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"rigidity" Definitions
  1. [uncountable, countable] (often disapproving) the fact of being very strict and difficult to change synonym inflexibility (1)
  2. [uncountable] (often disapproving) the attitude of somebody who refuses to change their ideas or behaviour synonym inflexibility (2)
  3. [uncountable] the fact of being stiff and difficult to move or bend synonym inflexibility (3)
"rigidity" Synonyms
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The hardest part about dating an Aquarius is their rigidity.
Beth made me think of my father and his rigidity.
"The obsessionality creates a rigidity of thinking," Dr. Berger said.
May's rigidity in Brexit negotiations over the past two years.
I don't like to have rigidity when I'm on vacation.
Instead, they fell into the trap of rigidity of thought.
It is characterized by shaking, rigidity and difficulty with walking.
I started to shed all the rigidity about my belief systems.
His reputation leans more toward pragmatic problem-solving than ideological rigidity.
Furthermore, the E.U.'s rigidity undermines its ability to promote innovation.
I'm so fascinated by the structure and the rigidity of it.
Explicitly sexual, but with nods to a buttoned-up Victorian rigidity.
Rigidity is seldom a good thing―in baseball as in life.
The rigidity of the symmetrical design is subverted by color alone.
Like the crystalline structure of alabaster, its rigidity is a weakness.
OK, here's one hypothesis: it's partly about downward nominal wage rigidity.
Automakers crow when a vehicle gains 227 percent in structural rigidity.
This fender design adds to the rigidity and handle strength when slicing.
"The visual language of the film is not about rigidity," he wrote.
But another is excessive rigidity and a premature closing down of options.
"This rigidity of the Soviet model led to its collapse," he said.
In the novel, the line was a sardonic comment on moral rigidity.
But that doesn't necessary lead to a rigidity of thought or belief.
The GOP has spiraled into ideological rigidity, moving evermore to the right.
But Bennett is the latest example of how that rigidity is changing.
Walter White becomes Heisenberg not just through meth-cooking but through rigidity.
He interpreted the rigidity as a "form of fundamentalism," particularly in priests.
He says many major business fail for one reason: rigidity of thought.
Rhythms were dispatched with clarity and exactitude, without a trace of rigidity.
Diamonds, however, owe their strength to the rigidity of their molecular structure.
Much of this is attributed to the rigidity of a block grant.
His rigidity is as much a survival mechanism as Jimmy's bubble-gum pliability.
Kengoro, though, does lose out on the rigidity of its Lego-esque comrades.
I'm less compelled by the rigidity of the art style which we established.
The infill are little patterns inside an object that help it retain rigidity.
As worries about migration have revived nationalist sentiments, the EU must avoid rigidity.
Perhaps they suffer from ideological rigidity; perhaps they are defending core European values.
When you improve a slice's rigidity by folding it, you're experiencing Gaussian curvature.
Polarization and rigidity have been a part of the human condition for ages.
This one offers a lot of insight into the rigidity of PUA tactics.
However, he should be careful not to substitute rigidity in place of stability.
In Breitbart's take, this was merely payback for the rigidity of identity politics.
Click here to view original GIFDumb Fun is great because it ignores ARKit's rigidity.
Yet even this stereotype doesn't explain the rigidity of the Sad White Person Movie.
The driver diaphragm measures 58mm in diameter and is tungsten-coated for extra rigidity.
Former President Barack Obama himself warned against a "certain kind of rigidity" among progressives.
There are two main reasons the concerns about Amazon are justified: rigidity and dominance.
Cue reams of graphs about output gaps, exchange-rate competitiveness and nominal-wage rigidity.
There was, in their delivery and beats, a rigidity borrowed from the East Coast.
It retains some of the bullet-proof fabric's rigidity, but is considerably more flexible.
And how instability, not rigidity, marks the distribution of power across our three branches.
The reasons for this paralysis have to do with both ideological rigidity and corruption.
Another way to soften the already softened rigidity of a line or rectangle, sure.
I think he was concerned with the rigidity of our moral and political wisdom.
"No two skins have the same rigidity or the same buckling behavior," says Williams.
Dr. Ratner and Dr. Mirzakhani were experts in this more subtle form of rigidity.
Charli XCX brings art-pop rigidity and Kero Kero Bonito contributes a light swagger.
"I loved the rigidity and lack of choice," she writes in her chatty way.
I think there's so much rigidity in the way we think about these issues.
Trump has reportedly often chafed at Kelly's rigidity in controlling access to the president.
Like bribery, rigidity and incompetence, blindly positive thinking is always a risk in bureaucracies.
Her use of mesh and perforated planes underscore both the body's absence and rigidity.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Ballet is usually associated with rigidity, discipline, and purity.
The main symptoms of the disease are tremor, bradykinesia (or slowness of movement), and rigidity.
Frequently causing tremors, rigidity and dementia, Parkinson's is both debilitating and substantially shortens life expectancy.
But what the Gram lacks in rigidity, it makes up for in sheer screen size.
Chafing at the rigidity of the teaching, she left shortly before taking the final exam.
Test pilot Fell credits the aircraft's flight capabilities to the rigidity of the rotor blades.
But, again, there are some serious drawbacks lurking in the shadows: inflexibility, obstinacy, and rigidity.
Downward nominal wage rigidity is a real thing, which becomes highly relevant at low inflation.
But there's a rigidity to how we go about it that undermines the whole premise.
The rigidity of the front loops makes it easy to clip gear on and off.
Europe's ideological rigidity is admirable, but it is also partly responsible for the region's paralysis.
If the ADB's reluctance to water down risk controls is admirable, organisational rigidity is less so.
Rigidity has to do with both the online retailer's decision-making processes and with the result.
Generally, driving enthusiasts abhor such things, as rigidity is the key to swift and precise driving.
His soft stone sculptures are dripping and dynamic, transcending the usual notions of tactility and rigidity.
He has grown as a player, but his game reflects none of the rigidity of doctrine.
Foam-core boards are what the pro-protestors use for both their rigidity and light weight.
For the numbered series Procession, Kim combines the rigidity of geometry with opaque, liquid-like forms.
Unfortunately, our current system rewards politicians who appeal to narrow partisan constituencies that demand ideological rigidity.
The David, meanwhile, stood there in his old precarious rigidity, vulnerable as ever to the tremors.
Purists might complain about some of her entries, but I find the absence of rigidity refreshing.
As the rigidity of Victorian culture relaxed, hair jewelry began to seem old-fashioned and backward.
The mental rigidity required to harbor racist ideas ends up bleeding over into other cognitive domains.
"In lots of circumstances, rigidity is helpful," Dr. Pauker told me, because it conserves mental energy.
Not that Harris tweed ($895) is the gentlest of fabrics, but the rigidity was a challenge.
Anti-Parkinson's medications helped to relieve her muscle rigidity, but her condition had continued to worsen.
The reality, however, is weirder, a space where rigidity and a more freewheeling spirit can mix.
Controlled rigidity — that is, flexing only along certain directions — allows suspension bridges to survive high winds.
In a country where corporate rigidity is only slowly easing, the sops could be satisfying enough.
Some of that is classic NFL rigidity, but some of it is basic human resources logic.
Problem, though: Without the rigidity and powerful motors of your typical robot, soft robots have been weak.
This looming climax puts into relief a very old limitation in computer engineering: the rigidity of circuits.
Or providing extra rigidity to the arm holding an object while the other interacts with the lid.
This illustrates a paradoxical feature of the political divide: a combination of intellectual flux and partisan rigidity.
"Incorporating a wide, strong, rib-shaped shoulder block design helps increase structural integrity and rigidity," Lim says.
Concrete cores generally cost less than steel-frame cores, which must be reinforced to achieve comparable rigidity.
"There's something about the rigidity of the black, and the voluptuous nature of the heart," he said.
Some people, however, have complained to us about the complexity and rigidity of the TIAA Traditional annuity.
With success came a rigidity and uncompromising attitude, along with two failed marriages, both short and childless.
But Republicans, led by Mr. Buehler, say that ideological rigidity has become the real problem in Salem.
The FTC's case-by-case approach includes principled constraints and institutional features that create predictability without rigidity.
Introducing more rigidity to the process might make the state even less adaptable to oil market fluctuations.
The LaCrosse has managed to lose some 300 pounds while increasing the structural rigidity of the chassis.
He's right about many things, particularly when it comes to the rigidity of thought on college campuses.
"If the rigidity of taxonomy is carefully undermined, interesting things begin to happen," Dion tells The Creators Project.
