chatbots have been successful at dealing with other rigid forms of billing bureaucracy.
But that can be hard to achieve when your school has a rigid uniform policy.
Furniture, while there's a great variety of it, is at least stationary and relatively rigid.
It's that rigid gender roles and taking certain parts of masculinity too far are bad.
THERE is something comforting in a dictionary: right angles, a pleasing heft, reassuringly rigid covers.
Brazil's rigid labour market regulations were transplanted wholesale from Benito Mussolini's Italy back in 1943.
Regular hard robots contain rigid components like batteries and electronic controls that promote efficient movement.
One risk is that they once again cement in place too rigid a negotiating mandate.
You and I will never know, thanks to the company's rigid secrecy and inward focus.
As much as they have promoted trans rights, they have also become a rigid orthodoxy.
Problem is, the plastic is often rigid or it doesn't let you move and sweat.
Rigid labour law means employees do better by sticking with their company rather than moving.
Another issue I had with past games in the series was how rigid they felt.
Some countries, like France, have a particularly rigid line on offering additional concessions to Britain.
Critics are sticking to rigid gender definitions that the publication seeks to subvert, he said.
The minerals cause itching and burning sensations followed by skin markings, rigid toes and swelling.
This business of moving around points can be done in more or less rigid fashion.
Anderson certainly livened up the typically rigid broadcast – and fans on social media took note. .
When inflated, the Aircurv's rigid structure makes it hard to slide it out the way.
In an Observant model, the viewer does not inherit a rigid identity within the story.
Critics see resilient Sanders supporters as rigid moralists who are following a bad electoral strategy.
This makes your fascia rigid and stiff, which causes pain, tightness, or just dull soreness.
For example, horror films that don't follow rigid horror conventions, such as last year's Mother!
Women are now divided into rigid classes determined by an idiosyncratic interpretation of the Bible.
He hopes one day though to be able to ID people even wearing rigid masks.
We will be guided by the lessons of experience, not the confines of rigid thinking.
We're not trying to jam/fit the people into some kind of rigid corporate philosophy.
The law would ease rigid collective-bargaining rules and make firing workers slightly less complex.
"That allows it to distribute the stress more effectively than a rigid structure," she says.
And all of them were extremely rigid about following the rules that we do have.
Play Pokémon Go for any length of time, and you soon internalize its rigid hierarchy.
C code is an often rigid world of semicolons and curly braces and memory management.
Its spunky protagonist, Mi-so, struggles to combine long, rigid work hours with child care.
"Party lines are very rigid," said Alan Abramowitz, an Emory University expert on presidential voting.
For viewers accustomed to the rigid rules of TV formula, those early seasons felt visionary.
When I picked up this lonely man's pizza, the crust was rigid like a frisbee.
Hyundai has taken its formerly rigid trapezoidal grille and tapered it inward toward the bottom.
But automation only breeds more automation, and more rigid refereeing changes the style of play.
Cancer clinical trial eligibility criteria are rigid — and recent research reveals that this is unnecessary.
BOJ officials remain sanguine for now, saying the zero percent pledge is not so rigid.
The initiative does not impose a rigid deadline that must be met in every case.
India's rigid Hindu caste system plays a key role in politics, particularly in the north.
The company manufactures rigid plastic packaging for companies, managing over 59 factories in 17 countries.
Many migraine sufferers become prisoners to rigid sleep, food, and exercise routines as preventative measures.
France's model of integration is generous in its principles but too rigid in its practice.
There'd also be more room than the rigid metal hulls of traditional space modules allow.
Shakey was more intelligent than Elmer and Elsie, but also more rigid, and infinitely slower.
But he can also be rigid and prone to doubling down on provocative public statements.
My grip on the pen was rigid, and my hands ached, and were always cold.
But Draghi also said that the euro today is not as rigid as some argue.
I'd like to see a slightly less rigid tongue, but that'll wear in over time.
Everlane's Authentic Stretch jeans look like your usual rigid denim, but they feel significantly stretchier.
After continuous wear, I'm impressed by how rigid these look, but how soft they feel.
Others are blinded by partisan bias, and apply the rigid standard only to the opposition.
The cockroach's jointed, semi-rigid exoskeleton is, in part, responsible for its tight-squeeze capabilities.
A net and rigid backboard and rim are also recommended for more accurate ball-tracking.
We do not propose rigid, multi-decade caps on entitlement spending or floors on revenues.
He has not issued a controversial order and asked ideologically rigid people to follow it.
Bankers said France's rigid labor laws and relatively high corporate taxes remained hurdles for Paris.
When she became pregnant, she gave up her normally rigid diet, gaining nearly 60 pounds.
The band's unique strain of indie pop is not easily qualified by rigid genre signifiers.
One exec is pushing back against the cyber executive order for not being rigid enough.
Drnaso is as composed as his panels, which are rendered in crisp, almost rigid lines.
Bernie Sanders never got that level of scrutiny and he was more rigid about it.
It certainly speaks to the value we give those labels, but identity isn't so rigid.
I felt stifled by these rigid ideas of what it meant to be a mother.
