How To Use Pliability In A Sentence
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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
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As Diehl notes, Obama's "pliability" did not go unnoticed.
Hot Air » Top Picks
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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It is also a useful barometer of the loyalty and pliability of Labour and Lib Dem back-benchers.
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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.
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Preferment should be based on merit and not pliability.
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Through its pliability, which is almost unlimited, it produces in equal measure absurd comparisons and very original inventions.
Essai sur l'imagination créatrice. English
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Its softness and pliability are part of the charm of taffy.
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They first strip the thin cuticle layer from the middle rib of a young palm leaf, then soak the fibers for pliability.
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In addition to worrying about the pliability of the unions, The Met must also worry about some group of canny visionaries figuring out how to churn out high definition, high quality opera productions designed exclusively for the movies and home markets in places where talent is available and cheap, labor costs are trivial, and sound stages go begging.
Ivan Katz: And So Falleth the Sky
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I'm just heating it to its point of pliability, rather than liquefying it all over again.
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He underwent a physical therapy called Rolfing, which increased muscle pliability.
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Is this the unprincipled pliability I detest in the people I put up with at Rome?
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he was valued for his reliability and pliability
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Val, yes, the liquid glycerin is for help with the pliability (is that even a word?)
Final Photos & Instructions for Jelly Roll Soaps
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A popular advice book in the 1830s told young American women, “In whatever situation of life a woman is placed from her cradle to her grave, a spirit of obedience and submission, pliability of temper, and humility of mind, are required from her.”
A Renegade History of the United States
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In either case, we assume what can never be proved, and an instrument is introduced of such subtlety and pliability as to make the Scriptures mean anything -- ` Gallus in campanili 'as the
Scripture and Truth: Dissertations by the Late Benjamin Jowett with Introduction by Lewis Campbell.
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First, there is in this temperament a certain pliability and impressibility, as compared with the rest of the Anglo-Saxon race; it shows a finer grain and a nicer touch.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867
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The clay is exhibiting its elasticity on the shovel; the recent spell of rain altering its pliability.
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SPALDING'S SPECIAL LEAGUE MASK, used by all leading professional catchers, extra heavy wire, well padded with goat hair, and the padding faced with the best imported dogskin, which is impervious to perspiration, and retains its pliability and softness $3.50
Spalding's Baseball Guide and Official League Book for 1889
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His pursuit of ideal and his failure shows the neutrality, flexibility and pliability of the spirit of classical Chinese tragedies.
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The piece above reminds you that after enough experience, you too can become like "one take Frank," belting it out just so on the first try, especially in mediums that allow for that kind of pliability (like the web as opposed to say hardware).
The Onda
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The wind makes a chaos of their red-brown stems, dishevelling them as if to test their pliability, in spite of a protective hedge around each bed, of dogwood, maple, elm or ash.
Wildwood