The documentary series exposes how deep tribal affiliations can run and how this rigidity can manifest within America.
It achieves the rigidity needed to do surgery-type things thanks to what's known as granular jamming, e.g.
Optimally, these multidisciplinary teams are further supported through evolved organizational and management-thinking that favors meritocracy over rigidity.
This, at first glance, may seem desirable: more parties means more choice, more opportunities, less rigidity, more criticism.
Undoubtedly rugged The phone achieves this level of protection and rigidity by employing a significant amount of bulk.
Her photographs of endlessly repeating spools or blocks commented on the monotony, rigidity and efficacy of mass manufacture.
The couple talked about reconciling their opposing approaches to writing and to living—Moshfegh's rigidity and Goebel's heedlessness.
Of course there is often rigidity and groupthink, but people can also be smarter when thinking in groups.
And then there are all the glories of photography, which adds emotional heft to the rigidity of text.
The jeans have the weight and rigidity you'd expect from any well-made selvedge, but they're made sustainably.
The paring of the seemingly limitless to a finite number is a case of what mathematicians call rigidity.
Former President Barack Obama warned us about the rigidity of progressive politics and villainizing allies over policy difference.
The rigidity of one belief system is forced to confront the messiness of work relationships or a neighborhood association.
But all those frills are surface layer because the build quality and rigidity of the Nitro 25.5 is flexible.
Policing is no exception, and that means it is important that law enforcement leaders avoid rigidity and embrace agility.
I cuddle her in my arms and quickly feel the rigidity in her muscles, a classic sign of microcephaly.
Apple says that concerns over the iPad Pro's structural rigidity are unfounded and that it stands by the product.
"An androgynous, hybrid, spurious revolt […] saps the foundations of the deadly rigidity of dichotomous thought," the show notes add.
So yes, HoloLens has a certain rigidity that the Magic Leap didn't match, but it wasn't always an advantage.
The pope rejected the total rigidity of gender roles and argued that gender is in part a social construct.
Rigidity, like what you can find in my culture in Pakistan, is what you have to be afraid of.
Similarly, we do not reject the feminism of Bordo and Clinton because of its ideological rigidity, as Bordo suggests.
Many will rightly consider their extra rigidity and weight downsides, but I actually rather like having a stiffer cable.
Chidi, in fact, was cast into the Bad Place because of his rigidity and inability to make any decisions.
The carbon-fiber driver's compartment allowed Alfa Romeo cut off top of the car without compromising its structural rigidity.
That rigidity enabled the dinosaur to bite down on its hapless prey with a force upwards of 7 tons.
The result is an object that represents seemingly contradictory qualities: heaviness and rigidity, as well as lightness and flexibility.
Our society is, in my opinion, well above average when it comes to rigidity compared to other Western democracies.
Buttoned into angular rigidity in Beth Goldenberg's matchy period suit and hat, Ms. O'Toole looks perfect for the part.
And so the book arranges itself around the polarities of fixity and flux, certainty and doubt, rigidity and tenderness.
Gates is playing with the contrasts of rigidity and fluidity in these sculptures, as he is throughout the exhibition.
Some of his votes will come from Republicans fed up with the ideological rigidity of legislators like Mr. Faught.
And his lifelong rigidity would have become an even larger governing problem if he ever succeeded Trump as president.
The rigidity of the currency's peg, which has only been devalued once in its history, is also a worry.
The rigidity of the system and the difficulty of changing it is an advantage meant to keep power diffuse.
In another, "T4T" (2016), a pink silicon dumbbell lies limply, defying the "masculine" rigidity and strength that typifies weightlifting.
"There was rigidity and an unwillingness to really listen," said Harold Ickes, former deputy White House chief of staff.
There is enough rigidity to my penis that if I lose my erection I can still carry on with sex.
He also shared the release's pressurized title track, which delivers driving techno staging an interplay between sonic elasticity and rigidity.
The high public payroll is likely to absorb 50% of revenue in FY17, and is a source of fiscal rigidity.
The simplicity, rigidity, and precision of Final's E5000 design gives me confidence that these earphones will last a long time.
Wu Qian raised the problem of accommodating performers' differing senses of time without imposing metronomic rigidity on a joint performance.
Even more than the Maybot's rigidity, the policy was driven by Britain's deep ambivalence about both immigration and identity documents.
B-pillars are gone, too, since the front and rear doors, when closed, provide enough structural rigidity on their own.
The body uses a fabric called Nomex Meta Aramid, which retains Kevlar's rigidity but is more flexible, according to Gizmodo.
"If you're Iran and Russia and you know Assad's manpower limitations and political rigidity you have a problem," says Tabler.
One of your best qualities is how flexible you are; today, however, a feeling of rigidity will enter your relationships.
Unsurprisingly, given the rigidity of midcentury gender roles, few women were staff photographers, and these six are presented as trailblazers.
I held on to rigidity for comfort in the face of so much uncertainty, but it didn't help my creativity.
Len Sherman: You rightfully questioned the ideological rigidity of progressives who sanctimoniously dismiss ANY legitimate questioning of climate change research.
She hadn't yet talked about sex with her parents, but she knew that the rigidity of the lesson felt unfair.
Soaring through space like an aerodynamic electric train, a streamlined surge of energy, Simi captivates in its methodical formalist rigidity.
Lipinski and his allies have portrayed Newman as the vanguard of some sort of left-wing Tea Party enforcing ideological rigidity.
The education system here scores particularly high in science and math, but faces criticism for its rigidity and lack of creativity.
So far, mathematicians don't know the exact boundary between rigidity and flexibility, but thanks to Eliashberg we know they're both possible.
In a waiting room filled with elderly people, Schulman gloomily observed the same symptoms she was experiencing: the rigidity, the tremors.
They may not recognize how competitive the entertainment landscape is getting and I think they get locked into a format rigidity.
They also condemn his rigidity in demanding funds for a southern border wall as the price for reopening the government. Sen.
It's machined out of a single block of aluminum and has the heft and rigidity to withstand a lot of punishment.
The military discipline that led to Kelly's career can at times stifle his prose, resulting in occasional awkward rigidity and overwriting.
But when I really explore her question, I see the rigidity in me and I don't know how to break through.
In a way, it served as evidence of his argument — his free thought too liquid for the rigidity of the show.
Still others had good rigidity and were easy to pierce, but didn't accept the welded foil covers that seal the cups.
The battery also is able to provide torsional rigidity and support for the vehicle because it's resting directly on the chassis.
So, you see that apprehension, you see more rigidity built in to the way that people want to see the world.
Young's advocacy, reduced to a simple 10-word demand, is reflective of the rigidity with which the church prescribes interview policy.
Aslan finds this expressed in the mystic tradition that "revitalized Islamic theology in the face of orthodox rigidity," known as Sufism.
Everything we know suggests that there is a lot of nominal downward rigidity and a lot of money illusion in general.
I'm also a little timid, so I needed a medium to get rid of the rigidity in myself for the art.
"Apollonian rigidity versus Dionysian catharsis is brilliantly etched as carnality opposes pretense and the haughty are brought low via mockery," he says.
Ali, 220, has the symptoms of Parkinson's disease: He experiences tremors, slowness of movement and a muscular rigidity that compromises his speech.
Its rigidity and stoicism, likely caused by the daguerreotype process — no one can smile forever — has perpetuated her image as Puritan recluse.
Having allowed their voters to choose ideological rigidity over personal corruption once, they are not about to make the same mistake twice.
In an interview he discussed his findings, which confound many preconceptions about Shariah, Chinese law and the rigidity of the Communist state.
Aesthetically, Rivette opts for a picturesque rigidity that recalls devotional art of the Middle Ages in his construction of mise en scène.
As you go along, you sort of cringe and see some of the things in this character you dislike most — rigidity, authoritarianism.
Why, despite the relative rigidity of the world's borders, do national movements still seek recognition from powerful states and their international institutions?
That so much can come through that rigidity — that's really beautiful to me and something I should spend more time focused on.
Both the rigidity and expressiveness of modern dance, and its reigning leaders like Martha Graham, who told stories inspired by Greek myths.
He made his early career as a scholar, arguing that American leaders had to reject the rigidity of mutually assured nuclear destruction.
Horsehair is a great "Goldilocks" option on the rigidity spectrum for shavers who find boar bristles too stiff and badger too soft.
To label such efforts as "cultural appropriation" lends credibility to the sort of racial rigidity that fuels racism in the first place.