He left the program in March but continues to hew to a rigid fitness schedule.
A century and a half of rigid plantation agriculture has taken its toll on soil.
Now, it's hard and it's rigid because you have to make the app-like experiences.
He comes across in person as relaxed, not formal or rigid, and focused on business.
Those people will be happy to see anyone willing to break from our rigid prescriptions.
Ping had always had a rigid, critical side, which Ms. Gin had tried to soften.
"There's nothing pressed or rigid," he said of the watercolor-hued garments hanging around him.
It can help give you a sense of their temperament and how rigid they are.
Macron also wants to reform the rigid labor market that has held back the economy.
The top-down, controlled quality of the conducting made the performance seem rigid at times.
He relies on rigid decorum and a secretive inner sanctum of aides to project power.
She remained rigid, from her jaw to her feet, which suggested a terrible brain injury.
The approach became more rigid over time, the realm of bullet points and horizontal lines.
As a consequence, though, there's a loss of empathy, and beliefs become simplified and rigid.
It was also likely a time defined by strict timetables, rigid lessons, and unforgiving homework.
But the main objection philosophers have raised against deontological restrictions is that they're overly rigid.
Those agreements, called consent decrees and approved by judges, impose rigid timelines for the work.
"What exists today is basically rigid blocks of electronics strapped to the wrist," he said.
This rigid attitude toward race is often enforced by black Americans as fiercely as whites.
Quixotic, he swung from morbid self-pity to rigid authority over his crews and himself.
Once swallowed, the capsule dissolves, allowing the arms to spring back into rigid starfish shape.
The organisation could face hundreds of disputes if it imposed rigid suspensions on all Russians.
Coleman's Steel Belted cooler has a rigid plastic at the bottom and no protective feet.
There's criticism he is too rigid and too strict, but it's not chaotic and disorganized.
"When you see rigid Christians, bishops, priests, you know there are problems there," he said.
And while some caste lines had faded, they remained as rigid as ever in politics.
"If the memory is too rigid, you can miss the conceptual forest," Professor Robertson said.
I want people to know that congress isn't this House of Cards-type, rigid environment.
Aryn's asking the judge to set a more rigid and consistent schedule for his visits.
The headband is made of cloth and reinforced with metal, meaning it's flexible but rigid.
He maintained a rigid discipline over his students and other martial artists within the neighborhood.
They swing down into the paintings and animate what is otherwise a fairly rigid geometry.
Why was Dana Vespoli able to transcend the rigid gender boundaries that define most porn?
The sides of his sculptures are typically paper thin and rigid like a serrated knife.
The book on any such artist is be bound to more rigid than their work.
What these loosely affiliated beers share is a general approach rather than rigid stylistic guidelines.
The hairstylist loaded on Redken Wax Blast and Hairspray 23 until hair became dull and rigid.
Rigid, one-size-fits all rules tend toward the excess of cunning, which is a vice.
However, by using angular momentum for these rigid objects, it's not such a bad physics problem.
"My expertise is in the study of boundaries, what makes social boundaries more rigid," Lamont said.
"The area is not as rigid ideologically as other parts of the country," Dent told Reuters.
Even if you are gender fluid or your sexuality is fluid, labels are, by definition, rigid.
Crates need to be made of rigid material that does not bend when pressure is applied.
The organization doesn't have a rigid structure and official meetings like the Global Summit are infrequent.
" Rather, Pollan says, "Wendell stakes out a clear, rigid position and does not move from it.
This is apparently enough to make the display rigid, even when it's separated from the chassis.
That's how he expected me to hold it, to stand there with my arm held rigid.
But in a #MeToo world, rigid rules and meager pay may be coming under more scrutiny.
Place a pencil (a good rigid object) on a table and push it with your finger.
There's just a great tactile quality to both products, and both are incredibly rigid and sturdy.
One worshipper explains that he defected from his old church because it was rigid and traditional.
Another has a rigid U shape, like a bangle, and is again intended for the wrist.
Rorschach's rigid standards have won him adulation over the years, despite Moore and Gibbons' goal otherwise.
To them, everything obviously is about politics and about advancing their rigid, radical left-wing ideology.
The wire is vehemently resistant to tangling and kinks, and each earpiece feels rigid and durable.
The rigid labour market discourages firms from creating permanent jobs, and hiring young (and older) people.
Having grown up Catholic but later immersed himself in Buddhism, Sir Antony abhors rigid religious systems.
The industrial revolution led to workers being shepherded into factories with rigid rules and repetitive tasks.
And they do make us feel better, but it comes across as off-putting or rigid.
Jonathan is rigid, precise, and fussy, while John has more of a laid-back bro personality.
That means the rigid, heavy material that is typically found inside the shoe had to go.
And what of the rigid double-breasted suit from Italo Zucchelli's most recent Calvin Klein collection?
Southern European countries like Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece have suffered from similarly rigid labour markets.
And even the French agree that dealing with their bureaucracy is "complicated, incomprehensible, rigid and compartmentalised".
For far too long, toxic gender norms have forced people to live in two rigid boxes.
