pliability

How To Use pliability In A Sentence

• There is a life-like pliability about it as it falls, and the tight cerements so define the outlines that the action makes me shudder. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
• As Diehl notes, Obama's "pliability" did not go unnoticed. Hot Air » Top Picks
• As the main characters are Michael Palin (whose pathological pliability is perfectly caught by Harry Hadden-Paton) and Terry Gilliam (Sam Alexander, who makes his character's grudge against his native U.S. unpredictably attractive), you expect Mr. Thompson to have written his play in Python-length sketches (like the bisexual war hero in a World War II-skit that has to be explained to dumbfounded network executives). The Witty Bits of a Play
• Benny Hempstead always smiled and nodded acquiescence, but there was in him the strange persistency of a willow bough, the persistency of pliability, which is the most unconquerable of all. The Copy-Cat, & Other Stories
• At the risk of pop-psychoanalyzing, something Limbaugh does every day on his show, let me suggest that his pliability is rooted in a strange insecurity. Talent on Loan from the GOP
• Only this thorough training guarantees good individual riding, and insures the 'pliability' which alone makes it possible to correct disobedience rapidly should it arise. Cavalry in Future Wars
• My Lords, the explanation of this is to be found in the placability, perchance, I may say, in the facility and pliability, of the female sex. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
• It is also a useful barometer of the loyalty and pliability of Labour and Lib Dem back-benchers.
• Her work has a similar pliability and its good to see her work in a major competition even if it is a relatively uninspiring painting.
• Preferment should be based on merit and not pliability.