He had sleep disturbances, hallucinations, memory problems, rigidity, paranoia and eventually coordination issues that led to dangerous falls and losses of consciousness.
Sanders is a rigid man, and he projects grumpy-old-man rigidity, with his policy prescriptions frozen in failed Marxist pipe dreams.
But among those countries, the law has been enforced with particular rigidity in El Salvador, drawing criticism from international human rights groups.
But instead of just two servo motors, those fine are each powered by eight actuators that increase its strength and rigidity as needed.
Call it a non-committal way to pull off two of your favorite hues or a statement against the rigidity of makeup techniques.
Like the Maharishi temple in Vedic City, the Garst property utterly belied the political caricature of Iowa as an ecosystem of rural rigidity.
Bats have 40 joints in their wings, allowing for an extraordinary amount of control over everything from angle to the wing membrane's rigidity.
We see limited scope to sharply reverse the five-year weak performance, given stagnating tax revenues and the rigidity of most budget expenditure.
At another time she confessed that she, in fact, envied my flexibility, and wished that she could get rid of her compulsive rigidity.
Its rigidity, and the large volume, ease the job of determining if it discriminates – and can offer ways to efficiently rectify the problem.
It's far from ideal, and the rigidity and weight of systems like this make them too risky to deploy at scale for now.
The man in the Porsche had a roof, which aided in chassis rigidity that, in turn, contributed to cornering capability ... and I didn't.
Not least, the rigidity of the dictation has also been the subject of long arguments over its heuristic value as a learning method.
That push for ideological rigidity, they say, threatens to yield a fractious and bitter primary contest — and, ultimately, a second term for Trump.
I was stunned to see how free-flowing they were, how little the authors were tied down by ideological rigidity and tribal mentality.
Their success boils down to a rigidity that bleeds from possession to possession, quarter to quarter, night to night, and week to week.
Clearly, most people now demand more freedom of conscience and less rigidity when it comes to moral choices such as those surrounding abortion.
Forget them — the only essential moments here belong to Yachty, who casually talk-raps, hitting unlikely cadences that challenge the song's disco rigidity.
Together, those changes lend weight and rigidity to Republican partisanship that did not exist that last time a GOP chief executive faced impeachment.
The cube, which has sides 1cm long in the current design, is then cured by a burst of ultraviolet light, to increase its rigidity.
A larger revenue base would mean less fiscal rigidity and vulnerability to public finance shocks while enabling greater infrastructure investment to facilitate higher growth.
Or a patient has "horrible blood pressure fluctuations," Wright said, and no obvious tremor or rigidity symptoms, so a doctor suspects a heart condition.
Those bony plates protect the animals from predators, although their rigidity prevents the screaming hair armadillo from curling all the way into a ball.
This was wonderful if you had the time to mic a children's choir at Christmas but this rigidity was bed for a reporter's health.
Strengthened with composite fibers for extra rigidity, the new Breitlight material is six times lighter than steel, and even three times lighter than Titanium.
Samsung says it also reinforced the hinge with new protective caps, and added metal layers beneath the Fold's screen to increase the display's rigidity.
Regulatory rigidity should not be permitted to stand in the way of beneficiaries, unions and employers from working together to find a timely solution.
Staying open for (calm) discussion on our big-ticket issues has been as big a gift (to me) as rigidity has been a hindrance.
You can't elect people who tout their ideological rigidity and also be bothered when they show no willingness to work with the other side.
For the 500,000 paying subscribers of the exercise-bike startup listing its shares on the Nasdaq on Thursday, this rigidity is a major draw.
If anything, by making appropriations impasses seem more palatable, the "automatic continuing resolution" would encourage the rigidity and brinksmanship that blocks regular appropriations legislation.
One quickly gets a sense of the laxness or rigidity of the instructor, of his or her attitude toward hierarchy and punctuality and respect.
Sure. They are the same as those that beset any older, established organization: bureaucratic rigidity and an inability to adapt quickly to new challenges.
To a diehard night owl like me, this is delicious freedom, a sort of personal protest against the rigidity of the obnoxious workday alarm.
We worry about ideological rigidity and overreach, and we'd certainly push back on specific policy proposals, like nationalizing health insurance or decriminalizing the border.
Successful at the last, the Rebel system of leadership demonstrates how flexibility—no matter how chaotic—is still superior to rigidity in military systems.
As a sex worker, and a woman who once sought pleasure from countless ne'er do wells, this contraceptive rigidity has probably saved my life.
The discourse surrounding string cheese has come to embody a kind of cruel, oppressive rigidity, wherein there's only one "correct" way to eat string cheese.
It still has that same two-tone look seen on previous Pixels, except this time its one continuous panel, which should improve strength and rigidity.
Even in Italy, Matteo Renzi, a passionate pro-European, spent much of his recent premiership attacking Brussels for excessive rigidity in enforcing the euro's rules.
The EU's rigidity on such matters may help uphold its integrity in the short term, but in the long term it is also a handicap.
While "Bendgate" died down pretty quickly, the lack of rigidity may be the culprit in unseating a critical touchscreen control chip from the logic board.
Theoretically a targa delivers more rigidity than a full convertible, as well as a substantial increase in style, and reduced complexity in the retraction mechanism.
There's this concept of nominal rigidity where the price is what the price is because it's always been that way and it gets locked in.
This isn't governance; it is the unhinged tantrum of a party whose ideological rigidity has already paralyzed Congress, and now threatens the Supreme Court itself.
This happened while simultaneously recognizing that each discovery and definition is a step into and towards a new possibility, so rigidity wasn't going to work.
But it is also a protest against the rigidity of Japanese society, a choice to remain innocent instead of joining the ranks of miserable adults.
Word of the Day : characterized by catatonia, especially either rigidity or extreme laxness of limbs _________ The word catatonic has appeared in 21 articles on nytimes.
This speaks to the Conservative Party's relatively greater capacity to calibrate its ideological compass to popular demand, while Labour has a tendency toward ideological rigidity.
Granted, I've only had this thing for a few weeks, it's got the weight and rigidity of something that will last a good long while.
And 23 patients had corticobasal degeneration, which causes decreased movement on one side of the body, muscle rigidity, tremor and a disconnection between thought and action.
I would have preferred a little more rigidity in the keyboard design given the device is being sold as a more portable alternative to a laptop.
Will is a Boy Scout with a badge who loves the rigidity of the FBI, which Cavalier paints as the government's most buttoned-up intelligence agency.
But the whole ordeal is symbolized perfectly by its tools, the rigidity of steel in hyper-intimate contact with the profound squish of the human body.
" One of the largest barriers to renewable power development in these markets is the complexity of PPA negotiations and the rigidity of the agreements," said Wentzel.
Yet his overall strategic ambiguity and a lack of rigidity in foreign affairs presents an opportunity to solve problems which have confounded successive American presidential administrations.
And they continue to see that lack of rigidity—his preference for the transactional over the dogmatic—as a quality they want in a chief executive.
Now, that's not for nothing, as the SC17 is encased in a seriously tough aluminum unibody shell that gives it protection, rigidity, and long-term durability.
Regrettably, that has not been easy given the disruptive outside influences that profit from increased polarization and ideological rigidity that leads to dysfunction, disorder and chaos.
Morsi himself for his foolish power grabs, inept rigidity and inability to realize that he had to demonstrate he was everyone's president, not merely the Brotherhood's?
While more rigidity might establish more parental authority, it would also generate more insanity as we'd all struggle to uphold the systems we put in place.
Despite its size, the rigidity of the Expedition means it never suffers from the shake or flex you might expect of a vehicle in this class.
The dancers frantically weave in and out of the house, developing a symbiotic but toxic relationship with it, oscillating between rigidity and freedom, intimacy and distance.
Maybe it's evidence of a sort of incompatibility between a capable old trainer and a new generation that isn't able or willing to understand his rigidity.
The overarching problems with the album are the ways it attempts to process criticism, which haven't been updated since early W. Bush, and its technical rigidity.
However, there seems no pathway to address the ageism and biblical rigidity of a society that spends billions on youthfulness and eroticism and nothing on thought.
To understand the rigidity — and some would say absurdity — of Sweden's alcohol laws, step inside a Systembolaget, a government-run liquor store, on a Saturday afternoon.
And I fear that cold rigidity on your part may only damage your relationships with your stepdaughter and your husband (if you drive his daughter away).
Your devotion to ensuring everything surrounding you works optimally is inspiring, but sometimes your devotion teeters on rigidity and the price is often your mental wellbeing.
And they continue to see that lack of rigidity — his preference for the transactional over the dogmatic — as a quality they want in a chief executive.