Developers of flexible-pay services say adhering to a rigid pay cycle doesn&apost make sense.
"Typically, heat shields are rigid structures, but this one can actually deploy in space," Smith said.
Those could range from a rigid saucepan to something more malleable — like a bag of flour. 
This demographic may believe in God, but doesn't want to be associated with rigid religious dogmas.
What they show are not rigid geometric trajectories, but more flexible, "topological" constructions, reflecting quantum uncertainty.
You're feeling a little more rigid today than usual, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.
His eyes are closed and his legs and arms are visibly rigid, State College Police Det.
His body is rigid as the men stand around, some with their hands on their hips.
Any company making supersonic planes may soon need to conform to more rigid environmental standards, regardless.
It lowered the population, but I think for most areas the enforcement method was too rigid.
At 12:47 PM, it meets serious Saturn, both in Sag, creating a mature, rigid vibe.
Mordo is rigid and dogmatic, but he has the training, discipline, and experience that Strange lacks.
There are a few moments where missions feel too rigid, or where your goal is unclear.
They're transported down to a coastal region of Morocco where they're placed onto rigid inflatable boats.
He goes rigid, any easy manner totally gone, his face poised somewhere between delight and fear.
Institutional allocators face rigid investment policies and steep due diligence obligations to large and sensitive investors.
There are two main variants of metal straws sold: rigid single-piece straws and collapsible straws.
Sometimes he stopped breathing momentarily, and his body would become rigid, and his face turn blue.
" Vo, she told me last month, "is very good at pressing us to be less rigid.
Nor does he maintain the rigid upright stance that has become the norm in Irish dance.
Our mindsets were rigid and we held onto emotional money baggage we picked up as kids.
So it is with organizations: traditional organizations (spiders) have a rigid hierarchy and top-down leadership.
Their powerful "2026" show forecasts a future free of rigid notions of gender and self-presentation.
As a result, Lear's nonsense helped shape the consciousness of children in a very rigid culture.
Even the most rigid Muslim clerics accept that not everybody is obliged to fast during Ramadan.
Russians and the West should bear in mind how easily political uncertainties can become rigid convictions.
Her figures are stiff and rigid, each curved line she uses ending at a sharp angle.
Now, in the pageant's 45th year, Miss Gay America has moved toward a less-rigid focus.
At Second Nature this was accomplished in a number of ways, largely through rigid communication structures.
Some men are raised to be as hard and rigid as the phalluses they dubiously worship.
But that envelope gets thin and rigid, and the penis becomes erect, and unfortunately, highly breakable.
I'm usually a rigid-backed pack person but I actually liked how unstructured this bag is.
It's when you move from a detail-oriented, conscientious place to a rigid and controlling one.
She threatens the rigid social status the family enjoys and the emasculated impression they outwardly employ.
It is an unusual ritual in a sport that embodies America's most rigid ideals of manhood.
Legacy firms are typically built on rigid structures to give employees a clear path toward advancement.
They were forced to sit on plastic stools in rigid postures for hours at a time.
This time, I was the one who sat rigid and stared ahead — because it wasn't enough.
But even when used for counterterrorism purposes, electronic tracking requires strict oversight and rigid legal approval.
The exhibition culminates with a compelling shift, from rigid formalism to the imperfections of bodily dimensions.
But then her ideas are too rigid to be neatly amenable to any real-world programs.
As a youth he was unwilling to yield to the rigid orthodoxies of French musical education.
"I would gauge people's reaction in the lyrical world, which can be so rigid," she said.
How it works: "Traditional helmets have very rigid outer shells," VICIS founder Dave Marver tells Axios.
But the restaurant he actually opened turned out more rigid and formal, and not popular enough.
Traditional airline seats were fashioned out of rigid aluminum frames, then wrapped in thick foam padding.
"In China, they are more rigid," said Miriam Ben Cheikh Amor, a 26-year-old waitress.
Sometimes her cries went the other direction, too, spiking into screams, her body rigid with terror.
I especially love the way the boar bristles have broken-in over time while remaining rigid.
We applaud those rules and will push to make them as tough and rigid as possible.
These clamps are not completely rigid—they allow the test glass to move some during impact.
It has a very rigid social structure and fights against government regulation that threatens individual liberty.
The divinely inspired, self-righteous, rigid intolerance of religious zealots forecloses open-mindedness, compromise and acceptance.
Sitting rigid at the periphery of the wedding, like an exile— I care about that. Look!
I thought anything beyond the song and the story ended up feeling too rigid and distracting.
Even though they might be on a flexible substrate, the LED itself is a rigid piece.
Even my best efforts to convert the most rigid nonbelievers — apparently, they exist — have proved futile.
One, Ian Lunn, said he thought the wall between the administration and parents was too rigid.
With CBT, counselors challenge rigid thinking and unrealistic beliefs, while encouraging flexible thinking and self-acceptance.
But in 2012 Maura told El País that she was happier working with less rigid directors.
What the company ultimately settled on was a gripper that was neither fully rigid, nor soft.
I never try to make her hair look rigid or hard, because that's not her style.
And be flexible in your plans, because a rigid itinerary is lethal to a good time.
Well, first, the Democratic National Committee's rigid rules have, so far, been a gift to him.
His plans to revamp the rigid labor code by decree, largely bypassing Parliament, have sown unease.
In the 1960s less rigid Bürolandschaft ("office landscaping") made its way across the Channel from Germany.
You should have good posture, a firm (not rigid) shake and look them in the eye.
R. In 2011, everyone was taking pictures lying facedown on the ground, rigid as a board.
Many Westerners gave a negative answer, thinking Islam is just too rigid and absolutist to secularize.
The deal will give Amcor deeper access to the rigid-plastic packaging business in North America.
Boxy and beige, its diamond-quilted nylon was rigid enough to stand up on its own.
European companies are concerned they could face unfair competition from countries with less rigid climate protection.
There was no need for a parental chauffeur or to deal with a rigid bus schedule.
I know, it's impossible to jump with a rigid body, but just go with me here.
The field also suffers from its rigid hierarchies and its lack of gender and racial diversity.
Some bonds between the amino acids will yield easily under these forces; rigid bonds will resist.
This year, you'll learn more about the ways you self-sabotage by adhering to rigid ideals.
Also my dad said that the rigid military world wouldn't be the right thing for me.
The carbon nanotube structures may be incorporated into signal cables such as flexible printed circuit cables, rigid printed circuit boards, printed circuits that include rigid portions with flexible tails (sometimes referred to as "rigid flex"), portions of display structures, portions of touch sensors such as capacitive touch sensor arrays for displays or track pads, camera structures, antenna structures, housing structures, internal device structures, electrical components, substrates, brackets, housing walls, other structures, or combinations of these structures.
To seaward, the rigid inflatables of America's armed coastguard left a sense of security in their wake.
Described in some accounts of his views as as "iconoclastic," Hentoff's stances didn't fit rigid political boxes.
Don't become rigid; be flexible and willing to change your plans if you find a better way.
Stannis Baratheon (Stephen Dillane) was too rigid and too obsessed with a foreign god to lead Westeros.
Saudi Arabia follows the rigid Wahhabi school of Sunni Islam in which Shi'ism is seen as heretical.
Within this rigid form is an opportunity for a director to insert aesthetic creativity and cultural specificity.
It has high taxes, rigid labor laws, and a culture that is averse to the free market.
Despite having trained in rigid kitchen brigades in France, Pépin has a surprisingly lenient definition of perfection.
One poor design choice that jumped out immediately is the rigid connector between the watch and band.
Compared to Android phones, the iPhone is more "rigid" and less "flexible," but generally easier to use.
My gallery is stuffed with photos of virtual dead bodies, like rigid tuna packed into a can.
It's a first step for an automaker that's been known for being rigid in its supplier relationships.
In 1964 came another milestone: rigid restrictions allowing overseas travel, linked to foreign exchange rules, were lifted.
It will hopefully push space exploration and travel into a less rigid, more open climate, Inverse reports.
Unlike existing machines, however, BADGER will move forward not as a rigid unit, but like a worm.
But she was sharp and charismatic where Mary was rigid and out-of-touch (and perhaps "hysterical").
While its cinematic moments are as impressively directed as ever, lesser cutscenes can often feel extremely rigid.
Some, like Ms Muhammad (who dropped her family name, al-Qunun), are women escaping a rigid patriarchy.
The majority of the Klan were these evangelical Protestants with very rigid views about sex and gender.
But there is a growing sense that some of the conventions surrounding family life are unduly rigid.
And it is an insider's game that tends to attract the most rigid—and anti-incumbent—ideologues.
Even if you do manage to scare yourself rigid, the McLaren has in all likelihood barely noticed.
Some places, like Minneapolis, have stopped accepting black plastics and rigid No. 6 plastics like disposable cups.
In Bali on Tuesday, IMF chief economist Maurice Obstfeld said the rupee was "too rigid and overvalued".
They're too rigid, with strict rules and frustrating obstacles that get in the way of the fun.
Ozawa defends music as a pure art form—divorced from commerce, social signifiers, and even rigid theory.
In France trade unions opposed the Socialist government's proposal to reform the country's notoriously rigid labour laws.
The rules often lack empirical justification, and in many cases, are so rigid that they deter innovation.
He envisioned a closed, rigid hierarchy staffed by bureaucrats who entered by examination and enjoyed protected careers.
The FCC seeks to impose a set of rigid prescriptive rules on broadband providers' data privacy practices.
In the rigid middle-class milieu in which he was raised, opportunities to wonder aloud weren't many.
This stems from the fact that gendered clothing relies on the rigid constructs of masculinity and femininity.
Moran lamented the divisive tone in the nation's capitol and sought to shed any rigid ideological labels.
Worst of all, I saw women as objects that could be won by following a rigid formula.
If, however, you used TAGs instead, then the association to the thing is inherently much less rigid.
A long soak in the Dead Sea transformed an antique garment into a rigid, crystalline salt sculpture.