"To change the concept of divorce, we need to release the belief structures we have around marriage that create rigidity in our thought process," they wrote.
That kind of rigidity doesn't just bring disappointment, it can bring real physical pain...and a sense of hopelessness, when I'm usually all about optimism and hope.
She had a good upbringing, she said, but as a teenager she rebelled, driven into the streets in part by the rigidity of her strict religious home.
The rigidity teamed with the little kicktail on the back of the board can make for some added maneuverability that means hairpin turns are well within reach.
In much the same way that aligning carbon-fibre composites creates stronger racing cars, aircraft and golf clubs, CLT imparts greater rigidity and strength to wooden structures.
BZ high-density foam surfboard, available in 2020Stiffer and slicker than other foam surfboards, BZ's new line is reinforced with nylon mesh for extra rigidity and durability.
An uncompromising radical, Trotter refused to budge in his beliefs, and that rigidity eventually alienated nearly everyone in his life, straining his relationships and draining his finances.
As platters of avocado toast were passed, there was talk of the need for more friendships between boys and girls, and the rigidity of American gender norms.
Several months ago, in a Berlin speech, in a veiled shot at the Democrats' left wing, he warned against a political "rigidity' that insists on ideological "purity.
Mendelsohn is too attentive a writer to remain content with that straight-up characterization, and, as the book evolves, his father's rigidity starts to fracture and dissolve.
This, Dr. Markham noted, is the opposite of resilience; instead, it's a fragile rigidity that leaves both parent and child fearful that outsized emotions could shatter them.
When the dust settles on the 2020 Democratic primary season, it may well serve as a guide for deciphering the limits and rigidity of mainstream gender discourse.
The effective lower bound on interest rates is a much bigger threat than we realized, and the problem of downward wage rigidity is a bigger deal too.
"What I do see in private equity recruiting is what I would consider to be a rather unfortunate rigidity in how they recruit, or who they recruit."
The codes work when everything is going well, but when it's not, their rigidity causes some men to fray, with no other outlet than losing their minds.
As both a performer and a maker of dances, Mr. Louis was notable for his quick directional shifts, tiny darting gestures and unexpected contrasts between rigidity and stillness.
It is made of cellulose fibres embedded in a matrix of lignin, an organic polymer that serves a number of purposes, including providing woody plants with their rigidity.
The Porsche is down to just 30 percent steel construction from 63 percent, with lightweight aluminum increasing its territory and a variety of chassis stiffening strategies boosting rigidity.
Pre-digital age, car design often entailed hundreds of workers involved in sculpting clay, making components out of metal and then testing the parts for rigidity and reliability.
"I wanted the level inside my body to feel alive," said Triantafyllidis, who cited boredom with the rigidity of modern level design as an inspiration for Self Portrait.
It becomes less nice when that rigidity presses against the fleshy lives of actual human beings moving through a complicated world not arranged for their deeply consequential concerns.
If anything, it's almost the opposite: Europe's economy is vulnerable because a combination of political fragmentation and ideological rigidity has left its politicians unwilling to be Keynesian enough.
"Regrettably, that has not been easy given the disruptive outside influences that profit from increased polarization and ideological rigidity that leads to dysfunction, disorder, and chaos," he added.
But over the years, especially since Mr. Xi came to power in 2012, the C.C.P. has abandoned its relatively tolerant tradition while intensifying ethnic assimilationism and political rigidity.
Clinton's perceived rigidity and Mr. Trump's reaction to the release of the "Access Hollywood" tape, while also making light of memorable surprises like the audience member Ken Bone.
A single sheet from 1995 shows four irregular canvases; two feature assertive stick figures whose rigidity and angularity are a far cry from the usual stretchy, pliant limbs.
"The changes that added more rigidity have also led to a better guest experience, which makes them happier and brings in more business for me," Mr. Scheel said.
The outcome can be disastrous: a condition called serotonin syndrome, which starts with shivering, diarrhea, hyperthermia, and palpitations and can progress to muscular rigidity, convulsions, and even death.
Moreover, just squeezing five days of 10-hour-a-day work into a compressed 40-hour schedule can create more rigidity and reduced flexibility for families and children.
In the world of business, the inevitable path of any organization, if left unattended, will lead to decrease in efficiency and vitality, and increase in complexity and rigidity.
Ms. Khanh, like her fellow renegades Sonia Rykiel and Michèle Rosier, chafed at the rigidity of haute couture and the lack of spontaneity on the French fashion scene.
"Regrettably, that has not been easy given the disruptive outside influences that profit from increased polarization and ideological rigidity that leads to dysfunction, disorder, and chaos," he said.
This rigidity of form means that it's feasible to quickly digitize huge quantities of herbarium specimens, and NYBG has already done so for its C. V. Starr Virtual Herbarium.
Late in his five-year term, Hollande moved to tackle the rigidity of France's labor code after having little success bringing down the unemployment rate from around 10 percent.
On the inside of the F5s, Fiio uses titanium driver diaphragms, whose extra rigidity should tame unwanted distortions and provide a smoother sound in the mid and treble frequencies.
In Hong Kong, that rigidity has taken a toll: in the run-up to the crisis, Xi's proxies rejected even minimal demands, betting, wrongly, that the protesters would relent.
It's hard to believe that we'd choose to deal with the hassle and rigidity of airline contracts versus hitting a button on our smartphone and traveling door to door.
"Trolls believe that nothing should be taken seriously, and therefore regard public displays of sentimentality, political conviction, and/or ideological rigidity as a call to trolling arms," she writes.
Coeure argued that services prices are inherently more rigid, partly due to weaker international competition and wage rigidity, suggesting that easy monetary policy will take longer to filter through.
The project implements Stratasys' Connex3 technology using three materials with pre-set mechanical combinations varying in rigidity, opacity, and color, as a function of geometrical, structural, and physiological constraints.
In a speech in which rhetorical calls for common ground jarred with the rigidity of his policy positions, Trump did make an apparently genuine effort to bring Americans together.
Even its materials and composition feel in quiet conflict with one another: the letters' stenciled rigidity contrasts with their uneven coloration, as well as with the watercolor paper's gauziness.
" But Mr. Petty belonged as much to MTV, alongside Duran Duran and Cyndi Lauper, as he did to the old-guard rigidity of whatever is meant by "classic rock.
Italy has the second-largest debt burden in the EU as a proportion of GDP, and has urged Brussels to ease the "excessive rigidity" of current EU fiscal rules.
Horsehair represents a nice middle ground between boar and badger bristles, featuring some added rigidity over badger while being a bit softer and easier to break in than boar.
While there is obviously truth to that kind of judgment, it is also the case that the rigidity of the foster-care system can keep well-meaning people away.
If anything seemed to unite the sartorial choices the first lady made, at least during the day, it was a certain rigidity of line, monochrome palette and militaristic mien.
Unfortunately, the mandate's rigidity makes it impossible for drivers to respond to unforeseeable events like slowdowns from traffic congestion, inclement weather, long loading and unloading times, and so forth.
Resistance is not about some sort of clairvoyant condemnation of acts yet uncommitted, but rather about the resilience of memory, the rigidity of morality and the depth of wounds.
And while some people genuinely enjoyed the break in big-TV rigidity in the way Kanye talks, others decided to poke a little fun at the way he spoke.
It's entirely possible the heat applied to the screen could have compromised the structural rigidity of the aluminum frame, making it easier to crack slightly open during the bend test.
And even with a 10.3-inch screen that's wonderfully spacious for reading, the tablet feels much lighter than an iPad, thanks to an aluminum back panel that also adds rigidity.
Fitch's last official update on Brazil was in November, when it confirmed its "BB-" rating and stable outlook, noting high government debt levels, fiscal rigidity and weak potential economic growth.
Parkinson's disease is a debilitating disorder in which brain cells progressively die causing patients to experience tremors, rigidity, extreme slowness of movement, impaired balance, and difficulties in swallowing and speaking.
While their rigidity and dominance may cause us greater concern about online businesses, we also are better able to detect their discrimination than we are for brick-and-mortar shops.
Explaining why this shouldn't be a concern when it comes to flesh and blood human beings taking a ride, Hartley said, "You know, you don't lose rigidity in a person."
And it's rooted in what I observed on Dead Island, in the way that the rigidity of one era had given birth to something more fluid, more equal and new.
Because of the rigidity of these policies in the effected regions, tube-fed patients needing nursing-home care cannot be discharged from the hospital unless the surgical tube is placed.