The size of a rigid spacecraft is limited by the size of the rocket that launches it.
However, currency traders said they are hopeful the central bank will soon review its rigid exchange policy.
Fortunately for Pakistan, pitches in the Gulf are among the most rigid and parched in the world.
I was really against a monographic show, or something that was chronological and rigid in that way.
We do not support rigid work requirements imposed on recipients which terminate all benefits for small infractions.
Exciting shifts arrive this afternoon, but the vibe this evening is a little rigid—mind your responsibilities.
They both see themselves as outsider artists held down by the rigid commercial demands of the business.
The sofa fabric is plastic, rigid, I can feel its pattern marking the backs of our thighs.
Autocracies such as the Soviet Union and North Korea rely on rigid protocols and strict organizational structure.
Still, the curriculum for these projects belies the stereotype of Success as a rigid test-prep factory.
We get trapped in categories created in the past, stuck in rigid perspectives, oblivious to alternative views.
That language should be interpreted as hypothetical dicta, not as a rigid blueprint for limiting gun rights.
She never accepted the rigors of a rigid society and did not believe in the status quo.
One of the first signs that she was seriously sick came when her left hand grew rigid.
It was the rigid social attitudes toward the servant classes that really denied Jane Clouson her honor.
Another Pennsylvania bill would help military families whose unique needs aren't best served by a rigid system.
As was the case during the Suharto dictatorship, there's a rigid collaboration between politicians and Indonesian oligarchs.
She is rigid in many ways, even "demonic" at times, as Mr. Sondheim has said to me.
Young people the age of my own children seem more pragmatic and less rigid in partisan politics.
Mr. Morgan was just as crucial, giving every note the weight of inevitability, without ever sounding rigid.
It hangs rigid in the air, moon-shaped mouth agape and whiskers quivering on its pointed snout.
They slow progress by focusing on hierarchy, top-down decision making, rigid deadlines and short-term outcomes.
Pluto retrograde also begins today: How rigid are your beliefs, and is it time to loosen up?
They can't do it because they are ideologically rigid and obsessed with cutting taxes and deregulating business.
What's more, these models tend to be rather rigid, built to handle a single set of questions.
For the most part, these sensors aren't printed, which can make them more costly and more rigid.
Chaos theory tells us that even when something does obey rigid rules, it may still be unpredictable.
Newer, soft exosuits have been able to do this without feeling rigid and restricting range of movement.
It was one of several exceptions the Japanese made to sumo's rigid rules to accommodate their guest.
Then researchers used a rigid-hulled inflatable boat to tow the whale, tail-first and very slowly.
The movement Cruz is a part of has been criticized for being too ideologically rigid and inflexible.
During the Vietnam War, hippies grew out their hair to protest the war and rigid societal rules.
It's no secret that medical training is grueling: long hours, little sleep, rigid hierarchies, steep learning curves.
"How can you have such a loose lifestyle and be so rigid a teacher?" they ask her.
"Sure, John could be rigid," Aaron Gray, 38, who had been the high school sports editor, added.
Pros: Cherry MX switches, rigid body, per-key RGB lightingCons: The cable is braided and non-detachable
Only his prescriptions can be the right ones, even though most are overly rigid, untested and divisive.
"You sit like that," Fatima Al Khoori said, laughing as she pulled herself into a rigid pose.
Several airship designers told me that rigid designs like Pasternak's are expensive, heavy, and considered old-school.
Real-life critics of the real-life pope whisper that his pontificate can be rigid and unforgiving.
Even employees who left with a positive experience describe a workplace that is rigid and sometimes oppressive.
Our lack of conversation has turned us into our rigid, stubborn grandparents unwilling to consider alternative views.
Rather than encounter a rigid ideology at work, one senses a fruitful tension between these two commitments.
Mr. Maduro's biggest concession was ending the rigid currency controls that had hung over every economic transaction.
Those policies doubled down on rigid wage and hour laws and restricted flexible work and business arrangements.
An EEG (electroencephalogram) suggested that the patient's rigid posture might be a result of an ongoing seizure.
Later, ISIS forces captured parts of the city and forced residents to live by their rigid code.
This market activity is driven in part by frustration with the state's inefficient and rigid planned economy.
"In Britain's rigid class society, there is still a deep correlation between privilege and race," she wrote.
The experience made it clear to Barra that GM's famously careful and rigid culture needed to change.
She wore rigid contacts at the time, and the contact in the injured eye was never found.
But this year's election showed us that when it comes to politics, the Valley expects rigid conformity.
The conditions that tend to be associated with the practice include rigid gender norms, conflict and poverty.
It is the promise of a practical leader, a political outsider unencumbered by rigid ideology or partisanship.
But this same quality can lead you to be too rigid about work projects and ambitious goals.
As flyers settle into their (usually rigid and uncomfortable) seats, the active surveillance seems to end there.
The growing violence, and the occupiers' reactions to it — occasionally subtle, mostly rigid — carry the story forward.
Privately, some venture capitalists have bemoaned the way they're locked into rigid investment mandates with perverse incentives.
Koolhaas's rigid pantaloons, however, are just one example of the myriad peculiar structures that dot China's landscapes.
From modes of dress to pronoun use to gender roles, the world is breaking out of rigid binaries.
The new Affetto is somehow less creepy than its rigid gloss-faced predecessor, but so much more unsettling.
While the Sun and Mercury are in this sign, think about some ways you can be less rigid.
In the past, Gorbachev assailed the Kremlin for a crackdown on freedom of speech and rigid political controls.
The survey is the first of its kind for Washington, DC–based FAMM, which opposes rigid sentencing requirements.
For example, viscoelastic materials (typically soft polymeric materials) are effective in absorbing sound but are not mechanically rigid.
Such fears apply not only to transgender people but also those who don't meet our rigid gender norms.
"It would allow the government to force its rigid and unyielding fist inside the church," said Republican Rep.
As early as June 2014, police leaders had called for relaxing the rigid protocols, according to the Tribune.
He doesn't maintain a rigid air of professionalism or keep his personal life and his interests to himself.
The neckband area is semi-rigid, but sits comfortably and contours nicely around the back of your neck.
There's even a separate survey if you, for whatever reason, believe that a sentient baguette would remain rigid.
We're not exactly sure how Duffy will fit in at Apple, which also boasts a rigid corporate culture.
" As the former employee put it: "Being flexible at WeWork is too rigid—you have to be fluid.
The next level of approximation is to treat the Sooner Schooner as a rigid body—like a box.
No one had figured out how to use the platform yet, and it feels super rigid and awkward.
Essential says the titanium makes the phone more rigid and less susceptible to cracking when you drop it.
These rigid binary ideologies of what is expected are dangerous, oppressive, and toxic to trans and nonbinary people.
Unfortunately, the most potent economic measures, such as revitalising Japan's overly rigid labour market, would also court controversy.
Besides costly credit, perennial grumbles include shoddy infrastructure, unskilled workers, convoluted taxes, rigid labour laws and Byzantine bureaucracy.
She is also a rigid micro-manager in a business that is by nature fluid and open-ended.
The 1000XM23 also collapse down, and they have a more rigid case, and they have superior noise canceling.
A suspension system on both wheels and a rigid aluminum unibody structure keeps the ride smooth and stable.
Though this structure may seem a bit rigid, Roberts says consultants can tailor the experience for their clients.
Perhaps it's time to have a bigger conversation about the rigid gender norms that are placed on women.
We have 30+ teachers from all over the world… We have quite a bit of rigid vetting process.
Astrology in the royal court, involving rigid rituals and precise calculations, is a world away from commoners' divinations.
In place of the rigid, yellow charging case that housed previous pairs is a softer, black leather case.
Even deeper down inside the planet, a gaseous core rotates as if it were a solid, rigid body.
The consortium of producers of Parmigiano Reggiano, the king of Italian cheeses, insists on rigid standards for everyone.
They can be made cheaply and, unlike rigid silicon cells, can be applied to flexible films of plastic.
Now, Daenerys wears powerful black gowns, her hair in rigid, manicured braids — outfits fit for the Iron Throne.
The diagonal drop-stitching construction gives a high-performance ride and makes the board ultra-rigid and stable.
Loews Corporation bought rigid plastic packager Consolidated Container Company for $1.2 billion, roughly 9.0 times Ebitda, sources said.
And public opinion there doesn't necessarily reflect the government's position on hijab wearing and other rigid moral codes.
"If you're in a rigid, very organized system, it's very difficult to move it from there," he says.
"Monsters are sexy too because they challenge the rigid conformities of sex appeal," Irving, the English professor, said.
The Pentagon's "rigid and convoluted" acquisition system is wasting billions in taxpayer dollars, according to a new report.
"What's interesting is that Brazilian companies still thrive against a rigid, if not punitive, government backdrop," Johnson added.
Hell's Angels and other outlaw biker gangs rebelled against the rigid social norms of the 1950s and 1960s.
In my dreams, the sensibility of the machine invades the periphery of my consciousness: dark, rigid, cold, alien.
Closed-cell foam is dense and rigid, and most of the gas bubbles do not touch each other.
Eliminate essential health benefits The rigid benefit parameters are part of the problem with ObamaCare plans, Laszewski said.
Operating expenditure is driven by rigid items such as staff costs, mandatory transfers and state-defined social spending.
In stark contrast to rigid perimeter defenses and walls, the network needs to provide protection without compromising openness.
You just get kind of too rigid on the rules, and then it creates guilt, competition, and judgment.
He is critical of the church for too often advancing a rigid and unrealistic vision of married life.
Trump might be a nativist, but by all indications he's far less ideologically rigid than Kelly and Miller.
And that would have contributed in part to my reputation of being cold, legalist, rigid, as they say.
Though the main room felt less museum-like than Nike's, it still felt a little rigid and bare.
"It's just nice to be this small, because you're not locked into this rigid production schedule," DeBenedetti says.
The last of the US Navy's rigid airships, the USS Macon performed scouting missions from 1933 to 1935.