DRUCKENMILLER: WHAT I'M REALLY SAYING, IF YOU TOOK THE TAYLOR RULE, AND I'M NOT A FAN OF RIGIDITY, A NORMAL INTEREST RATE GIVEN OUR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES WOULD BE 4003% INTERESTINGLY.
Here in a place known for its rigidity, ruled since 19903 by a single family, a confounding mash-up of what was once held apart now defines how life works.
The little ridges help with the release of baked goods, add to the rigidity and durability of the pan, and they may also allow for better airflow and even cooking.
Yet the crushing weight of a hostile criminal justice system and the rigidity of the color line often muted those petitions, leaving Black people vulnerable to more mistreatment and murder.
It's those types of concerns and the rigidity of the rules surrounding methadone that make some people, like King, want to stop using the medication even if it helps them.
After being forced to cut bread taxes to appease angry Azeris who took to the streets protesting steep price hikes, the government promised a path of fiscal rigidity and reforms.
The basic failure of American politics is its rigidity — we're locked into two distinct camps, divided not just by ideology but by region, race, cultural identity, and to some extent, gender.
The latter work breaks entirely from the formal rigidity Modigliani had imposed on his heads, which conformed to the shape of the original block of stone through a frontal / profile orientation.
Screenshot: NBC10 PhiladelphiaTo simulate the weight, form, and rigidity of an actual human rider, the dummies are filled with water before being placed in seats and secured with a lap bar.
The designs of these modules (room-size variations that can be mixed and matched) are generated specifically to be essentially freestanding; load and rigidity are handled by the arrangement of beams.
Most of the body parts of the Polestar 1 are carbon fiber, therefore reducing the weight of the car and its center of gravity, while increasing its rigidity, according to Polestar.
Other scientists confirmed that dopamine is depleted in people with Parkinson's disease, a degenerative condition that causes tremors and rigidity, and L-dopa soon became the standard treatment for the illness.
DEBT BURDEN Italy has the second-largest debt burden in the EU as a proportion of GDP, and has urged Brussels to ease the "excessive rigidity" of current EU fiscal rules.
When a cook newly arrived from Morocco insists that fermented butter can be seasoned only with thyme, Lee understands her rigidity — it's tradition, after all — but feels none of it himself.
She resists making Britt-Marie's loneliness maudlin, and as her character's rigidity softens, August's restraint with gestures of affection make each smile and each laugh feel like they've been hard-earned.
The fourth largest city in Italy, it's distinguished from the others (baroque Rome, wild Naples) by the rigidity of its plan, an inheritance from its origins as a Roman military camp.
Beijing, thanks to the rigidity of its Communist system, always plays a longer diplomatic game than the US, where China policy is subject to four-yearly disturbances caused by presidential elections.
All of this gets to a fundamental conflict within the heart of the 12 steps: The same rigidity that gives people like Steward a structured guide to life also turns off others.
Beneath the rigidity in number of hours worked and resistance to paid time off is a question of values: Do we value the universal need to connect and care for each other?
But the software's ability to examine movement via mobile phones can now provide early remote diagnosis of Parkinson's disease too, based on a user's posture, gait, arm movement and rigidity, Nyoni said.
Don't confuse Virgo's methodical vibe with rigidity—especially on July 11, when Venus connects with rebel planet Uranus to bring a sparkle and an unexpected a-ha realization to your everyday routine.
The results may help doctors walk a tightrope in treating the tremors and muscle rigidity of Parkinson's itself, where the beneficial effects of levodopa wane over time, producing so-called "off" times.
Not only did its deliberate looseness make it a welcome alternative to the rigidity of "gay" and "lesbian," it also turned the alienating force of the slur into a point of pride.
Trans athletes cause more moral panic than cisgender gay athletes, but trans women and trans men still fall into our culture's gender binary system, even as they challenge its violently cruel rigidity.
ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia (Reuters) - Two years ago in France, Iceland shocked Europe as they reached the Euro 16 quarter-finals with performances full of perseverance, energy and a cautious defensive rigidity.
It requires a bit of human intervention to go forwards, but, as you can see, several jets are pushing it that direction already, presumably at this point for stability and rigidity purposes.
With its hands tied by the second-largest debt burden in the EU as a proportion of economic output, it has urged Brussels to ease the "excessive rigidity" of current budget rules.
First, as production of natural gas from shale formations has surged, customers in the competitive states have been able to take full advantage of lower prices, unhindered by regulatory rigidity and delay.
But during the recession and aftermath, downward nominal wage rigidity became binding for a large share of the work force: But that explains why firms didn't cut wages when unemployment was high.
So as the San Francisco Fed's wage rigidity meter (Figure 6) shows, the slump caused a surge in the number of workers whose wages didn't change at all from year to year.
The escape, which raised questions about the effectiveness and rigidity of Russia's coronavirus quarantine measures, prompted St. Petersburg's chief sanitary doctor to sue Ilyina for flouting quarantine rules and jeopardizing public health.
Samsung's Galaxy Z Flip is the most durable folding phone yet, since it has some glass elements that adds rigidity, but it still has a very fragile plastic cover over the screen.
The escape, which raised questions about the effectiveness and rigidity of Russia's coronavirus quarantine measures, prompted St. Petersburg's chief sanitary doctor to sue Ilyina for flouting quarantine rules and jeopardizing public health.
More than a statement of sectarian rigidity, the Revolutionary Guard's statement implicating Saudi Arabia in Wednesday's attacks should be seen in the context of ever-worsening strategic tensions between Tehran and Riyadh.
Feeding off this anger, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has launched a sustained attack on European Union rules and rigidity over the past month, arguing that without change the 28-nation bloc might disintegrate.
A lightweight and breathable Primeknit upper, a full-length Boost midsole, plenty of support and rigidity from the Torsion plate and rear heel cups, and an overall look that's both sporty and casual.
Weaknesses exist—including an offensive rigidity that prohibits him from being much more than a tepid playmaker, at best—but they're embraced warmly enough thanks to all the thankless tasks he provides elsewhere.
A national project America's right could support might ease the rigidity of a movement some of which borders on anarchism in its hostility to government and much of which equates compromise with treachery.
The printer was also able to simultaneously print material of various hardness to give the robot both the rigidity (for the body frame) and flexibility (for the hydraulic bellows) it needs to function.
"It's pretty clear Assad's defiance and rigidity at the negotiating table continues to increase after the Russian intervention," said Andrew J. Tabler, a Syria expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
This is why I adored the second season of Last Man on Earth, which traded a cruel rigidity for a sincere and looser exploration of how people might come together in the apocalypse.
I'm wary about creating a wall of rigidity against which the kids will necessarily rebel, and equally wary of giving into strategies that temporarily fill their loneliness, boredom and cravings to fit in.
The Edwin Jagger best badger shaving brush has a medium-sized handle and loft (referring to the height of the knot) and its bristles cleave towards the middle range of softness and rigidity.
Combined with the rigidity of his own views and his lack of a personal relationship with Trump, accepting the job as national security adviser was Bolton's undoing as a voice in Trump's ear.
His subject, Nandy told me, exhibited all the traits of an authoritarian personality: puritanical rigidity, a constricted emotional life, fear of his own passions, and an enormous ego that protected a gnawing insecurity.
However, after a while, I got tired of being so limited in my choices, and the people I went out to meals with were also annoyed by my rigidity in adhering to keto.
The underlying theme of The Good Place, I think, is that any sort of rigid system designed to provide absolute morality barometers is inevitably going to fail, because humans aren't great at rigidity.
Data will presented on K2M's MESA Rail™ Deformity Spinal System, which features a beam-like design that provides enhanced rigidity to aid in the restoration of sagittal balance while maintaining a low profile.
If there's a single common thread in Chahine's filmography, it is his reverence for his fellow Egyptians' endurance, coupled with his stout belief in progress, often against the rigidity of tradition or institutional religion.
Their strategies have failed because highlighting his real weaknesses would put them on ground that is too uncomfortable given the ideological rigidity of the GOP structure and the biases of rank-and-file Republicans.
The benefits of having a Type A personality include finding security in the structure and rigidity of diet and workout programs, but this personality type also needs to allow room for flexibility and changes.
Straying away from the rigidity of a formalized A and B story structure, he wants to instead focus on what get everyone laughing in the writers room — and then build a story around that.
The worry was made clear on Saturday when former President Obama warned at an event in Berlin that the expectation of ideological "rigidity" among Democratic hopefuls would ultimately weaken the Democratic Party's political capital.