Disillusioned with the rigid aristocratic norms of the elite cavalry, he left to pursue a degree in architecture.
To become a man in this society meant acquiescing to a world of rigid hierarchies and coded aggression.
When your life is dictated by rigid time slots, you're constantly reacting instead of being proactive and intentional.
There's an aching sense, beneath the book's surface, of the rigid corseting that just barely contains modern life.
"They over-intellectualize everything away, they talk about labels and they are rigid in that way," she said.
His government has faced months of street protests over an unpopular bill to loosen France's rigid labor laws.
This is sometimes the case at very large companies, where they've established rigid guidelines for raises and promotions.
Sports talk remains one of America's last folk traditions, rigid in its regional devotions and hyper-local mythologies.
But the filmmakers' bold pushback against the rigid formality of the genre they draw upon doesn't always deliver.
To make decisions, these narcissists create a rigid set of external standards, often based around admiration and contempt.
Mostly the workers are protesting much-contested changes to France's rigid labor code that somewhat loosen employment regulations.
The VW does a passable impersonation of a luxury car with sturdy interior materials and a rigid chassis.
His sheer presence seemed to contradict the rigid social norms that middle schoolers too often perpetuate among themselves.
Although distribution methods have been left in the hands of the provinces, the framework proposed is pretty rigid.
The Commission has so far opposed a floor for MREL, but does not favour a rigid cap either.
For others, like Alex Orellana, embracing liminality and refusing rigid gender determination poses potent personal and creative challenges.
It manifests in the rigid gender norms of her community, and those norms' aggressive—at times murderous—policing.
By showing that sometimes two rigid options aren't enough, she teaches them what it means to be nonbinary.
Learning about C.A.A.'s rigid, Ovitz-imposed rules is one of the more interesting aspects of this memoir.
Mr. Taborn appreciates that Starebaby's sound sprung from its members' distinctive styles, rather than rigid ideas of genre.
"When I worked with the heavy weights, I got stronger, but the muscles were too rigid," he said.
Governed by rigid, patriarchal customs and rituals, her daily routines also make room for solitude and even pleasure.
Apple finally realized that the App Store's rigid pricing was preventing developers from creating and maintaining serious apps.
As for the rigid paterfamilias, Uwe Kröger, a veteran to the role, delivered far more dramatically than vocally.
Rigid, blade-shaped wings enable them to shoot through the water at up to 22 miles an hour.
You found these four more or less rigid bones are connected by joints with three degrees of freedom.
On the other hand, projects that are too specific and rigid run the risk of delivering monotonous results.
M.S. usually takes its toll on the body with a kind of rigid weakness and loss of coordination.
According to Wouterson, this rigid notion that you must sleep for eight hours can actually cause sleep stress.
"Whenever I run into a rigid person, especially if young, I tell myself he is sick," he added.
"If you're at a desk all day, even a standing desk, you're constantly rigid and tense," Didorosi says.
The Democratic Party is not bound by a rigid ideology; at its heart, it is inclusive and pragmatic.
The colonists, as they call themselves, live by rigid rules set out by a group of anonymous leaders.
But she is drawing some dismay from President Trump's aides who view her rigid style as lacking collegiality.
France's rigid labor code, which Mr. Macron says kills jobs, will be revamped by decree, largely bypassing Parliament.
Since 2013, the government has been rigid: nobody confined on Manus or Nauru will ever settle in Australia.
Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar warned both sides not to set up rigid "red lines" ahead of talks.
All of those are advances plausibly attributed to Mr. Macron's landmark loosening of the rigid French labor market.
Commentators wondered how a free spirit like Kaneda would adapt to a team known for fostering rigid conformity.
Bonus pools weighted heavily toward losing teams — and a rigid international structure — run counter to their competitive instincts.
But he said he believed the agency's standards were too rigid and burdensome to companies with innovative ideas.
So let your babies pursue their interests, rather than forcing them on a narrow, rigid, elite academic path.
He sometimes comes off at the F.B.I. as rigid, particularly in comparison with the more outgoing Mr. Comey.
Eastern Aleppo may not have been Raqqa, where ISIS advertised its rigid Islamist dystopia and its mass beheadings.
Ms. Warren, while admirably passionate about her policies, nonetheless appears unduly rigid and unlikely to expand her base.
When rigid concentration isn't the answer, it would appear that the distraction caused by laughter can prove invaluable.
At Samsung, a rigid, top-down culture has been blamed for stifling innovation and allowing problems to fester.
He was completely immobile: "Sits or stands in one spot...Gaze rigid...upper extremities hang slackly," Kahlbaum wrote.
She says the current system of rigid testing causes too much pressure and the stakes are "ridiculously" high.
Several of the leading candidates in the Democratic presidential primary have laid out more rigid outlines for trade.
As a child, did you buck against rigid gender codes in dress, such as in Japanese school uniforms?
True morning story: It's time to change out of your cozy pajamas into crisp, often rigid business wear.
Too emotionally rigid to confront even this minor entanglement, he scribbles a goodbye letter and hits the road.