Mr. Church gets the bigger comic moments, and he delightfully plays Robert as a blunderbuss whose explosions register both his pain at losing Frances and the rigidity that lost her in the first place.
When we look at the degeneration of American politics, it's natural to blame the naked partisans — people like Mitch McConnell, with his principle-free will to power, or Ted Cruz, with his ideological rigidity.
Watching "The New Celebrity Apprentice," it was clear that Mr. Trump's imperiousness and (seeming) impetuousness had made him an ideal reality-TV boss, while Mr. Schwarzenegger's cautiousness and rigidity make him a poor fit.
And unlike Republicans, whose ideological rigidity and strident partisanship often border on nihilism, Democrats still hew to the quaint notion that the people elected them to solve problems, not prevent them from being solved.
As a child in Birmingham, Alabama, she had been diagnosed with cerebral palsy, but eventually learned that she actually has primary generalized dystonia, a genetic disorder that causes frequent painful muscle spasms and rigidity.
By loosely establishing a compositional structure (the four stacked rows, each separated by a brushy, horizontal line of color), Whitney found a way to break down the rigidity of the grid into individual units.
He's not the ideal illustration of a contemporary first option or even a vital second fiddle, but Aldridge has demonstrated that it's possible to find success through adaptation and rigidity at the exact same time.
Or rather, who continued his practice of offering interviews and sermons lamenting rigidity and pharisaism and possible psychological issues among his critics — but who refused to take the straightforward-seeming step of answering their questions.
Italy has the second-largest debt burden in the European Union as a proportion of economic output, and the pact called for greater flexibility from Brussels to overcome the "excessive rigidity" of existing budget rules.
Italy has the second-largest debt burden in the European Union as a proportion of economic output, and the pact called for greater flexibilty from Brussels to overcome the "excessive rigidity" of existing budget rules.
Wind becomes more of an issue as buildings get taller, one reason that most mass-timber buildings higher than several stories are hybrid structures, incorporating some concrete, steel or both to provide rigidity and weight.
There have already been some analyses suggesting that an extended period of wages constrained by downward rigidity has created a sort of backlog of pent-up wage cuts that is currently holding down wage increases.
Because there is no widespread desire to eliminate intermediaries, he predicts that blockchain technology will most often "supplement or complement conventional legal regimes, not replace them," proving most useful when rigidity and automation are valuable.
As he looks at the candidates, he sees a threat to the country in the ignorance of Donald J. Trump, the rigidity of Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, the extremism of Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
Inured to the rigidity of the gun debate, perhaps, 57 percent of those polled said they did not expect the executive changes to actually reduce the number of gun deaths, now running to 33,000 a year.
In 1984, at age 42, Ali was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, a nervous system disorder that involves the destruction of dopamine-producing neurons, resulting in tremors, rigidity, and other movement-related symptoms that worsen over time.
The exact reason the dummies failed isn't known, they were trashed after the incident, but during the ride testing that day they leaked water, causing them to lose weight and rigidity, making the lap bar ineffective.
A school photo is a tortured and overpriced but ultimately valuable timestamp of a moment when childhood was forced to confront the boring formalism and stifling identity rigidity of adulthood, and rebelled without having to try.
And as he explains in "The Final Problem," he's been using "potential trigger words to update myself as to [Sherlock's] mental condition," without ever really addressing the underlying cause of Sherlock's emotional rigidity and drug addiction.
Ideally, bristles should be soft enough at the ends to not feel scratchy or prickly on the skin, yet feature good rigidity or "backbone" so that they&aposre not too floppy to work up a lather.
You can see it in the tragic air that never leaves him, in the rhythm of his steps, the lines sculpted into his face, the rigidity of his neck as he signs those wretched executive orders.
Polestar claims this is more than "a battery with a chassis on top," as the 20203-cell battery's rigidity is said to contribute to the car's torsional stiffness and help reduce noise inside the cabin by 3.7dB.
Second, the rigidity of the programming and limited adaptability of the algorithm (in this case controlling the robot) will cause people to develop workarounds to figure out how to deal with this new disruptor in their domain.
It would also be a good idea to add something to stiffen up the brim, as promo art of Cappy depicts a lot of rigidity in that area that most older Mario hat patterns don't account for.
The Be4 are built around one of the priciest materials around, beryllium, whose lightness and rigidity prove incredibly useful in the creation of dynamic audio drivers that can recreate music faithfully and without improper resonances or distortion.
I could go further in saying that the rigidity of the deck and trucks means you're more stable at higher speeds, but when your braking power doesn't instill confidence, you wouldn't dare push the board that far.
You'd swear you've seen its detailed, anime-inspired designed in a cartoon before, and it's satisfyingly heavy thanks to a metal frame that provides rigidity and sturdiness as you're driving it around and inevitably crashing into furniture.
Since the Beatles descended upon America with what we thought then was their shockingly long hair, our rigidity about hair length and what it means has faded some; now their mops would be unlikely to turn heads.
Classic motor symptoms include tremors, rigidity, slowed movements, and postural instability - but patients with Parkinson's can also experience a variety of cognitive problems as well as psychiatric disorders like depression and anxiety, researchers note in JAMA Neurology.
Motivated by anti-regulatory rigidity, and influenced by the fossil fuel industry, the Trump administration was determined to delay the introduction of technological innovations that would increase fuel efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles.
He has sought to "unblock" heavily regulated sectors of the economy and to tackle the rigidity of the French labor market, which protects those with permanent jobs and leaves many temporary workers on the fringes of society.
It turns out that Ramos has a long history of rigidity when it comes to enforcing codes, but it was Serena herself who called out his leniency with male players who have behaved aggressively in the past.
The style, alternately adored and reviled by critics, was a rebuke to Bauhaus rigidity and the steel-tube sobriety of '70s minimalism; for better or worse, such rowdy radicalism drowned out most other voices of the era.
Honda described the redesign like this: The rear frame structure of the 2017 Ridgeline is vitally important to the overall structural rigidity of the body, to collision safety performance and to the Ridgeline's hauling and towing capability.
The rigidity of the planes evokes medieval Japan with its strict ranking and class divisions, particularly when it came to its civil servants, who were divided into twelve classes, which were further divided into two sub-ranks.
We can expect further missile and nuclear tests by North Korea and additional aggressive moves by China in the East and South China Seas, Taiwan, Hong Kong and East Turkestan/Xinjiang, and rigidity in the trade talks.
Hanbalism would later soar and spread to Persia and the area around Palestine, where Ibn Taymiyyah was one of its stars, before declining again during the Ottoman era, under the weight of its own rigidity and intolerance.
Altman and Fellowes have fun with the rigidity of the British class system and the arcane rituals of service — just as Fellowes would do again a decade later with the creation of hit TV series Downton Abbey.
Some have given all they can; they're burned out from thinking and worrying about their students seven days a week, and from battling with school officials over resources, scheduling, a shortage of support, and an abundance of rigidity.
He walked us through the car's use of materials, which balances structural rigidity where it needs it most, with flexibility and weight savings where it can afford it, to help maximize interior space without compromising on battery mileage.
Macron has won fans among France's EU partners through his enthusiasm for pro-business reforms in which he has sought to "unblock" heavily regulated sectors of the economy and to tackle the rigidity of the French labor market.
Then the real magic began, as the "flaccid" and "frozen-thawed" dolphin vaginas were stained with iodine and penetrated by penises that had been "mechanically inflated" and treated with formalin to "maintain rigidity," according to Orbach's presentation abstract.
Not the Botox-ed rigidity of the plastic surgery enthusiast (though that, too, is plentiful) but the glazed-and-confused look that descends after five hours spent looking at art and its merchants in a neon-lit maze.
"Recent practices in regional and municipal politics should serve as a lesson to reduce the rigidity of national politics," said Antoni Zabalza, a professor of economics at the University of Valencia and a former Socialist secretary of state.
Concealed in plain sight, my whole life, amid the moral rigidity and Swedish standoffishness of my father's family, had been a regular guy who had affairs and drove to Baltimore with his buddies and manfully accepted his fate.
Other possible side effects outlined in the report include an onset of nervous system problems that may cause "severe muscular rigidity" or "jerking movements," as well as low blood pressure, high blood sugar, blood clots and other problems.
The most severe deformity is microcephaly, a tiny head with a severely underdeveloped brain; but fetuses have also been killed by the virus, and infected infants have been born blind, deaf, with clubbed feet and permanent limb rigidity.
Adding to Mr. Trump's rigidity in the shutdown negotiations is the anticipation among White House officials that a report from the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, could be delivered to the Justice Department in the coming weeks.
Being able to explain that not all people experience their gender as a man or a woman, but might be a mix of the two (bigender), or something entirely different (genderqueer), helps dismantle the rigidity of a gender binary.
I would have loved for Samsung to have kept the extremely light weight of prior models while improving the rigidity and tactile experience, but if I have to choose between the two, I prefer this more solid-feeling laptop.
Kotkin proposes a series of interlocking arguments to explain the Stalinist outcome: the conspiratorial rigidity of Bolshevism; the state's total domination of life in the absence of private property; the peculiar personality of Stalin; and the pressures of geopolitics.
Now, while the rigidity of the Taycan may mean a more stable cabin, we&aposve seen how passengers benefit in crashes where certain parts of the car around them actually give way or crumple, like a piece of paper.
As adults, their devotion to language remains strong, but they drastically diverge from each other: Daphne is committed to the rigidity of Standard English, while Laurel is impassioned by the ever-changing nature of the written and spoken word.
Researchers identified nine cases of Parkinson's patients who effectively forgot how to swim after having a deep brain stimulation device implanted to control disease symptoms such as tremor, rigidity and slowed movement, according to the report published in Neurology.
Narrated by the older Sheldon (Jim Parsons), the series begins with his first day in an East Texas high school, where his rigidity and strict adherence to the school's dress code make him stand out like a sore thumb.
Still, the initial decision showed some flexibility, rather than ideological rigidity, from Pence — he wasn't so hell-bent on opposing Obamacare that he'd reject millions of federal dollars that could help his state when a compromise could be reached.
Mr. Dimon is in favor of banks having more liquidity than before the crisis, but in the letter, released Thursday, he wrote: Liquidity requirements, while much higher, now have an element of rigidity built in that did not exist before.
"Even in a New York art scene, which is very queer and pushes gender, there is still a lot of rigidity," said Michi Osato, a performer trained in West African dance, and a native of the East Village in Manhattan.
While Amazon intends to offer its own cloud development environments through Cloud9, software giants like Google, Microsoft, Red Hat, SAP and Samsung eschew the rigidity of a closed system by opting for open-source projects like Eclipse Che and Eclipse Orion.
Democrats can run against the widely despised Trump government shutdown, caused by his fanatic rigidity for the widely disapproved Trump wall, which Trump insists Americans must pay for because his false promise that Mexico would pay was a disaster of deception.
Listen to Waypoint's Austin Walker and Patrick Klepek talk all about God of War spoilers in this bonus episode of Waypoint Radio: But in games, rigidity in visual storytelling is the thing developers have been trying to surpass for years.
A former slave who only began to explore his artistic potential at the age of 85, Traylor drew with pencil and crayon on cardboard, producing images that float in empty planes and are playful in their rigidity and flat perspectives.
" At the same event he said, "One of the things I do worry about sometimes among progressives in the United States ... is a certain kind of rigidity where we say, 'Oh, I'm sorry, this is how it's going to be.
Philip Johnson, who left his own large imprint on 21960th-century architecture, said in a conversation with the architect and author Robert A. M. Stern in 22001 that Mr. Venturi's "Complexity and Contradiction" had helped liberate him from modernism's rigidity.
With a chaotic ascension to leadership, some analysts said he and the Liberal Party would be trading one challenge in Mr. Turnbull, who is seen as lacking sufficient backbone, for another, who is known for rigidity and a cold, calculating mien.
Ms. Davis is his wife, Rose, a plain-spoken foil to her husband's grandiloquence — and the one left to smooth over the damage he does to his relationships, and to himself, through a rigidity he sees as an assertion of dignity.
Unfortunately, the demand of some Democrats that all Democratic candidates ardently support single payer would lead to party rigidity and, we fear, to long-term minority status for the Democratic Party and a greatly decreased chance of universal health insurance coverage.
Having become so accustomed to the aforementioned sense of rigidity that the pools I usually swim in are rooted around, it was a delight to find myself bobbing to something that felt mutant and reflexive, angular and often deeply strange.
It's a cheeky way of showing how the moral rigidity we're talking about is comforting in the abstract (if you think you're on the right side of it, of course), but absolutely horrifying if you stop to think about its consequences.
Without understanding that particular aesthetic appeal of contemporary traditionalism — that highly specific blend of rigidity and transgression — it is impossible to fully understand why so many people are drawn to it, and subsequently, all too often, to its handmaidens: sexism, racism, violence.
"One of the things I do worry about sometimes among progressives in the United States — maybe it's true here as well — is a certain kind of rigidity where we say, 'Oh, I'm sorry, this is how it's going to be,'" Obama said.
Such rigidity, in turn, can hinder the development of an individual's abilities, to the point of leading him or her to think, for example, that it is not really masculine to cultivate art or dance, or not very feminine to exercise leadership.
In a way, even manipulating sound waves in an abstract manner (like, among his other projects, Eno did in Oblique Strategies), the disconnect Cage bridged resulted in the progressive elimination of a certain breed of nihilism, or the rigidity of a certain theory.
This blend of rigidity and flexibility makes the Vie-Long 12705 a great alternative to other natural brush materials if you want something more pliable than boar bristles yet more suitable for hard soaps and mug-lathering than a plushier badger brush.
Grace, who shares some of her creator's moral rigidity—"In order to maintain a semblance of purposeful behavior on this earth you have to believe that things are right or wrong," Didion told an interviewer—is always looking out, rarely looking in.
Either way, I'd argue that the combination of downward nominal wage rigidity and monopsony power helps explain both why wages didn't fall during the period of high unemployment and why employers aren't doing much to raise wages despite tight labor markets now. 4.
Keeping Score The N.B.A.'s collective bargaining agreement can be labyrinthine, and when one considers the rigidity of the rules regarding trades, and the expectations of teams and their fans, the situation the Knicks face with Carmelo Anthony as the league's Feb.
An entire orbit of outside groups have grown up around the desire of voters -- or at least an influential chunk of them -- to elect people who will maintain ideological rigidity in the face of attempts to compromise by the swamp-dwellers of Washington.
Far from the intellectual rigidity suggested by "post-identity semiotics," a $15,000 pair of gold-plated shoes embodies the boastfulness of hip-hop culture without proposing a more sophisticated identity, which the show as a whole alludes to as being within reach.
As supporters of Alabama Senate frontrunner Roy Moore defend his sexual pursuit of teenage girls in his early 30s, the American left has taken an approach to sex that in its (perhaps much-needed) rigidity about consent, critics have equated to prudery.
For instance, he questioned the sanctity of France's 22016-hour workweek (he'd be open to a longer one), the rigidity of the retirement age, and France's notoriously inflexible laws of hiring and firing, which he saw as contributing to the stagnant economy.
There doesn't appear to be any liquid plastic resin added as a stiffener, but at one point the excess cardboard is shredded, soaked, and boiled, presumably to extract all the glues holding it together, which the cardboard blade was soaked in to improve rigidity.
"Models are models, so you can make the migration happen any time between 1.5-4.5 billion years ago depending on how you tweak parameters (such as the past rigidity of the lunar crust), but it most likely was around 3 billion years ago," he said.
Real maths requires a necessary rigidity, at least at the level most of us study it to, but World Cup maths is fluid to the end, a living thing whose outcomes are often changing in real time as more salient facts come to light.
The top portion, with its pink field and green tints, is painted with a flat, poster-like rigidity, while the undulating curves in the middle increase in size as they reach the band's bottom edge, creating a pictorially dissonant, perspectival illusion of receding space.
In her introduction, Le Guin — who passed away earlier this year — said that it was Zamyatin's "brilliant testimony against the growing rigidity and authoritarianism of his nation," and praised his radical politics and efforts to overcome the censorship he faced in his native Russia.
"One of the things I do worry about sometimes among progressives in the United States ... is a certain kind of rigidity where we say, 'Ah, I'm sorry, this is how it's gonna be,' " Obama said at a town hall event with emerging European leaders.
" Mixing Broadway, rock, jazz, and classical, it's the most ecumenical of Masses, with pages of exciting music—a pleasure-seeking rebellion, Jamie says, against "the rigidity of the musical Establishment, who decreed that all 'serious' music had to be composed using the twelve-tone system.
They had clearly understood the method for making haggis from the article, which they referred to frequently, and they grappled with the rigidity of the Burns Stanza until they found themselves able to tweak phrasing and expression to fit the lines and create strong rhymes.