In a collograph, the artist affixes different materials to a rigid substrate, which is then inked and printed.
When surgeons discovered the rigid contact, it was intact; it appeared to have been perfectly encapsulated by tissue.
Many people even enjoy the diet, because it doesn&apost involve rigid rules like some other eating plans.
It is seamlessly and subtly weaved throughout the fabric of the story, transcending the rigid barriers of genre.
Alícia, now nearly 25 months old, has microcephaly, rigid muscles, seizures, and problems with vision, breathing and swallowing.
It's a type of partnership that has become more common in an industry that's shedding traditionally rigid distinctions.
In France, there is no preordained right to bear arms, absent rigid registration and surveillance of their use.
She recalls one woman she saw with anorexia nervosa who had extremely strict and rigid rules about eating.
Catholic Italy is slowly adapting its legislation and legal precedent toward a less rigid position on assisted suicide.
Of course, if romance is the enemy of revolution, it's also the enemy of rigid mandates like celibacy.
I had little contact with people outside of the rigid triangle of my Calvinist home, church and school.
Arguments their predecessors had to sweat their way through soften into lazy nostrums or harden into rigid dogmas.
It is a legacy of the country's exacting domestic expectations and rigid gender roles for who performs them.
But not for most artists … There are too many kinds of artists, and some are rigid and exclusionary.
"It's nice to not be so rigid in my expectations, Sherry," he said at our most recent session.
I was typically somewhat tense and rigid, often unable to catch my breath during times of real panic.
Her insistence on good taste is rigid and uncompromising to the point that it frequently gets her in trouble.
In a statement, the nine ministries clarified that the burial directive was not a "rigid request" for ordinary Chinese.
Scholars and critics have struggled to situate it within art history's tendency toward rigid periodizations and nationally circumscribed categories.
Delivering power to the rigid material causes it to get hot, frying the surrounding soft tissue in the process.
Though many parts of Syrian society are governed by patriarchal structures and rigid traditions, it's not the case everywhere.
Between the rigid cadence and the flattened vocal range, there's something kind of charming about text-to-speech readers.
The framerates will get chopped down, and it'll limit you to using the rigid eight directions of the original.
But, as a Fixed sign (you were born in the middle of the season), you can be too rigid.
Typically, particles have to be mixed with a special type of adhesive, or binder, in order to stay rigid.
Their popularity may be indicative of the larger society beginning to desire rigid structures and guidelines for romantic encounters.
Your world here is broken into smaller communities called enclaves, each with their own rigid social structures and beliefs.
They fought for freedom in all its forms against a rigid society that dictated their function, status, and possibilities.
Elsewhere, rigid sanctions by the United States on Iran and tensions in the Middle East, continued to dampen imports.
Whereas the game's world and structure are rigid and sometimes confusing, Trico feels like a real, dynamic, living creature.
Chatty Mercury in Virgo clashes with serious Saturn in Sagittarius at 9:18 AM, creating a rigid, agitated mood.
They arrived to find Angelina dead; court records allege the girl's skin was cold and rigid to the touch.
Now amplify those challenges for anyone growing up in a culture rooted in machismo, religion and rigid gender norms.
Over time, you may find that your mornings — and the rest of your day — feel a little less rigid.
In the past, Stewart hasn't been shy about the fact that she strongly disagrees with Cannes' rigid style requirements.
They take up precious home screen real estate and signify the often rigid restrictions Apple enforces on its users.
These tweaks, however, do not tackle the biggest problem Sweden faces in integrating new arrivals: its rigid labour market.
The GOP base was once defined by quite rigid orthodoxies on cutting government, projecting US power and moral conservatism.
The camera lingers on the girls' short skirts, pink lips, and rigid plastic eyes, intentionally tracking the male gaze.
Families often struggle to maintain the rigid feeding routine at home; Lukens admitted that their protocol is ''very tedious.
Exciting shifts take place this morning, but don't get too rigid about letting go of the past this afternoon.
This isn't a rigid puzzle game where there's one right answer and a pre-determined way of doing things.
At the annual meeting Mr Idermark said he "sincerely apologised", acknowledging that the bank had been "rigid" and "guarded".
And it wasn't just an arm workout for Sorensen – Tookes needs intense ab strength to stay so perfectly rigid.
Rigid business hours mean that people often have to skip work to stand in queues at the bank instead.
The two main brakes on growth are well documented: an overly large public sector and a rigid labour market.
In the name of workers' rights, she issued new rules on working hours, which companies denounced as unduly rigid.
On the table, there are many issues: terrorism, high unemployment, rigid labor market laws and the rise of nationalism.
Mom, rigid with fear, is certain they will all be stopped at the border because of their expired visas.
Temer said earlier on Wednesday that he plans to announce changes to the country's rigid labor laws in January.
The company unfroze this month its plans to launch VLTs after Greece's gaming commission approved new, less rigid rules.
For a phone with glass on both the front and back, the P20 Pro feels surprisingly rigid and durable.
You can't 3D print something that just hangs in mid-air, it will simply collapse before it becomes rigid.

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