From the glittering burst of strings at the start of Beethoven's "Emperor" Piano Concerto to the sleek heat of the finale of Mahler's Fifth Symphony, this was immaculate yet impassioned playing — with a certain patrician, distinguished quality that never fell into stuffiness or rigidity.
His arc from mediocre tennis player to the upper echelon of officiating included overcoming a lisp, which mentors thought would hold him back; cutting his teeth on the scrappy matches of the Portuguese tennis circuit; and developing a reputation for rigidity, even among fellow umpires.
PARIS — Fifty years ago, almost to the day, students here began to strike over the rigidity and hierarchy of the French university system, defying the historical deference of young people to their elders; the same day, workers at a major factory near Nantes walked out.
"The reason we expect a relatively high monthly inflation is the relative rigidity in the services inflation and seasonality, such as the prices hikes that come in October every year," he said, referring to price hikes often made by companies around this time of year.
Agencies do not make good use of student internships, bringing in only a small number of its entry-level hires through this process, while the rigidity of the personnel system does not fit in with the mobile and agile model expected by today's younger generation.
Hand bell ringing is harder than it looks and Warchus had to teach the cast to overcome what he calls, "bell ringer's face" — an expression of rigidity and terror — which works against the mood he means the carol to create: peace, humility, generosity of spirit.
Eleanor is the protagonist of The Good Place, sure, but the longer it runs, the more she also has to be the walking, talking exemplar of everything it's trying to say about systems of morality and the rigidity of all attempts to codify those systems.
Beau's red-meat rigidity is funny — he pronounces "quinoa" as if the word ought to be bleeped — but when he tells Colt to "get the hell out of here" during a fight, there's real menace: Beau in no way, shape or form believes he's a sitcom character.
"Brazil finds itself in a particularly acute fiscal position at the moment, but from a macroeconomic standpoint it's never a good idea to have too much rigidity on spending in either direction," said Neil Shearing, chief emerging markets economist with London-based research firm Capital Economics.
"Due to the high tax burden and the rigidity of local public spending, many provincial governments' fiscal options are limited, at least in the short term, to obtaining new financing in the markets," Walter Agosto, researcher at Buenos Aires think tank CIPPEC, wrote in a note.
But by adopting a kind of moral or physical rigidity — something Peterson frequently demands of his followers, encouraging them to stand up straight or work out more or clear their rooms or take their meds — the adherent can somehow reject the temptations and vagaries of the modern world.
"For example, if it is determined that a bicyclist is about to strike the hood and front bumper of the vehicle, the tension may be reduced for the tension members associated with the hood and front bumper, so as to reduce the rigidity of those surfaces," says the patent.
After leaving my 22019 year career at DHS, I can no longer be silent about the dangerous state of America's counter-terror strategy, our leaders' willingness to compromise the security of citizens for the ideological rigidity of political correctness—and, consequently, our vulnerability to devastating, mass-casualty attack.
With signature dishes like the "Five Ages of Parmigiano Reggiano" (in which the cheese is crackly and chewy and creamy and runny and foamy all at once), his cooking is both a love letter to his country and an overthrow of the rigidity that can hold it back.
Making your life about other people sits as pretty noble, and it's something that Chidi is starting to do more often as opposed to the rigidity of Chidi doing good as an answer to what's defined as right, as opposed to doing right for the sake of it.
"WR: Mysteries of the Organism" (on Saturday and March 8), which was first shown in 1971 and received a ban from Yugoslav authorities, interweaves the theories of the psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich with loosely structured ideas on free love as an antidote to the rigidity of life under Communism.
As the tunes kept coming, these fast, furious blasts of high tempo wreckage, mangled incantations pinged in from another universe, a universe where the lumbering thump of house and techno's 4/4 rigidity is viewed with suspicion, I felt myself falling deeper and deeper into the rabbit hole.
The body feels light and substantial; but the rigidity of its outer frame and its overall size made me a little nervous at times that I was going to catastrophically break it, which was enough to make me consciously leave it at home when I was out on a snowboarding trip.
What sets Taylor apart from their fellow financial analysts at first glance is the fact that they identify as gender non-binary, meaning they experience and express their gender identity outside of our heteronormative denominations of man or woman — a simplistic rigidity only underscored by Axe Capital's hyper-masculine office culture.
He wrapped car mats into pencil skirts — they had a certain cool curving rigidity that suggested (again) that sitting was a secondary consideration — and he split dresses back to front, so that what you saw from one side (swingy florals) was not what you saw from the other (shorter pleats).
If it weren't so well done — lit like a furnished basement, shot with an almost tactical rigidity until the final scene — the whole thing would feel monotonous: Ford and Tench go to work each morning, interview some serial killers, discuss their results with Carr, then go home to their respective families or girlfriends.
The right is dividing itself now between a small group of moderates who would welcome detente in the partisan health care wars and a larger group that demands ideological rigidity—even if the consequence of ideologically rigid health policy would pull single payer from the far-off horizon into the middle-distance.
Matthew D. Luttig, a political scientist at Colgate, made the case in his 2016 dissertation, "The Rise of Partisan Rigidity," that, elite polarization has strengthened the relationship between a basic psychological motivation for group membership — the need for certainty — and partisan strength, in-party favoritism, out-party derogation, and conformity to group leaders.
John, a well-to-do barrister who was educated at Oxford, says he sees less rigidity and more economic mobility today — but he also speculates, somewhat clumsily, that people like him may have had it harder than members of the working class because of increased "competition" for elite jobs among the upper class.
Normally, in the beginning, the organization will still function with speed, nimbleness, and a risk-acceptance mentality, but as the business grows bigger, complexity starts increasing, and layers begin creeping in, the once-nimble startups inevitably fall into the trap of so called "large organizations" characterized by slowness, rigidity, and risk aversion.
In spite of expenditure containment and cuts, and generation of non-tax oil revenues, the complete loss of the central government's oil income (3.2% of GDP between 2013-16), rising interest payments and expenditure rigidity resulted in a central government deficit of 4% of GDP in 2016, up from 7503% in 2015.
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Bending the rigidity of the competition's rules, which only referenced the awarding of a single winner, the judges announced that an honorable mention would be going out to Grade New York's rendition of the Glass House, a cake with more nuanced detail due to its smaller scale than the others, and its incorporation of the surrounding land.
Enrica Maria Martino, who conducted a study for the social security institute, cited "the rigidity of working hours, the scarcity of part-time opportunities and the inadequacy of child care provisions, together with a strong role division between men and women that still attributes women all family responsibilities" as obstacles to keeping mothers in the work force.
Like the older writers, he thinks that the Presidential or balance-of-power system, with its rigidity, its frequent stalling, its elevation of second-rate men to power and its long interludes in which no real policymaking is attempted, was tolerable so long as the United States was half-empty, prosperous and well protected by broad oceans.
We knew hardly anyone in the area, and we've been slow to make friends, partly because our time here carries an expiration date and partly because that is the nature of connection in adulthood: sluggish in the presence of middle-aged rigidity and in the absence of environments that encourage fast friendship, like school and drunken bar nights.
Working after hours in his Gangnam studio, Kim, who trained in fine art and design at Michigan's Cranbrook Academy of Art, altered the chemical composition of the company's foam to adjust its firmness, then used the material to create building-block-like sectionals with varying levels of rigidity: the seats soft like a cushion, the backs hard and supportive.
Yes, it's made out of some neat magnesium alloy that helps it retain rigidity while being super light, but it doesn't feel particularly nice to hold and its weightlessness makes it seem more like a toy than a serious PC. I didn't love the feel of its keyboard or touchpad, and I certainly couldn't detect an advantage to the extremely light weight.
"Fundamentally, this is a very large marketplace that's controlled by two or three incumbents, and when you have lack of competition you get all of the traditional bad behavior that comes along with that, including muted innovation, rigidity in terms of the solutions that are provided and these legacy procurement models, where there's not much flexibility with artificially high pricing," he explained.
Sohonie, a New York based crate digger, compiler, and aural ethnographer, has spent much of his working life collating incredibly obscure records from relatively obscure outposts around the globe, creating albums that are as much richly diverse encapsulations of periods in time as they are source material for DJs bored by the rigidity of the music that's usually played out in Western clubs.
If sometimes the references veered to the overly literal and decorative (magic-carpet prints taken from actual carpets and jewel-bedecked evening gowns), there were also spice-market shades and scarf-trimmed tunics to cut the rigidity of the tailoring; Alhambra tile-pattern velvets laid atop tulle; and tuxedo pants topped by asymmetric lace for evening, for some no-fuss froth.

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